The Princess and the Pauper (Arabella) novel Chapter 134

Chapter 134 

Eden grumbled, “Mr. Charlie, we’re all exposed now; are we still going to cover for Mr. Oscar?” 

“Remember the celebration party for the first month of our company’s establishment? Ikit weren’t for him egging us on to bet online, would we have lost so much money? We still can’t pay it off!” 

The team leader of Line 5 was constantly getting calls from debt collectors, so much so that he was considering jumping off the roof. 

If it wasn’t for his young kids and sick wife, he would have ended it all already. 

“Mr. Oscar even encouraged you to bet online?” Arabella raised an eyebrow. This was illegal; no one would dare to do it. 

“Mr. Oscar said that I could win 9 out of 10 times on that website; he even showed us his withdrawal amount, over 60k $!” 

“At first, we didn’t believe him, but after a few bets, most of us were winning and could withdraw the money straight to our bank accounts.” 

“So we started betting more and more, even getting our friends and family involved. But the website kept raising the withdrawal limit, first saying you needed 50k to withdraw, and after we gathered 50k, they said you needed 100k to get the money out. So, we borrowed more money from various online loan platforms, and even after investing hundreds of thousands, we still couldn’t get our money back!” 

The team leader of Line 5 sighed; if it weren’t for worrying about dragging his wife and kids into this, he would have offed himself! 

Because many workers from the production line were involved, they formed Line 4 and Line 5, producing low–quality clothes together, cooperating with the warehouse manager to sell the clothes outside, and sharing the earned money proportionally. 

“Some of our relatives from our hometown trust us; they don’t know how to operate online, so they gave us their life savings or money collected from selling their houses to invest, and now it’s all gone.” 

“Some of them were retirement funds; some was for relatives surgeries; they didn’t have enough to cover the surgery, so they wanted to win some extra money through betting, but now they’ll never see a penny of that money.” 

“Most of the money was borrowed from dozens of online loan platforms.” 

“We’ve been paying it back for a whole year, several thousand dollars each month, and we’re still not done!” 

The team leaders of Line 4 and Line 5 couldn’t help but weep as they spoke; the helplessness they felt was something only they could understand. 

“I also placed bets, and,” The warehouse manager bit her lip, tears rolling down her cheeks, choking for a while before saying. At that celebration party, I got drunk. When I woke up the next day, I found myself lying next to Mr. Oscar. He took a lot of pictures of me, forcing me to do this.” 

Everyone was stunned, looking at her with disbelief written all over their faces. 

“At first, I was in agony, especially knowing that he had connections in the police department; reporting him would be pointless. But then I started getting a share every month, and I could buy some designer bags. I just let it happen.”