A Call That Changed Her Entire Life

Jacob had arranged a press conference to clear up the issues regarding his wife.

In the meeting hall, hundreds of seats had been placed to accommodate the people attending.

At the venue's entrance hung a giant red banner with the words "Press Conference of Emily Bai of Gu Consortium" in bold, yellow font. It was quite eye-catching.

The press conference was scheduled to begin at 10 o'clock in the morning. However, people started to arrive as early as 8 o'clock, eager to attend the conference and save themselves a seat. By half-past nine, most of the members of the media had already arrived at the venue.

After all, the incident involving Emily had caused quite an uproar. Many wondered what kind of news would be revealed in this conference held by the Gu Consortium.

When Darren heard that Jacob was going to hold a press conference in the morning, he didn't take it seriously, thinking that perhaps Jacob was just struggling to deal with the issue. He turned on the TV to watch the live broadcast, ready to see a joke.

Jacob arrived with Emily at the venue at 10 o'clock. As soon as the media caught a glimpse of Emily, they immediately surrounded her, bombarding her with camera flashes. As the reporters rushed to ask Emily their questions, their voices drowned each other out. Jacob blocked all of their advances and they continued to walk forward into the venue.

At home, Darren couldn't help but take pleasure in what he was seeing. Emily couldn't even utter a single word as the reporters blocked their path.

"Good morning, everyone. The press conference will begin shortly," Emily said slowly as she glanced at all the reporters present.

Cameras were aimed at her and everyone was focused on what she had to say. They were expecting some sort of apology from her. They couldn't think of anything for her to do or say during the press conference except to apologize. After all, all the evidence was posted on the internet.

A few seconds later, Emily straightened her posture and firmly said, "I don't want to talk too much. So, if everyone could please look at the screen."

Various pieces of evidence appeared on the screen. First, the so-called face injury of the victim showed that he hadn't been hurt because of Emily. The injury had actually happened a long time ago.

The first evidence shown made everyone quiet.

started to gossip among themselves. After that, it was chaos. There was a heated discussion among the audience of

the meantime, Darren's facial expression quickly turned into a frown. He hadn't expected that Jacob would have found so much

the same time, Sam was with a few police officers. They were preparing to raid Darren's shelter.

most common silver-gray minibus. They were followed by several cars not far away and made sure that they

finally parked in a remote and old-fashioned community that was supposed to be Darren's hideout, according to their informant. They

trust. "Have you had any suspicious residents in your neighborhood recently? Maybe

too much away, so he settled for a slightly vague description

back at Sam with his turbid eyes. "Yes, I've seen such

with his index finger and gave him another smile. "I just

led the officers to the fifth floor of the building. Since the community was built quite some time ago, there was no elevator installed. So, they started to walk to the stairs and had to pass through the dim hallway.

of them blurted out as

echoed his

the corridor flickered harshly at them. Every step of the stairs was covered with trash and the

Darren had found such a disgusting

stench of the trash all over but it helped a little bit. "Hurry up and don't let that guy get

when they had rescued the mothers of those men could

upstairs quickly but still maintained an aura of stealth. When they saw the only door of the fifth floor, Sam quickly put out the cigarette. "Knock on the door!"

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Creak!

and rotten door, it let out a deafening cry and fell pathetically

saw that there was nothing in the room.

a thorough search, they all reported regretfully, "No one is