Arc 1: |Chapter 5|

Nick Nicolai Solano is a character that appeared just two or three times in the fake plot. In the story, he is introduced as a fashion designer sponsored by Luke's father. The original owner's father financed him because of pity and guilt for his mother.

In the plot, he was mentioned twice, once as the perpetrator and second as the son of a victim.

As the perpetrator because he attempted to kill Luke's father and the second time when he was in court where his history was revealed.

According to the plot, Nick's mother died at the hands of Luke's father, and evidence of him(Luke's father) killing his mother was displayed, in a video broadcasted in the court.

Of course, that is what the fake plot showed, though when investigating, system Uno found that all the evidence was fake, it was so real that no one doubted it and if shown in court it would be difficult to find a flaw and that the evidence was fake. What is more, I don't know how Nick did it or who he hired but when the video was sent to prove its eligibility in court. Many experts in programming tried to verify if the video was false but couldn't and just gave up and like this Luke's father was declared a criminal.

In fact, Nick's mother was Luke's father's pursuer since high school, to be precise instead of being a pursuer we must call her a stalker because she was always stalking in the shadows or plain daylight, that was until Luke's father, Adam got to know Ming Yue, an oriental woman and the university beauty where Adam attended, and Luke's mother.

Nick's mother saw how Ming Yue and Adam got together and was jealous so at the graduation party, she drugged Adam, but something went wrong when leaving the graduation party. That failure caused her to end raped trying to protect the drugged Adam and becoming pregnant making Adam who was later found by the worried Ming Yue and their friend after not finding him save them both. When both were found, they found that Adam was drugged and Nick's mother in an attempt to protect him was raped.

This incident caused a misunderstanding and caused Adam to feel as if he caused her to end like that if he were to be more careful. Since then Luke's father, Adam has been supporting her and helping her because of guilt except for Ming Yue who since then has been alienating her and never wants to meet her.

Nick's mother died three years ago, on a day when his father met her just a few hours after meeting.

According to the information found by system Uno, the killer was Nick's Uncle and his mother's brother.

Thinking of the information found, Luke looked at the panicked Nick and spoke, "There's no need to continue your act, I know you were paid to do this, as for what you were given, it must be money and a safe way out. There is no need for me to guess who is behind you, so I have another question, did you already know it, or were you an accomplice?"

When asking this question, Luke's icy cold eyes met Nick's gaze, making Nick suddenly feel like he had fallen into a cold pool, he was scared and more when Nick heard Luke's next question he directly fell to the ground, his hand holding the gun directly loosened giving Lande who was always tense and paying attention to Nick have a chance and directly run toward Nick and swiftly take away the gun from Nick's hand. At this same moment, the door to the office was open & the security guards and police entered.

Luke sitting on the couch just glanced at them and then retracted his eyes back and looked at Nick. Seeing him on the ground with a sorry figure, he guessed that it must be the latter.

What Luke was asking was if he knew that his mother's killer was his uncle or if he was an accomplice of his mother's murder, and of course, it was the latter. He was an accomplice. As for the cause, of course, it was because of hate. He hated his mother. Because of her, he couldn't have a good and happy childhood. Because of his mother, he couldn't fulfill his dream, and his hand ended up damaged and unable to let him accomplish his dream.

Since he could remember, he has never been happy, the only thing in his memory since a child was the beating he received from his mother from someone who was supposed to love him and protect him, beating him, from childhood to adolescence, never being happy but more because there was one time in middle school when one of the men she slept with, raped him. She as his mother just watched as the man she brought home raped him without the intention of helping.

His reason was justifiable, but that is no reason to try and shift the blame onto an innocent person.

Luke looked one last time at Nick, then said, "You'd better think of what you did in prison..." Then said to the police who came with the security guards, "you can take him."

When the police heard Luke, they quickly handcuffed Nick and took him out, leaving just the father and two sons. The security guards also left following Mr. Secretary, who received orders from Lande to take care of this matter before letting him(Mr. Secretary) out.

After the police left with Nick, the only people in the office were Lande, Adam the father, and Luke himself.

Silence spread in the office.

Lande looked at his father, then at Luke, "Luke, what did you mean by what you said earlier? When you said that someone paid for hurting our father!"

"As I said, someone wants to harm me, so they try first dealing with those around me...", Luke said while moving his eyes to his father, "father, this is one of the reasons I came here. The other reason is, father, I want to dissolve my marriage."

When he spoke, Lande and his father Adam looked at him, shocked.

"!!!!"

"Luke, what do you mean? Why do you want to divorce?!" Lande spoke.

"Yeah, what do you mean, son?!"

Both were surprised. It's not that they don't understand because they knew since the beginning that Luke never loved his husband and was simply fulfilling the engagement contract that his grandmother and Varion's grandmother had written for them. This was just Luke complying with his grandmother's wish to have him married to her best friend's grandson no matter who of the two grandsons married him, as long as it was Tera's grandson, Varion or Athan.

Luke never thought of seeking to dissolve the engagement & so he ended up marrying Varion, the second grandson, and never thought since then of divorcing, even if his mother, father, or brother tried to persuade him to divorce. His family was against this marriage, but since Luke wanted to continue it, they could only reluctantly accept their family Luke's wish.

And now, hearing him seeking their help for the divorce procedures, shocked them.

"Nothing. As I said, I want to divorce, so I came to you to help me with the divorce process. As for my reason, that is related to the first reason."

Seeing their surprised expression, Luke was not surprised. The original owner(Luke) approved and accepted this marriage to fulfill his grandmother's wish, but now, he is saying that he wants to divorce.

"What?!!!" Both Lande and his father exclaimed. At first, they were shocked to hear him aiming to divorce Varion, they were overjoyed but then when they heard that the reason is related to the first reason, now they were dumbfounded beyond words.

Lande was the first to come to his senses, "You mean that he wanted to harm you?" Lande asked in a solemn tone, "what are you talking about Luke? Tell us everything." He then walked to the couch opposite Luke.

When Adam, their father, heard his first son's tone, he finally came back to his senses, walked to Lande, and sat next to him, looking at his younger son. He too was concerned, with a solemn expression, he waited for his son's explanation.

Seeing them like this, System Uno was a little surprised.

|Host, they really worry about the original owner.| Then it said in a sad tone, |A pity that he is no longer here.|

Luke heard it, then spoke in an indifferent tone, 'Yeah, a pity.'

He looked at his 'new father and brother,' then thought of the original owner. Memories that he thought had died long ago began to emerge in his mind but were quickly suppressed by him.

He then started explaining the details of what happened to him, not to be precise to the original owner before he crossed, then continued his part from where he crossed, last night's events, of course, hiding the part of the life that the original owner lived.

When he finished he looked at the pair of father and son opposite him. Both had a gloomy expression. Then he looked outside the glass window and waited for both of them to start talking. It was almost lunchtime, so he got up to leave when his father spoke.

"Luke, what are your plans?"

"Simple, first divorce then ruin him." said Luke, in an indifferent tone, "As for how to ruin him?" He looked at his father and brother, then said in a cold voice, "you will know when that happens."

Chills ran down their spines when they heard that voice, not just because it was cold as ice but also because they could feel the killing intent from him and even his aura changed abruptly, becoming oppressive, his beautiful eyes held no expression but one could feel from his persona that he was determined to ruin the ones who wanted to harm him.

It took a while for both to react, it wasn't until Luke was already at the office's entrance when Luke spoke again that they reacted, "By the way, dad, brother, pay attention to the woman I mentioned earlier, Adira Jules, I'm sure she would try to approach one of you or send someone to harm you."

His father and brother saw him and then nodded at him.

"You don't need to worry about that Luke, what we're worried about is you, now that they failed to scheme against you, probably Varion will try other more extreme methods, come back home, it would be safer than going back to that house."

"I know…" Said Luke, "You don't have to worry about that, I know how to take care of myself. You just have to make sure to take care of you, and Mom…," he was already at the door, "That woman would surely try to first act on her, as for Varion, he is going to be busy for a while."

He left, leaving the two people at the office to speculate on how they would act.

"Dad, do you think Luke will be okay?" Lande asked his father.

With a thoughtful expression, his father answered with his two hands clasped in front of his face, "... Just…," he closed his eyes, "Let's believe him." Then stood up and walked to his desk to resume his work, saying, "For now, let's focus on how to deal with that man."

Lande stood up with him, then looked at his father and nodded.

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While they were at the office discussing how to solve the problem, Luke was already at the entrance of the company. As it was lunchtime, he decided to go to a restaurant to eat something before returning to his marriage residence where he and Varion lived.

Just as he left the company building, a luxurious but inconspicuous black car (an expensive car but low-key) stopped in front of him.

before he could take a turn, a man in a black suit and gold-rimmed glasses came out of the car and stared at him before walking in front of him

Then, the system spoke, |Host that's the real male lead's car, Athan PhilipFraunces, and this person is one of his many assistants.|

'En.' said Luke, nodding.

"Young master Luke?" The man spoke, wanting to confirm his name.

"En, it 's me..." Luke answered the person.

"My master is looking for you. Care to come with me?"

|Host, don't go, it may be dangerous. According to the plot, the real male lead is an extremely dangerous person, and with the data, I can analyze the danger level, and it's 100% sure that going with him will lead to disastrous situations!| The system spoke.

'If he is really dangerous, he wouldn't have helped me yesterday when I was in trouble, besides I want to confirm something.' said Luke, then saw the other party open the car door without waiting for his answer, meaning that it's not a request and he has no power to reject, so Luke went into the car until he was finally in the man closed the car door and went to the driver's seat and started the car and started driving.

The man took Luke to a well-known restaurant.

Arriving at the restaurant, Luna de Platun, The driver left the car to be taken care of by the workers at the restaurant and guided Luke to the sixth floor where the VIP private rooms were.

Arriving at the private room, the man looked at Luke, "Please wait a moment."

The man entered the room, and it didn't take long before the man walked out again.

Making way for Luke, he spoke, "Young master Luke, the boss is waiting inside. If there is anything you require, don't hesitate to call me." Saying this, the man opened the door and let Luke enter.

Luke looked at the man, nodded, and then entered the room.

Finally, when he was in, the door behind him closed. He looked at the room & then his eyes stopped on the figure sitting at the restaurant table.

Gazing at the person seated elegantly in the restaurant, Luke's worldview became more colorful, just as when he met the man at the club. He was surprised in his heart, but his facial expression didn't change. He still looked indifferent on the outside.

He walked to the restaurant and sat down opposite the man. Just as he sat, the man spoke.

"Have you eaten?" The man's voice was magnetic, very pleasing to the ears.

"No, I still haven't had the chance." Answered Luke.

"Then, order whatever you want, we'll talk after eating." While saying this, the man turned around and stared at Luke, those eyes were just as he imagined, beautiful though, cold but that is what makes them beautiful, just like the beautiful snow.

Luke too thought the man's eyes were breathtaking. It's like the whole universe is within those eyes. When he first met this man, because of being drugged, he didn't notice very well how the man's eyes were but now seeing his eyes, he noticed that the man's eyes had small black dots within them, so small like water simmering within them, hard to notice but now seeing them he felt indescribable for some reason. His heart suddenly pounded.

.....

It didn't take long to order food and the waiters lefts as fast as they appeared.

"Sorry for my late introduction, I'm Athan Philip Fraunces, nice to meet you." Said the man meeting Luke's eyes.

"En, nice to meet you too, Luke Elansi Evergarden," Luke said, "I wonder what do I owe the honor to be invited by you, Mr. Fraunces?"

"You don't have to call me that, just call me by my name, Athan, Young master Luke."

"En., Mr. Athan, call me Luke. Now, may I ask the reason for the sudden invitation?"

"There is no need to add Mr., just Athan is okay." The man stared directly into Luke's eyes, "Luke, I sent someone to investigate yesterday's events."

Luke seemed not surprised that the man sent someone to investigate, it would be weird not to do it.

"I can say that you've had a hard time because of yesterday night's events. I want to apologize in my cousin's stead. As a relative, I have no excuse to justify his behavior…" Athan said in formal language, but before he continued speaking, he was interrupted by Luke.

"Then you must have also found who caused him to act as he did, right?" Luke stared at Athan.

"Yes, I know & if not for you, I wouldn't have ever thought about investigating that, I would also like to thank you. Luke, if not for yesterday's events, I wouldn't have known what Varion was planning to do, and I would have easily believed those children were mine… If not for you, I would never have thought that there was a white-eyed wolf by my side." Said Athan, smiling slightly while looking at Luke with profound eyes, indescribable about what he was thinking.

Luke's eyes narrowed, pretending not to see the profound eyes because it was like being dragged into a whole new universe, "There's no need to thank me, by the way, I…" just as he was about to continue speaking the door to the restaurant opened and the waiters came in with the food.

After the food was served, Athan spoke, " First, let's eat. You haven't eaten yet."

"Thank you, as I was saying I have other things that are important and I wanted to discuss them with you".

"Well, talk". Athan became serious when he heard that Luke had something important to discuss with him, like the businessman he is, his aura rose which surprised Luke for the change of atmosphere a little, but quickly regained composure.

Luke then began talking about business.

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Three days later, at a restaurant down the lawyer's building.

A man was seated drinking a cup of coffee. The man had no outstanding appearance, he looked very ordinary, but because of his aura it made people easily notice him, but of course, it was not just that but also because he was someone very famous for his great ability to deal with divorce cases and occasionally with other different cases. The man was none other than Delian Moiren Iphir.

He was here because of an appointment, although he was not sure who he was really meeting. Three days ago, he received an anonymous email with evidence of a corrupt politician he had been investigating but never found anything. When he received the email with evidence of the corruption of the politician he was shocked, he has done everything to find that type of evidence but it always ends with nothing. Of course, he was suspicious of the sudden email sent to him and the person who could have sent him this email.

With the email was a day for an appointment with him and the place. It was at a restaurant down the building of lawyers.

He was suspicious but he was also tempted, so he decided to go there and wait if the person who sent that email appeared.

He was now waiting seated at the innermost part of the restaurant.

He has been waiting for almost an hour, he came too early but he thought it would be for the best. At the moment he was with his computer, checking some information when suddenly he hears the restaurant door open with it followed by the sudden gasp of various people.

He thought maybe some celebrity had come so he didn't pay attention and continued to focus on the computer's data.

"Hey, do you think he is a new celebrity?"

"What are you saying, he must be a hidden pampered son from a wealthy family! look at his clothes, that face and look at what that cute animal he is carrying!!! He must be a rich hidden son from some wealthy family."

"His skin looks so good, so soft, and That indifferent look, those eyes!!! Ahhh, he looks even better than those celebrities in the entertainment world!!!"

"Do you think if I go, he will look at me!"

"Dream on!!!"

"I think I have seen him somewhere, but I can't remember."

"Maybe he has appeared beside someone famous?"

"If he were a celebrity, he would already be famous, but he is not."

People started talking and looking at the person who had entered. Some girls talked like they were bewitched by the person, others about what his identity could be, speculations one after another.

Delian thought nothing at first and didn't lift his head, but when he heard someone try guessing about the identity, he was curious, so he lifted his head.

Shocked, he almost spilled his coffee on the computer.

How could he not be shocked? He knew that person's identity; although this person never appeared on the news or showed his face, he was famous as the hidden and pampered son of the Evergarden family because he was so protected by his family, which was what made him famous.

As for why he knew who this protected young master was because, by coincidence, in one of the banquets he once attended not long ago, he saw for the first time this young master.

Delian started to question himself what had made this young master go out. Has the family protection finally loosened, or is the young master here to meet someone?

As he was thinking, he saw the young master look in his direction. As if he had found his target, the youth walked toward him(Delian).

Delian was suddenly nervous, perhaps he looked too intensely, he thought. Of course, he also thought that maybe the one whom the young master came to meet is someone else, but there was also a thought that maybe, this young master was the one who sent that email to him, but he quickly dispersed that thought. How could someone like him, who has everything come to meet a lawyer like him (Delian).

Delian didn't continue to pay attention to the young master and lowered his head to continue to work on his computer. Who would have thought that just as he lowered his head, the youth stopped walking when he arrived at his table.

"Mr. Delian?"

Delian heard a voice and lifted his head, just to come in contact with indifferent eyes looking at him.