That man was Aiden Johnson. Previously, Sophia had seen a photo of him at the Johnson Residence. He had wretched and shrewd inverted triangular eyes. His body was so skinny that he was all bones and skin. On the back of his hands were various needle scars of unknown origins. His entire body had a deathlike pallor, and his back was hunched. He didn’t look human but more like a ghost.

Cooper could not believe that Annabel had a brother like him. As the saying went ‘spare the rod and spoil the child’. Back then, Annabel sacrificed her chance to study and went to work instead. It was so that she could earn enough money to allow her two elder brothers to continue their studies. In the end, one molested a child while the other stole a corpse. How tragic it was for her to be born into such a family!

Aiden collapsed to the ground in horror. Before he could react to anything, a large hand reached toward him from above and fiercely grabbed him by the neck. A man looked down at him condescendingly. “Tell me Anna’s whereabouts in a single sentence. If you dare to lie, I will crush your throat!”

Despite struggling like a monkey, Aiden was unable to break free of Cooper’s grip. Cooper was wearing gloves. He exerted force, squeezing Aiden’s hand so strongly that he broke his hand. Thus, Aiden let out a hoarse scream, trembling in fear. “Have mercy! I was wrong! I did it! I dug her up! Have mercy on me! I won’t dare to do it again!”

Upon learning that the culprit was truly Aiden, Cooper stomped on Aiden in a rage. He wanted to kill this man; he did not hold any kindness for the person who could commit such desecration against Annabel. Afraid that Cooper might lose control and trample Aiden to death, Sophia hurriedly asked somebody to drag Aiden to the side.

After the severe beating, Aiden wept as he confessed. When Annabel breathed her last, the hospital asked them if they were willing to sell her corpse for money. A young lady’s corpse was worth 1000 back then. That was a lot of money! At the time, Mr. Johnson, Liam, and Aiden agreed to sell her corpse for money, hoping to have some use for their garbage. To their surprise, Mrs. Johnson invited Annabel’s grandfather over, threatened the buyer in front of everybody, and chased the buyer away. In the end, the corpse was not sold. However, Aiden couldn’t forget about the money. On the night Annabel was buried, he stealthily dug her corpse back up and sold her body to the hospital that offered to buy her in the first place.

“That buyer… His son was about to be buried after dying in a car accident that day. But, he was not married, and his family was worried that he might haunt them after his death…” Aiden begged for mercy with tears and snot flowing down his face, prostrating himself before them.

family was livid at the thought that he would dare to harm his

sent people to investigate the people who bought Annabel’s corpse. It was easier to search for the family, as they might have left traces behind, compared to searching for Cooper’s long-lost son. After several twists and turns, they found the grave

was simply a pitiful man who just learned that the corpse of his deceased lover had been stolen and sold off as a match for necrogamy—an arranged marriage between the dead. He was

 

as she studied the shifty-eyed Aiden. She was suspicious of him; she had the feeling that he was lying. “Justin, can

get a match. If it doesn’t match, I will slice his head off!” As he spoke, he deliberately glared at

 

fear and nearly lost control of his bowel movements. “No! I swear

his words. Annabel was not Aiden’s

ground, he wept piteously. “Our entire family is so ugly. How could we possibly produce a daughter as beautiful as Anna?! When I was younger, I accidentally overheard a conversation between my mother and my grandmother. After my mother gave birth to my sister in the hospital, she accidentally lost my sister and was unable to explain it to my father when she returned. Hence, my grandmother went to the train station

started gossiping among themselves. No wonder Annabel did not look like anybody from the Johnson Family—it turned out that she was a stolen

Annabel’s bones blankly, Cooper… couldn’t say anything. He even lost the ability to think and could only subconsciously murmur under

about Annabel’s origins when she died so many years ago. Sophia was already 28 this year; that meant that Annabel had been dead for nearly 28 years

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