Chapter 863

Maxwell narrowed his eyes.

What was up with Mariette’s look of shock and disbelief? Didn’t she already know that he was alive?

“Mariette, I’m right here now. There’s no need for you to keep pretending,” he said sarcastically.

Mariette was perplexed. “What do you mean? More importantly, didn’t you die? Were you faking your death? Also, you actually sound normal now! What’s up with that?”

Maxwell looked at her without a word.

He understood Mariette’s character to some extent. She was not a schemer, wearing her cocky heart on her sleeve. If she really did know that he was alive, she would not be keeping up the act even now.

However, all of his investigations had pointed to her. If she was not the mastermind, then who was?

Maxwell thought it over, then he turned around and sat down on her couch. “Thanks to you, I didn’t die. In fact, I even got an unexpected boon!”

“Oh… That means that man was talking about you!” Mariette’s eyes widened in realization.

Maxwell watched her every re