Chapter 296
However, it did not take long for the vandals to snap out of their shock. The live-streaming man
scowled a t the guards.
“Why are you all looking like dogs? Why help the traitor? Go away, get out of the way!”
“Charmine protected the third-wheeler, yet you’re all still protecting her? Is RisingHawk’s dignity gone
entirely?”
“Seems like a case of a bad leader with bad workers! Charmine, you’re bullying us and used your
manpower to harass us even more! You’re just crushing us with your resources!”
“Let’s fight them! Fight them!”
Someone called out andunched against them like a madman. The live-streaming man followed
along.
A woman inside the picked up a stone on the ground, ready to throw it at them.
Though the vandals were trapped inside the, the force they exerted as they went toward Charmine
caused the to drag along with them, and the caterpirs were dragged with them as well.
The situation got out of hand.
Charmine frowned. If her bodyguards fought back, the situation would worsen and they would surely
get pelted with harsh criticisms. It did not help that there were women among them…
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The bodyguards readied themselves as the vandals approached them. They took out their electric
batons, ready to attack like monsters going berserk.
The distance was getting closer, the women had already aimed their stones at Charmine, while the
bodyguards were ready to
“Stop!” yelled Charmine.
She was no saint, but any rational being would not want to make the situation worse than it already
was. There was no need for conflict; it was a resolvable matter!
Just as she Charmine raced to find a solution, however…
“Stop, stop! You have it all wrong!”
A clear and loud voice resonated in the air, and everyone turned to see a pregnantdy who waddled
toward them hurriedly. “I’m Charmine’s special assistant,” the woman began, “and you’ve got it all
wrong. The reason why Charmine saved Scarlet isn’t because she’s protecting a third-wheeler… It’s
because Scarlet isn’t even a third-wheeler.”
Everyone was shocked. Scarlet was no third-wheeler? How was that possible?
Nheless, the vandals dared not go further due to her pregnant self. Still, they did not relent.
“How is she not a third-wheeler? There are evidence and proof! Why are you forcing a lie?”
“You’ll be a mother soon. Can’t you save some dignity for the child in your womb?”
“Even Johnson said Scarlet was a third-wheeler, and Scarlet is too afraid to make any statement. What
else is there to lie about? If she isn’t a third-wheeler, who is?”
“Is RisingHawk using a pregnant woman to twist the truth? What an appalling act! I hope you go
bankrupt soon!”
The pregnant woman did not back down as she continued, “It’s true that Scarlet had been with Johnson
before, but she’s not a third-wheeler! She was lied to! Before you blindly point your fingers, please
listen to this recording!”
With that, she raised a speaker and yed a recording out loud,
(Johnson, let’s get married, alright? We’ve been together for six years. I can put my career on hold and
marry you.
[No, you’re at the peak of your career. How could you get married at this time?)
(Johnson, this is the thirty-ninth time that I proposed to you, and this is also the thirty-ninth time that
you rejected me. Tell me honestly: Do you like someone else? Or are you married?)
[How can that be? Impossible! Am I that kind of man who’d lie to you? Listen, Scarlet, this is for your
own good…)
The voice recording that came through the speaker was loud enough that everyone could hear the
conversation clearly. Scarlet’s voice was significantly gentle, and one could tell her voice apart from
others easily. There was no mistaking it: It was indeed Scarlet and Johnson. Yet… Why was the
conversation’s contentpletely different from what they knew?