Jonah lowered his head, unable to speak. He was truly defeated.

There was no other way out, so he could only shoot Chloe a look.

Chloe had already been awake for a while, and she immediately burst into tears. “Oh, my son! What should I do now? Helen, I don’t want to keep living anymore! I only have my son; if something happens to him, I… I’d rather be dead!”

Helen hastily held onto her. “Don’t worry, Chloe. I’ll find a way to help you. Please, Mr. Manning—I’m begging you this. Can’t you help us?”

Craig looked at Matthew, and the latter gave a slight nod. After all, he knew very well that Helen would keep dragging this out if they didn’t resolve this matter.

“I’ve explained things very clearly earlier. This is mainly a problem of compensation and whether the victim is able to forgive the perpetrator. If we can resolve these problems, we can also try to resolve the other remaining problems,” Craig answered.

“You hear that, Chloe?” Helen hastily asked. “No one actually died, s-so this matter is still something that can be resolved. We’ll just have to pay a bit more, but won’t everything be okay by then?”

we need to pay?” Chloe asked

that’s easy to say. From my experience, I presume

do we have to pay one million

 

a few extra years, or would you

silence, she burst into tears again. “W-Where am I

who had been chuckling coldly all this while, suddenly piped up and said, “Hey, Aunt Chloe—all of you returned from abroad. I heard that those foreign countries are gold mines. How can you not even have one million in the bank? Not only that, Uncle Jonah’s also a senior executive at a foreign company; who knows how much his salary is? Hundreds

at Jonah and

shut up about how their lives were

being put on the spot. Although they boasted about spending the last few years abroad, their lifestyle was just an average one in reality. Chloe didn’t work, and Jonah was the

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