"Who is lying and cheating others? You'd better be careful of what you say. When did I ever do those things?" Derek shouted with anger.
"Don't act so innocent. You're not going to fool me. Now, I will give you a chance to purge yourself. Have you taken money from the Dream Company in the name of the Mu Group?"
"No, I haven't. How is that possible? How can I do such a thing?"
At this moment, Derek was still defending himself. But clearly, Linda wasn't buying a word he was saying. Linda Xia was a person who would only believe in what she had seen and heard with her own eyes and ears.
Paul opened Derek's bag from which he took a bank card and handed to Linda. He said, "My Lady, there was approximately two million in his account until yesterday. Today, the two million has been transferred."
Apparently, Paul had checked the day-to-day account transactions of Derek's bank card in advance.
"Tell me. To whom have you transferred the two million?"
"I don't know what you're talking about. I really don't know. I am innocent. I didn't do anything!"
Derek was perverse to admit it.
He didn't fear Linda Xia at all. What could she do to him? After all, his older sister was Linda's foster mother. He believed that she would not do anything to him out of consideration for her foster mother, who cared so much about him. Besides, he only tricked two million from some stranger and kept the money hidden somewhere. What was so wrong about that?
It was just a piece of cake for Linda Xia to help him pay the money back. She had gotten married to Young Master Mu. The Mu Group was so immensely wealthy that Charles Mu must have regarded two million as nothing but a drop of water in the ocean. Two million was merely a small sum of money for a rich man like him.
"You don't know, huh? Do you think that everything would be okay if you continue to deny what you had done? Do you know that defrauding two million is enough to be sentenced as a life sentence in prison? Do you want to die in jail? Okay, let me help you with that. Paul, send him to the Public Security Bureau and tell the policemen that he has deceived a company of two million. Let the policemen in the Public Security Bureau 'take care of' him."
"Oh, my dear niece. It's just two million. I was having a hard time back then. I owed someone about two million in gambling. If I could not pay the money back in time, I would likely be cut into pieces. My niece, you don't want to see your uncle become a disabled man, do you?" Obviously, Derek was such a selfish, ignorant person. He was scared of getting imprisoned, yet he dared to defraud a company of a huge sum of money?
"Just about two million?"
Linda almost lost her temper when she heard Derek's words. Was two million a small amount of money? For Linda Xia, two million was a lot! Without the properties of the Xia clan and the Mu clan, it would be hard for Linda to earn two million all by herself. Besides, Linda didn't want to help a man, whom she despised, pay off his gambling debt using the Xia clan's or the Mu clan's money. Why should she do that?
She was not doing charity here.
Taking a deep breath, Linda Xia was trying to calm herself down. She was really getting more and more irritated by Derek Xie by the minute.
But, fortunately, Donna wasn't there. Otherwise, Derek Xie would be begging for mercy from Donna, instead of Linda.
If he did, Linda would be caught in a dilemma. She was capable of helping Derek pay off the gambling debt of two million. But she really didn't want to do someone like Derek Xie a favor. In her opinion, Derek Xie should pay the price for his misbehavior.
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