Xyla didn’t know what Sophia intended to do. Thus, she simply stared blankly at the clean and beautiful fingers in front of her. After a long while, she finally reached out her heavily wounded hands and took the laptop that was handed to her. Starting up the laptop and keying in the password, she saw a folder on the desktop. When she clicked into it, she saw that it contained many documents and videos.
Then, she clicked on a video. It was a video of her meeting with Richard at the café opposite the motel the other day. As the video played, Richard’s voice entered her ears clearly. “Mr. Murphy owns the largest chain of cinemas in Bayside City. All screening slots will depend on him. He has taken an interest in you. If you sleep with him for a night, he has agreed to increase the movie’s screening slots by 30% throughout all the chain cinemas… Mr. Murphy doesn’t like using protection, so I prepared a morning-after pill for you.
Here; take this 10,000. Why don’t you use it to get your hair done? If you take good care of Mr. Murphy, he will definitely arrange more movie screening slots for you. Don’t worry; you will forever be my beloved wife. I will forget this incident. We still have a long future ahead of us…”
Her eyes widened suddenly. I went to the café in hopes of looking for evidence of Richard setting me up too, but they informed me that there was no surveillance footage within the café. Therefore, I had no evidence to prove that Richard was the one that asked me to sleep with Mr. Murphy! I can’t believe Sophia has the evidence!
When he got into the car, he took out his phone and made a phone call with a strange smile on his face. “Hello? Is this Mrs. Murphy? You don’t need to know who I am. I just wanted to tell you that your husband will be at Jade Spring Hotel, Room Number XXX tomorrow at 7 PM…”
Upon seeing that, she couldn’t help sobbing. I see; he planned everything! He asked me to sleep with Mr. Murphy and then reported it to Mrs. Murphy. Because of that, I was mistaken for Mr. Murphy’s mistress. Not only was I beaten up, but I was also stripped naked in front of everybody. Meanwhile, he found a justifiable excuse to throw me away and gained the reputation of being a filial son-in-law at the same time. Even the box office earnings of the movie were driven up by this incident. Honestly, what a great method! It makes my blood run cold just thinking about it! Crying, she continued to the next video with trembling fingers.
The next video was taken at a hospital ward in the intensive care unit of a hospital. Richard was playing the video of Xyla being stripped naked in public inside the hospital ward. Mr. Huff, who had just woken up, was staring at the video with wide eyes.
He was so mad that he couldn’t breathe. All of a sudden, he struggled slightly before collapsing back onto the bed, his eyes staring blankly into space. After he died, Mrs. Huff cursed at Richard. However, Richard simply stepped forward and unplugged the oxygen tube. As a result, she struggled for a bit before she stopped moving too…
After that, there was a video of Joe raping Xyla as well as Faye and Richard conspiring together to steal the Huff Family’s assets. There were several copies of ledgers too, detailing how the Harpers and the Edwards had quietly transferred out the Huff Family’s assets. That was also the reason the Huff Family had collapsed so quickly and so suddenly despite being such a stable and powerful family. Moreover, the files contained a lot of information on Joe’s misdemeanors too.
After she finished going through the information, she finally lost control of her emotions. Kneeling on the ground, she burst into tears. I can’t believe this! This is how my entire family was killed by those people!
Looking at Xyla now, Sophia nearly sympathized with her. She sighed and indicated for Hale to bring out another folder. Squatting down, she glanced at Xyla, who was weeping on her knees. Then, she said gently, “Here; your ID card. I took the liberty of getting it back for you. Also, here is 20,000. Use it to do your hair, change your clothes, find a hotel to take a bath, and have a good rest.
Looking at the money and the transfer letter, she was confused. Sophia would never be so kind as to help me out of the goodness of her heart. She must be afraid of dirtying her hands. So, she wants me to destroy Richard in her stead! She gripped the laptop that contained all the evidence of Richard’s wrongdoings and sneered suddenly. Sophia, you’ve made a mistake in your calculations!
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