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The tall figure moved his lips, struggling to find words o say.
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Just a moment ago, Yancy had just expressed his fear of Zachary knocking on their door. Little did they expect that trouble would find them so quickly.
When no one replied, Zachary didn’t dwell on the question. He asked, “The accounts named Love Gossip, Entertainment Flash, and Secret Entertainment News are all managed by your studio, right?”
The room was enveloped in silence.
The tall figure could hear his heart pounding loudly as he lowered his head.
Despite their earlier bravado, once they realized Zachary was here to get revenge on them, no one was willing to stick their neck out first.
Upon witnessing this, the young man stepped onto the injured leg of the employee beneath him. A cry of agony echoed through the room. The employee’s eyes were bloodshot, his face filled with terror, and his forehead was slick with sweat.
The young man glanced at the crowd. “Answer the question!”
The employee under his feet panted out, “They’re indeed our studio’s accounts, but I’m not the one in charge. It has nothing to do with me!”
Zachary glanced at him, then at the others. “Who’s in charge here? Who asked you to leak that information?”
The tall figure swallowed, legs turning weak as he silently took a step back.
The other two employees weren’t much better off either.
One of them, unable to bear the pressure, pushed the tall one forward, confessing anxiously, “The person in charge of those three accounts is Patrick, and it was Yancy who took the job. I… I… had nothing to do with it!”
Patrick Murphy was the tall guy.
Having been ousted, he wasmed by a rush of anger. “Benjamin, stop slandering me! Why don’t you mention how you manipulated dozens of phones to stir things up further!”
Benjamin quickly retorted, “What does this have to do with me? If it weren’t for Yancy rallying support from other accounts, would the momentum be this big? Joseph also enlisted his own online supporters. How could I have possibly orchestrated this all by myself?”
Joseph, standing by the side, became frantic. “It was your idea in the first place; don’t pin everything on me! I originally wanted to agree to the proposal of deleting the post, but you all insisted on making the private messages public!”
Underneath the young man’s foot, Yancy hastily pleaded, “I didn’t instigate anything! Those other accounts shared it on their own accord because it was trending! Don’t falsely accuse me!”
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The four of them started bickering back and forth, frantically trying to deflect blame.
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Zachary glanced at Patrick and his companions before subtly signaling to the young man with the buzz
cut.
The young man walked to the door and closed it, secluding everything within the mansion. He then shouted, “Everyone, shut up!”
The four of them fell silent.
“Who is Yancy?” Zachary asked as he settled down on the single–seater couch.
Having been beaten up once, Yancy remained silent while trembling, hoping to gloss things over.
However, Patrick hurriedly pointed at Yancy, saying, “That’s him! He took the job. We’re just employees, so we had no choice but to follow-”
Yancy yelled out in frustration, “Patrick! You… You were the happiest when we first got the job order!”
“You’re talking nonsense!”
Zachary looked toward Yancy.
The young man, wielding an iron rod, approached Yancy.
Terrified, Yancy fell to his knees with a thud. “I’ll confess everything, just please, no more beatings! I’ll tell you everything! Someone sent me those video proofs and asked me to leak the information, offering two hundred thousand as a reward!”
Since they had exposed Zachary’s secrets last time without facing any repercussions, they harbored a sense of blind optimism.
If this deal was sealed, the two hundred thousand would be split evenly, and with the additional revenue from online traffic, each person could make a substantial amount of money.
“Who was that person?”
“The bank transfer was made by a person named Gregory Carter.”
Zachary wore an expressionless face, his eyes profound and deep.
Yancy glanced up, briefly meeting Zachary’s gaze. “I have the chat logs and recordings. They’re all yours.”
The young man and a few other heavily tattooed guys were standing guard at the side.
From his seat on the couch, Zachary perused through the entire chat history and listened to every single voice recording.
He lifted his gaze, addressing the young man, “Go back and look into this Gregory Carter.”
“Understood,” the young man responded.
Yancy watched as Zachary’s brow furrowed tighter and tighter, his eyes growing increasingly intense. A sense of dread began to creep into his heart. If he had known this was what would happen, he never
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would’ve accepted this job!
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If Zachary had truly wanted to harm them today, they would have been utterly defenseless.
The people who had shown up were clearly involved in the underworld and unafraid of getting caught by the police. Plus, with Zachary there, even if someone called the cops, it wasn’t guaranteed that they could do anything about them.
On the contrary, if they intended to seek revenge, he would be unable to escape from them for the rest of his life. A peaceful life would be nothing but a distant dream.
Zachary lifted his gaze to look at Yancy.
Yancy shivered all over, hurriedly begging for mercy, “Mr. Fuller, I realize my mistake! Please let me off! I don’t want the money anymore; I’ll delete the post right away! I can apologize to you and Ms. Wilkin, just please stop making things difficult for me! I’ll do whatever you ask!”
“This isn’t your first collaboration with Gregory, is it?”
Yancy’s face was paler than paper, his legs trembling uncontrollably. Stammering, he clarified, It’s not…”
Zachary remained silent, looking at him with an indifferent gaze.
Seeing that, Yancy revealed everything. “Back in August, Gregory sought me out once and gave me a few photos.”
He cast a shaky glance at Zachary’s expression before continuing, “They were photos of you and Ms. Carston at Fuller Group together!”
“What else?”
“That’s all. I’ve only accepted his job twice.”
Faced with Zachary’s doubtful gaze, Yancy quickly clarified, “It’s true! Mr. Fuller, at this point, I have no reason to lie to you. There were only these two instances; the rest weren’t leaked by us!”
By “the rest,” he was referring to the incident where Zachary and Lenora were photographed at the grand theater.
After securing the evidence, Zachary stood up and calmly made his way toward the door.
Yancy watched him intently, feeling his heart sinking bit by bit.
Zachary opened the door, ready to leave but paused in his tracks. He turned back to remind the young man, “Be careful not to cause any deaths.”
Yancy slumped down on the ground.
After emerging from the mansion, Zachary opened the back door of the car and settled himself in. Leaning against the seat, he pinched the bridge of his nose.
He closed his eyes to rest briefly before something occurred to him and he reached into his pocket. However, he found no trace of his phone.
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Glancing around, he spotted his phone lying undisturbed on the other end of the back seats.
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