CHAPTER 249: CHAPTER 249: DRAGGING SERENA JENNINGS DOWN WITH HER

Julian Xavier immediately hung up the phone.

"Who was it?"

Lana Xavier curiously leaned over her head.

"Just a spam call."

As soon as he said it, his phone rang again, it was still Claire Shaw.

Julian Xavier’s eyes instantly turned cold.

"Was it a scam call? These days scams are rampant, you must be careful."

Julian Xavier glanced at Lana Xavier.

Lana Xavier’s innocent eyes were like a spring one could peer straight through.

Julian Xavier smiled slightly, "Hmm, I will be careful."

After saying that, he turned off his phone directly.

After leaving the hotel, Julian Xavier took Lana Xavier to a very romantic restaurant for a candlelit dinner.

Lana Xavier’s shy yet happy smile never faded.

After dinner, Julian Xavier took Lana Xavier home, then returned to his own apartment.

Riverbend Lodge is where joker resided under Julian Xavier’s identity in City A.

As soon as he walked up to the apartment building, he saw Claire Shaw.

In the dark night, Claire Shaw was dressed in black, but her face looked like it was caked with too much powder, white as a ghost.

Claire Shaw saw joker, her wide eyes filled with resentment.

joker, however, smiled and gestured for Claire Shaw to follow him upstairs.

The two of them went into the room one after the other, and before joker could speak, Claire Shaw suddenly fell to her knees in front of joker with a thud.

"joker, please help me... Caleb doesn’t love me anymore... Caleb doesn’t care about me, what should I do..."

Claire Shaw looked as if she was entranced, her mental state extremely unstable.

Clearly, joker could see that Claire Shaw hated him, yet she still proactively knelt to plead with him.

joker crossed his arms, chuckling coldly, "What does it matter to me whether Caleb Lockwood loves you or not... You didn’t manage to fulfill what you promised me before, and now you still have the nerve to beg me..."

joker’s hand harshly pinched Claire Shaw’s chin, causing her to grimace in pain.

"I... I’m already finished..."

Claire Shaw spoke weakly, tears falling in torrents.

"But I absolutely don’t want Caleb Lockwood and Serena Jennings to be together..."

Even if Caleb Lockwood no longer loved her, she couldn’t accept Caleb Lockwood going backwards in his choice of Serena Jennings.

What was Serena Jennings worth!

Just a housewife who only circles around pots and pans!

joker lowered his gaze, silently watching Claire Shaw kneeling at his feet.

Claire Shaw seemed to have placed all the blame for her current misfortune on Serena Jennings.

joker was silent for a long time, then suddenly burst out laughing.

"Jealous women are truly ugly!"

Claire Shaw shuddered all over.

"Ugly and pitiful..."

joker continued to laugh coldly, reaching out his foot to Claire Shaw.

"My shoe is dirty, if you lick my shoe clean, I’ll think of a way to help you."

Claire Shaw raised her head, her wide eyes filled with disbelief that joker would propose such a perverted demand.

Yet joker’s gaze at Claire Shaw was calm to the point of cruelty.

"What’s wrong? You can lick Mr. Kai all over while being naked, what’s so hypocritical about licking my shoe?"

As soon as joker finished speaking, he saw Claire Shaw’s face flush red with a mix of shock and fear.

"The footage is shot pretty well, even more vigorous than before..."

joker directly lifted his shoe sole against Claire Shaw’s face and lips, scuffing until her lips were chapped, smearing dirt all over her face and mouth.

"Alright, out of our past relationship, I’ll point you in the right direction... But you must obediently listen to my arrangements, with luck, not only will Caleb Lockwood break up with Serena Jennings, he might even marry you!"

"Really?!"

Even after eating a mouthful of dirt, hearing joker’s words reignited hope in Claire Shaw.

"Take it one step at a time!"

joker’s words were ambiguous, but at the moment, Claire Shaw could only rely on joker.

Since she had already fallen to the bottom, then let Serena Jennings come down to accompany her!

She would die, but she must drag Serena Jennings to her grave with her!

The night was dark and the wind was high.

Claire Shaw sat in Mr. Kai and his men’s van and arrived at an abandoned warehouse in the suburbs.

Although the abandoned warehouse naturally evoked fear in her, Claire Shaw thought, since joker promised to help her, he surely wouldn’t harm her.

The abandoned warehouse was truly suitable as the place she would be gang-raped by the loan sharks.

joker’s plan was simple, as long as Claire Shaw pretended she was gang-raped for the high-interest loans, she could seize the opportunity to frame Serena Jennings.

Upon arriving at the abandoned warehouse, Claire Shaw directed Mr. Kai and his men to take out the props they had prepared beforehand and then began to set up the scene. She then tore her shirt a bit, and feeling it was not enough, she pulled her pencil skirt further up.

During all this, none of Mr. Kai’s men left.

Claire Shaw sensed something was amiss.

"Mr. Kai, joker just asked you to bring me here, you can leave now."

As soon as Claire Shaw finished speaking, she saw Mr. Kai and his men exchanging wicked smiles.

"That’s not what joker told us."

Seeing Mr. Kai and his men approaching, Claire Shaw immediately had a bad premonition, her face turning pale.

"No, Mr. Kai... It’s fake, I just want Caleb to feel sorry for me, to think that it was Serena Jennings who caused me to be..."

Claire Shaw had been forced into a corner of the abandoned warehouse, Mr. Kai was unbuckling his belt.

"joker said you are Draven’s most valued asset, a part of us, and to help you, we have to give it our all..."

"Unless it’s a real act, how can we convince the police and your beloved President Lockwood!"

A few men pinned Claire Shaw down with their hands, and Claire Shaw screamed desperately, "No! It’s not! I don’t want a real act! I don’t mean a real act! I want to call joker, let me call joker!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Claire Shaw was slapped hard in the face by Mr. Kai, her left ear felt deafened.

She lay on the ground, tied up by Mr. Kai’s subordinates with ropes found in the abandoned warehouse.

The shrill cries eventually dwindled to a mere breath.

...

Today, Serena Jennings intended to inspect the clothing factory she acquired at a low price from Claire Shaw’s parents, considering what enterprise it could be transformed into in the future.

After all, it’s difficult to sustain a clothing factory nowadays, and Claire Shaw’s parents didn’t manage it well, constantly incurring losses.

She wasn’t optimistic about the clothing industry’s future, so after acquiring it, she was pondering how to handle the factory.

However, as Serena Jennings walked through the underground parking lot, before reaching her car, she received a call.

"Hello, is this Ms. Serena Jennings?"

The voice on the other end was unfamiliar, yet polite and proper.

"Yes, who am I speaking with?"

"I’m Captain Wang from the Criminal Investigation Team, there’s a criminal case needing your assistance in the investigation."

"Criminal case?"

Serena Jennings raised her gaze.

After ending the call, Serena Jennings opened the trending news on her phone—

Bankrupt female entrepreneur gang-raped! The mastermind being her?!

A wolf in sheep’s clothing! Internationally renowned jewelry designer Serena Jennings caught hiring assailants.

Serena Jennings’s eyes widened.

Her name appeared conspicuously in the trending topics, and the preceding "bankrupt female entrepreneur" conjured a figure vividly in Serena Jennings’s mind.

"...Claire Shaw?"