Meanwhile, Sera decided to stay in her office and stop causing trouble anymore. She had a lot of backlogs and hearing Lawyer Liu's nagging is making her head hurt. So she shut herself inside her office while the lawyer was forced to do all of his paperwork in the living room — alone.

Sera only went down to order some food for the two of them, then went back to work.

After a few hours of working, she heard a knock on her door. Irritated, she opened it and waited for the lawyer to say something.

"The lawyers of the Zhang Family wanted to see you. I scheduled a meeting for tomorrow morning at nine. I will accompany you to meet them."

Sera nodded and went inside without saying anything. Seeing that she left the door open, the lawyer went inside and stared at the codes on her computer before sitting on the couch. "Mr. Quinn will be away for a few days. I need you to behave yourself. You can't just accept any interviews without scripts. Though you handle that one better than I expected, we don't really know if they would throw questions at you that would implicate you. As the current matriarch of the Zhang Family, you should be careful of everything that you do."

Sera sighed.

Matriarch.

That is such a weird term for someone like her.

Status.

To her, status doesn't matter anymore. She ignored the old man and started typing on her computer.

"The old man's funeral rites will be two days from now. If you want to attend, I have already arranged guards and transport. If you don't— "

"I will be there."

"The autopsy said the old man died of a heart attack. However, our people were able to confirm that he had high levels of carbon dioxide in his blood. He might have been smothered to death."

"But they said it was a heart attack?" she stopped typing and turned her chair towards the older man.

"Yes."

"So… It seems that I am dealing with someone with a bit of brain?"

"What do you mean?"

"Simple. Edward tried to intimidate me at the precinct. He was hoping that I would be scared of him. However, when he saw that I was no longer the woman that I was once, he backed off and even had the guts to change the story. It must be because he saw you. He knew you were someone famous. Someone, that is not scared to expose people like him."

Lawyer Liu squinted at her. "Now that I thought about it, it was indeed weird. After all, I found traces that the call towards the media came from Edward's office. Meaning, someone inside his office tipped the paparazzi about you. I also found out that the guards who let those people in left their post and their houses in a hurry. Someone must have paid them off. However, you handled the situation gracefully and even planted some doubts about them. So they revealed the cause of death to redeem themselves." Lawyer Liu started stroking his chin.

Then he added. "This means that his next agenda is to actually talk to you? Perhaps he is going to buy your shares?"

"That is possible. After all, he would do everything for his woman."

*DING*

When Sera heard it, she immediately turned towards her computer again.

"What are you doing?"

"Arming myself?" she answered.

"With — Why are you — Did you just hack the treasury office of this region?"

"Not really. Hacking is such a bad term. I am just looking around with the intention of borrowing some information."

"…"

Sera ignored his expression as he started copying thousands of files from the site. "Oh, don't mind me. You can talk I am listening."

"…"

"Don't be shy."

A sigh escaped the old man's lips. "You are officially married to Mr. Quinn and I am already working on transferring the shares under the Quinn Media. A representative will show up during the board meeting to confirm this." He continued. "However, you have to be very careful. I heard that Mrs. Fu also launched an investigation against you."

She lifted an eyebrow. It seems that she still underestimated Mr. Quinn's people.

She wondered how did they know about this matter. Was it possible that Chris had someone in the Fu's household? Perhaps a spy? "You are making it sound like she was launching a missile." She snorted. The thing is, Mrs. Fu is a really influential woman. She was considered a ruthless matriarch who always protected her husband and son. For instance, Mr. Fu is actually gay and has relationships with younger men. However, Mrs. Fu never once showed any anger nor lost her composure about this matter.

When the rumors about Mr. Fu's lifestyle exploded, Mrs. Fu never left and stood by her husband. She showed him love and even supported his relationship. So… how did she found out about this?

Simple.

She just looked around.

After all, everything that had been posted on the web will forever stay on the web. Be it an old email that was sent twenty years ago or an old photo that you tried to delete over and over again. Everything was just out there.

You have just to… look around.

Anyway, while her husband was fooling around with men, Mrs. Fu was supportive and never once asked him for divorce. Obviously, it was also partly because she didn't want to ruin her precious name. Aside from her husband, Edward Fu is also someone who received the support of his mother all his life.

All this time, Edward thought he was the best. The top of his class, the most brilliant student, and the brightest business executive. What he didn't know is the fact that his mother was behind everything.

Mrs. Fu would never allow the world to hurt his son.

So she manipulated everything. Every result, every panel of judges had been manipulated. Every enemy dead. Every rival defeated. The award of the most pampering mother should just go to her.!

Again, she found evidence of this after looking around. In fact, what she found totally surprised her. After all, she once fell for that idiot Edward Fu. How did she not notice that he was stupid and the only reason why he was shining brightly is because his mother deemed the people surrounding him?

Obviously, Mrs. Fu had been very careful about her actions. However, she underestimated technology and how it had affected the people that she manipulated. For instance, she was very careful not to show any signs that she contacted one of the educators who give Edward a full mark on his research way back in college. Sera wasn't able to find anything that could connect him to Mrs. Fu. Her emails and files came up with nothing.

However, she found out that the educator received a few thousand dollars three days before the presentation. To make matters worse, Sera was able to trace the account into an offshore bank where Mrs. Fu had an account. It was really that easy.

"Mrs. Fu is a councilwoman. She is very influential in this region." Lawyer Liu reminded her.

"True," she snorted. "But is there really more powerful than technology?"

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