Chapter 529
Chapter 529 A Demon Through And Through
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However, once they learned that the man sitting there was Kayden, the owner of a medium-sized
company, instead of Cayden, the CEO of Trident Group, their eyes almost popped out of their sockets.
How is this possible? How can there be two people who look alike and share almost simr names?
Regardless of whether they believed it, the truth had beenid bare before their eyes.
Half an hourter, a group of police officers brought Marvin, who was handcuffed, to the conference
room.
Marvin was in his fifties and had an air of authority around him. Nheless, his face looked haggard,
while his eyes had a listless sheen in them. From the massive amount of weight that he lost, it was
clear that prison had been physically and mentally torturous for him.
“Marvin, look at this man. Is he the Cayden you dealt with in the past?” the male public prosecutor
questioned.
As Marvin struggled to look up, he began to scrutinize the energetic yet nonchnt man in front of him.
The moment his gaze fell upon Kayden''s face, a cloudy glint shed across his eyes.
Images of the past began to emerge in his mind.
After epting bribes from countless people throughout the years, he had finally lost track of them all.
In order to prevent his crimes from being exposed, he had even taken measures to ensure that the
fates of all those who bribed him were tied to his.
Fundamentally, he had secretly kept evidence of everyone who had ever given him dirty money.
Nevertheless, a blur was all that was left of their faces in his memories, all except one, Cayden, whose
face was seared into his mind.
Not only was it because he was the youngest person who had bribed him but also the fact that he was
unforgettably handsome.
Ten years ago, when Marvin was appointed as the secretary of Ackleton''s city council and had a bright
future, a young man approached him with a box of coffee beans.
The young man was courteous and had a sharp mind. Speaking eloquently, he intended to obtain huge
swathes of abandonednd from Marvin.
As an experienced official, the wily Marvin naturally knew that the box of coffee was just a cover.
In spite of that, he was still surprised to see the wads of cashid out neatly underneath the coffee.
They amounted to five million in total, a sight that filled Marvin with disbelief.
When he asked the young man what he nned to do with thend, the young yet experienced
Cayden told him that he was going into property development. He nned to build a huge mall
surrounded by high-end residences.
Cayden''s answer gave Marvin a shock. Has this young man gone mad? Does he think he can develop
a few pieces of abandonednd just like that? What an idiot!
Back then, thend Cayden asked for was located far from the city. Its deste surroundings contained
nothing but swampynd. Considering how far-flung the location voice was, building amercial area
there seemed to be a ludicrous idea.
Marvin had nned to turn thatnd into a sewerage treatment nt, but his responsibilities only
involvednd approval.
Consequently, after he sold thend to Cayden and took his cut, it wasn''t his business to question the
use of thend.
On top of that, Marvin didn''t serve in Ackleton for long. After more than one year there, he leveraged
hiswork to get himself transferred to Beshya. As his influence in Beshya gradually expanded,
Ackleton inadvertently faded to the back of his mind.
After a few years, a subwaywork was unexpectedly built to connect the abandonednd.
Coincidentally, thend Cayden had bought was located right in the center of the subwaywork.
Coupled with the high-speed train lines that were developed around it, the inconspicuous piece ofnd
suddenly became highly sought after by many developers.
Unfortunately, it was toote for them, as Cayden had already owned ny percent of thend.
All of them could onlyment the fact that they had acted toote.
Within the span of a few short years, skyscrapers began to popte the abandonednd under
Cayden''s leadership. As buildings of different designs flourished across thend, it grew into one of
Ackleton''s busiestmercial districts. The area became the epitome of a modern city. With famous
brands dotting its streets, it afforded its citizens the very best of city living.
In contrast to ten years ago when housing prices hovered around eight to nine thousand, the high-end
residential area was selling for at least a hundred thousand with the upward trajectory in price showing
no signs of abating.
Evidently, housing prices had grown tenfold within the span of ten years.
When Marvin, who was in Beshya, looked back at Ackleton''s development sometimes, he would
marvel at Cayden''s foresight. It was as if the young man from back then could see the future. No
wonder he is able to lead Trident Group to such dizzying heights.
It wasn''t until Marvin was exposed by someone out of vengeance that he fell from grace and ended up
in prison.
In his mind, he assumed that he would never return to Ackleton. Little did he expect to be brought there
by the police to see if the young man before him was the Cayden who had bribed him all those years
ago.
Due to the deep impression he had of Cayden, Marvin could still recognize the man in front of him as
the young man from back then. He was just surprised by the fact that the man who resembled Cayden
had a slightly different name.
Thereafter, the public prosecutor requested Marvin to recall if the name from back then started with a
“C” or a “K.”
“I remember clearly that it was a ''C.”
Marvin tried hard to remember what happened. He could still picture Cayden signing his name with a
“C.”
As he had always been a careful man, he would check the agreements four to five times to make sure
there were no mistakes.
Upon hearing the reply, the public prosecutors shot their gazes in Sid''s direction.
Sid responded with a shrug before letting out anguid yawn. After that, he walked to Marvin''s side and
whispered something into his ear.
In that instant, Marvin began to tremble uncontrobly as if he had fallen into a freezing coldke.
Staring into Sid''s emerald-green eyes, he felt as if the man before him was a demon through and
through.
After a moment''s deliberation, Marvin suppressed the terror in his heart and smiled awkwardly at the
public prosecutors. “I''m sorry. I''ve made a mistake. It''s Kayden with a ''K.’”
What followed was a round of intensive interrogation.
Nheless, regardless of how the public prosecutors threatened or incentivized him, Marvin insisted
that he had signed the agreement with Kayden.
As for the actual agreement, the signature was illegible, making it difficult to tell if the first letter was a
“C” or “K.’”
Consequently, Marvin''s testimony would be the crux of the case.
In the end, no matter how hard the public prosecutors tried, they just couldn''t get Marvin to say
anything incriminating about Cayden. Instead, he was adamant that Kayden was whom he made the
deal with.