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Wendy had always wanted to be the head of the Foster family. Over the years, she had <b>quietly </b><b>buile </b>her ownwork of influence. Felix had turned a blind eye to her activities – not out of <b>sibling </b>affection but because he didn’t want his son to hold all the power alone.
“So I’ve spoken out of turn, then.”
Henry’s face was expressionless. “There’s still a lot at thepany that needs my attention. I won’t keep you.”
With that, he turned and walked out of the study.
The secretary stepped closer. “Sir, your son’s been getting a bit unrulytely. He’s nted quite a few of his own people inside thepany, and the bodyguards you assigned him – he’s dismissed them. At this <b>rate</b>, won’t he slip out of our control?”
“My own son, I know him. Don’t speak out of ce again. He’s still the future head of the Foster family. One word from me, and you’d be out of the Foster family yourself.”
“…Understood.”
Felix drew in a deep breath. “Look into who leaked the story about ire University Medical School. This cannot keep spreading. If the old incidentse to light, that would truly be our end.”
“Yes, sir.”
The secretary quickly withdrew to handle it.
Meanwhile, Eliza noticed that the Foster family had already begun damage control. Within an hour, every previous post had been scrubbed, and they had issued awyer’s letter. They also rolled out a list of charitable contributions over the years, stirring some supporters to push back against the rumors.
But none of it really addressed the core issue. Many still suspected the Foster family had engineered thest flu outbreak.
“Looks like the Foster family really does have something to hide,” Eliza murmured.
If they were innocent, they wouldn’t have handled PR like this. With such a heavy usation, the logical move would be to release the research data on thest new drug,pare it to the flu timeline, and show the paper’s publication date against the outbreak. That could actually clear their name.
Eliza understood this. Henry understood this. There was no way Felix didn’t understand.
Yet Felix still refused. Which only made it clearer that there was a problem with that drug.
What exactly had they been experimenting on?
“Ms. Eliza, Mr. Hayes has had the names of deceased students and missing studentspiled. All the records are here.”
The secretaryid the lists and files before her.
Flipping through them, Eliza saw that in thest twenty years, there had been a startling number <b>of </b>disappearances and suicides át ire University Medical School.
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<b>In </b>the <b>past</b>, with <b>less </b>developed media, few people knew about such <b>cases</b>, But <b>now</b>, <b>with </b>instant only <b>news</b><b>, </b>every disappearance <b>was </b>widely publicized. It only looked like the numbers <b>had </b><b>grown </b>in recem year -in reality, the pattern stretched back decades.
“So many students vanishing or killing themselves without exnation the school <b>never </b><b>gave </b><b>an </b><b>official </b>statement? No parents demanded answers?”
After all, these were their own children sent far from home to study medicine.
“From what we found, these students were mostly from small counties, often female, with two <b><i>or </i></b><b>three </b>younger siblings. Their family situations were modest. We visited some families ourselves. Each <b>had </b>received condolences from the medical school. Before parents could even reach the campus, the school <b>had </b>cremated the bodies and sent the ashes home with a senior administrator along with roughly one <b>million </b>inpensation. Back in those years, that was enough to secure afortable life. The families <b>came </b><b>to </b>believe their children had taken their own lives under pressure, and saw the school’s actions <b>as </b>generous. Naturally, they didn’t cause trouble.”
“No wonder no parents ever went to the school demanding answers,” Eliza said coldly. “They’ve refined the process over the years.”
“As for the missing students, the school gave those families five hundred thousand in money and offered ‘reasonable‘ exnations iming the students left during exchange programs, went abroad with foreign. ssmates, eloped, or ran away from home to escape their upbringing.”
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