Tempted Trapped and Too Late to Run

Chapter 731

After the police busted a massive criminal ring, a horrifying truth came out: women were being drugged and locked away. And these weren't just anyone they were all once powerful businesswomen, successful and respected in the big cities.

Every single one of them had run a company with their husband. Then, out of nowhere, they'd have some sort of mental breakdown and completely disappear.

Some of them came from wealthy families, marrying men with no money or connections. The wives' families would help the husbands build their careers, only for the wives to suddenly crack and vanish.

Even worse, after breaking down, a few of these women ended up hurting their own parents in a psychotic episode. Their parents fell apart too, some even dying by suicide. In the end, all the family fortune landed right in the husbands' laps.

People had always suspected something was off-that maybe the husbands planned it all. After all, they gained so much. But every time the police investigated, they found nothing. The men went on TV swearing they'd never leave their sick wives, promising to take care of their in-laws forever, forever devoted.

The public ate it up. Everyone thought these guys were the gold standard-the kind of men you could trust your life with.

Their businesses kept growing. None of them ever remarried. Sometimes they'd post sweet old photos of their wives to show the world just how loyal they were.

But now, the truth was everywhere-top of the trending list, huge national scandal.

them all along. The men had other women on the side, and once their wives were out

even famous for

even imagine how hopeless those women must've felt. And their parents died too. One marriage destroyed a whole

to 'save' someone. These women used to be amazing, and look

a psychiatric hospital. The husbands were all high-flying businessmen, some with perfect public images. The police worked across cities, arresting them live on camera

so-called "wellness center" where the women were kept. That place had been running for years, the whole village wiped off the map.

was stuck at the airport, glued to the news as it all exploded. His phone

call was a different

The police already called me. If

us out of this. I've been paying you for years. Seventy percent of my company's

with anger. He shut off his

rich, untouchable in their cities. Now, with

took a slow breath. The news had broken so fast, the earliest flight out wasn't for another two and a half hours. His expression turned cold as he