A Vengeful Ex-Wife novel Chapter 407

Before he arrived at DS Group, the man was intercepted by several armed men who appeared out of nowhere. The men blindfolded him, tied up his hands, and gagged him with a length of duct tape taped over his mouth.

Maria heard that Mr. Xu had been taken away, but she couldn't figure out who would do so.

She made a phone call to the restaurant to ask about the situation. "Ms. Song, I've asked already asked our staff. That dish wasn't supposed to go to your private room in the first place. However, someone asked the waitress to bring it to your room."

"Who was it?"

"The waitress said it was Mrs. Zheng. I verified her testimony by checking the surveillance footage and found that it was indeed her."

Rosa?

After going around in circles, the clues finally led back to Rosa. Maria finally realized that she had fallen into the indirect trap Colby and Rosa had laid out for her last night.

"Send me the surveillance videos in the restaurant. I want all of them."

"Yes, Ms. Song."

However, before she could get the surveillance footage, she was told that there was a sudden problem with the restaurant's monitoring system and that all of the surveillance videos recorded before tonight were gone.

Maria sneered to herself.

But it didn't matter anymore. She only needed to find and ask Mr. Xu and Mr. Zong.

In T Country

The sickening thump of a whip hitting flesh and a continuous stream of piteous moans resounded from behind the room's closed door. The door was pushed open, and several armed men escorted a man into the room.

A person lay on the floor, his clothes ripped in places and his face and body black in blue from being beaten.

"Mr. Xi!" the bodyguards greeted him one after another.

James sat down opposite the unconscious dying man, his face a cold, unreadable mask. "What did he say?"

Gary put down the whip in his hand and stepped forward to report to him. "He said that he did put the drug in the dish, but it was originally meant for Miss Ye, whom he wanted to pursue. He momentarily excused himself to go to the bathroom once he had finished his deed. However, Miss Ye was completely fine when he came back, while something happened to Ms. Song in another private room."

James took out a cigar and cut off the uneven end using a sharp knife. A bodyguard stepped forward and lit the cigar for him.

After taking a long drag from his cigar, he asked slowly, "What about the surveillance videos in the restaurant?" "Yes, it was indeed Mrs. Zheng who asked the waiter to send the dish to the private room she was in. The waitress also told us that Mrs. Zheng complained of the delay in serving the dishes to their private dining room."

"What about Mr. Zong?" A cold light glinted in James' dark eyes.

"Ms. Song asked the others to pour alcohol down Mr. Zong's throat. He is in the ICU at the moment and hasn't woken up yet. Mr. Zong has never been able to behave himself and always goes crazy once he's drunk. The man has a serious alcohol addiction. However, his assistant told me that it was the vice general manager of LJ Group who called Mr. Zong and asked him to attend the dinner party."

The smoke wafting from the all-natural, additive-free cigar was pleasant and full-bodied, carrying with it a hint of coffee.

James threw the knife that he used to trim the cigar to the floor. As the knife slid towards the bound man, he said simply, "His little finger."

Then, he stood up and left, his ears deaf to the cries for mercy behind him.

Once he was back in his own room, he told the man behind him, "Make some trouble for HM Group. Get Summer to provide Maria evidence that the company's accounts are being manipulated. Ah, and tell Summer to remind Maria not to report it by herself." He was afraid that Maria would butt heads with Colby this time around. It was the ultimate goal, but for the sake of her safety, they had to wait until the timing was right. Now was not the time.

"Go back to H City and invite Mr. Lu of LJ Group to dinner. Doesn't he want to borrow money from HM Group? Let him continue to apply."

Gary was well aware that ever since rumors about Maria and Colby's affair had started to spread,

James had been secretly setting up a trap for the HM Group.

Unlike other companies, HM Group had their roots so firmly planted in the business world.

After all, the group was one of the top five hundred enterprises in the world, as well as one of the biggest conglomerates in H City. Destroying such a well-established company would take more than one blow and require a huge amount of effort. However, as long as James had set his mind on it, it was only a matter of time before HM Group was toppled to the ground. Anything else was inconsequential.