But considering their friendship, as well as the prospect of discovering a truth that she didn't have the courage to face, Julie had been suppressing her curiosity for years.

But now, being back in the Smith family filled her with a vigor that she hadn't felt in decades. She suddenly couldn't stand being in the dark anymore.

Therefore, she finally made up her mind to investigate Patricia.

Where had Patricia gotten so much money from? That was the question pressing on Julie's mind.

She also wanted to find out who had given Patricia the financial support to open a company, build a website, and lead a Luxurious life all these years.

As a housewife, Julie had barely gone out or socialized in the past twenty years, and was clueless about a Lot of things.

However, she didn't have to be a genius to know one thing: her best friend, Patricia, was an actress only in name.

In all the years that Patricia had been in the entertainment industry, she had acted in very few movies and TV shows, and had been in even less advertisements. It was impossible for her to have earned much with those projects alone.

And yet, Patricia lived and flaunted her wealth like an A-List celebrity.

Something did not add up.

Julie had always had the prickling feeling that her husband, Bill, was the one who was financially supporting Patricia, but until now, it was a suspicion that she kept well-suppressed in the back of her mind.

To investigate Patricia was to investigate Bill.

"Alas..."

Julie let out a tired sigh.

Two teardrops fell from the corners of her eyes, but the grief in her heart was not as unbearable as it used to be.

She knew the truth even if she didn’t have the guts to say it out loud. Maybe it was time for her to face reality now.

“I'm offering three hundred thousand dollars," Julie typed along with her order request.

Having never done anything like this before, Julie did not know whether this amount was enough to solicit the top hackers of the country. Should she offer more, say three million dollars?

She could afford the money, but she didn't really want to.

After all, ever since she had become Bill's wife, she had scarcely parted with the money under her name.