The Pampering CEO: Don't Mess With My Secretly-Married Sweet Wife

Chapter 238 Deception

'Eastcity warehouse engulfed in flames, causing three deaths!'

The news only occupied a tiny section of the newspaper. An ordinary person would not notice if they did not pay close attention to it.

Charlotte Jenkins boasted herself to be the heiress of a powerful family. She had no penchant to read this kind of social news regarding injuries and fatalities. She pushed away the newspaper and assumed a disdainful expression. "Why are you showing this to m e?"

"I have photos of these three deceased people prior to their deaths." Joseph Shaw took out three photos.

"How's that related to me..." said Charlotte but she still took a glance at it casually.

Her pupils constricted abruptly when she saw one of the people. "This... This is..."

"That's right. It's precisely the witness detained by Julian Shaw." Joseph took a meaningful glance at Charlotte. "I heard that you’ve been constantly under Julian’s threat because of this person. Now, I have already eliminated the threat." i

The witness mentioned by Joseph was the person Julian brought away from the cave incident previously.

Luke Jenkins looked at the photo then read the news report and smiled suddenly. "Joseph, your work is truly crisp and clean.” 2

"It's but a trifling matter. Charlotte is going to be married to me so I have to ensure that she has no worries later on naturally,” Joseph casually commented.

In America, he made his fortune in the mafia. It was nothing but a usual routine for him to commit murder and clean up properly after himself.

"It's just a trifling matter for you, yet you were capable of finding the location where Julian hid the person and carried out the operation in such a crisp manner without leaving behind any traces. That's not something an ordinary person can do." Luke was growing more and more pleased with this brother-in-law of his.

Joseph had the funds and the power in his hands and he was also skilled in managing criminal activities. H e was simply the best partner for Luke.

Charlotte was shocked by Joseph's money first, then she witnessed his capability in managing affairs. She could not help feeling pleased with her future husband’s performance.

They continued to discuss the marriage in a harmonious atmosphere.

On the other side, Julian also received news about the fire in the warehouse and the witness was burned to death with two guards. He could not help furrowing his brows.

It had already been a few months since the cave incident. The traces left on the scene had vanished into nothingness for a long time. The best time to use this incident as an article has already passed actually. However, he considered having a witness on his side a s a deterrent to stop Charlotte from messing things up.

Now, the witness was dead!

According to the report from his staff member, the fire was an accident, and so was the response from the scene.

However, Julian could not help narrowing his eyes at the thought of Joseph's gentle and refined appearance.

He intuitively thought that Joseph was waging a war against him.

Counting from the previous generation, it had already been 18 full years since Joseph’s family lineage left Ningcheng City!

18 years had passed with the vast lands across them. Even though he had been collecting information related to Joseph all this time, it was not an easy feat t o look into Joseph due to his thriving mafia business. As a result, he only managed to acquire a small portion of information.

On the contrary, Lanyard Construction was liable to be attacked just like a tall tree that caught the wind. Countless people were monitoring Lanyard

Construction both in and out of the country.

As long as Joseph had the intention, he could easily gain access to all the information related to Lanyard Construction with ease.

In addition, Joseph was affiliated with the Jenkins Corporation now.

The matter was truly becoming rather troublesome.

However, he had also experienced quite a number of disturbances for the past ten years since he took over the Shaw Corporation at the age of 18. The challenges that he encountered were even uncountable.

Julian Shaw would take on anyone who came at him one by one regardless of who that person was.

"Burn the witness to death, huh?" The corners of Julian’s lips cracked into a cold sneer. "Joseph, you gave such a huge gift to me. If I don't return the gift, aren’t you going to despise me for that?"

The next day.

The wedding date for Joseph and Charlotte was set. The incident of Joseph sending close to 100 million dollars worth of jewelry to her made headlines.

Comments filled with envy and jealousy filled the section underneath the news.

Charlotte wore the necklace and swung the bangle on her wrist with a proud look that filled her eyes.

She enjoyed the feeling of being envied by all women

the most.

Charlotte's good mood only lasted for the morning.

By noon, big news suddenly swept across the entire nation.

Joseph invested in the Joseph-Jenkins Corporation which was located in Ningcheng City. In order to strive for favorable impressions of the industries, he sent out notifications that he had already donated 100 million to an earthquake disaster area through the Red Cross.

One hundred million! It was a stupendous sum of money that even surpassed Julian's million-dollar donation.

At once, the internet broke out in a praising storm toward the Joseph-Jenkins Corporation.

The big news was that the Red Cross displayed the donor name list and that Joseph's donation was only worth 10 million in reality!

The 100 million was utterly a deception.

If Joseph had not announced his donation amount to the public, the 10 million was already considered a large sum of money and internet users would not comment much either.

Yet, he claimed to donate 100 million. Moreover, his prestige went higher because of this too.

As a result, his prestige shrunk by 10 times instantly when the truth was exposed.

Internet users refused to accept that at once.

"Don’t claim to have donated 100 million if you don't have the money!"

"A poor chap who tries to satisfy his vanity when he can't afford to do so."

"He has been sending notifications everywhere on the internet claiming that the Joseph-Jenkins Corporation has a tremendous capital. That's really tremendous, huh?"

There were also people that cussed straightforwardly and were censored.

"Joseph Shaw is a ****."

The deception incident boiled over at once such that the entire nation was aware of it.

Charlotte went on the internet in an attempt to continue finding out how the internet users were envious and jealous of her yet as soon as she clicked o n the website in the afternoon, the page was filled with abusive voices.

"He bought two pieces of jewelry worth 100 million for a woman yet he is still lying about his donation. Joseph Shaw from the Joseph-Jenkins Corporation, let me ask you this, where is your shame?"

"Shameless deception, shameless deception."

"Boycott the Joseph-Jenkins Corporation."

Deception?

Boycott?

What the heck was going on!

Charlotte was dumbstruck with bewilderment.

She clicked on a related news article and read it, then she slammed the mouse in rage.

What the heck was wrong with Joseph? He said he donated 100 million but he had only donated 10 million!

That matter could be dropped, yet it was exposed by the Red Cross Society.

He could forgo his reputation, but she could not!

Charlotte took out her phone furiously and gave Joseph a call.

Joseph was ordering people to prepare for the wedding when he suddenly received a call.

A mocking look flashed past his eyes when he saw that the caller was Charlotte but a smile had already appeared on his face naturally. "Hey Charlotte, what's going on?"

"Joseph, you have the audacity to ask me what's going on?" Charlotte began querying as soon as she spoke.

Joseph could not help frowning.

He had been putting up with Charlotte for the sake of him looking to the Jenkins for support but this was not an excuse for him to tolerate her constant

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Joseph was about to say something when Charlotte already spouted furiously, "It's fine that you donated 1 0 million, but why do you have to say that you donated 100 million? Taking me down with you in embarrassment, is that what you want?”

"What?" Joseph was stunned. "Charlotte, how did you find out about the amount of 10 million?!"