Chapter 480 Madman Lachlan
Ivan asked in disbelief, "You figured this out yourself? How did you do it?"
Sophia replied coolly, "Isn't it something anyone with hands and a brain can do?"
Her tone was very calm, yet it made people want to go crazy!
What did she mean by "anyone with hands and a brain can do it"?
Was she calling them brainless?
Ivan took a deep breath and told himself silently not to stoop to her level.
He asked, "Did you really research all this by yourself?"
Sophia blinked, "Yes, is there a problem?"
Ivan: "..."
Is there a problem?
It's a huge problem!
This girl in front of him was only about twenty years old, yet her medical talent was so extraordinary!
It reminded him of Robert from over twenty years ago.
Back then, Robert had also made quite a name for himself.
Sophia said calmly, "You must be talking about my mentor, Robert."
Ivan and the others nearly dropped their jaws.
They had been brought to the lab by Lachlan to do research several years ago.
They had been almost completely cut off from the outside world these past few years, unaware of what had happened.
Hearing Sophia say she was Robert's student, they could hardly believe their ears.
Was... was this real?
Were they dreaming?
At this moment, Lachlan, who had been silent for a long time, walked over and patted Ivan on the shoulder.
"Sophia is indeed Robert's student."
His words were like a thunderbolt, completely shocking Ivan and the others.
In the end, Ivan turned all his words into a sigh, "We really are getting old. Young people nowadays are incredibly talented."
Worthy of being Robert's student - they were completely convinced.
Sophia's eyes curved with a particularly sweet smile, "Lachlan, can you agree to let those children go now?"
Lachlan smiled too, "No, you know what I want is to develop a drug that can change human genes."
His tone was very gentle, as if coaxing a child.
But Sophia felt chills all over.
She slowly dropped her smile.
To express her speechlessness and anger, Sophia rolled her eyes at him.
She was so mad!
She had been too naive before - she shouldn't have tried to reason with a lunatic like Lachlan!
She said sarcastically, "You're researching this drug to change your own genes? You think you didn't inherit Grandpa's superior genes, so you're jealous of Magnus. Am I right?"
Lachlan continued smiling, "You really are smart - you catch on quickly."
He slowly moved closer to Sophia and whispered in her ear, "As a reward, let me tell you a secret."
"What?"
"Benjamin is not my son, hahahahaha..."
Lachlan laughed loudly, almost maniacally.
But Sophia showed no surprise and simply said, "So what?"
Now it was Lachlan's turn to be curious, "Why aren't you surprised at all?"
Sophia said helplessly, "Actually, I guessed it a long time ago. You and Benjamin look nothing alike, and you have nothing in common with him."
Actually, it wasn't entirely because of these reasons.
It was because Benjamin had the unique pride and stubbornness in his bones that the White family possessed.
Though Benjamin was noble and aloof, he remained kind and upright.
The White family's principle was: if people don't bother us, we won't bother them.
If someone deliberately provoked the White family, they weren't afraid either.
But Lachlan...
No matter how gentle and polite he appeared, he couldn't hide the selfishness and coldness in his bones.
The fact that he experimented on those innocent children showed that Lachlan was cruel and bloodthirsty at his core.
How could such a person be Benjamin's father?
He simply wasn't worthy.
Since he'd been exposed, Lachlan had no intention of continuing to hide it.
"That's right, Benjamin is not my son, but I indeed had sex with Amelia."
Sophia's expressionless face finally changed, and she looked at him in surprise.
Almost instantly, she guessed everything that had happened back then.
Amelia must have been unaware of this.
So Lachlan did all this not to get Amelia.
He had only one purpose - to make Magnus see it all.
To make Magnus see with his own eyes his wife and his brother lying in the same bed...
One could imagine how devastated Magnus must have been.
No wonder Preston and Alaric said that when Benjamin was born, Magnus didn't like his son.
So there was a reason for all of this.
Lachlan couldn't help but laugh, "It's exactly what you're thinking. Magnus thought Benjamin was my son. When Benjamin was born, he didn't even look at him."
His biological mother was killed by Magnus.
He witnessed this himself - it couldn't be fake.
So he hated Magnus.
Plus, Magnus had stolen the woman he loved most, making him hate even more.
What he couldn't tolerate most was Preston's attitude.
Just because he was an illegitimate child, did he have to endure all this unfairness?
Just because he wasn't good enough, he didn't even have the right to inherit the company?
Why?
He was also Preston's son!
Everything he'd been through was because he was an illegitimate child!
He hated it so much!
So all these years, he'd spent all his financial and material resources searching for medical experts to research drugs that could change genes.
Sophia repeated her earlier question, "So why Benjamin?"
"Can only blame him for coming at the wrong time."
He had originally just wanted Magnus to experience the pain of losing a loved one, too.
So he had someone poison Amelia, wanting Benjamin to die in the womb.
Who knew Benjamin would be so lucky and survive!
Later, he accidentally discovered that Benjamin's genes were the highest quality among all the White family members.
For him, it was simply a godsend.
He happened to need someone like this for experiments, and Benjamin appeared.
It was simply fate!
Whenever Sophia thought about the suffering Benjamin had endured all these years, her heart couldn't help but ache.
She looked at Lachlan mockingly, "If Grandpa knew he'd been raising an ungrateful person all these years, he would definitely regret it."
Lachlan was angered by her words and shouted, "Shut up! Preston can't escape responsibility for how I ended up like this."
If Preston hadn't been biased, how could he have ended up like this?
Since childhood, Preston has only had eyes for Magnus.
He always praised Magnus highly while he was invisible.
Magnus killed his biological mother, yet Preston still chose to stand by Magnus.
He felt his existence was a joke.
If Preston looked down on him so much, why did he give birth to him?
Sophia was silent for a moment, then slowly asked, "Have you ever done a paternity test with Preston?"
Lachlan's expression stiffened. "What do you mean by that?"
Sophia: "I mean, you're not Grandpa's biological son at all."
Sophia was too lazy to waste more words with him and directly told him what she knew.
Her constitution was already poor, and with the pregnancy, she was exhausted by now.