After divorce, Ex-wife Revealed Identities novel Chapter 1018

Chapter 1018

"Mom, do you have any ideas?"

Nola's eyes widened. "Mom, please tell me."

Mrs. Kaur sneered, but before she could speak, she received a phone call.

Her face turned pale as she shouted, "What did you say? Are you kidding me?"

"Mom... what's wrong?" Nola didn't understand why Mrs. Kaur's expression had changed so suddenly. Seeing her mother's agitation, Nola had a bad feeling.

"Damn it! Our English class is in trouble!" Mrs. Kaur hung up the phone in frustration. "This month's expenses are over two hundred thousand dollars, rent is tens of thousands, and the teachers are quitting. The foreign teachers are also demanding their salaries."

"Mom... wasn't the English class doing well?" Nola felt dizzy.

Mrs. Kaur had established a children's English training brand.

There were franchise stores in other cities, with three branches in the capital of Aettosa alone.

Mrs. Kaur had always been proud of her thriving English classes, standing out among a group of high-spending socialites.

So Nola always thought her mother's children's English training brand was excellent and successful.

"Thriving? That's just for show, to deceive your father and those socialites!" Mrs. Kaur paced anxiously. "What do we do now? Franchisees aren't making money and are demanding their deposits back. The foreign teachers are also demanding their salaries."

It was maddening!

Those foreign teachers were hired at great expense from abroad, and each franchise store had at least three foreign teachers. But for the past three months, the entire brand, including the headquarters, had been losing money due to poor management. They couldn't even pay the high salaries of the foreign teachers.

Mrs. Kaur was too embarrassed to tell Oakley, so the losses kept piling up.

She had even used her own pocket money to cover some of the expenses, but it still couldn't save the brand that had been flawed from the start.

"Mom... don't worry. Why don't you ask Dad for a few million dollars to help you out?" Nola didn't understand business matters at all.

In her mind, whenever there was a problem, she would turn to her parents for help. This idea was deeply ingrained in her.

"Your dad will kill me! And it's not just a few million. Do you know the franchisees paid $880, 000 just for the franchise fee? Plus $660, 000 for the deposit! If all fifty-six franchisees across the country come asking for their money back, what will I do? How could I possibly come up with that much money?"

Mrs. Kaur was like an ant on a hot pan.

Nola was at a loss, unable to help her mother. The only thing she could do was take out her phone and search online.

The results shocked her.

In the past three months alone, many franchisees of Mrs. Kaur's children's English training brand had gone bankrupt due to poor management. Some had even run away with the parents' tuition fees.

This...

Even Nola knew how serious it was to run away with people's money.

She had lived a life of luxury since birth. Although Oakley was strict and didn't give her tens of thousands of dollars in pocket money every month to squander, she still had a comfortable life with ten thousand dollars a month.

She saw many posts and complaints from parents seeking justice. She swallowed hard. "Mom... maybe I can give you the tens of thousands I've saved from my pocket money. You can use it to refund some of the parents."

"Tens of thousands? That's a drop in the bucket." Mrs. Kaur said irritably. When she first started the children's English training brand, she had invested a lot, so there were many franchisees. They did make some money initially, but she spent most of it on luxury goods and gambling in a certain casino.

She lost millions overnight.

She didn't dare tell anyone and kept this secret to herself.

Although she never gambled again, the training center ran out of funds.

Nola frowned. "But it's better than nothing. Look at those franchisees who ran away; the parents are suffering."

Mrs. Kaur glanced at her. "Since when did you become so kind-hearted?"

Nola didn't respond but kept staring at the posts on her phone. "Mom, you're my mother. If I don't help you, who will? If you become a defaulter, it will affect Dad."

And it would affect me too...

Nola didn't dare voice her selfish thoughts.

While the mother and daughter were in turmoil, news about franchisees running away from children's English training centers became a trending topic due to parents seeking justice.

Many parents left comments and complaints.

There were collective petitions and lawsuits.

Including many regulatory procedures and actions.

Especially since various regulatory departments' phones were bombarded by these angry and anxious parents.

They were ordinary people, ordinary parents. Two thousand dollars a year for children's English classes was not a small amount.