Exposing the Charade of Deep Affection - Season 1 Episode 54

Alexander, the former CEO of the Conner Group.

These pieces of information ran through my mind, and I did recall, my father indeed mentioned before his death that he had arranged for someone to succeed as the CEO of the Conner Group.

So the person he arranged was this young and good-looking man?

I reached out to shake hands with Alexander, but before I could, he pulled back and said, “Alright, now that everyone knows each other, let’s get down to business.”

I…

Pulling back my hand, I asked, “Mr. Borseth, what did you mean by what you just said?”

He glanced at me and said, “Is what I said hard to understand? What others give you is all on paper. If Ms. Conner wants to investigate, she naturally has to go and see for herself how much the so-called acquired company has spent, what the market price of a promotional display screen is, and what Bright Media is currently doing. You need to understand all of these to know how the money is flowing out, don’t you?”

He said a lot, and indeed, it was true.

I nodded, turning to Cory involuntarily, “Cory, you might have to accompany me to the market these two days.”

Cory nodded, laughing, “What I should have done…”

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“What should and shouldn’t be.” Alexander began, looking at me with some disdain, “You, the young lady of the Conner family, really are out of touch with the real world. You’re taking an old and frail person to the market, what efficiency can you speak of? By the time the Conner Group goes bankrupt, you probably won’t even have traced where your thirty million dollars have gone, right?”

I was rendered speechless by his scolding, Cory’s face turned red from his comment about being old and frail. Trying to prove he wasn’t old, he said, “Mr. Borseth, I’m just over fifty, not old.”

Alexander looked at him and said, “According to the legal retirement age, you don’t have many years left, do you?”

Cory was momentarily speechless, heavily teased by this young man.

Afraid that he might upset Cory, I looked at Alexander and said, “There aren’t many people I trust in the company. After all, Cory is a veteran in the company, and he would handle some matters better than me.”

Alexander snorted, saying, “I know what you’re thinking. I’ll go to the market with you, and Cory will stay at the company to look over these account books. We’ll claim that he’s with you.”

At first, I didn’t understand, but after a moment, it dawned on me. Cory staying in the company could at least give the impression to the people inside the company that I, like Cory, was also pondering over the illusions of these account books.

In this way, my trip to the market wouldn’t attract too much attention, and it was just right to use Cory as a smokescreen.

After I realized it, I had no objections to Alexander’s arrangements, but I still looked at him with confusion and said, “Since you came to the Conner Group to be the CEO, isn’t it inappropriate for you to run the

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market with me?”

He casually picked up a ledger and said, “No rush, the trail of this thirty million dollars is unclear, Rudolf’s arrangements won’t have any effect in the Conner Group. Even if I became the president of the Conner Group, I would have to leave in a few days.”

Indeed, the shareholders did not agree with the person my father arranged to become the CEO of the company.

Thus, Cory stayed at the company, and Alexander and I went to the marketing department of Bright Media.

Before leaving, Alexander looked back at Cory and said, “Cory, in the next couple of days, try to find someone to keep an eye on Ryan, the CFO of the Conner Group. If he has any unusual contacts or meets any strange people, notify us immediately.”

Cory nodded, agreeing.

After leaving the Conner Group, I looked at him quizzically in the car and asked, “Is there a problem with Ryan?”

Alexander glanced at me and said, “He is the person who can directly access these thirty million dollars. The fact that such a large sum of money has a problem, and he can’t find out what the problem is, is the biggest problem itself.”

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I didn’t quite understand, but there was indeed nothing wrong with what he said. So, I didn’t ask any further.

It did remind me of what had happened at Ryan’s house before, and those words of Abagail’s, perhaps they weren’t nonsense after all.

Perhaps I needed to talk to Abagail again.

Alexander and I spent a week wandering around the market of Bright

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Media, and we basically figured out most of the situation.

In the cafe under the Conner Group building.

Alexander flipped through the documents in his hand and said, “From what we can see now, it can be basically confirmed that this sum of money was laundered by Thomas, the CEO of Bright Media, through methods such as acquiring small companies, expanding the market, and purchasing company equipment.”

I pursed my lips, suppressing the anger in my heart, and said, “This man is really despicable. My dad trusted him so much, gave him full authority to handle everything, and yet he turned out to be so ruthless.”