Selena was beginning to fear now, for she saw that all the news articles rted to Ellen were gone.


    This meant that Jared had taken action.


    Selena didn’t want to get involved, much less bear the responsibility for it.


    Ellen’s reputation was considered ruined at this point, so even if the news articles were gone, it was


    enough to force Ellen out of the chessmunity. From today onward, Ellen wouldn’t dare participate


    in officialpetitions, and her championship would be the joke of the chessmunity.


    Selena was quite satisfied with the oue, feeling that it was worth sacrificing her body in exchange


    for such results.


    In the meeting room, Jared was seated at the front while a group of people sat before him. They were


    all concerned about one thing, which was to find the culprit behind the scenes who wanted to defame


    Ellen.


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    At that moment, they had gathered enough. information to paint aplete picture.


    “Young Master Jared, these are records of Alden Thomas’ financial situation. This is his call history and


    duration, as well as the people he met recently at the hotel.”


    “Based on the people he’s met in the past few days, we carried out a thorough investigation. These are


    all people who have contacted him before.”


    “ording to our spection, it’s highly possible that Alden wanted to get revenge on Miss Reiss


    because he couldn’t ept the fact that he lost.”


    Jared stared at Alden’s photo with an extremely disgusted look in his cold eyes. Back then, this man


    had smashed the chess pieces right in front of Ellen during the finals.


    “President Presgrave, shall we employ our special methods?”


    “For the moment, no. Keep investigating.” Jared shook his head. He had to be a little more careful


    since Ellen’s reputation was involved. He wanted to clear Ellen’s name and restore her reputation as


    well.


    If he just wanted to exact revenge, he had all the methods in the world to do it.


    Just then, Jared’s phone rang. He nced at it, gentleness instantly filling his eyes as he took his


    phone over to the French windows. He answered the call and said tenderly, “Hey. Are you going to


    sleep already?”


    “Is the investigation still underway?” On the other end of the line, Ellen asked as her heart ached for


    Jared. It was already 9.00PM. “Don’t worry, we’ll find the truth very soon,” Jaredforted her.


    “Just forget it if you can’t find anything. I won’t stoop to their level.” Ellen didn’t want him to work too


    hard either.


    “I’ve said before that I won’t let anyone bully you anymore. I’m a man of my word.” Jared would never


    let those people off the hook.


    He would make all of Ellen’s bullies pay the steep price for it. Even if they couldn’t be punished byw,


    he could still employ his methods.


    Just then, Stanley’s phone rang. He reached out and picked up the call. “Hello. Did you get any


    information from eavesdropping?”


    “Send it to me.”


    Not long after Stanley listened to a portion of the recording, he spoke to Jared, who was still on the


    phone. “Young Master Jared, we’ve found something. Listen to this.”


    Jared nced at Stanley, then said gently over the phone, “I’ll go home to you as soon as possible.”


    “Okay, don’t overwork yourself,” Ellen said in concern. After hanging up, Jared sat down at the table


    and listened to the audio recording. Two drunken voices were heard speaking.


    “Jay, I helped you this time, so you’d better thank me properly.”


    “Of course, I will.” “That girl is outstanding, though. If I y against her in the future, I’m honestly not


    sure if I’d be able to win.”


    “I’ll make use of this incident to bar her from enteringpetitions, and you won’t ever see her at any


    matches in the future.” “That’s great. I’ll have hopes of getting first ce next year.”


    “You’ve helped me this time, but you’re also helping yourself too!” “I wouldn’t have helped you so


    readily otherwise!” “Thank you, thank you so much.”


    After the yback ended, Stanley continued, “President Presgrave, a subordinate recorded this while


    sending the two back to the hotel. Looks like Alden was just a pawn, and the real person who wanted


    to ruin Miss Reiss’ reputation was the judge named Jay Harris. He probably has a grudge against her.”


    Jared frowned a little. The recording was proof that Alden was helping Jay destroy Ellen’s reputation,


    so who was the one behind Jay? “Keep investigating,” Jared said in a low voice.


    Meanwhile, at the entrance of the hotel, the two drunk men staggering into the building had no idea that


    the driver of the taxi they took wasn’t the real driver at all. The real driver was sitting in the ck car


    tailing them.