Taking the briefcase handed to him by the secretary, Donald looked at the tapes and photos inside, as well as a small piece of paper made of letters cut out from newspapers.

"If you don't want to make a big fuss, before 8pm, in a certain neighborhood, send ..."

There was a small request on the note.

The other party demanded one million dollars!

In the past, this amount would have been a drop in the bucket for Donald.

But at this critical moment, where does he get a million dollars?

He couldn't even pay the interest on his debt, let alone one million. He didn't even have 100,000. What he was considering now was whether he should call his father at home for help and ask his father to give him some money to tide him over the difficulties.

However, after reading the note, Donald also found that things were becoming more and more complicated. Since the delivery person dared to threaten him with such a huge demand, would they dare to do so without something in hand?

…

"What's on the tape?"

Looking at this unremarkable tape, you can’t tell anything about it from the accompanying photos before listening to it.

What does a photo of a man and a woman in front of a hotel mean?

Donald held the small tape with a gloomy face and looked at the secretary with a gloomy face.

"Uh... Boss, the content may be private, so you should listen to it yourself."

Although she had already listened to the tape, the secretary was reluctant to talk about such things.

His boss is very conceited, even a little narcissistic. He likes to name most brands after him. Faced with such a boss, he can't just say, this is your wife's live broadcast, right?

…

"Hmm..." Looking at the secretary's slightly embarrassed expression, Donald frowned even deeper.

There was a small tape recorder on the desk, which he would only use when he occasionally needed to listen to music. He picked up the tape and put it into the tape recorder.

"Boss, I still have some issues to deal with. I'll be out first."

When the secretary saw Donald's actions, he nodded quickly and found an excuse to leave the office. He didn't want to be embarrassed when both of them were present when the tape was played.

…

The sound of crackling occurred as the tape turned, and some noise slowly came out of the speaker of the recorder.

From the noises, we can tell that this is a recording from somewhere, and the other party's recording equipment doesn't seem to be very professional.

"Hey...Andre."

A man's voice was heard, followed by a rather suppressed curse.

"Stop talking idiot, I'm recording."

Then the two voices disappeared. It might be that the two recorders were adjusting the equipment. Then, the voices of a man and a woman were heard in the recording.

…

Although it is just an audio tape and not a video tape, there is no picture, only sound.

But Donald still could tell from the voice alone.

A woman's voice sounded hazy.

As the woman's occasional angry curses grew louder.

As the old saying goes, words like good and yeah are all lies.

Only Fake is the best compliment.

The voice in the tape was like this, with constant praise.

But the more Donald listened to this voice, the more familiar it sounded to him. This voice seemed familiar.

“…”

With just this short sentence, Donald finally heard who the familiar voice belonged to!

This seems to be... my own wife!

…

Donald, with a gloomy face, pressed the pause button on the recorder.

The tape is only a short forty minutes long, but in this forty minutes, there is not much dialogue in the first ten minutes, but there is more dialogue as it goes on.

Two people were chatting intermittently.

They are all very common family matters in life, and they are all about trivial matters at home.

From the content of the conversation between the two people, it can be seen that the man and woman in the recording should be quite familiar with each other.

Especially the woman's voice, Donald was also very familiar with it.

…

Picking up the phone on the table, Donald called home with trembling hands.

After a few beeps, the person who answered the phone was the family's housekeeper.

"gentlemen!"

"Is Ivana home?"

"My wife went to the beauty salon."

"Um……"

Donald hesitated for a few seconds and pretended not to care and asked, "Has your wife been out for a while? I mean, has she been traveling or something?"

The butler waited for a few seconds before answering, "My wife went to Wales last month and also to Porto, France."

“…”

Donald looked at the photo and saw the hotel sign in Porto in which he had invested. He was very familiar with it.

The evidence and timing match.

"Okay, I got it!"

After hanging up the phone, Donald's chest heaved with anger.

He didn't understand the principle that good fortune never comes alone, and misfortune never comes alone, but at the most difficult time in his life, he received this briefcase, and the tape inside the briefcase dealt him a heavy blow.

Looking at the small note that came with the documents.

These damn French guys, there are a lot of thieves over there. This should be the sound that a gang of thieves overheard something through the wall when they were breaking into a house, and then recorded it.

Then the other party took a photo of the person being recorded the next day, and finally sent this thing to blackmail him based on the photo!

But……

Now Donald not only doesn't want to give the money, he even wants to take the thief who sent him the things with him to die together.

Which man can stand such blackmail?

After taking a few deep breaths, Donald picked up the phone on the table and with difficulty dialed a number he hadn't called in a long time. He wanted to ask his father for help and money!

…

Alan was very busy in the run-up to Christmas.

First of all, with the help of old Carl, the issue at Bentley was resolved very smoothly!

A few old employees who didn't want to move before happened to have some problems.

Some were in car accidents, and some died suddenly of illness.

Anyway... according to what other employees said, they will be moving to Carmarthen to enjoy a better life soon, and it seems these people will not have that blessing.

Without these employees dragging down the process, the contract between the two parties was signed very smoothly.

The purchase price had been negotiated long ago.

The internal friendly price is 673 million pounds, in both decimal and integer amounts.

…

Although Bentley is a car company, it does not have any high-end fully automatic production lines.

When we say it is handmade, it does not mean that all the parts are made by hand.

Instead, there are two simple assembly lines. Most of the parts are ordered from upstream supporting companies and need to be manually assembled later. There are many places in the interior that need to be handmade.

Without the fully automated automobile production line, there won’t be many other valuable things left.

The price of nearly 700 million pounds was an internal friendly price given by the other party's trustee company in consideration of Allen's noble status.

And with the giving of this money, Alan was seriously hurt. This was the largest sum of money he had ever spent since he was a child.

After spending this money, all the money obtained from Sony has been almost used up.

But in Allen's opinion, this money is worth it!

…

He put down the document about Bentley and picked up a letter next to it.

This was written to him by Christina. It was Christmas again and Christina wanted to invite Alan to go on vacation to Spain.

But this year Allen isn't going anywhere.

In a few days, it will be lively!

It’s better to just stay at home and watch the fun.

…

When the world's attention is focused on the Middle East.

At this critical moment when there is only half a month left before the ultimatum, a very explosive piece of news was first exposed by the American media, and then...quickly reprinted by other media.

The cause of the incident cannot be verified, but the authenticity of the incident is very high!

Several prominent media outlets received the anonymous tapes.

Donald, who had already paid the money with great difficulty to settle the matter, never expected that those untrustworthy "thieves" would actually release the tape after getting one million US dollars!

…

What's this?

This was revealed by an American tycoon with a net worth of tens of billions of dollars, and even a British aristocrat was involved!

Once such gossip was exposed, it instantly overshadowed everything happening in the Middle East.

The New Year's Day...

To put it in a more fashionable way, as soon as the news was revealed, it instantly became a hot topic!

There is a scandal between a well-known aristocratic director and the wife of a well-known American businessman. There is even a tape of the affair. Is this news exciting?

…

Highgrove Manor, in the study.

Boss Cha took the newspaper with a gloomy face and threw it on the coffee table. He looked at Alan standing in front of him and was very angry.

Although many names in the newspaper have been blurred.

But anyone with a discerning eye can tell who meets the requirements.

It's New Year's Day, how shameful!

"Are you broke? Or have your tastes changed? Tell me, how did you provoke her? Huh?! What on earth is going on?"

Boss Cha was speechless about the big news that Allen made.

He simply didn't believe that a thief would record audio next door to Alan.

The day after the incident, he couldn't wait to call Alan to the manor for questioning, and all activities for the day were postponed by him.

…

Alan looked at the furious Boss Cha and didn't want to explain. He took out a small card from his pocket and handed it to Boss Cha.

Boss Cha, with an angry look on his face, took the thing handed to him by Alan and just finished reading it, still a little confused.

“This is the little card Donald wrote when he sent flowers to my aunt.”

Looking at the somewhat confused Boss Cha, Alan didn't care whether he was pretending or not, and explained to him the origin of this small card.

“…”

Boss Cha narrowed his eyes, took the card, read the corny words on it, and then looked at Alan who had an expressionless face.

The words on the card made him very uncomfortable. Knowing it or not was one thing, but he wasn't divorced yet.

And in this situation, someone actually came to poach his customers.

And Alan...

Isn't this a case of giving someone a taste of their own medicine?

Although the results of this method seem very satisfying, but... this reputation is not good!

Hmm…

Just when he thought of reputation, Boss Cha suddenly realized that this was all about looking at the problem from his own perspective.

What if we look at it from another angle?

Alan didn't know what he was thinking. If he thought it was something he didn't want to care about, then he...

Is this forcing yourself?

…

No, no…

For a moment, Boss Cha was a little confused as to why Alan would go so far as to come up with these things in the name of self-deprecation.

Even if this little card was the cause, couldn't there be another way?

Now that he had this little card, he couldn't continue to argue with Alan.

No matter what Alan did, his purpose was relatively clear: revenge!

This was his subordinates' revenge to vent their anger on him...

Hmm, thinking of this, Boss Cha suddenly understood.

Looking at Alan staring at the ground in a daze, Boss Cha suddenly realized why Alan did that.

He can come to me directly to vent his anger, or he can come to me with this little piece of paper to complain.

But it is undeniable that these will make oneself feel a little embarrassed and lose face.

He likes to save face, and I believe Allen knows this.

What should I do if someone comes to me with this kind of card? Should I intervene or not?

This is going to be difficult for him!

…

But now, the truth has come out. Allen did not cause trouble for himself, but instead brought bad luck to those who sent flowers and cards. Putting aside other things, the American media has been very lively these days!

Thinking about what was in the news, Boss Cha even felt a little happy.

He didn't suffer any loss of face, and he didn't even have to respond to the piece of paper, but Alan's reputation was severely damaged.

It is somewhat disgraceful for a British aristocrat to be involved in such a matter.

His own younger brother came to him with a card and forced him to abdicate, making him embarrassed.

Or it could be that his own younger brothers directly did something for him so that he could vent his anger.

Of these two methods, most people probably prefer the latter.

Thinking of this, Boss Cha's expression relaxed and he pointed to the sofa next to him and said, "Sit down."

…

Alan didn't rush to sit down. Instead, he raised his head, glanced at Boss Cha and said, "When my aunt sent William and Harry here some time ago, she talked to me. He often sent his secretary to harass her..."

Boss Cha's mouth twitched and he nodded, agreeing with what Allen said.

Now... Alan has done this, it seems that I should protect him, such as prohibiting the British media from discussing these things again?

…

Coming out of Highgrove Manor, Alan looked out the window all the way.

He is not deliberately making fun of himself, nor does he not care about his reputation.

Compared to being exposed to the outside world, what does he have to be afraid of?

Looking at the words used by these media, most of them are like suspected, seems, etc.

A recording and a not-so-clear photo don't mean anything!

Even if it's true, so what?

The outside world will never know that he was the one who revealed the matter on his own initiative. Instead, the two so-called "thieves" will be labeled as greedy.

As for who the thief is, let them find it slowly.

Allenka let the news out during this period of time, which was considered as leaving himself a way out.

…

Right now, it seems that his reputation has been damaged and a scandal has been exposed.

But not all scandals are bad!

Scandals can also be divided into positive and negative.

There are deeper reasons behind stories involving scandals.

If you don't know the inside story, this matter looks like the scandal between Allen and a noble lady.

As a nobleman, it is understandable that he has some scandals. After all, he is not married yet, and at most he will be criticized morally.