Regretting the Wife He Threw Away

Chapter 533

# Fred's Faked Death: The Shocking Truth Behind the 25-Year-Old Plane Crash

The news exploded across the internet, dominating headlines even in the dead of night. By the time Fred learned what was happening, the story had already gone viral.

It was too late for damage control. No amount of scrubbing hashtags or blocking search terms could put out the fire.

With one scandal, Fred single-handedly turned Northborough's most powerful family into a laughingstock.

The exposé dug up every detail of Fred's past twenty-five years, leaving nothing untouched.

It turned out that the infamous plane crash twenty-five years ago-supposedly claiming Fred's life-was nothing but a carefully orchestrated lie. The so-called tragedy was a ruse Fred devised to vanish from the public eye.

Back then, everyone believed Fred had boarded a private jet bound for France. What no one realized was that, long before takeoff, he'd already slipped away unnoticed.

The jet carried only Fred's personal assistant and the flight crew, blissfully unaware of the plan. Fred had arranged for something to go wrong mid-flight. It was a one-way ticket for everyone on board.

Just an hour after takeoff, the plane crashed. The world assumed Fred had perished in the disaster.

But why go to such lengths? Fred claimed he wanted to escape Fiona's suffocating control and pursue true love, even if it meant abandoning the wealth and prestige of the Wentworth family.

But the truth was far more sinister. Before his "death," Fred had quietly transferred the Wentworth Group's liquid assets into Swiss accounts.

When the supposed tragedy struck, the Wentworth Group spiraled into chaos- not just because of infighting among shareholders, but because the company's cash flow had mysteriously dried up.

Fred's financial cover-up was immaculate. Not even Fiona-left to pick up the pieces-could uncover the missing money. In the end, she became the perfect scapegoat.

Fred was already living a quiet life in Switzerland with Malvina Ellsworth and

story ended there, Fred's reputation would already be in tatters. But what came

invested in a biotech research

reprogramming. He dreamed

keep people young forever, extending their

from the Wentworth family funded the lab for

revelation? Fred used Malvina as

treatments. At first, it seemed to work Malvina hardly aged. The breakthrough was within reach. But two years

day and night. Her life became a living hell. In the end, she climbed to the rooftop one night and jumped to her

its simplicity: the lab's funding

drug supply ran

stopped taking it, her

the drug really could keep someone young, but once

never stop. Taking it was a

pinned Malvina's death on Stewart. When the lab ran out of money, Fred had begged Stewart for funding. Stewart refused, and Fred never forgave

coup: Fred and Ferdinand joined forces with the Wentworth family and

Stewart from both the

company he'd

so

hard to build.

Malvina's wedding in Switzerland, data from the research lab, even Ferdinand's birth

did the world discover that Ferdinand was actually two months older than

for Stewart and Fred. Stewart was, without a doubt, Fred's