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Chapter 66 Being the good guy.

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last update Last Updated: 2024-09-25 13:49:25

~Asher~

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With Walton Group's stock price continuously plummeting and losing value, I had no choice but to hold a press conference to speak on the situation.

The moment I came out of the car, reporters swarmed around me like bees, clicking their camera shutters in my face and filling the air with endless questions.

"Concerning your wife's extramarital affair with your brother, which is a challenging phase for any man to go through, what conclusion have you arrived at?" One of the questions caught my attention, and it was what most of the reporters seemed interested in so I decided to answer it.

As someone who already knew what to expect and what was expected of me, I kept a calm expression. I could tell that they were hoping to capture an image of me losing my temper and throwing a fit due to the hurt, they believed, I must be passing through from the heartbreak, and then craft a misleading headline to generate traffic for their respective websites.

Amidst the tension, which was of
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