Python would never forget this scene for the rest of his life.
Conrad, covered in blood, looked like a complete madman as he dispatched many people to conduct a thorough search of the sea area.
His legs were nearly giving out, but he still insisted on going into the water, desperately searching for a woman who might already be dead.
“You said you were almost here! What do you mean you didn’t see them when you arrived?”
“Only the workers at a nearby construction site saw it. They thought it was a movie scene and even recorded a video.”
Python said all of this in one breath. He grabbed the phone, saw the video, and completely lost it.
When George, Gordon, and the others arrived, they were stunned by the sight in front of them.
Conrad had completely lost control. After they caught the remaining men from Hunter’s group, their deaths were extremely gruesome-Conrad had personally dealt with them.
“I don’t know! It just… happened. She just suddenly fell off the lighthouse!”
They kept repeating the same words because they truly couldn’t understand how a woman, dressed in nothing but her pajamas, had managed to take down Hunter.
“Then go die.” Conrad stood in the bloodstained mess, his face and body covered in blood. His thighs and wrists were still bleeding on the ground.
“Are you trying to die?!” George shouted as he and Gordon, Hogan, along with the others, had to work together to restrain the madman.
“Get him tied up. I need to bandage him immediately!”
“Where’s the sedative?!”
“Let me go!” Conrad roared, his expression just as feral as ever.
If Lillian had really died here…
Then it would all be over.
No one knew what Conrad would do next.
George shouted, “Let you go to your death? Look at how much blood you’ve lost! If you die, what will happen to Lillian?”
Those words seemed to snap Conrad back into some strange form of calm. George quickly instructed the medical vehicle to approach.
Gordon and the others were still dressed in their formal attire, standing at the dock, anxiously awaiting any good news.
“We found him!” Suddenly, someone shouted from the sea.
They had pulled up Hunter. He had been shocked back to consciousness.
Conrad’s face closed in on him. “Where is Lillian?”
Hunter’s head was spinning, his limbs twitching. He looked at Conrad, grinning grotesquely despite his injuries. “She’s probably dead. How would I know?”
Conrad grabbed him by the throat and slammed him onto the ground. “You don’t know? Who does then?! If you don’t tell me the truth, I’ll make you wish you were never born!”
Hunter knew full well that Conrad was capable of such things.
Hunter continued to grin, even as Conrad’s fist came crashing down.
Gordon grabbed Hunter by the hair. “Say it! What happened to her?!”
“I really don’t know! That damn woman had something on her, something that shocked me all over. I don’t know where she went!”
“Maybe the sea swept her away!” Hunter cursed.
Gordon frowned deeply, but Conrad stood frozen, as if struck by lightning.
She had turned the bracelet.
It was the thing he had given her-it had saved her, but now it had also led to her downfall.
“Conrad!” George gasped.
Everyone turned to look. To their shock, Conrad actually spat out blood.
“Mr. Conrad!”
Conrad wiped his lips, his voice hoarse. “Keep searching! Hang him at the lighthouse. If you can’t find her, keep him hanging there!”
That was the darkest day.
No one who had lived through it ever wanted to remember it.
Conrad sat on a row of corpses, his eyes red, covered in blood.
He stared blankly at the ocean, as if lost in thought, his body motionless like a statue.
He hadn’t eaten or drunk anything.
From daybreak to nightfall, the temperature had dropped, and the search-and-rescue team had been replaced. The sea was brightly lit by searchlights.
Of the people who fell into the sea, only Hunter had been retrieved.
It was impossible for Lillian to have been swept away by the waves during this time.
Experts in the field had even been called in.
Yet, they found nothing.
A car stopped near the lighthouse.
Daisy, disheveled and in an elegant gown, staggered toward Conrad, but Andrew grabbed her arm and pulled her away.
“Conrad, what’s going on?! Why?! Why was my dad taken by the police? Why did they want me to go to the station? Today was supposed to be our engagement, wasn’t it?”
“All our guests are waiting for us, why did everything change as soon as you signed the contract? We were supposed to be getting engaged today!”
Her voice was filled with resentment and grievance.
“Do you know how much I was looking forward to today? Do you know everyone’s been whispering behind my back? I’ve been waiting for you! Why didn’t you come? Why haven’t you come?!”
“Conrad, say something!”
Daisy broke down, her flawless makeup now smudged by her tears.
The lavish engagement party had become a joke, with the groom never showing up.
She, Daisy, from the White family, had become nothing more than a laughingstock-an embarrassment to the high society!
“I advise you not to provoke him right now.” Andrew’s face remained expressionless. “Otherwise, whatever he does next, no one will stop him.”
“If I don’t provoke him, then who’s going to care about my life? My dad’s been taken, and the whole company’s under investigation! We’re all in this together! As my dad’s son-in-law, shouldn’t he help?!”
“Sis!” Martin pulled up in his car, got out and immediately grabbed Daisy to pull her away.
“What are you doing?! Let go of me!”
“Don’t you get it yet?! All of this is Conrad’s doing! It’s Conrad who’s been setting up everything! He planned to get the chip today during the engagement! You’ve been used!”
Daisy cried, shaking her head. “Why?! I love him so much, why?!”
She tore herself free from Andrew and ran straight toward Conrad. “Conrad, answer me! You didn’t do this, did you?”
In the next second, a gun was pressed to her face.
“If you want to die, I can make it happen.”
Daisy collapsed in front of him, crying. “Conrad, Conrad…”
“Take her away,” George said, frowning, stepping in front of the gun.
Martin didn’t understand what had happened, but seeing the scene, he knew that letting his sister stay here wouldn’t change anything.
As they dragged Daisy to the car and drove off, they were stopped by the police at the next intersection.
“Miss Daisy, you are now suspected of hiring a hitman for murder. We need you to come with us for questioning.”
Martin froze, looking at Daisy, who was grinning manically, still laughing at the absurdity of it all.
How could this be…? Hiring a hitman for murder?!
Overnight, the White Family Group was plunged into scandal. The disastrous engagement banquet, and the fact that Conrad didn’t show up-everything became the hottest gossip in City N for the foreseeable future.
But the most shocking revelation was Daisy’s involvement in hiring a hitman, which led to Lillian’s grandmother’s fatal accident.
Now, Daisy was trying to pin everything on her assistant, Irene. But Irene held a trove of incriminating evidence against her. With both sides locked in a fierce battle, neither could escape unscathed.
The White Family’s downfall was inevitable-not just because of the scandal, but also due to their broken financial chain, which left them facing massive compensation claims.