second floor.
A black narrow leather belt pinches Orianna's slender waist, making her slender waist, long legs and sexy figure.
Orianna stood by the window, with the boundless black Mediterranean Sea behind her. The sea breeze blew in wantonly, and the tassels on Orianna's skirt swayed slightly with the wind.
A few seconds later, footsteps approached.
Orianna subconsciously stood up straight and looked in the direction of the footsteps.
Edward walked over barefoot on the wood-grained brick floor.
A pair of black loose slacks straddled Edward's powerful narrow waist. His upper body was wearing a shirt with all the buttons unbuttoned, revealing his muscular body.
Edward, who was over sixty years old, had a good figure comparable to that of a forty-year-old man.
Even that face looks very young.
Edward has an extraordinary bearing, handsome with profound features, and elegant in thick-rimmed glasses. But this is all an illusion deliberately released by this person.
The real him kills people without batting an eyelid, and treats human life like grass.
Orianna lowered her head slightly and called out: "Father." Her tone sounded full of respect, but her eyes didn't have much warmth and looked very cold.
Edward nodded to the stool in front of Orianna with a smile, and said, "Dear Anna, sit down."
Edward has four children in total. The eldest brother Cecilio is the child born to Edward and his lover Jiang Shiyu.
Han Zhan and Arang are the children of Edward and his lover. Only Orianna's identity is the most prominent. She is the child born of Edward's marriage with the eldest lady of another family.
Legally, Orianna is Edward's true heir.
It's just that the law is weak in Edward's eyes, and it's just the rules of the game formulated by a small number of elites.
The general public participating in the game must respect the rules of the game, while the players behind the game have the power of life and death.
Once, the relationship between Edward and Orianna was also very close. At that time, Orianna respected and loved her father very much, until Edward killed the man she loved deeply with his own hands, and the relationship between father and daughter was completely severed.
Orianna sat down with her legs together, her belly in and her chest out, she was upright and elegant, very ladylike.
Edward smiled at her and said, "You've been very busy recently and rarely come back."
Orianna said: "There are a lot of things in my institute recently."
Orianna is an expert in biological sciences, specializing in cloning technology and genetics.
Orianna's mother passed away due to illness twenty years ago, leaving Orianna a large inheritance. Relying on that inheritance, Orianna built a secret research institute on a small island in the east of Catinia.
Edward relied heavily on Orianna, but he didn't want Orianna to be his heir. What Edward took a fancy to was Orianna's talent in biological sciences.
He hoped that Orianna could do one thing for him. He wanted to take another look at Jiang Shiyu before he died, a living Jiang Shiyu of flesh and blood!
Hearing Orianna's answer, Edward suppressed his unhappiness, and asked, "How is the research going?"
Orianna smiled and asked, "Father, are you free tomorrow? I'll take you to see my results."
Edward stared at Orianna's confident appearance, and he had a bold idea in his heart. "Anna, did you... succeed?"
Under Edward's urgent gaze, Orianna said in a relaxed tone: "Tomorrow, that child will be born."
Edward's eyes widened in surprise, and his heart beat faster. He asked in disbelief: "It really worked?"
Orianna nodded, "So far, it seems to be a success."
Edward was really stimulated by this exciting news. He patted his thigh and couldn't help but said excitedly: "Okay, I'll go and have a look with you tomorrow!"
He couldn't wait to meet the kid.
This time, he must keep that child by his side, and not allow her to have anyone but himself in her eyes!
Orianna picked up the diamond clutch on the table and stood up gracefully.
"Then, tomorrow morning, I will ask my father to accompany me to the research institute. I will go to rest first, father, good night." Orianna said good night to Edward, stepped on her high heels, and walked away without looking back.
Orianna walked to the first floor and saw Cecilio waiting downstairs. She stopped, stared at Cecilio, and said, "I heard that my father kept a woman in captivity."
She used 'captive' to describe the relationship between Edward and Song Ci.
Cecilio didn't want to reveal these things with Orianna, so he took his subordinates and went upstairs past Orianna.
Orianna looked through the hall on the first floor, across the swimming pool, and landed on the rough sea outside the iron fence.
She pursed her lips suddenly.
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Cecilio brought his subordinates to the small building where Edward lived.
He gave the things to Edward for inspection, and Edward glanced at the two tall men behind Cecilio.
Cecilio noticed Edward's eyes, and he waved to Karl and the others, "Go down and wait for me."
The two went downstairs quietly.
Downstairs, the man named Mond squeezed out two cigarettes, handed one to Karl, and bit the other himself. After touching his pants, he couldn't find a lighter. Mond raised his chin at Carl and said, "Give me a lighter."
Carl felt in every pocket of his body, and finally said, "No."
"What's the matter, the old smoker doesn't have a lighter!" Mond muttered something, and said, "I'll ask for a lighter."
Mond ran to other colleagues to ask for a lighter, leaving Karl standing alone in the courtyard on the first floor.
He turned and stared at the light that was burning on the second floor of the house next door.
Carl went to a tree, reached out and plucked a green leaf, and put it on the ground.
After snapping off a sisal thorn, Karl squatted down, holding the boring thorn on the leaf with his left hand and stabbing it.
Mond came back with a lighter and saw Carl squatting under a tree, playing with leaves boredly. He walked over and knelt down to help Carl light the cigarette.
Carl bit his cigarette and took a drag.
Mond stared at the messy little pinholes on the leaves. He said, "Is that girl hot last night?" Carl texted him last night, saying that he met a hot girl and was going to spend the night on the beach. Not coming back.
Mond winked and asked Carl: "How is it? How spicy?"
Carl dropped the spike in his hand, picked up the leaf and turned it casually, as if he didn't want to say more.
Mond bumped Carl's shoulder again, "Why, are you still reluctant to share it with me?"
Carl said: "Spicy, spicy beyond your imagination."
"Wow!"
Mond said, "Is that hot girl from before our boss?"
Carl: "Different types."
"That's true."
Downstairs, the two bodyguards were chatting about those romantic affairs. Upstairs, Edward dismissed the idlers, and then asked Cecilio, "Did you see Orianna?"
"Meeted downstairs."
Nodding, Edward said, "Oriana told me today that her research was successful."
Cecilio was a little surprised.
When Mingming met outside the house before, Orianna also said that the research had failed.
She lied
"Tomorrow, that child will be born." Edward told Cecilio: "I will visit that child tomorrow, do you want to come with me?"
Cecilio shook his head on the spot, "No."
Staring at his father's excited face, at the risk of angering Edward, Cecilio poured cold water on Edward's head: "Father, that woman is dead."
When the basin of cold water was poured down, the excitement on Edward's face faded a little.
He looked at Cecilio with gloomy eyes, "What do you want to say?"
Cecilio felt Edward's anger, and he knew that if he continued to speak, it was very likely that Edward's murderous intention would be touched.
But there are some words, as a son, Cecilio must say.
"No matter how similar the child to be born is to that woman, she is a separate individual after all. Although they have the same DNA and the same appearance, that child is not her."
"After birth, as she ages, she will generate her own consciousness and become the master of her own soul"
"Father, you know in your heart that the child is only a substitute, a false imitation."
"She doesn't even have Jiang Shiyu's memory!"
When you fall in love with someone, you love the soul of the other person. If that person has even changed his soul, and his appearance is nothing, will you still love her
Cecilio's words were like a hammer hitting Edward's chest, smashing his hope and enthusiasm to pieces.
Edward's expression darkened, his tone became dangerous and threatening, "Cecileo, are you teaching me a lesson?"
Of the four children, Cecilio was the most courageous.
Knowing that he had successfully annoyed his father, Cecilio remained tough. "Loyal advice is harsh to the ear, whether you like it or not. Don't play it dead!"
You deserve it!
Cecilio got up and left.
Edward stared at the child's leaving back, a little annoyed, but proud.
That's why he likes Cecilio.
Cecilio is a sober agent. When everyone is flattering Edward, only Cecilio will calmly point out his mistakes.
He can always pull Edward back to the world before he goes to hell.
Early the next morning, Edward got up early, and went to the Island Research Institute with Orianna to visit the child who was about to be born.
Every day, Freya feeds COCO, twice a day on time.
One meal at 8:30 in the morning and one at 6:30 in the evening.
Every day COCO eats a sheep of a strong man, or a pig weighing two hundred catties.
If you are not rich, you really can't afford COCO.
Song Ci took the new drift bottle and came to the iron fence with Freya.
She is not sure whether the drift bottle will be discovered, but Song Ci will not give up easily. She insists on throwing two drift bottles every day, and there will always be a few that will be washed to other islands with the sea water.
As long as one person picks up the drifting bottle, her persistence is worth it.
Freya opened the iron fence, and together with Song Ci, threw the half fan of pork into the sea. Song Ci saw that COCO ate the pork in a few mouthfuls, but she still felt her scalp tingling.
Because when she thought that she might become COCO's food one day, she felt desperate.
It would be great if COCO could be poisoned to death.
Of course, this is also an idea, so Song Ci can only think about it secretly. Because she couldn't get poison.
Song Ci shook her head regretfully, and closed the iron gate together with Freya.
"Freya, I want to walk by myself, don't worry about me."
"Good Miss Song."
Freya pushed the dining car away.
Song Ci was walking around the iron fence, admiring the sunrise while missing Han Zhan.
On the way back to the building after walking, Song Ci saw the man who was following Cecilio. The tall man was standing under a tree smoking a cigarette, and it looked like it was his time to rest.
Song Ci walked past the man without squinting.
Passing over the man and walking two meters forward, Song Ci's knee was suddenly hit by something.
"ah!"
She squatted down in pain.
Carl came over in time, and thoughtfully supported Song Ci. I don't know if it was a coincidence that when Karl bent over to support her, his fingers just slipped over the skin of Song Ci's left shoulder.
When he found something buried in Song Ci's left shoulder, Karl's gaze changed slightly.
He helped Song Ci up, and asked politely and distantly: "Miss Song, are you okay?"
Song Ci felt ashamed and blushed a little.
"fine!"
Song Ci stomped her feet and walked into the house.
Walking to the entrance of the small building, he found Cecilio standing not far away staring at him. Song Ci pouted at Cecilio and complained: "Cecileo, did your bodyguard eat my tofu on purpose?"
Cecilio glanced at Carl, who was pleasing to the eye, and said, "He was helping you just now."
Song Ci: "Who knows if he took the opportunity to be courteous?"
Cecilio lifted his eyelids and glanced at Song Ci's face, and said with a sneer, "Little sweetheart, you have a thick skin."
Song Ci glared at Cecilio before entering the room.
Back in the house, Song Ci ate breakfast in a leisurely manner, then rubbed her belly, got up and went to the toilet.
After closing the toilet door, Song Ci sat on the toilet and confirmed that there was no monitoring in the toilet, and then Song Ci spread out her clenched left hand.
In the palm of her left hand, she was holding a leaf.
Just twenty minutes ago, when Carl was helping her, he stuffed a leaf into her palm.
Song Ci flattened the leaf and saw countless small holes pierced by something on the leaf. Those small holes were put together to form two Chinese characters——
Porcelain treasure.
Song Ci's heartbeat suddenly missed a beat.
Han Zhan!
Song Ci stood up from the toilet.
Subconsciously, she wanted to rush out, grabbed Karl by the collar, and asked Karl where the leaf came from.
But she held back.
She can't startle the snake.
Song Ci touched her shoulder. On the first night she came here, Edward had someone bury a positioning bug under her skin.
No matter where Song Ci went or what he said to people, he would be monitored by bugs.
Song Ci thought of just now, when Karl was helping him up, his fingers seemed to touch his shoulder.
Did Carl know that she had a bug hidden inside her
Carl
Song Ci also met Karl twice before, he should be Cecilio's confidant, always by Cecilio's side.
But the previous few times, Karl never dared to look at himself with transcendent eyes.
After all, she, Song Ci, was a woman captured by Edward. People who didn't know the truth thought that Song Ci was Edward's young lover who had been snatched by force.
But last night, Carl dared to look at himself with such bold and fiery eyes.
This is very wrong!
Could it be
Song Ci quickly thought of another possibility.
In order to verify his conjecture, Song Ci decided to test Karl.
After squatting in the toilet for a while, Song Ci went out.
Song Ci changed into a suspender skirt and came to Cecilio's small building wearing sandals and slippers.
Cecilio came down from upstairs and was a little surprised to see Song Ci in the living room of his home.
"What are you doing here?"
Song Ci said: "I want to watch a movie, but Edward forbids me to go online."
Song Ci took out her tablet, and she said, "My tablet can only play stand-alone games, can you download a few movies for me on the tablet?"
This is not too much to ask.
Cecilio took her tablet and said to Carl who was sitting on the sofa watching TV: "Carl, go and download some movies for her."
Carl took the tablet and asked Song Ci, "Miss Song, what do you want to see?"
Song Ci said: "I have seen a movie before. There is a child and an old man in it. I forgot the name. It seems to be a British movie. Carl, can you download some British movies for me?"
Carl glanced at her and said, "Okay."
Carl went back to his room to download the movie, and it came out after more than twenty minutes.
He handed the tablet to Song Ci and said, "I downloaded a few random ones, take a look."
Song Ci reached out to catch the tablet, when Cecilio suddenly reached out to take the tablet away.
"Let me take a look." He took the tablet and walked to the sofa and sat down, turned it over for a while, and returned the tablet to Song Ci after making sure there was nothing wrong with it.
Song Ci left with the tablet in her arms.
On the way home, she thought to herself: Cecilio is really cautious.
When she got home, she opened the video and saw that there were several British movies in the video file.
Among the messy movies, Song Ci saw a movie called "Heidi and Grandpa".
When Song Ci and Han Zhan traveled to Changbai Mountain the year before last, she watched "Heidi and Grandpa" in the hotel. This is a German movie and Song Ci's favorite movie.
But just now, Song Ci pretended not to remember the name of the movie, and deliberately said that the German movie was a British movie.
And among the bunch of British movies that Carl downloaded, there happened to be a German movie mixed in.
Is this a coincidence
Song Ci didn't believe it was a coincidence.
A voice in her heart cried out:
Karl is Han Zhan!
(end of this chapter)