Chapter 274 Killing Two Birds with One Stone


    A n took shape in Thomas’s mind almost instantly.


    He quickly abandoned his original idea of using money to smooth things over.


    Instead, he decided to go for a kill–two–birds–with–one–stone strategy-


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    Not only could he settle the girl’s usation against him, but he could also push Asher–this potential threat–into a pit he could never crawl out of.


    Without a doubt, making Asher the scapegoat was the option with the highest return.


    Thomas wasted no time putting his n into action.


    First, he heavily edited the original surveince footage, scrubbing every single frame that showed him from the recording.


    And not just himself–he also deleted footage of the other witness.


    If he was going to pin this on Asher, he couldn’t allow any unpredictable elements.


    The kid on the bench–though Thomas wasn’t sure exactly what he saw–could still be a risk if the police found and questioned him.


    So, he erased him too.


    Later, he would personally track him down.


    After cleaning up the footage, Thomas reached out to the girl who had used him of harassment.


    She was a technical college student–poor education, went by the name Lin Yang.


    The moment they met, he made his offer crystal clear.


    Thomas handed her a price no ordinary student could refuse.


    And Lin Yang didn’t bother ying hard to get. She agreed on the spot.


    By epting the money, she agreed not only to retract her original usation and pin the me on Asher instead–but also to fully cooperate with Thomas’s n.


    He then sent someone to Sterford Academy to secretly steal Asher’s student ID–an essential piece of fabricated “evidence” for the crime.


    With the doctored surveince footage, Lin Yang’s role as a credible eyewitness, and the conveniently nted physical proof…


    It was more than enough to get Asher convicted.


    The guy would be disgraced, his reputation destroyed, and his future obliterated-


    A ruined Asher could never bepared to him.


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    Chapter 274 Killing Two Birds with One Stone


    The boy named Edgar.


    Poor. Divorced parents. Mother paralyzed andpletely dependent.


    His weakness couldn’t have been more obvious.


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    Thomas didn’t even need to try hard. He simply approached Edgar and fold him he wanted to make a deal.


    He offered him a sum of money–enough to improve his mother’s life, even possibly get her the treatment she needed.


    The condition?


    Edgar wasn’t to breathe a word about anything he saw that night. He just had to y dumb and stay quiet.


    The moment he heard the offer, Edgar was tempted. It didn’t take long for him to agree.


    The deal was sealed quickly.


    Everything was going exactly as nned. Almost too smoothly.


    But-


    What Thomas never expected was for Jean to step into the arena.


    And with her came Jolene.


    He wasn’t particrly afraid of Jean, but she bore the Ginger name…


    Suddenly, things were gettingplicated.


    He had tried to gently push Jean out of the picture, but she turned out to be more stubborn than he imagined.


    Since that didn’t work, he was done ying nice.


    He’d already burned his bridge with Dominic–what was one more enemy?


    Besides, his top priority now was Asher.


    And he would get rid of him.


    At any cost.


    “Thomas, Asher’s going to lose today, right?” Selena nced sideways at him and asked suddenly.


    Thomas gave a small smirk. His voice was cool and casual. “Of course.”


    He couldn’t imagine a scenario where Asher might win-


    Not even with Jean and Jolene causing trouble.