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Although Jessica wasn’t at school, she kept harassing me on my phone.
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You think these little tricks can bring me down? Don’t be ridiculous. Even if I drop out, I can still study abroad. You can’t hurt me at all.]
[Poor people like you can’t even imagine how happy it is to be rich. Let me tell you, even if you work your whole life, you’ll never live like I do.]
Also, you think William really likes you? He’s been engaged to me for ages. He was just playing with you. You’re just the other woman.]
But I released a chat log.
It was between Jessica and her friend.
Jessica’s family owned a famous food processing company, but in the chat she told her friend not to eat their snacks because the preservatives exceeded the limit.
Of course, I’d secretly taken photos of these chats from her phone.
If it wasn’t to find evidence, why would I have followed her around like a servant?
The heat kept rising, and Jessica and her family business became infamous.
Even though the company quickly issued food quality certifications overnight, it was useless. If their own family wouldn’t eat it, how could they expect consumers to?
As the story spread, after various reporters and experts sampled and discussed, they concluded that the additives really were over the limit and could cause cancer if eaten in large amounts.
Netizens exploded: “Damn, I used to eat their chips all the time. Am I going to get cancer?”
“How can such a harmful company still exist? Their heiress is even bullying people at school. Like father, like daughter I guess.”
People spontaneously boycotted all products made by their company.
Large and small supermarkets also started pulling their products from shelves.
Jessica nearly went crazy. Her family blamed her for ruining the company, and William completely ignored her.
With no other choice, she came to take it out on me.
“Wren Fisher, how could you ruin my life!”
On my way back from my part–time job, Jessica and her gang cornered me in a dead–end alley.
Her face was twisted with rage as she approached with a baseball bat.
“Wren Fisher, you fucking bitch! I treated you like a friend and you backstabbed me!”
“Friend? When did you ever treat me like a friend?”
“When you first came to the dorm, you looked down on everyone. No one but me talked to you. You got close to me, but just treated me like a tool, right?”
I backed away step by step until I couldn’t go any further.
“You were even engaged to William, but still tried to introduce me to him.”
“You treated me like a plaything, but ended up getting played by your toy.”
“Shut up!”
Jessica screamed: “I’m telling you, I’m going abroad anyway. I’m going to teach you a lesson today! Beat her up!”
As the bat came down, I suddenly lunged forward, tackling Jessica to the ground.
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She screamed, hitting me with the bat, while I bit down hard on her ear.
The thugs‘ bats rained down on my back, but I clenched my jaw, refusing to let go.
I didn’t have the strength to fight them all. I could only deal with one person.
My head was spinning, my whole body felt like it was shattering.
Only when police sirens sounded did I finally pass out with relief.
When I opened my eyes again, the first person I saw was Rowan.
He’d fallen asleep sitting by the bed, his head nodding off.
Seeing me awake, he immediately perked up, grasping my hand: “Are you thirsty? I’ll get you some water. Don’t worry, Jessica and the other thugs have all been arrested.”
“Don’t move around too much. The doctor said your injuries aren’t too serious, but your arm is broken. You need to rest well for a while.”
I was actually disappointed. Just a broken arm meant Jessica and the others would only be locked up for a few months.
But at least the news of me being beaten spread quickly. Online, people were saying the Parker company had violently attacked a whistleblower out of guilt.
Their products‘ reputation was completely ruined.
I didn’t want to stay in the hospital to recover, since the medical bills weren’t cheap.
But the person I least wanted to see showed up again.
