The Returning EX (Sophia and John)

Therefore, John couldn’t pretend that nothing had happened. He had to keep on investigating the case, even though there hadn’t been much progress so far. Even if it was a difficult case without much clue, he had to get to the mastermind.

A few days ago, the car that the criminals used to kidnap Robin was found in the wilderness. Although the car had been badly damaged, it was the same vehicle they saw on the security footage.

Following this clue, John found out about the car owner’s information and the shadow bank to which the vehicle was put up as collateral. The shadow bank appeared to be the base for a group of loan sharks. John didn’t pay much attention to it in the past, as the shadow lender didn’t make a big fuss before.

Since the kidnap had something to do with the shadow bank, John told Zack to investigate it. Certainly, the internal relations within a shadow bank were complicated, but it wasn’t difficult to find out some information, since the employees were not really loyal.

Two days later, Zack came to John’s office and told him that the problem was thornier than expected.

The shadow bank appeared to be a small enterprise that lent out money. Since the interest rate wasn’t exorbitant and they never tried to retrieve the money by force, they were not targeted by the authority.

It seemed that they were just an illegal business trying to make some money. However, upon closer inspection, the truth was astounding.

The shadow bank had its own unique management system. The closer it got to the core members, the stricter the rules became. Thus, it wasn’t easy to get some useful information from them.

compared other shadow lenders within the city. It seems that this particular shadow

complicated than we thought.” A moment later, he went on, “Find out whether the shadow bank has other business activities apart from lending money. Take it slow. If they really have

then proceeded to start

on his chair for a while longer, John rose and left the room with a cup in his hand. He

that Dylan’s assistant had done something wrong,

kept patting his shoulders to console him. As usual, Dylan was magnanimous toward his subordinates, as though he never

fact, John didn’t like the way his brother treated his subordinates, as this made it hard for the leader to manage his employees. Without saying hi, he went straight to the pantry. After making himself a cup of coffee, he stood by

to the pantry with a cup in his hand. While he was filling his

turning around, John grunted.

The Flintstones had persuaded her to do so, as the

the past few days, Matilda gave in to the pressure and went to the hospital. Whether she was

cup was filled, Dylan let out a sigh. “Your mother is a proud woman, so I think she has to be very

too hot. He then changed the topic by asking, “What about you? I heard that your recent blind dates didn’t go

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