Jacob Wilson asked puzzledly, “You’re an interesting one. You could even guess Charlie wade’s bank card password. How do you call that unlucky?”
Elaine felt a twinge of pain from an old injury on her leg and gritted her teeth. “You couldn’t dream of it, but there were over a hundred billion in that card!”
“How… how much?!”
Jacob Wilson was completely stunned.
He grumbled, “Elaine, are you sleepwalking and talking in your dreams? Do you know what a hundred billion means? You could buy a whole fleet of planes! Even if Charlie wade looked at feng shui for the Jade Emperor, he wouldn’t give him that much money!”
Elaine thought Jacob Wilson didn’t believe her and immediately said annoyedly, “This is the pain of my life. Would I lie to you about it?”
Jacob Wilson laughed. “Come on, elaborate. How did Charlie wade’s bank card become the pain of your life?”
Elaine hesitated and struggled for a moment with her head down, then told the whole story of how she secretly transferred the money and was later taken away by the police.
Jacob Wilson listened with his mouth agape and said, “I always thought you were scammed by a pyramid scheme organisation and that’s why the police arrested you for cracking down on them. I never imagined… I never imagined there was such a backstory!”
At this point, Jacob Wilson slapped his thigh and sighed sincerely. “Elaine, oh Elaine, you woman have some real bloody guts! If I saw a hundred billion, my legs would go weak from fear. And you dared to transfer it all to your own card!”
“Not to mention that hundred billion being from a fraud group. Even if it was really Charlie wade’s, did you think the money was yours just because you transferred it to your card? If Charlie wade reported it to the police, with that amount involved, wouldn’t you be shot seven or eight hundred times over?”
Elaine also felt a bit embarrassed and said, “At the time, I was mostly just confused for a moment. You know, those years our family was constantly targeted by that old lady because Claire wouldn’t divorce Charlie wade. Christopher Wilson’s family was always against us too. We were so poor we could barely afford food. Seeing so much money, I couldn’t hold back all of a sudden. I thought we’d never have to be poor again, so I transferred it all to my own card. I never expected it to be a new trick from the fraud group…”
With that, she asked carefully, “Do you think Charlie wade was involved in that fraud group? The police said he was a victim too, but now it seems Charlie wade isn’t that honest either. Looking at feng shui for people this time also seems like a deceptive business…”
Claire Wilson’s face burned with embarrassment. Her mum had stolen a hundred billion from Charlie wade and still didn’t reflect on it to this day. She even suspected Charlie wade was connected to the fraud group. It truly made her feel ashamed.
So she interrupted Elaine’s speculation and said, “Mum, stop speculating wildly. Our good life these past few years was almost all thanks to Charlie wade. The path ahead is also paved by Charlie wade for us. Even if we don’t feel grateful, don’t think of him in a bad light.”
Elaine nodded and said, “Alright, alright, alright. I won’t say more.”
With that, she asked concernedly, “Claire, did Charlie wade give you any information about that little island? Let Mum take a look first?”
Claire Wilson shook her head and said, “There’s no information. Time was too rushed. How could there be time to prepare so much? But don’t worry, everything is there. The conditions are definitely no worse than Nanjing.”
Jacob Wilson said with a chuckle, “Ah, last time in the Maldives, I didn’t stay long enough. To have our own island, what kind of fairy life would that be? I’m already a bit envious now!”
Claire Wilson said, “This sea journey will take quite a while. To avoid our enemies tracing any clues, the people escorting us arranged by Charlie wade will make us change ships midway. You rest well and recharge. I’ll go say hello to them.”
By temporarily changing strategy, Claire Wilson hoped that the staff arranged by Stephen Thompson could cooperate with her, making her parents fully believe that Charlie wade had arranged for their family to evade pursuit after his downfall. This way, she could ensure her parents would never have the idea of returning to China on their own or trying to contact Charlie wade.
