In addition to the company merger documents, there was also a ledger belonging to Finn, filled with entries written in his own hand.
The ledger was divided into three categories: those who owed him money, those who owed him favors, and his enemies.
Each entry was meticulously recorded, with details such as "2004, Erik Taylor participated in a gang fight, was on the run, and borrowed 200,000 dollars to escape."
Ryan glanced through the ledger quickly, eventually landing on the page listing his enemies. It was here that he suddenly understood whose head was in the safe.
The first entry in the enemies' section made it clear:
"2010, Tristan Wright dared to get involved with that despicable woman, Megan Hill. They even had the audacity to produce a love child, and then they fled to Thailand, trying to hide their identities like the cowardly rats they were. I put a bounty of five million on their heads in the black market. It took a mere month to track down that adulterous couple in the squalor of Bangkok. I killed their child right in front of them, and then I cut off Tristan's head. Watching Megan's miserable expression, I felt an immense sense of satisfaction. That bitch had the nerve to betray me; she deserved to suffer the most excruciating torment this world has to offer. I took Tristan's head, had it processed, and kept it in the safe, watching it day and night to vent my anger. As for Megan, I sent her to a brothel in Bangkok. After enduring all kinds of humiliation and contracting AIDS, she finally found a way to end it all a year later. Letting her suffer for only a year was too lenient!"
Ryan felt his scalp tingle as he read this.
Just seeing the name Tristan Wright, he knew this person must have been closely related to Finn Wright, likely a brother.
Although Ryan couldn't guess Megan Hill's identity, the intense hatred in Finn's words suggested she was probably Finn's spouse or lover.
Finn probably found out his brother hooked up with his lover and even had a kid. No wonder he hated them both so much.
Despite the circumstances, Ryan couldn't accept such a twisted behavior; it was far from what a normal person would do.
What made Ryan even more horrified was that in Finn's list of enemies, every person he killed was crossed out in red ink.
With just a glance, Ryan saw at least twenty names struck through.
This meant Finn had killed at least 20 people.
Judging from the entries, Finn used to take matters into his own hands in the early years, but later he mostly hired others to do the dirty work.
Like Erik Taylor, who owed him a favor, would help him. Finn would either find a killer or a hitman.
Those who crossed paths with Finn didn't necessarily have deep-seated grudges against him. Sometimes, even a minor offense, like offending him with words, would lead to someone being eliminated.
After reading through, Ryan understood that Finn was a vengeful psychopath who would stop at nothing to eliminate those who crossed him.
Ryan's expression changed several times as he put Finn's files aside and picked up the translator, heading towards Aileen's room.
After seeing such disturbing content, Ryan felt the need to clear his mind; otherwise, it would be too oppressive.
In Aileen's room, Ryan searched through the pile of diaries on the bed and quickly found the earliest one from 2011.
These diaries started when Aileen was 18 and went to Harvard Business School, and she continued the habit even after returning to her home country, all the way up to the present.
Now 27 years old, Aileen had maintained the diary habit for nine years, filling over thirty volumes. As Ryan picked up the diary, he prepared to take photos with his phone.
He planned to upload it to the translator via his computer and then proceed with the image translation directly.
However, as he opened the diary, Ryan hesitated for a moment. After all, this was someone else's privacy.
But his curiosity and desire to peek quickly overcame this hesitation.
The main reason was that the diary belonged to Aileen, a cold and distant goddess and the daughter of a billionaire.
If it had been someone unattractive, Ryan probably wouldn't have been interested at all.
In this deserted world, with no one to catch him or hold him accountable, he couldn't resist the temptation.
Ryan immediately took out his phone and snapped photos of the entire first diary. He then uploaded the images to a computer and imported them to the translator.
Within ten minutes, the first diary was fully translated.
Ryan imported the translated document back to his computer and began to read.
But as he saw the first line, Ryan was taken aback.
"November 2, 2011.A month after I enrolled at Harvard, I was diagnosed with depression. The doctor suggested that writing a diary could help. Any thoughts or impulses I have can be expressed through writing. This helps to relieve negative emotions and can alleviate depression to some extent. My most honest thought right now is that I can't let go of Asher's death. He was so young, in the prime of his life, and yet he's gone. I feel responsible for his death. If it weren't for me—if it weren't for being born into this family—he wouldn't have met such a tragic end. I hate Gavin Garcia, and I hate Ian Martinez even more!"
Ryan's expression turned strange as he read this.
Just from this first paragraph, he could tell that Aileen's life was far from the glamorous existence of a wealthy heiress he had imagined.
Although he didn't know who Ian Martinez was, the fact that Aileen hated her own father suggested there was a lot of backstory there.
Ryan's curiosity was piqued, and he continued reading.
Once he started, he couldn't stop. He was witnessing a dramatic saga of a wealthy family.
In the first diary, Aileen had followed her doctor's advice and recorded the most painful events in her life.
These included secrets within the Garcia family and her own harrowing experiences, all meticulously documented in the diary.
After spending two hours reading the first diary, Ryan couldn't help but sigh deeply. He felt a deep sense of sympathy for Aileen's plight.
Despite her privileged upbringing as a wealthy heiress, her life was far from happy.
Through the diary, Ryan could see that Aileen was far from happy. She lived in pain every day, unable to escape her psychological shadows, relying on writing to ease her emotions.
Unable to resist the urge to know more, Ryan picked up the second diary after reading the first one.
Knowing what Aileen had been through, Ryan was extremely curious about how she had managed to become so strong and resilient later.