Female Novel
Chapter 767
Chapter 767 The Story Of Yates
“Yes. I hope you will lend us a helping hand so that the Leighton family could get through this crisis.Once everything is settled, I’ll be at your beck and call, Dr. Jefferson.” With that said, Yates got on hisknees in front of Alex.
Alex helped him up and said. “You’ve given me the thousand-year-old snow ginseng. It is only naturalfor me to help you.”
Then, he paused before continuing. “As far as I know, you don’t live a good life in the Leighton family.Wouldn’t their downfall be the same as freeing you from their shackles? Why would you use somethingso precious to save the Leighton family?”
After a moment, Yates confessed. “It’s true that I’ve been suffering in the Leighton family all theseyears. Honestly, I have no feelings for them. If not for my mother getting sick and sending me back toNebula City…
At that, anger seemed to seep into Yates’ eyes as he balled his hands into fists. “The Leightons havebeen humiliating me for so many years. I’m only still in the Leighton family because I’m trying to look foran opportunity to take revenge on them for the years of misery they’ve inflicted on me. Moreover, myfather agonized my mother. I’ve always wanted a day where I could make him swallow his pride. go tomy mother’s grave in Jazona, and repent before her!”
Then, Yates told Alex everything that had happened between Nicholas and his mother.
Back then, Nicholas had just taken over Leighton Pharmaceutical. He often went to other places topurchase ancient medicine. As Coldbridge was the land of ginsengs. Nicholas had gone there too.
At that time, Yates’ mother and his grandfather collected ginsengs in the mountain. Although their lifewas not luxurious, it was a comfortable one.
When Nicholas went to Coldbridge and saw how pretty Yates’ mother was, he lied to her about how hewas single and ended up getting her to sleep with him.
Later on, Yates’ mother became pregnant with Yates. When she went to Nicholas to ask him to marryher, he abandoned her.
Soon, news of her conceiving a child out of wedlock spread across the village, yet Nicholas refused toadmit it. Hence, in a matter of days, Yates mother was met with scoffs and scorns.novelbin
Yates grandfather was a man who was born and raised in the mountains. He was someone who sawreputation as something that was of utmost importance. Constantly angered by the never-endinginsults. he died from a heart attack in less than two years.
To ensure that Yates would not grow up in a horrible environment, she brought him to Jazona aftergiving birth to him without anyone by her side. Years after, she became deathly ill. Worried about herson’s survival in society, she contacted Nicholas’ father. It was then Yates was brought into theLeighton family.
At the age of six, Yates went to the Leighton family, but he did not live a good life at all. His fatherlooked down on him, and so did his stepmother. His stepmother and half-brother tortured, beat,humiliated him for over twenty years. The whole time, he had been enduring in silence, waiting for achance to take
revenge.
After recounting his past, he looked at Alex and said, “Dr. Jefferson, my father promised that the onewho solved this crisis would become the chairman of Leighton Pharmaceutical. If you can help mebecome the chairman, then I’ll be at your beck and call for the rest of my life!”
Alex felt sympathetic toward Yates’ story, for he had once gone through the same thing.
Everywhere he went, someone would curse and mock him. Everything he did was wrong in their eyes.No one had ever treated him with respect or thought of him as someone who was upstanding. He hadbeen called a kept man and a useless piece of trash for many years.
If not for the black card that his father had left to him, Alex would still have been stuck in that miserable
life.