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Upon seeing the look Owen shot at him, Harry broke out in a colil sweat. His face turned deathly pale. "Dad, I

Before Harry could finish, Paul hurried over, "Mr. Owen, I just got off the phone with Rosewood Manor. They said."

Paul glanced at Heather before continuing. "Apparently, when Mrs. Hastings visited Rosewood Manor, she said the Hastings family no longer needed the rest of the money"

"What?" Owen furrowed his brow and shot a fiery look at Heather, who was sitting on the couch. His eyes practically blazed with rare.

Heather quickly explained, "I... I didn't say that. You can't blame everything on me. Yes, I went to Rosewood Manor, but it was for Emily's endorsement deal. He made it clear from the start that he wasn't going to pay the rest. Even if I hadn't gone. he would've found a way to back out."

Owen pointed a trembling finger at Heather, too furious to speak, and turned back to Harry. "You, go to the bank and take out a loan under your name. Keep the company running for now. As for Rosewood Manor....

"Dad, I already took out a loan for stocks," Harry confessed through gritted teeth

"Then pull the money out of the market, Owen snapped as if the solution was obvious.

Harry hung his head, beads of sweat dripping down his face. "I. I can't pull it out."

The money was all gone. Starting last Friday, every stock had nosedived. This morning, several of them had completely crashed, and others were locked in a limit-down freeze. It was impossible to retrieve anything. To make matters worse, the so-called Stock Deity was unreachable, as if she'd vanished into thin air. Harry's secretary had tried tracking her down, but there was no sign of her anywhere.

Owen pressed his hand to his forehead, and his breathing labored. "How much did you

borrow?"

"Seven..." Harry stammered.

"Seventy thousand dollars?"

dollars, Harry whispered, his

dollars? Are you out of your mind?" Owen roared, his eyes bulging in disbelief. He slapped Harry so hard that his glasses flew off. "You

just trying to make up for the company's loss on the

always thought Harry was level-headed and cautious. He

quickly confessed about his own loan to finance

reaching a boiling point. He let out a bitter laugh. "So now I find out the Hastings family is nothing but an empty shell. Heather, look at these two

from scratch, it was my family that gave you the funds to get off the ground. Now that my family's struggling,

lunged at Owen, grabbing his collar, tugging, and sobbing

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his hand and slapped her to the

descended into chaos, Just then, Emily's phone rang. It was a call from the company telling

opened up Twitter and soon was inundated with hashtags Top Editor Elliot Accused of Copyright Infringement", "Elliot Stole Multiple Scripts from Kevin", "Sungate Entertainment Aided in the Crime", and "Silverline Media to Pursue

to be this kind of person. Just a few days ago, he was swearing that Kevin had stolen his work, and now we find

netizen replied: [They are turning black into white. This is

[Go, Silverline Media!

had no idea what had happened. She clicked on the

explanation, but Elliot was just as baffled. He had searched his entire office and combed through all the surveillance footage, but there was no clue

also seen the headlines. Everything was collapsing all at once, leaving no time to catch their

blame on me," Nathan said firmly, staring at her with determination. There

"Nathan... Emily hesitated.

Nathan added. "If that's not enough, sell off my shares and

fell, there would be nothing left for

squeeze, his eyes filled with silent

officially began preparations for the filming of With

gleefully. "If they hadn't spent so much money stirring up the buzz around this, our film wouldn't be getting half this much attention." James looked at Ophelia, feeling as though he had struck gold. But Ophelia and Kevin were busy reviewing the

his throat, trying to draw some

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