They grew up together since childhood; how could he possibly do such a thing?

"I’ll have Jared Quinn’s people catch him right now and make him drink those drugs, make him unable to speak for the rest of his life!" Melody Thorne said angrily, standing up to leave,

without noticing that Kiki Sutton shuddered violently after hearing her words, her eyes filled with fear. Kiki only thought that Hans Montrose would kill her directly to keep her silent,

but he chose such a cruel way to make her mute.

Despair filled Kiki’s eyes as she gazed out the window, wishing the building were high enough so she could end it all with a jump.

In the bar, Ashton Young, drunk out of his mind, lay slumped over the counter when suddenly many soldiers came and dragged him out, locking him in a dark room, whipping him like a fiery lash.

"What do you want from me? Who ordered you to lock me up here?" Ashton Young gritted his teeth. "Let me go, let me go now! I’m the CEO of Radiant Entertainment, didn’t you hear? Let me go."

"Let you go? You dared to mess with Kiki Sutton, you should have expected this outcome. You think money gives you power? Bullying Kiki because she was alone and unsupported?" Melody Thorne glared fiercely at Ashton Young. "Kiki owes you nothing, trash like you isn’t worthy of her."

"Did Kiki send you to kidnap me?" Ashton Young lifted his head, his face already bruised and swollen. "That woman must be out of her mind; I haven’t even settled things with her yet, now she’s blaming me for everything. You can ask her, did I ever touch a single hair on her head other than her messing with me?"

"Stop pretending, Ashton Young. Do you know what this is?" Melody Thorne lifted her hand, showing him the liquid with a strong medicinal smell. "This is medicine, medicine that can make someone mute. Weren’t you going to give this to Kiki? Try some for yourself first and see how it tastes!"

"You lunatic, I never laid a hand on Kiki!" Ashton Young cursed, abandoning his usual gentlemanly facade.

"Give it to him," Melody Thorne handed the bowl of medicine to Harold Chapman.

"Don’t act recklessly, I’m warning you, don’t be reckless," Ashton Young watched Harold Chapman’s movements in terror. "I’m warning you, Kiki, I haven’t seen her for a long time. Even if I wanted to deal with her, I wouldn’t use mute drugs; I’d use... something else. Get away, get away, I told you I didn’t."

"Ugh..."

Harold Chapman’s hand grabbed Ashton Young’s throat, pouring the entire bowl of medicine down.

"Ugh," Ashton Young despaired.

Melody Thorne walked out, unable to tell if Ashton Young was lying. He wasn’t wrong; why would he use such drugs on Kiki?

What she gave Ashton Young to drink was just ordinary medicine, after all.

"Jared Quinn, do you think Ashton Young is lying, or are Kiki and Hans Montrose lying?"

She could no longer tell.

Jared Quinn looked at Melody Thorne seriously without making an immediate judgment but reminded her, "Deep down, you already know the answer, don’t you? You just don’t want to believe it, do you?"

His woman had always been the smartest, but she just didn’t want to face the truth.

Melody Thorne’s phone buzzed a few times with messages from Nina King via WeChat, accompanied by a photo of a woman with disheveled hair jumping off the hospital rooftop.