The Sweet Rival (Mango Shen and Nathaniel Ye) novel Chapter 1367

Nathaniel hid Mango behind her and looked at Isla with mixed emotions. Then he whispered, "Don't listen to her. We're in Angolla, so we won't know whether Mateo is here or not. Let's look into it before making a decision."

Obviously, he didn't believe Isla.

When Isla heard this, a bitter smile appeared on her lips.

She had made a lot of mistakes, so she couldn't blame Nathaniel for not believing her.

"Mateo's troops are in this city. I'm still a member of the Fang family, so I know a little bit about this news. Mateo left Z Country on a secret mission last year because he came here to investigate the disappearance of the children of the senior officials. The girls here are all daughters of high officials from all different countries. So, Laborn asked Prestin to guard them. Thus, he made them wear this indecent clothing to prevent them from running away. This way, even if they managed to run outside, they wouldn't be shameless enough to leave the palace. Also, Randy and the other guards are tasked to watch over them, and I'm in charge of preparing their food."

Isla told Nathaniel and Mango everything she knew.

Then, Mango looked at the girls curled up in the cage and could not help but feel a little distressed.

These girls used to be the apple of their parents' eyes, and they were even born in rich families. However, Laborn had not imprisoned them in this underground prison. Hence, it was obvious that Laborn favoured and trusted Prestin a lot.

"Why does Laborn think so highly of Prestin?"

Well, Mango hated Isla, and she would even tremble when she recalled what Isla had done in the past. However, now that Isla was in such a horrible situation, she had paid for her crimes as well. Hence, Mango did not plan to get revenge on Isla as well. Furthermore, Isla was the one who had raised Nathaniel, so Mango felt that it was better to leave this to the country.

Meanwhile, Isla looked at Mango and was in deep thought. Five years ago, Mango had loved Nathaniel timidly. However, she was now a confident and brave woman, so Isla had mixed feelings.

Previously, Mango had treated her respectfully as her mother-in-law. However, Isla had ruined this family on her own!

At this thought, a hint of guilt and grief flashed in Isla's eyes. She then said, "Prestin's parents belong to the Barnes family. They have been developing well outside, so Laborn thinks highly of them."

This meant that the family of Prestin's mother had powerful connections.

Mango immediately understood what was going on when she heard this.

Then, Nathaniel looked at Isla and asked in a low voice, "I think that the technology here in Angolla is pretty advanced. Thus, I'm sure that they reap enormous amounts of profits every year. So, why do Atlas and Laborn want to take over the mine in my country?"

However, Isla shook her head and said, "Of course, Angolla can support itself if they want to develop normally. However, the king has been working on military research and nuclear weapon research all these years. This research needs a lot of talent and money, but our country is not rich. We have invested a lot of money in military affairs and research funds. Therefore, Atlas has been stealing money from foreign countries to support the domestic research and military development."

Well, now that Isla had said this, Nathaniel understood why Laborn and Atlas had no choice but to steal the mine.

"So you stole our country's military defence plans because Laborn ordered you to do so?"

Nathaniel looked at Isla while he asked this. In the past, he did not have any time to ask about these matters, but he had to understand the truth today. After all, there would be no chance to do so in the future.

Well, Isla would be judged and punished after she was delivered back to the country. She could be either shot or buried to death. Initially, Nathaniel thought that he didn't care about such matters anymore, but he was wrong.

Upon hearing Nathaniel's question, Isla nodded.

Now that she had ended up in such a state, she could admit everything she had done.

"In the beginning, the king wanted Koiton's genetic research, and later, he got your military plans. Although the Ye family does not have a lot of descendants, all of them are talented. Hence, Laborn has always been targeting the Ye family.

Nathaniel's eyes darkened a little when he heard this.

"Were you the one who spread rumours about Nick fighting with other people in the past?"

Nathaniel could never forget about this incident.

After all, Nathaniel knew that Nick was not someone who would fight with others. Even if he

was young and immature, he believed that his brother knew how to control himself. Now, he had been suspecting this for so many years, so he wanted to get to the bottom of this incident today.

When Nathaniel mentioned Nick, Isla had a sad expression.

"Nick has always been a good and filial child. I wasn't the one who came up with the rumours about him fighting with others. However, after that incident, Laborn wanted me to spread this incident. I thought that only Nick's reputation would be ruined through this, but I didn't expect Atlas to send someone to assassinate Nick even though the latter was injured! Furthermore, he also pushed all the blame on Nick. Obviously, they wanted Nick to die. Well, the Ye family only has two children, you and Nick. Even though Nick is less talented than you, I think it's better to have more children in the family. However, at that time, they had their eyes on you because you knew how to deal with the military affairs well, so they only wanted you. Hence, they plotted this whole affair. I couldn't bear to see Nick die, so I informed you about this and sent him away beforehand. Alas! I thought that I could save his life, but he ended up dying there too!"

After hearing what Isla had said, Nathaniel remembered that he had sent Nick away in a hurry because someone had reminded him about this through an anonymous letter.

At that time, no one had been able to find out who the sender of the letter was. Now, he finally knew that it was Isla!

So she actually cared about both of them, right?

At this thought, Nathaniel felt that this was ridiculous.

Isla was a spy that had betrayed the country, but he still allowed her to explain the reason behind her actions.

Suddenly, Nathaniel's expression hardened, and he said to Mango, "Contact Uncle Mateo and see where he is."

"All right."

Mango turned on the phone very cautiously. Then, Nathaniel turned on the virtual computer and started to interfere with the signal.

Well, Mateo's number had changed because he was using the military signal. After Nathaniel told Mango the new number, someone answered her call.