Chapter 538:

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“Everyone, I’m here to beg for mercy as well.” Karin broke into sobs, her eyes shimmering with unshed tears. Her performance was even more convincing than Paula’s. “At that banquet, I made a harmless joke with that person. But she couldn’t take it at all. She lost her temper and turned on me. My father even offered company shares just to beg for her forgiveness on my behalf. But that still wasn’t enough. I used to be dating Luciano Yates, yet she couldn’t stand seeing me happy. She forced us apart. Since then, I’ve had to endure her anger every single day. The injuries on my body… they’ve never had the chance to heal.”

By then, tears were already streaming down Karin’s face. “I’m begging you, please let me go. I was wrong. If this keeps going, I will be tormented to death.”

With that, Karin dropped to her knees and bowed low, pressing her forehead against the floor. “I’m begging you. Please spare me. Don’t let anyone hit me anymore.”

The livestream audience was left utterly stunned.

A young woman so beautiful, claiming she was beaten every day… all because of a simple joke?

“This is outrageous. This is a society governed by law. How can someone act this tyrannically?”

“This needs to be investigated immediately!”

“I knew it, this has to be Hayley again. Both Paula and Karin only joked with her at the banquet… and look at what happened to them.”

“A former criminal… how good could she possibly be? And now she’s attached herself to the most powerful man in Flanmery. Sounds like the mafia to me.”

“Doesn’t Hayley actually have underworld connections? I remember at that banquet, the Night Syndicate’s leader, Thaddeus, treated her with extreme respect. Could the people beating Karin be from that group?”

With Paula and Karin playing off each other, public opinion online completely erupted.

𝖣оո’𝗍 m𝘪𝘴𝗌 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘳el𝗲𝖺𝘀𝘦s о𝗇 𝘨𝖺𝗹n𝗼𝗏e𝘭s.𝗰о𝗆

Most viewers who didn’t know the truth quickly took the two women’s side, their sympathy easily stirred.

The sharp sound of a hand hitting the table rang out as Harold glared at Hayley. “Hayley has already turned herself into a public enemy. Even if we set aside her character, the public backlash alone is enough. We cannot allow her to remain in the group. As long as she stays in Morgan Group for another day, she remains a risk to us all. None of you want the company’s interests to suffer because of her, do you?”

The word “interests” struck deep, laying bare the hidden motives in the room.

The Morgan family could fight internally as much as they liked, but as long as profits were untouched, no one truly cared. Now that public opinion threatened those profits, ignoring it was no longer an option.

“Hayley?” Noticing the heavy atmosphere, Kirby turned to her with a worried look.

In response, Hayley gave a slight shake of her head, her calm expression unchanged, as if she had never taken any of this seriously.

Looking at Harold, she sneered, “Is this all you’ve got? As for my position, it was decided by Grandfather. Without his approval, none of you have the right to remove me.”

“So what if he personally gives the order?” A calculating smile slowly spread across Harold’s face.

Without hesitation, he took out his phone, dialed a number, and switched it to speaker mode in front of everyone.

After a short wait, the call finally connected.

“Father, have you seen the livestreams online?”

“Yes.”

From the phone, Clinton’s voice came through clearly.

Deep and restrained, that single word alone revealed just how furious he was.

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