My Dreamy Old Husband novel Chapter 1185

At the same time, the Internet was in an uproar.

There had been some media hype about Derek and Sophia having an affair before, but Michael had forcefully banned these news reports. Now that both Derek and his murderers had died and the victim’s remains were never found, the netizens let their imaginations run wild.

‘Taylor Murray must have hired Derek’s murderers. Who could stand being cuckolded? He dared not lay a hand on his wife since his father-in-law is very powerful. Hence, he could only get back at Derek!’

‘I have a friend who is working at Dragon Technology. He said that Derek and Eddie were on intimate terms, and they seemed to have quarreled on the day of the incident. It must have been Eddie who killed him; she must have been afraid that Taylor found out about her affair with Derek!’

‘The remains must have been hidden away to lower the risks of the culprit being found. What a bunch of disgusting capitalists!’

‘There were too many inside stories behind the scenes. We can’t talk about them; otherwise, what we say will probably be censored. Taylor Murray had forced a bunch of truth-telling newspapers and magazines to close down with a snap of his fingers… We can only say that human lives are too worthless.’

Sophia was really impressed by these netizens’ imagination.

It wasn’t difficult to figure out Sandra’s intentions when one thought back carefully about the whole incident.

She played up scandalous gossip about Derek, making him famous by using Michael’s reputation. Then, she killed him when speculations about the gossip reached their peak. Since the murderers were dead, there was no witness testimony to prove Michael and Sophia’s innocence. Therefore, everyone would certainly point the finger at Michael, Sophia, and even Cooper.

The kept man was dead, so who killed him? It must have been either Michael or Sophia.

Thanks to Sandra’s manipulation, Derek’s death was sensationalized on a scale so spectacular that the story couldn’t be played down at all. Sandra, the victim’s sister, wept out her grief on her social media accounts almost every day, detailing tearfully how miserable the loss of her younger brother had made her, and how close she and Derek used to be.

It was indeed weird that Alex was suddenly revealed to have a son, and the fact that Sandra was his illegitimate daughter could be exposed by accident any time. However, Derek’s death was the focus here, and they were very good at obscuring the focus…

Now that Derek had died like that, Cooper couldn’t escape the responsibility. Even if the previous scandalous gossip about Derek and Sophia were set aside, Dragon Technology was, after all, Cooper’s turf. Now that someone had died on his turf, he couldn’t escape the responsibility, of course.

This incident caused a huge stir thanks to Taylor’s popularity.

Unfortunately, Derek didn’t fall from the sky and ended up being reduced to a pulp like the Yard Family’s grandmaster. Otherwise, this incident would have become far more complicated than this.

Perhaps they had purposely attacked Derek in his office to make him die the same way the Yard Family’s grandmaster did.

The death of the Yard Family’s grandmaster back then caused such a great stir that the entire Ronney Group was closed down for a few days for a reorganization.

The sensation caused by Derek’s death this time wasn’t as huge as the one caused by the grandmaster’s death last time. At the very least, it didn’t cause Dragon Technology to be closed down for several days for a reorganization.

Still, they could blackmail Cooper by seizing upon the fact that the remains weren’t found. They fished for sympathy as much as they could on the media, stirring up public opinion by demanding to have Alex’s son’s death avenged.

When the public opinion was stirred up, the departments concerned would certainly take action. They would pretend to do some investigations even for the sake of calming down the public outcry.

This kind of thing was the trickiest since nothing could be found out by investigating Sophia. After all, she wasn’t the one who killed Derek.

However, everyone was influenced by public opinion, so they all thought that there must have been something fishy behind this incident. They were certain that someone must have been behind the scenes, and the authorities couldn’t find out the culprit simply because the culprit was shielded.

There must be something behind the scenes! Oh, my god! God only knows how many inside stories are behind this, for even the injustice of the death of the Mitchell Group’s Chairman’s son couldn’t be redressed!

What everyone saw was perhaps just the tip of the iceberg.

Some people even went to Dragon Technology’s premises to stage a protest downstairs.

Derek had made a public appearance during the founding of Dragon Technology, and he attracted many fans with his innocent puppy-like looks and his status as a high-handed company president. Now that their Prince Charming died a mysterious death, the fans certainly could no longer sit still.