One Night Surprise

Chapter 487 Blood for Blood

On the way downstairs, Ruby gave Courtney a basic rundown of the situation.

“A dozen or so employees who were fired before are now bringing a bunch of people downstairs to cause trouble. They are holding banners while shouting that Citron Apparel is heartlessly profiteering and treating human life as a child’s play…”

At the moment, the building was surrounded by a group of strangers, some of whom were holding wooden signs and banners while others had bandanas tied around their heads with three large bloody letters written on it—blood for blood.

When Courtney rushed downstairs, she could see Angie trying to calm everything down. Her slender body looked particularly helpless among the restless crowd, and her shouts were all swallowed by the clamor of noise.

“Angie!” Courtney yelled to call back Angie as the latter moved forward. When Angie retreated behind her, she already had a clear sight of the entire situation.

“Citron Apparel doesn’t care about human lives!”

“They are heartless and only care about their profits. Give me back my health!”

“They are the scum of society and Melrose City. Citron Apparel, I want you to pay me back blood for blood!”

The group of people held banners and wooden signs with different slogans written on them. In front, there was a middle-aged man with a megaphone shouting, “Citron Apparel! I want you to pay me back blood for blood!” The people behind him would follow his chant, creating a formidable atmosphere.

In the meantime, Ruby hid behind Angie as she bit her lips unknowingly due to nervousness.

realized that these people weren’t planning to stop, so she simply walked toward the middle-aged man in front and snatched the megaphone from his hands. Before the man could react, she stood back in her original

megaphone and shouted, “If you want to settle the matter, send someone

her hand. The megaphone was smashed into pieces on the ground, producing an ear-splitting

noisy chants finally stopped as a chatter among the crowd began. In the middle of the crowd, a middle-aged man was wearing a blue t-shirt. His face was rugged and his skin was tanned.

“I’ll talk to you.”

pair of fierce eyes staring at her. After giving the man a thorough look, she

words, she could still hear his deliberately maintained accent. He wasn’t speaking a standard level of the local

startled without knowing

issue. Then, she continued, “I believe that you are all here because of the company’s layoff some time ago. May I ask

of speeches so that he could gain a dominant position during this negotiation, but unexpectedly, Courtney cleared up a lot of problems with

“Rosalie Wallace?”

pondered for a moment before she nodded. She had previously checked the onboarding information of all the dismissed

a moment to deliberately aggravate her voice. When she saw the change of expression on the man’s face, she became more serious as she cut to the chase. “Rosalie and the others were dismissed for not following the company’s rules and provoking trouble. All decisions were

for you. However, we didn’t expect that this is an illegal business. The materials you use

a

medical records the man had thrown at her and confirmed that the time of diagnosis was coincidentally two days before

glanced at the medical reports. When she saw that the word ‘leukemia’ was written on the reports, her eyes began to darken. At

I was wondering why you all were gathered here. Now, it’s clear to me that you were just waiting to

she stepped forward as if she wanted to get into a fight with them, so Ruby had to hold her

“I knew that you wouldn’t admit it, but it is a fact that they were diagnosed with leukemia a month after joining Citron Apparel. Now, I have