Bye-bye Trash! Hello Queen! novel Chapter 483

Horace shook his head. “Miss, that’s highly unlikely. I’ve checked numerous times. She grew up in that small mountain village and has no record of ever going abroad. Her background is very simple. To take your place in marrying Sebastian, she didn’t even finish high school.”

“I’ve already investigated three times, each time very thoroughly. There’s absolutely no mistake.”

Joanna frowned, lost in thought.

Something still felt wrong.

“Do you really think those men she’s with would give her fifty million dollars with no expectation of personal gain?”

Joanna couldn't wrap her head around it. She never believed Natalie possessed that kind of charm.

Yet, she had produced fifty million to buy land. First a designer, and now this. Joanna had truly underestimated her.

Horace remained silent, then shook his head. “Miss, we’ve been on the island filming recently. I’ll investigate again when we get back. Perhaps she bought the land on behalf of someone else.”

It was as if Joanna had found a breakthrough. Horace’s last sentence convinced her.

“Could it be for Keith?”

Horace nodded. “It’s possible. The heiress of Ceryn Corp. is also in real estate. Anyone familiar with the company knows that Keith is just the acting CEO. The true power behind him is the family’s heiress.”

Joanna breathed a silent sigh of relief. She couldn’t stand the idea of Natalie being more capable than her.

She looked up at Horace with a faint smile. “Investigate thoroughly when we get back. I’m not at ease. That fool Natalie is completely out of our control now.”

Just as Joanna finished speaking, she received a call from Wendy.

She gestured for Horace to leave before answering.

“Hello, Mom.”

“Joanna, dear, are you adjusting to life on the island? Is the food alright?” Wendy asked with a laugh.

Wendy’s words made Joanna’s expression twist into a colorful mess.

When had Wendy learned to curse like that?

And when did she find out the money was missing?

That idiot Sarah would definitely talk.

If Sarah confessed that Joanna had masterminded it, she would be finished.

It would also arouse Wendy’s suspicion. Even if Wendy had no liquid assets, her real estate was worth billions, and a portion of it was still in the hands of those two old geezers from the Don family.

Once she inherited that fortune, she would be a wealthy woman no one could look down on.

Therefore, she had to fill that two-hundred-million-dollar hole.