Linda was frightened by Charlie’s remark. She wailed and said, “Master Wade, please forgive me, I’m sorry! I can give you all my money! I earned quite a lot when I was in Macau and I have a total of twenty million in my hands. I can give you all that money, please spare my children!”She took out her phone, opened the mobile banking app, and showed Charlie the balance of her account.Indeed, there were more than twenty-one million in her personal account.Charlie said flatly, “Donate the money to the official donation account of Hope Foundation!”He retrieved his phone, searched for the official account, showed it to Linda, and said coldly, “Transfer it now.”“Master Wade, will you let me go after I donate the money?”“Oh? Do you want a bargain now?”Linda was taken aback. She grabbed his phone, keyed in the account number that Charlie showed her, and donated all the money to the charity.She passed the phone back to Charlie and cried, “Master Wade, I’ve donated all the money a
While Linda cried bitterly, Charlie ordered Albert’s men to bring Hannah to him.Hannah was shaking with fright. She looked at Charlie and pleaded, “Charlie, I’m your aunt. You’re part of our family. For…for the sake of the Wilson family, could you forgive me, please?”Charlie chuckled as if he heard a funny joke. “Stop with your nonsense. Tell me, how much money do you have now?”Hannah’s heart skipped a beat. She blurted out frantically, “I don’t have any money… Really, I don’t have any money!”“I’ll give you a chance to come clean. I advise you to take it or you’ll end up like Linda.”Hannah trembled in fear. She was being cautious in the midst of terror and said, “I… I have five million, that’s all our family has…”Charlie nodded knowingly. “Okay, open your mobile banking app now and show me the balance.“I… I don’t have the app!”“Is that so?” Charlie said in a cold tone, “If I find out that a mobile banking app is installed on your phone, I’ll break your leg.”“O… okay,
“Huh?!” Hannah shrieked in a panic, “But I just donated fifteen million as you said…”“So what?” Charlie said coldly. “You’re the mastermind behind today’s scam, do you think it’s fair for me to punish Linda alone?”“Yeah!” Linda growled indignantly, “She’s the real culprit!”Charlie looked at Hannah and smirked, “See, even your accomplice says that you’re the culprit. You have to go to the coal mine with your pal here and contribute to Hope Foundation.”Then, he pointed to the woman named Gianna and commanded, “And you too, the three of you, get ready to work at the coal mine and redeem yourself.”Gianna cried out loud. She shook her head and hands, knocked her head on the floor to beg, and wailed, “No, please don’t! I’m innocent! Linda dragged me here to join them for mahjong, that’s all! I don’t know about their plan, I don’t know anything!”Charlie said coldly, “Do you think I’d believe you? Shut up when I ask nicely and I’ll spare your family. If I hear a single yelp from yo
Elaine completely forgot about her money when she was immersed by the scene of the people wailing and crying.When the thought struck her mind, she turned to Charlie and yelled, “Hurry, ask them to return the money to me! They won more than two million dollars from me!”Charlie asked them to donate their money to Hope Foundation for two reasons, one was to punish them and the other was to teach his mother-in-law a lesson.You were always so greedy and dissatisfied with your current situation, weren’t you?You were addicted to gambling, weren’t you?You thought that you could make a fortune and be rich by playing mahjong, didn’t you?Well, I let you lose all your money so that this experience would stick in your mind!Charlie looked at the women on the floor and asked, already knowing what their answer would be, “Hey, about the money you won from my mother-in-law—quickly discuss how you’re going to repay her!”They exchanged befuddled glances and cried, “We’ve donated all our mo
Elaine was on the verge of collapsing.She couldn’t collect the two million dollars and she broke the five million dollar jade bangle. It was a terrible loss!She turned her glare at Gianna and shouted hysterically, “You! You didn’t donate your money! Give me back my money! Give me all my money back or I’ll kill you! I’ll f*cking kill you!”Gianna knelt on the floor in fright, crying and pleading, “I don’t have any money, I’m very poor. I only have around sixty thousand in my savings account. I’ll transfer it all to you if you want it…”Elaine slapped her furiously and growled, “I don’t believe you! Show me your balance! Hurry!”“I really don’t have any money, I have an income of two thousand something a month. I wouldn’t have joined Linda to con people if I were rich…”Then, she took out her phone, opened the mobile banking app, and showed Elaine her balance. It really only had sixty-three thousand dollars in it.Elaine nearly fainted.What could she do with sixty-three thousa
Charlie shook his head slightly and said, “Forget it, Albert. Sometimes, there are things that you must learn to accept, be it good or bad.”Albert glared at Elaine indignantly while she crouched at the side, trembling in horror.She didn’t dare to mention a word about the money anymore and kept the grief and bitterness in her heart.At this moment, several cars stopped abruptly in the villa’s courtyard. Isaac got out of the car and personally escorted five adults who were tied up into the house.Fear and terror were written all over the five people’s faces. As soon as they saw Linda after entering the door, a young man blurted, “Mom, what’s going on?!”Linda looked at the crowd and wailed in despair when she saw her husband, children, and children-in-law being taken into the house.“I’m sorry, I’m so sorry, it’s all my fault… I’m so sorry for dragging all of you into this…”A man in his fifties hurriedly asked, “Dear, what’s going on?!”Charlie said coldly, “Are you aware that
Blood drained from the woman’s face. She blurted, her voice shaky, “I… I’ve never been involved in the operations, I just do the accounting…”“Accounting?” Charlie said flatly, “That makes you an accomplice too! You’d better go with them to redeem yourself. All of you are really a bunch of scum!”Isaac said, “Master Wade, I know this woman. Her father is Lucas Frank and he runs an underground casino nearby. Do you want me to destroy them?”“Investigate their operations and background and see what they’ve done. If their sins are unforgivable, just kill them.”The woman collapsed on the floor, frightened and befuddled.Soon, three Toyota Coaster mini buses drove into Thompson First and parked in front of the villa. Albert’s men broke Hudson’s leg along with the rest of his gang’s before sending them into the bus.Charlie said to Elaine, “Mom, let’s go.”There was a dash of embarrassment on Elaine’s face. She pulled Charlie aside and whispered, “They filmed me, the shameful kind. Q
Elaine knew that if she was busted, she could be charged for gambling. Worse still, if her husband and daughter knew that she had gambled with such a large amount of money, they would be infuriated.She would be condemned for what she had done.Although the money was gone now, at least she did not end up worse than those people who were sent to the coal mine for the next one to two decades. Yet, she couldn’t help feeling depressed with the money and bangle lost.She could still explain herself about the broken bangle. She had taken the broken pieces with her anyway, she could tell her family that the bangle broke.What explanation should she come up with regarding the money?Jacob did not have his own bank account. All the household money was in her own hands, including the money her husband earned from reselling the antiques.Now, she had lost all the money to gambling. If Jacob were to find out about it, he would be extremely angry at her!Elaine was sighing in depression an