Chapter 533
# Fred's Faked Death: The Shocking Truth Behind the 25-Year-Old Plane Crash
The news exploded across the internet, dominating headlines even in the dead of night. By the time Fred learned what was happening, the story had already gone viral.
It was too late for damage control. No amount of scrubbing hashtags or blocking search terms could put out the fire.
With one scandal, Fred single-handedly turned Northborough's most powerful family into a laughingstock.
The exposé dug up every detail of Fred's past twenty-five years, leaving nothing untouched.
It turned out that the infamous plane crash twenty-five years ago-supposedly claiming Fred's life-was nothing but a carefully orchestrated lie. The so-called tragedy was a ruse Fred devised to vanish from the public eye.
Back then, everyone believed Fred had boarded a private jet bound for France. What no one realized was that, long before takeoff, he'd already slipped away unnoticed.
The jet carried only Fred's personal assistant and the flight crew, blissfully unaware of the plan. Fred had arranged for something to go wrong mid-flight. It was a one-way ticket for everyone on board.
Just an hour after takeoff, the plane crashed. The world assumed Fred had perished in the disaster.
But why go to such lengths? Fred claimed he wanted to escape Fiona's suffocating control and pursue true love, even if it meant abandoning the wealth and prestige of the Wentworth family.
But the truth was far more sinister. Before his "death," Fred had quietly transferred the Wentworth Group's liquid assets into Swiss accounts.
When the supposed tragedy struck, the Wentworth Group spiraled into chaos- not just because of infighting among shareholders, but because the company's cash flow had mysteriously dried up.
Fred's financial cover-up was immaculate. Not even Fiona-left to pick up the pieces-could uncover the missing money. In the end, she became the perfect scapegoat.
Meanwhile, Fred was already living a quiet life in Switzerland with Malvina Ellsworth and Ferdinand.
If the story ended there, Fred's reputation would already be in tatters. But what came next was even more jaw-dropping.
Fred had secretly invested in a biotech research facility in Switzerland.
His obsession? Human cellular reprogramming. He dreamed of creating a drug
that could keep people young forever, extending their lives far beyond the natural limit.noveldrama
The fortune he'd siphoned from the Wentworth family funded the lab for two decades.
But the most shocking revelation? Fred used Malvina as his test subject.
For ten years, she underwent experimental treatments. At first, it seemed to work Malvina hardly aged. The breakthrough was within reach. But two years ago, everything fell apart. The drugs' side effects hit with a vengeance.
Malvina was in constant agony, tormented day and night. Her life became a living hell. In the end, she climbed to the rooftop one night and jumped to her death.
The reason for her suffering was brutal in its simplicity: the lab's funding dried up, and the
experimental drug supply ran ounet
The moment Malvina stopped taking it, her body suffered irreversible backlash.
In other words, the drug really could keep someone young, but once you started,
you could never stop. Taking it was a slow-motion suicide.
Fred, however, refused to blame his "miracle drug." Instead, he pinned Malvina's death on Stewart. When the lab ran out of money, Fred had begged Stewart for funding. Stewart refused, and Fred never forgave him.
What happened next was a calculated coup: Fred and Ferdinand joined forces with the Wentworth family and major shareholders,
ousting Stewart from both the family
and the company he'd worked
so
hard to build.
The exposé was relentless, packed with details-photos of Fred and Malvina's wedding in Switzerland, data from the research lab, even Ferdinand's birth certificate.
Only then did the world discover that Ferdinand was actually two months older than Stewart.
And the pièce de résistance: the paternity test results for Stewart and Fred. Stewart was, without a doubt, Fred's biological son.
That single report was enough to blow Fred's previous lies out of the water-the same lies he'd spun at the Wentworth family's anniversary gala.
Stewart wasn't the child of Fiona and another man. He was the legitimate heir, publicly named by Grandpa Wentworth at Stewart's first birthday celebration.
Who could have imagined that, at thirty-two, after taking the Wentworth Group to new heights, Stewart would be betrayed and cast out by his own father?
All for the sake of an affair and an illegitimate child, Fred ruthlessly destroyed his
son.
The Wentworth Group's stock was in freefall.
The scandal set off a chain reaction.
Even the Lockwood Group-one of the company's closest partners was caught in the fallout.
Just days ago, the Wentworth and Lockwood Groups had jointly acquired a massive plot of land in the Northern Suburbs, a deal tied to a city development project and worth billions.
Now, the property was under investigation for illegal transactions.
The executive in charge was suspected of bribing a government official.
Major Crimes was stepping in.
The storm had only just begun.
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