The Divorced Heiress’s Revenge

Chapter 1981

Ryan's deep gaze abruptly sharpened. For a moment, his vision blurred.

"She's dead?"

"Yes... She died a terrible death. By the time someone found her body, it was nearly unrecognizable."

Dean's brows furrowed as he continued in a low voice, "The police discovered during the autopsy that someone had sexually assaulted her. She also contracted severe sexually transmitted diseases, and her lower body was severely ulcerated."

Ryan closed his reddened eyes, his hand gripping the water basin and trembling with visible veins.

"Who did it?"

"Multiple people." Dean's tongue pressed against his teeth. "After arriving in Terranova, they sent Zoe to an underground club. It was essentially a high-end brothel. The brothel primarily used girls there for the sexual service of high-ranking officials in Terranova. Anyone who ended up there faced the inevitable outcome of getting played to death. Even if Zoe didn't get killed outright, her final fate would've been the same."

Ryan lowered his pale eyelids.

A mix of intense, bitter, and confused emotions churned his insides, leaving him unable to speak for a long while.

He undoubtedly hated Zoe.

smuggling ship, leaving her to fend for herself

had opened in his heart, swallowing all the love and hate he had accumulated over twenty years and dragging them into an endless abyss, never to be

no reason to grieve for Zoe, even if

deep-seated hatred. "If it weren't for her, Young Madam wouldn't have ended up like this. If it weren't for her,

to Terranova tonight and bring Zoe's ashes

expression. "After that, investigate what she went

seeking revenge for Zoe. The past is the past. She

suppressed his inner turmoil, his gaze steady. "I've heard of that underground club in Terranova. Whoever sent Zoe there must be someone familiar with the Hoffman Group. There

eyes widened in

schemes or plots involving Zoe are now irrelevant. But I must remain vigilant in

nodded vigorously,

two finished their discussion, they noticed people from the

greeted him with a warm smile, waving at

basin to Dean, wiped his wet hands on his trousers, and

Nigel, Chairman Salvador."

now as the Hoffman Group's chairman, you remain modest