Chapter 6
“You… Why are you here?” X Quest asked in a panicked tone while she turned the engine on.
Stanley Batton was slightly surprised to see her here so coincidentally.
“Stop talking! Drive!” He said in a demanding tone.
As he spoke, he stepped on the elerator with his foot…
Within a second, the sports car dashed forward. X immediately grabbed the steering wheel
before kicking his foot away to step on the elerator herself.
“Go to the nearest hospital,” hemanded.
X nodded before flooring on the elerator.
***
Once they arrived at the hospital, X Quest was shocked to find that the man had three gunshot
wounds on his body, with two on his chest and one on his abdomen.
After staying with him while the doctors tended to his wound, she pushed him into his ward.
Despite being covered in blood, his good looks and charm could not be hidden.
Carefully, X helped him to get into bed. “Get your family toe and look after you. I have
something else to do, and I have to leave now.”
“Thank you,” Stanley Batton said coldly.
“You’re wee… You have good looks. Why don’t you do something else instead of being a
gangster?
“Isn’t it much morefortable to earn money by bing a celebrity than to fight in the streets?”
X let the words slip out of her mouth, albeit in a gentle manner.
The man raised his brows slightly before coolly scanning her up and down.
‘What gangster is she on about?’
Did she think of him as that kind of person? What a joke.
“How much can a celebrity earn?” He asked calmly.
“If you’re popr, you can earn a lot…”
“Do you know how much I can make in a day?”
X felt that she was preaching to deaf ears. Therefore, she decided to stop talking and instead,
picked up her purse and left.
How much could he possibly earn as a gangster? How could it possibly be a better earning than a
celebrity’s? Was it as stable as being a celebrity?
“Wait a second…”
X stopped walking and turned around. “What is it?”
Stanley struggled to retrieve a cheque stained with blood from his pocket. He then folded it into the
shape of a ne and threw it into her hands.
“Take this with you. Thank you again.”
X silently unraveled the cheque. However, she then folded it back into a paper ne that it was
earlier before she threw it back to him.
“Consider this a payment for you to keep what happened that night a secret.” X turned around
and left after she finished her sentence.
When she arrived at the door, she turned around to look at the man. “Remember what the doctor
said. Don’t get your wounds wet. Also, don’t smoke or drink alcohol.”
Her eyes glimmered like a pool of water.
“What is your name?” Stanley asked.
Without answering him, X chuckled and walked away…
Since they were only strangers to each other, there was no reason to tell him her name.
Once X had disappeared from his sight, the man mumbled to himself, “What an interesting
woman.”
After that, he made a call on his phone. “Send someone over to the municipal hospital. Also, find
out more information about the woman who sent me here.”
“Fifth Master, are you injured?”
“Zack Cassidy, do I look like a gangster?”
“Eh? You are noble and charismatic. Why would you look like a gangster?”
“…”
***
The next morning, at eight o’clock, news of Josh Batton being signed onto X Entertainment became
the most popr topic on the inte.
Very soon, Weibo crashed.
Weibo’s technicians hurriedly worked to recover its system.
However, within two minutes, the application crashed yet again.
After that, it was a cycle of crashing and recovering.
Eventually, X Quest was woken up by messages Georgie Clementine sent her on WeChat.
Still feeling sleepy, X rubbed her eyes and stretched her arms before opening WeChat only to
find that Georgie had sent her several messages.
“Good news, President X.
“After announcing that Josh Batton would join us, our stock price has increased significantly.
“Within an hour, our stock price has increased by twenty percent.”
This was as X had expected. Smiling calmly, X typed a simple ‘okay’ in response.
Closely after that, another message came. “Last night, I arranged a weing dinner party for Josh
Batton at Dreand Hotel’s Rainforest Windy Night room. Will you be there?”
“Yes…” X responded.
As the owner of thepany, X definitely needed to be at such an event.
Georgie followed up with a call right after.
“Oh, right, President X. Regarding the news of Tom Sullivan cheating, it has remained one of the
top three most popr topics.
“The Sullivan family offered money to remove the search results. However, it waspletely out of
their control. Angry inte users would not let Tom Sullivan off the hook.
“As soon as a new post is made, everyone wouldment on it and demand Tom Sullivan to be
prosecuted.
“In the end, the Sullivan family gave up on trying to control the damage.
N?velDrama.Org owns this.
“Apart from that, the Sullivan family’s food brands are all boycotted by inte users. By noon, the
Sullivan family’s stock index had fallen by eight percent. Nearly twenty billion of their market value is
gone.
“Also, I received news that the Sullivan family’s rivalpany has also participated in this massive
attack.
“Everything is going ording to your n,” Georgie continued. “This time, Tom Sullivan has
dragged the Sullivan family into a deep mess. If he makes any other mistake, he would very
possibly lose his position as the heir. After all, he is not the only son in the Sullivan family.”
X smiled. “I understand.”
After that, she opened Weibo to look at the most popr topic on the inte.
Right then, the hashtag ‘#TomSullivanCheats#’ is the second most popr topic on the inte.
Meanwhile, ‘#JoshStewartSignedWithXEntertainment#’ remained at the top of the list.
After clicking into the news about Tom Sullivan, X could see that inte users were all cursing
him.
Now that things had spiraled out of control, X knew without a doubt that the Sullivan family must
be in a mess. Moreover, Tom Sullivan was definitely being reprimanded by his family.
However, it was still not enough for X.
***
After putting on some light make-up, X Quest pulled her naturally curly hair into a ponytail with a
ck ribbon.
She then changed into a white turtleneck sweater, a camel-colored woolen coat, and a pair of light
blue jeans before she walked out of her room.
X was getting ready to head to the shopping mall to buy some clothes for the current season.
This time, she had returned to the country in haste and left a lot of her clothes behind. Most of her
existing clothes at home were far too big for her.
Although she was wearing hipster brands, she made the clothes appear as if they belonged to
international designer brands.
As soon as she arrived downstairs, she saw Tom Sullivan and Jeremy Quest sitting in the living
room.
Right then, Tom had his head lowered as he apologized to Jeremy. “Uncle, I am very sorry for the
pain I have inflicted upon X and the entire Quest family. I am deeply sorry.”
“Do you think the damage you have done to my eldest daughter can be resolved with a simple
apology? If not for the fact that you and Emily are already engaged, I would definitely not have
allowed her to continue staying with someone like you,” Jeremy snarled.
X felt a warm sensation in her heart after hearing what Jeremy said.
However, she did not intend to interrupt the conversation. She walked elegantly over to Jeremy.
“Dad, I’m going out.”
Jeremy nodded slightly.
After that, X turned around and walked away without even looking at Tom. Her cold attitude
made Tom feel extremely annoyed.
However, the more coldly she treated her, the more he wanted to approach her. This was perhaps
human nature.
Once X had walked out of the door, she retrieved her car key and unlocked her red Maserati with
the controller.
“X…”
She was about to get into the car when she heard Tom’s voice behind her.