The Sweet Rival (Mango Shen and Nathaniel Ye)

"Who are you? How did you get in?"

Randy didn't hear what Isla had said clearly. Instead, he was surprised by Mango's sudden arrival.

After all, this was Prestin's secret chamber, so no one could enter this place except for Prestin! So, who was hell was this woman that was standing in front of him? How did she come in?

"I'm just someone who came to take your life today!"

After saying that, Mango quickly got up and directly attacked Randy.

When the other guards saw this, they immediately let go of Isla and went up to surround Mango.

"Catch her!"

It was obvious that Randy was one of the leaders of the guards. After all, he had defended himself quickly when he saw Mango attacking him.

ON the other hand, Nathaniel hesitated for a moment when he saw Mango leaving. However, he couldn't allow Mango to deal with some of the guards herself. Hence, he immediately kicked one of the guards in the chest, and the guard immediately landed at the wall.

"Hah! Do you think that scums like you can embarrass the Ye family?"

Nathaniel said these words coldly, so Randy couldn't help but be afraid when he heard this.

On the other hand, Isla had mixed feelings the moment she saw Nathaniel. She even subconsciously put down her long hair to cover her face.

Did Nathaniel see how the guards had embarrassed her just now?

Argh! How could she allow Nathaniel to see her humble and pathetic appearance?

At this thought, Isla was in a panic, and she couldn't help but think about Nathaniel when he was just a child.

He had always been around her and called her 'mommy'. Although they didn't have a normal mother and son relationship, she still had watched Nathaniel grow up.

After all, she couldn't give birth, so she had thought of Nathaniel as her child while she was raising him. If the king had not given her orders, she would never have harmed the child that she had raised herself. In fact, she would've never thrown away the precious relationship that she had with him too!

However, she was still in the wrong now.

She thought that she was one of Angolla's citizens, so everything she did was for the honour of her country. Thus, even though that she would commit some unforgivable crimes, she still did it so that her country would get an upper hand. However, what did you get in return?

The country did not give her the glory and rewards that she deserved. Instead, she even lost her own pride and freedom.

Right now, she was living like a slave that had no rights. However, she had still spent most of her life in the Ye family.

She used to be the most powerful matriarch of the Ye family and the mother that Nathaniel respected a lot. Previously, all the other women would admire her, but she had ruined all this with her own hands. However, the people who had come to save her were her son and daughter-in-law that she had abandoned previously.

Therefore, Isla was too embarrassed to look at them right now.

In fact, she should have thought that this would have earlier. When she was only twenty years old, the king had poisoned her to control her before sending her to Z country as a spy. He said that he did this to make sure that she would be loyal to him. Also, he wanted to ensure that she would succeed in this mission, and he wanted her to be careful as this was an important mission. Therefore, she had to report her findings to the king every month to get the antidote from him.

However, she didn't even know what were the contents of the poison. However, she could never ever give birth and become a mother after taking the poison for a long time. Therefore, when Laborn and Atlas told her to bring Madeline into the Ye family so that they would have a child, she had no choice but to agree.

However, she really liked Wilson Ye.

After all, Wilson loved her too, and he had allowed her to take over the entire Ye family. Therefore, she had wanted to spend her whole life with him, but she still hurt him in the end.

But, no one knew that the last thing she wanted to do was to hurt Wilson Ye as he was the only person that he had loved in her whole life.

After all, she didn't know that her whole body had become poisonous because Laborn had been feeding her with poison!

Therefore, she didn't know that she was poisoning the man that she loved first whenever she spent the night with him. Therefore, she didn't know that he could be one step closer to death every time they made love as well.

By the time she realised this, Wilson was already on the verge of death.

At night, she would cry until her pillows were wet because she was alone. When she looked at the empty house and remembered all the good times with Wilson, she felt that she she was living a life worse than death!

Later, when Madeline gave birth to Nathaniel and Nick, she had really thought of them as her own sons.

After all, they were the children of the man she had loved the most. Even though she was not their mother, they were still the offspring of the Ye family.

Atlas had asked her to cause some chaos in the family. When he wanted to get rid of Nick, Isla had taken action. In the end, they had kicked Nick out of Ocean City, but she had managed to save his life. Initially, she thought that her plan was flawless, but Atlas and Laborn still found out about it in the end.

During the five years when she was abroad, everyone thought that she had left because of Nick's death. However, no one knew that Laborn was the one who had actually kidnapped her.

Whenever she thought about the punishments that she had suffered for five years, she couldn't help but shiver. However, she couldn't say anything because she had no one to complain to. Now that Nathaniel and Mango had met each other again, Laborn would definitely pay attention to Nathaniel.

Thus, he had no choice but to let Isla go and let her continue to be his pawn. However, in the end, Nathaniel and Mango had found out her real identity and had exposed her actions to the public. To the Ye family, Nathaniel and Mango, she was a sinner and a traitor who had betrayed her country. But, no one knew how much she had suffered!

After returning to her country and hometown, the people here had treated her cruelly. She wanted to commit suicide at first, but Isla realised that she was afraid of dying.

Well, if she wasn't afraid of death, perhaps she would've made a different choice in the beginning. After all, she would not have become Laborn and Atlas's spy willingly!

However, she had chosen this path willingly, so she could not blame anyone else. Thus, she thought that she would spend the rest of her days as a slave in this underground chamber. However, she never expected Mango and Nathaniel to appear, and she never thought that they would find out this embarrassing side of hers.

Hence, Isla didn't know how to face them. She wanted to run away, but she didn't have the ability to do so. Therefore, she could only watch as Nathaniel and Mango defeat Randy and the other guards before tying them up.

On the other hand, Randy was afraid, but he still shouted, "Let me go! I've already informed Prince Prestin about this, and he will be back soon! I'm waning you! My grandfather is one of the honoured citizens that help protect this country, and I've sworn loyalty to Prince Prestin! If anything happens to me, he will never let you go!"

"Heh! That's utter nonsense! We can't contact anyone from here!"

Isla didn't want to say anything, but she still opened her mouth at this moment.

Meanwhile, Nathaniel had a cold gaze on his face.

Then, he took out a dagger from his boots. When Randy saw the glint of the dagger, he couldn't help but shiver.

"What do you want to do? I'm warning you... I... Argh!"

Before Randy could finish his words, Nathaniel directly cut off one of his hands with a dagger. In fact, he had cut off the hand that had grabbed Isla just now!

The fresh blood from the wound immediately splashed on the faces of the other guards, so they all turned pale.

This secret chamber was soundproof, so no one outside could hear anything. Initially, Prestin had done this so that no one outside could find out what he was doing, but now, this was the perfect place to torture them.

"Please... please spare u! We can tell you whatever you want to know. Don't kill us! No!"

There was a banquet outside today. Although they were guards of the secret chamber, they knew that Prestin was not in the palace at this time. Therefore, no one would know if Nathaniel had dismembered them here!

That was why the guards were so afraid.

On the other hand, Randy had almost passed out because of the pain. When he saw the other guards begging for mercy, he was so angry that he started screaming.

"You b*stards! All of you are betraying the country! If Prince Prestin finds out about this, he will kill all of you!"

"Urgh! You're too noisy!"

Mango frowned and kicked Randy in the chest.

This was the same place where he had kicked Isla as well.

When Isla said this, she had mixed emotions in her heart before she said softly, "This person is Randy Fant, and he's the son of Laborn's most trusted guard. He saved Laborn once, so Laborn gave his whole family the surname of 'Fang. Hence, men in his family pretty much are in charge of guarding the palace and Angolla, so some of his family members have high ranks in the military. They would send women off to marry the upper-class families in other countries to spy on them, just like what they did to me. Therefore, they always thought that they were better than others, but they are all slaves as well! Heh! Laborn never thought of me as part of the Fang family, and he only saw me as a pawn that he could use. If you want, I can give you. the list of names of the military's personnel and the names of the women that are overseas."

While Isla said this, she looked at Nathaniel, and her eyes flickered.

On the other hand, Randy was so furious that he shouted.

"Isla, you b*tch! How could you betray your own country? You should be dismembered and fed to the dogs! You... Urgh!"

Before Rany could finish his words, Isla gave him a slap that numbed his arm.

"Shut up!"

Right now, hatred was burning in Islas eyes.

After all, she had trusted her family and her country the most. However, they had treated her this mercilessly. So, she would turn her back on all of them!

Well, she had finally figured out right now who were the most important people in her life.

Suddenly, Isla thought about Wilson and the days that she had spent in the Ye family. Alas! It appeared that she was indeed about to die.

Her so-called father had given her a life, but he had also tortured her miserably. In the end, she had made mistakes throughout her entire life, but she finally knew what she wanted now.

After all, all she had wanted was a harmonious family and children. She wanted Nathaniel, who used to be so cold, to be concerned about her occasionally. This was because that felt better than staying in a family who didn't care about her at all!

Unfortunately, it was too late for her to achieve that. However, she still had time to make up for her mistakes.

Now, she could do or give Nathaniel anything he wanted.

Right now, she really looked like the former matriarch of the Ye family.

When Randy had first seen Isla, their father had almost beaten her to death, and she had been lying on the ground mercilessly. Hence, he had thought that Isla was a weakling that he could bully all the time. Therefore, now that Isla had regained her confidence as the former matriarch of the Ye family, he was stunned, and he couldn't do anything!

"How dare you hit me? You're only an illegitimate child, so how could you do this... Argh!"

Before Randy could finish his words, Isla took the dagger from Nathaniel's hand and cut off his tongue.

Well, Isla had never been a kind person. If she hadn't been in despair and had allowed others to torture her willingly, no one, including Randy, would've been able to lay a finger on her!