The Princess and the Paupers

Chapter 134

Eden grumbled, “Mr. Charlie, we’re all exposed now; are we still going to cover for Mr. Oscar?”

“Remember the celebration party for the first month of our company’s establishment? Ikit weren’t for him egging us on to bet online, would we have lost so much money? We still can’t pay it off!”

The team leader of Line 5 was constantly getting calls from debt collectors, so much so that he was considering jumping off the roof.

If it wasn’t for his young kids and sick wife, he would have ended it all already.

“Mr. Oscar even encouraged you to bet online?” Arabella raised an eyebrow. This was illegal; no one would dare to do it.

of 10 times on that website; he even

of us were winning and

involved. But the website kept raising the withdrawal limit, first saying you needed 50k to withdraw, and after we gathered 50k, they said you needed 100k to get the money out. So, we borrowed more money from various online loan platforms, and even after investing hundreds of thousands, we still couldn’t get

Line 5 sighed; if it weren’t for worrying about dragging his wife and kids into this,

the production line were involved, they formed Line 4 and Line 5, producing low–quality clothes together, cooperating with the warehouse

our hometown trust us; they don’t know how to operate online, so they gave us their life savings or money collected from selling their houses to invest, and now it’s all gone.”

for relatives surgeries; they didn’t have enough to cover the surgery, so they wanted to win some extra money through betting, but now they’ll never see a penny

borrowed from dozens of online

year, several thousand dollars each month, and we’re still not

as they spoke; the helplessness they felt

The warehouse manager bit her lip, tears rolling down her cheeks, choking for a while before saying. At that celebration party, I got drunk. When I woke up the next day, I found myself lying next to Mr. Oscar.