Chapter 222: Chapter 222

With just a simple ruse, Anna Thornton managed to create a rift and conflict of interest between Dylan White and Holly Sutton.

She had previously sneaked a bug into Dylan White’s wallet, and from their conversation, Holly Sutton had voluntarily mentioned the time Dylan White helped her alter a will, which was useful evidence for Anna.

However, that wasn’t enough. It would be best if Anna could record a video, providing a more direct proof of Dylan and Holly’s collusion.

But since Holly and Dylan were having their conversation in a private dining room, the environment was quite discreet.

Anna had no choice but to seize the opportunity from the adjacent room, opening the window, and boldly climbing across.

She stepped on the air conditioner’s external unit next door, filming the situation inside through the narrowly opened window in a high-difficulty stance.

No matter how challenging it was, it was worth it, because if all went well, this video could prove Attorney White’s collusion with Holly, and help Anna reclaim her place in the family’s company after four years.

However, you never know what will come first, tomorrow or an unexpected event!

Holly’s room was on the second floor, and suddenly, the window of a third-floor room opened up.

A waiter seemed about to pour out water but screamed in fright upon seeing a shadow squatting on the air conditioning unit below: "Ah? Who’s there?"

Anna also got a fright and quickly tried to retreat, but accidentally stepped into the void, her fingers clinging tightly to the window sill while her knee hit the air conditioning unit with a dull thud.

This shout startled Holly Sutton and Dylan White, who were in the second-floor room at the moment.

Since they were already guilty as thieves, the contents of their discussion absolutely could not be leaked, so they both stood up simultaneously.

When they pushed open the compartment window to check, they saw no one.

"Did you just see someone squatting outside our compartment window?" Dylan White asked the upstairs waiter.

"No, no! I was wrong, sorry!"

Listening to this, Holly was still not assured.

She immediately ran to check the next compartment, saw no one, and stopped a passing staff member: "Were there any guests in this room before?"

"No one stayed here?"

At this moment, in the third-floor room—

Anna breathed a long sigh of relief, watching the previously panicked waiter calmly lie and then nodded to Conrad Sterling before quietly leaving.

"Conrad Sterling, don’t tell me you just happened to be dining here at this restaurant?"

"And what about you? Is the air conditioner’s external unit the stage for your performance tonight?"

Both of them were well aware in their hearts, and Anna couldn’t be bothered to tease any further: "Honestly, did you follow me here? What exactly do you intend to do?"

"Shouldn’t you thank me for saving you just now?" Conrad retorted.

"Thank you? If it wasn’t for you messing around and causing someone to scream, I wouldn’t have nearly been exposed."

"I only realized you were hiding outside when I heard the shout. Since you chose such a dangerous way, you should have assessed the risks and chances of being discovered in advance. Do you know what the consequences would be if you really fell from the second floor?"

"I checked, and there’s a lawn underneath their window, so the second floor isn’t that high; falling wouldn’t kill me."

"That’s right, even if it costs my life, I’ll take back the Thornton Family’s company and make those who harmed my family, my father, pay. What’s the big deal?"

Hearing Anna’s deep hatred for Holly Sutton, who wronged her father, a flicker of worry crossed Conrad’s eyes.

However, the man quickly concealed it.

He still used a disagreeing tone to question Anna: "Just for a clip, is it worth risking so much?"

"What else can I do? Some people refuse to help me, so I’ve got no choice but to take risks myself," Anna quipped self-deprecatingly.

"Am I the ’some people’ you’re referring to? Do you want me to help you?" Conrad asked.

"Not needed now." Anna shook her phone; fortunately, she got the crucial part of the video before being discovered, "I managed it myself."

On the way back, Conrad asked Anna: "Do you really think one video can topple Holly Sutton and get you back everything you want?"

Anna sat in the passenger seat beside him, leisurely watching the familiar yet unfamiliar night scene of Veridia.

"Then what’s your plan?"

"If you beg me, maybe I’ll help you."

President Sterling was right; Anna did break her word. When she returned to the hotel, Pop was already asleep.

The little bundle had fallen asleep before his mommy told him a story.

Anna kissed her daughter’s chubby little sleeping face and was about to go to bed herself.

But when she returned to her room, she found Conrad Sterling following her.

"Don’t forget, this week you’ve only upheld one day of the three you promised."

"I know! You didn’t follow me to Veridia just for this, did you?" Anna became increasingly suspicious of what was going on in this man’s head.

"But today isn’t the right time, I might have other things to deal with tonight. Anyway, don’t worry, I won’t go back on my word."

"Good, just a reminder."

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Anna didn’t want to sleep with him because she thought the lecherous Dylan White wouldn’t give up easily, and might come looking for her tonight.

But what Conrad needed to handle was exactly Dylan White.

Since all Anna needed was the video, this man should be of no use to her now...

That night, Anna did not wait for Dylan White to come harass her and managed to get a good night’s sleep.

However, the next morning she woke up to find all the major local stations in Veridia broadcasting a piece of news.

It said that early in the morning, a man was found hanging upside down on the top of the tallest building in Veridia.

And it wasn’t a normal upside-down hanging; he was naked from the waist down, spotted by tourists and a drone who intervened to rescue him. But the man refused to be rescued, insisting he was running out of time and couldn’t come down.

The man bore bruises indicating he had been beaten, and after being forcibly rescued, he voluntarily streaked at Veridia’s five major tourist spots, suspected of being mentally unstable.

Watching the streaking silhouette, even blurred out, Anna felt it looked increasingly like...

Anna went to knock on the door of the opposite room, and sure enough, Dylan White hadn’t returned last night.

So, was he the mentally unstable streaking man?

Soon, Conrad’s room door opened, and the man came out holding Pop.

"Join us for breakfast?" he asked Anna.

As they selected food in the hotel’s breakfast hall, Anna asked Conrad: "Where were you last night?"

"Stop pretending. Dylan White was hung naked like cured meat on the ninety-ninth floor, and you dare say you had nothing to do with it?"

It indeed had something to do with Conrad!

Dylan White dared to target his woman, and he got off easy with just this level of suffering.

However, Conrad truly didn’t go out; some things didn’t require him to do personally, just sent a few people to settle it.

With a few words and leveraging his status to apply pressure and threats, how could Dylan not obey obediently in fright?

"Attorney White cares most about face. You made him lose it all back home; he probably can’t live his life now. Tsk tsk, you were brutal!"

"Are you blaming me?" Conrad narrowed his eyes at Anna, "Feeling sorry for him?"

"I’m not feeling sorry for him; I’m sorry for the eyes of Veridia’s folks. What a blunder; they had to see a terrifying sight like ’windswept peacock’ and ’scenic spot streaking’ first thing in the morning, what if it scared the kids?"

"I’ll be more cautious next time."

Anna just said it offhandedly, not expecting Conrad to take the feedback so receptively.