The Untouchable Ex Wife by Mizuki Sei

Chapter 558

It was one in the morning. Everything was quiet and peaceful everywhere else, but here at Water Dock, things had only just warmed up. It was the most chaotic time of the day, when all kinds of colorful characters began to show up.

Renee had come to Water Dock on her own, with nothing but a ‘top-secret" map of the area that she bought at a high price from the second-hand market. She headed straight to Carmine Pawnshop.

Water Dock had indeed lived up to its reputation. It was every bit as much of the lawless, "no man's land" it was rumored to be, where burning, looting, robbing, and killing took place at almost every corner. Anything that was too sickening to be found in civilized society was nothing but a normal occurrence here. It was truly a dreadful place to be.

The whole area of Water Dock was actually not that large, but it was divided into three main zones-upstream, midstream, and downstream.

The upstream area was at the outermost edge. It was relatively the most" normal" zone here, where a trading center was located. Here you could find all kinds of goods, and if you looked hard enough, you might even leave with a good deal in your hands. It was certainly the safest area in the Water Dock.

Things began to stray off the beaten track in the Midstream zone. Here you would find illegal casinos, illegal racetracks, illegal brothels, and an illegal marketplace for all kinds of shady goods. This was also a place where you could find groups of thugs and ruffians who had no fear of death. They would do anything for you as long as you agree to their price.

Unsurprisingly, people get killed here every day.

however, was basically purgatory on Earth. Danger lurked in every corner and most normal people would never dare get close to it, let alone set foot there. It was just as Liam had described-even the devil

was the place where Carmine Pawnshop was located, in the deepest bowel of the downstream zone in Water Dock. It was right in the center of an absolute hellscape, and just from this fact alone, one could guess what kind of man Mr. Q, the owner of Carmine Pawnshop,

of him in the least. After all, she used to be an infamous figure herself back when she was still in the circle. She had been to many godforsaken places that were a thousand times more accursed

she would dive headlong into anything without a

parked her car in a parking lot in the upstream zone with a plan to go

many rare treasures from all around the world were smuggled and sold. Countless people have made their fortune here, but just as many had their life ended here

Traders and peddlers were shouting, advertising their wares to the rest of the market which was

urn from Ulria! It's the only one of its kind in the whole

stone beads from the Western Highlands! Legend has it that these

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around her as she strolled through the market. Never would she have guessed that there would be such an exciting "treasure trove" right here in Beach City, where one could

engrossed in playing his fiddle. His stall was relatively simple and somewhat shabby compared to the others around it, consisting only of a table covered by a coarse linen cloth where a few pieces of jade, ancient paintings, ceramics, and other knick knacks were lined up on. It was hard to tell where these objects came from, but they seemed to have been dug out of old

these treasures. She looked closer and realized that they were tarot cards. This inexplicably piqued her interest, so much that she asked, "Are you good at predicting the future,