Time went by slowly as the second hand turned around in circles. When the first glimmer of dawn appeared, people waiting for the newspaper had arrived at the office of the newspaper company.
After the last piece of newspaper was printed, Luis and his colleague in the printing department looked at each other and smiled. His colleagues distributed the newspapers to the delivery men waiting outside for them. Then with an air of authority, he instructed his colleagues who had been called to work overtime only this time to promote the rest of the newspapers to newsstands that had not subscribed to Public Voice.
"Our success or failure hinges on this one action. It will be the God who can decide whether we will live or die..." the editor-in-chief said while seeing the newspapers were taken away in stacks. He could not help but sigh deeply and pray hard that everything should end well in their favor.
With all the copies of the newspapers sent, Luis came to him and looked at him. When their eyes met, both of them smiled. Luis said, "Boss, I have a presentiment that our newspaper will not fail this time!" As soon as his words faded away, he took a newspaper, turned around and left the office of the newspaper company, without saying goodbye to anybody.
Nobody knew what Luis was going to do with that the copy of the newspaper in his hand. Since the hearsay that Public Voice was going to report on some major news today had spread, there were more newspaper retailers than usual who came to ask for today's newspapers. When they saw what was on the front page, they first looked at the editor-in-chief and the pile of newspapers, which seemed likely to fall at any time, then they asked for more copies of the newspapers.
The sun rose slowly from the east. While expelling darkness and quietness one more time, it sprinkled its warmth to the earth unstintingly.
Everybody, whether they were on their way to work or having breakfast at a restaurant, paid their attention to the report once they laid their eyes on the headlines. The news continued to ferment. As a result, even televisions and radio companies began talking about the front page headline of the Public Voice today. "A MYTHIC FIGURE CHEATS ON HIS WIFE AND USES VIOLENCE WHEN BREAKING UP WITH HIS MISTRESS?!" The headlines of the front page were blaring and shouting silently that the moment one set their eye upon it, one would definitely pick one copy to read.
Such a controversial title looked like gossip in the eyes of ordinary people. However, when they found that the man it talked about was Brian Long, the boss of Grand Night Casino, whose name had been exposed to the public since he had been assassinated in Phoenix Mountain ten years ago, they no longer viewed the news as a gossip.
Some people just enjoyed the news like watching a soap opera, while some laughed at Brian. More were waiting for the follow-up and wondered what would happen to the newspaper company knowing that it was Brian Long they had to choose to have a conflict with. For the past ten years, there had been no news about Brian. He had been a mysterious figure in the eyes of ordinary people. Nobody in the press circle dared report anything about him, to say nothing of reporting his dark side. However, the Public Voice dared do that. Many high-ranking figures had viewed this newspaper as an annoying one.
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