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Chapter 1 The Call From the Deep

The captain from the rescue center came looking for Cyrus Selden just as someone shook me awake from sleep. "Lucas! Trouble! Your brother Aidan's submarine, the Abyss Explorer, has lost contact at 35,000 feet in the Mariana Trench! There was an unidentified undersea quake—communication's completely down, and their chances of survival are… slim!"I blinked the sleep from my eyes and looked at him dully. "So?" I asked, my tone flat.Cyrus froze, as if he hadn't expected that kind of reaction. "We need you!" he blurted. "You're the only person in the world who's ever pulled off a successful rescue at that depth. You're their only hope!"I lay back down, turned over, and pulled the blanket up. "Sorry," I murmured, "can't help you.""What?""I said I can't help." My voice stayed as calm as if the ones trapped down there were my enemies."Lucas Sullivan! Are you out of your mind? Your brother's still down there! Along with twenty other crew members! Their oxygen won't last more than 72

Chapter 2 The Choice

I laughed. Of course, I could live with it.An hour later, my father and stepmother found me at the detention center.Behind the cold steel bars, I watched the news on the wall-mounted TV—a live broadcast of the Abyss Explorer rescue mission. The anchor's voice was full of practiced emotion as she recited the list of missing crew members, hailing them as national heroes who had sacrificed themselves for science.She really nailed the tone.I raised my cuffed hands and gave a small shrug toward the two standing outside the bars. "As you can see, my hands are tied—literally. I've been detained for allegedly leaking classified data from the Abyss Explorer."Claudia's expression shifted in mere seconds—from shock, to disbelief, to venomous hatred. Her carefully maintained face twisted with fury as she shrieked, "It was you, Lucas! You did this on purpose! You've always been jealous of your brother—jealous that he became the chief designer of the Abyss Explorer at such a young age! You

Chapter 3 The Cold-Blooded Brother

The phone was on speaker, and every word came through loud and clear.When the call ended, Theron turned to me, eyes bloodshot, voice hoarse. "Lucas, you heard that, didn't you? This isn't just about saving your brother anymore—it's about completing Elara's rescue plan! That's an order!"I yawned lazily and didn't bother to answer.Just then, a commotion erupted outside the detention center. A few parents of the missing students had somehow learned where I was being held, and they came rushing in. The moment they saw me, they fell to their knees in unison."Professor Sullivan! Please! Please save our children!""Please, Professor Sullivan, my boy's all I have—he can't die down there!"Their cries and pleas echoed through the corridor, raw and desperate. I looked down at them from behind the bars, my eyes as cold as ice. "And what does their survival have to do with me?"The words struck like a whip, silencing the room instantly. They stared up at me in disbelief, as if I were so

Chapter 4 The Price of Blood

That dying message between brothers—so full of devotion and despair—pierced through millions of hearts. In the live broadcast, Aidan's trembling voice became the nation's tragedy. Within moments, the comment section exploded.'God, this is unbearable! The brother is begging for his life while the other just sits in jail doing nothing!''Lucas is a monster! That's your brother, for God's sake!''How did someone like him ever become a chief engineer? Investigate him!''Go save him! It'll be too late if you don't move now!'The insults and accusations came like a tidal wave, drowning me completely. And right at the crest of that public outrage, my stepmother, Claudia, made her move.With a dramatic thud, she dropped to her knees again—not to me this time, but in front of the reporters who had gathered outside the detention center. She wept with perfect anguish, her voice cracking between sobs. "Please, Lucas… if you'll just save Aidan… I'll make him give up all his inheritance from

Chapter 5 The Return

Everyone inside the detention center froze.Claudia was the first to react. Like a madwoman, she lunged forward, snatched the contract from my hand, and tore it into shreds. Her face twisted with unrestrained hatred as she jabbed a finger at me. "Keep dreaming, Lucas! My son's been saved—you won't get a single penny! You can rot in prison for all I care, you monster!"I watched the scraps of paper scatter through the air and couldn't help but laugh. No one knew the truth—I had come back from the dead.In my previous life, I had piloted the rescue sub through the freezing black waters of the deep sea, only to be betrayed. Aidan and Elara had worked together to sabotage the vessel, sealing me inside the cockpit as oxygen slowly ran out. I'd watched the life fade from my own reflection on the control panel glass.After I died, they pinned every crime on me. They said I'd caused the accident on purpose—jealous of my brother's title as chief designer, desperate to ruin him, and ultimate

Chapter 6 The Ceremony

Three days later, the National Oceanic Center held a grand commendation ceremony to celebrate the success of the rescue mission, and the event took place in our department's auditorium.Elara, Aidan, Theron, and Claudia—an entire family of them—sat in the most prominent seats on stage, basking in applause and admiration as the stars of the day.When I showed up at the entrance, wearing a faded old uniform that had been washed one too many times, the entire hall fell silent. Every eye turned to me, sharp and cutting as blades—filled with contempt, ridicule, and schadenfreude. I ignored them all and walked forward, step by step, toward the stage."Some nerve he has to still show up!""Tell me about it! People like him should've been fired ages ago!""Look at him, broke and pathetic. Serves him right!"The whispers weren't even whispers—they wanted me to hear them.My younger brother, Aidan, spotted me. Dressed in a spotless white suit, he looked every bit the charming golden boy.

Chapter 7 The Question That Shook the Room

Every live camera in the hall swung toward Elara, locking onto her pale face like sharks scenting blood. Beside her, Aidan and Theron froze as well—their proud, triumphant smiles stiffening in place. They clearly hadn't expected me to strike back at the very height of their glory.After a brief moment of panic, Elara quickly composed herself. She was, after all, a scientist used to facing the spotlight. Forcing a calm smile, she turned to the cameras and spoke in a clear, confident tone. "Lucas, I understand that you're upset about what happened before, but you can't let personal feelings make you deny the efforts of everyone involved—or the miracles of science. I admit, the standard remote system you designed was indeed locked. However…"Her tone shifted, her eyes gleaming with intellectual brilliance, "I utilized the submarine's backup quantum-entanglement communication module to bypass your physical lock and created an emergency rescue protocol on the spot. It was an unconventiona

Chapter 8 The Truth Unveiled

Elara's face drained of all color. Her lips trembled, and a rasping sound came from her throat, but no words escaped. My second question had sliced through her elaborate web of jargon like a surgeon's scalpel, exposing the rot beneath her polished facade.Theron's expression darkened to a stormy shade of grim. He knew that if I kept talking, the situation would spiral beyond his control. His voice cracked like a whip as he shouted at the security guards, "What are you all standing around for? Get him out of here—now!"Several large men began closing in on me, their eyes full of threat. I didn't move. I didn't resist. I simply looked at my father—the man who had once seemed larger than life to me. "Dad, why are you so eager to throw me out? Feeling guilty?"My voice wasn't loud, but it landed like a hammer, striking deep.Just as the guards reached for me, I lifted my phone and pressed play. A video appeared on every screen in the auditorium, projected wirelessly for all to see.Th

Chapter 9 The Fall of the Righteous

Aidan suddenly jumped to his feet like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. "Lucas!" he shouted, his voice cracking with theatrical anguish. "Why would you forge a video just to slander Elara?! She saved all of us! How could you do something so vile to her?"Tears glimmered in his eyes, his expression twisted with pain—an act so exaggerated it almost deserved applause. But I didn't bother humoring him with a reply. Instead, I reached into my pocket, pulled out a flash drive, and tossed it onto the stage."Slander?" I questioned coldly. "Everything in there is the result of a private investigation I commissioned—three months of work. Elara, Aidan—you two started conspiring a year ago. You used an offshore shell company registered in the Cayman Islands to secretly transfer ownership of 17 deep-sea technology patents under my name."This was never about saving lives. You planned everything long before the so-called 'rescue mission.' As long as I died down there, all my intellectual pr

Chapter 10 Justice Served

Theron's legs gave out, and he collapsed into his chair, gasping for air. Claudia and Aidan, meanwhile, crumpled to the floor like discarded puppets—vacant-eyed, hollow, drained of all color and pride.I walked toward my father, one measured step at a time. Looking at the man I had called "Dad" for over 20 years, I felt nothing—no warmth, no grief, not even anger. "Did you really think your sins were limited to cheating, raising an illegitimate son, stealing my inheritance, and trying to kill me?"My voice wasn't loud, but the microphone carried it clearly through the hall—and to every screen streaming the broadcast. "Twenty years ago… my mother, Ms. Adele Sullivan, the founder of the Sullivan Group—did she really jump to her death because of depression?"I drew out my final piece of evidence: my mother's old diary, along with a sworn statement from a neighbor I'd located after reopening the police investigation through my lawyer.Her diary appeared on the big screen, page by page.

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