Chapter 532



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The couple’s voices traveled through the earpiece, their conversation taking Nora by surprise.

Through their discussion, she gradually learned the truth of what had happened then.

She was totally stunned.

She could tell that she had lived through a lot over the years, but still, she would never have expected a villain like Jill to actually exist in this world!

Her jaw tensed and her eyebrows narrowed into a tight frown.

Lily returned at that moment.

A guest room had been prepared for Lily all this time. Every once in a while, she would come back, take a day off and rest. After all, she was terribly busy at the moment. Not only did she have to take care of Old Maddy, but Quentin as well.

She stretched and walked into the house. After entering the house, she looked at Nora and said, “Anti, long time no see.”

Nora stared at her. Suddenly, she took off her earpiece, coughed and asked, “Lily, are you busy?”.

Lily: “?”

She slowly looked at Nora and then, the corners of her lips tightened. She said, “Chief, you must be the most exploitative capitalist in the whole country.”

He had really come back just to rest for a day! Besides, it was the only day he had been back all week.

Nora, however, stood up. She pulled out the hair she had packed beforehand – needless to say, she had plucked those strands of hair from Jill’s head when she bumped into her just now. The hair follicles were still stuck together.

Lily: “!!!”

The corners of her lips tightened, and she felt she was close to getting used to it. She asked, “Whose DNA are you going to check this time?”

“Jill and Tanya’s,” Nora replied.

“… Got it.”

By this time they had run Tanya’s DNA tests several times. Lily already had records of her data, so she didn’t need any more samples. She took the samples from Nora and headed for the door dejectedly. As she did so, she said, “Chief, you really need to give me a raise.”

After watching Lily leave, Nora turned and went upstairs.

Joel returned at dinnertime in the evening. With a deep frown, he looked at Tanya and said, “I got someone to ask around. Dad didn’t do anything serious, so he’ll probably get out after two or three years in jail at the most…”

Tanya breathed a sigh of relief.

Two or three years in jail for a bad man really wasn’t that much.

Actually, Tanya had been worried that Karl would be jailed for life. She looked at Joel and said, “If you can pass him a message, tell him I’ll wait him out and support him in his old age.”

Joel nodded.

Nora, who was sitting off to the side, listened to them, sensing that Joel was really quite capable.

Special department matters were treated with a very high level of confidentiality. In addition, Morris was a tough nut to crack, regardless of one’s attitude toward him. It was extremely difficult for one to find out what went on inside the department.

However, Joel had found out after running here and there for an afternoon.

This proved that the special department was not entirely impenetrable. Next to them, Warren and Maureen were eating with their heads down. Perhaps because of the Karl incident of the afternoon, the couple-who were usually the ones who livened up the atmosphere at home-didn’t talk.

But if one were to look closely at them, one would see that Maureen had an angry look on her face while Warren smiled ingratiatingly at her. Maureen, however, had turned away and was ignoring him.

Nora was preoccupied thinking about Jill and Tanya’s DNA test because she wanted to check the veracity of what they had said in the car, so she didn’t notice that there was something off about the couple. After dinner, Joel suddenly looked at Tanya and said, “Today, when I was looking for someone to ask about Dad, I met with him.”

Tanya was taken aback.

Joel was silent for a while before he sighed and said, “He wants you to go through with the wedding as planned, plus he’s asking us not to delay the wedding because of him.”

Tanya bit her lip and lowered her head. “He’s overthinking things, why would we cancel the wedding because of him?” Nora looked at Tanya. She knew her best friend was being verbally stubborn again. She had heard Tanya call the hotel this afternoon to cancel the wedding reception…. When the hotel told her that the deposit was non-refundable, she had even replied to them impatiently that there was no need for a refund then.

But.

“The wedding should go on as planned,” Maureen said suddenly. She still sounded a little stiff, but you could hear the concern in her voice. For some reason, news of what happened to Tanya has spread far and wide and the town is abuzz with rumors. My family even called today to ask about it. If the wedding is called off, those who don’t know what’s going on will think Joel is upset with Tanya. Besides…there are already a lot of people speculating that the wedding will be called off.”

Actually, the things those people were saying had sounded much worse. ‘… The Smiths will never accept the daughter of a murderer. I’ve even heard that her father is an underworld figure. Jill had been forced into a relationship with him back then, and he even forced her…. He’s even a rapist! How scary! It’s fortunate that he was arrested’.

‘Heh, like father, like son. Tanya is his daughter, so it’s not going to be any good either. If I had a father like him, I’d be too embarrassed to marry Mr. Smith!’

‘Wait a minute. I’m sure the Smiths will come up with some excuse to cancel the wedding. After all, if they have such an unfortunate wedding now, it will look very bad when they divorce in the future’.

There were all sorts of speculations, and Maureen’s family had passed them all on.

Tanya would live in New York as Mrs. Smith in the future. She couldn’t be like Justin’s mother and shut herself away all day in a villa in the suburbs, never going out or socializing for the rest of her life.

As long as she had to socialize, she would have to come into contact with others. And as long as he came into contact with others, disputes would inevitably arise.

Therefore, they must not let Tanya be belittled!

Hearing what Maureen said, a few people gathered and discussed the matter. In the end, they decided that the wedding would go on as planned.

A worried Tanya and Joel went upstairs. Maureen also went upstairs with Warren, one behind the other, leaving only Nora who slowly climbed the stairs.

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Upstairs.

Nora sat on the couch, hands flying over the keyboard at high speed.

Now she understood what was going on with Jill. But she also had to find out the truth about Karl.

He intended to investigate what exactly had happened when Karl went to New York back then….

Seeing Nora hard at work, Pete, who was lying in bed, sent a message to the tyrant: [Something has happened at home. This is a good opportunity to impress mom, why aren’t you here? You’re useless].

Pete frowned and let out a huge sigh. He was just so mentally exhausted!

For the family of four to get together, he was carrying too many responsibilities all by himself!

The tyrant used to be so smart, yet he wasn’t taking such a great opportunity to impress mom? With her phone in hand, Nora hacked into a certain system.

To be honest, she already had a vague assumption in the background and was just here to verify it. But unexpectedly… the moment she hacked into the system, she was obstructed by a master hacker!

The two went back and forth. Even after a few rounds of fighting, neither of them could beat the other. However, perhaps because the other party was part of the public security system and therefore had home field advantage, Nora was temporarily at a disadvantage.

The other party opened a chat channel and bluntly asked, [Who are you?]

Nora: [?]

She thought for a moment and answered: [I am Y].

Anyway, ‘Y’ was Justin. Surely he wouldn’t hold it against her for borrowing his name, would he? After all, Justin was very powerful in the country, while his identity as Q had already been exposed in front of quite a few people.

After sending the message, he asked, [Who are you?]

Who are you?

The other party was silent for quite a while before finally answering: [Oh, I am Q].

Nora: “?????”

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