The Villainess with a Heroine Harem

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The news of the gruesome incident soon spread all over the world, and even those who were completely unaware of Alexander's existence before his death found themselves being crammed with every little detail that the media had on both the man's life and the possible cause of his demise.

For many who only wanted more visually pleasing imagery from the Golden Crown being dug up by the media, hopefully involving a certain young empress, the turn of events was quite displeasing to say the least.

"Last night, Alexander Gray was found dead, brutally murdered in a yacht sixty nautical miles south of the border of the Phoenix country—"

"For those of our viewers who may not know of him, Alexander Gray was the illegitimate son of Sanders Gray, who is currently the richest man in the world."

A few couldn't help but curse at the media for airing 'irrelevant' things even after being made aware of Alexander's identity, but many more couldn't help but be pulled in by the narrative.

"Despite his lack of legitimacy, however, sources say that he was expected to inherit his father's fortune in full—"

"Key witnesses claim that Mr. Alexander had a very vocal dispute with his father right after the Golden Crown event, after which he decided to leave on a private cruise ship separately, which led to—"

Alexander's father would naturally have been furious to hear about his dead son being addressed like that… if he'd had the time to watch the news, that is.

Unfortunately, he was already too preoccupied with other matters to have the time to pay attention to such things, and no one was daring enough to bring it up to him at such a time either.

But while a part of it was surely because of Alexander being the son of the richest man in the world, it couldn't be denied that the mystery behind his murder played a big role in the extensive coverage and attention that the incident was receiving.

"Mr. Alexander's face seemed to have been chewed up and spit out by some sort of vicious beast in the attack that led to his death, and it is suspected that someone snuck a dangerous animal onto the yacht with the intention to use it as a tool for murder—"

"The authorities of Phoenix are currently investigating any attendees of the Golden Crown as well as locally influential forces to sift out any who could bring such an animal in, including the leaders of Gray Wolfe, White Deer, and—"

Of course, the fact that numerous high-profile individuals who usually liked to stay away from the limelight could also be associated with the incident to promote excitement and intrigue also didn't help.

As the one who had been pestered relentlessly by the 'victim' the night before his murder, naturally, Emilia was one of the first ones to face the scrutiny of the media.

"Aside from the dispute with his father, both claims of various witnesses and a review of the event's footage confirm that Mr. Alexander was quite obsessed with Emilia White, the first Empress of the Empire of Blue Dawn, who was also a guest of honor at the event—"

Luckily for her, however, she had been sleeping under the watchful eye of the prime minister of Phoenix on the night of the incident, giving her an impeccable alibi, and the media only mentioned her name to attract the audience who loved to watch her face on their screens.

They never really took her seriously as a 'suspect', believing she had neither the intentions nor the motivation to pull something like this, and soon moved on to other big names.

"Many claim that Mr. Alexander also had numerous disputes with Mr. Amos Black, as well as—"

Naturally, any names mentioned at this point were merely being 'suspected', and almost everyone was sure that none of them would be caught as the murderer in the end anyway.

Of course, even if that hadn't been the case, the media would have absolved her of any suspicion on their own anyway. Not because they feared her army of raging, fanatic followers, of course, but because of the surfacing of clues that soon led them to the murderer.

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Meanwhile, the situation was far from optimistic for Alexander's father.

The moment she had heard the news of her son's death, his wife had jumped out of her bedroom window in grief, and he had been beside himself watching her struggle to survive in the intensive care unit.

Fortunately, her bedroom window hadn't been particularly high up, and while she ended up with multiple broken bones and considerable trauma to her head, Alexander's mother only entered a temporary coma.

Once sure that his wife was no longer in a critical condition, Alexander's father finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Soon, however, his expression turned cold as he clutched at the collar of the man in front of him, his eyes red with rage. "Tell me, how the fuck did my son die?! Wasn't that bastard old snake supposed to be tailing and protecting him?!"

"Calm down—"

The previous incident that left his son injured was one thing, but telling Alexander's father to stay calm after his son's death was clearly the wrong move to make. "Shut the fuck up! Don't tell me to calm down, you bastard! Just explain to me how the fuck this happened, understand?!"

The middle-aged man didn't seem too panicked on the surface, but only he knew how his back was soaked with nervous sweat at the moment. "W-We are trying our best to figure out what's going on, but the old snake has also lost contact with us after the incident."

Of course, he didn't really believe that the man was dead just because he didn't receive any response. Not to mention the lack of a corpse, could someone like the old snake die without even any hints of a struggle?

And going by the expression of Alexander's father, he knew this just as well, and he couldn't help but sneer. "Tell me… what happens to a rabid dog that tries to bite its own master?"

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