Chapter 1035
By the time Noreen left the house, it was nearly noon.
This time Claire didn’t tag along, so when she went downstairs, she naturally slipped into Seth’s car.
A flash of obvious surprise crossed Seth’s eyes.
He had assumed he would be waiting for nothing again today.
Though he was already quite used to empty waits.
Noreen tossed her hair over her shoulder and stated calmly, “From now on, pick me up for work on time.”
“So I’m finally allowed out in the open?” Seth’s lips curved upward uncontrollably.
“Let’s not get ahead of ourselves,” Noreen replied without giving him a concrete
answer.
However.
It didn’t dampen his euphoric mood in the slightest.
He had finally passed a major hurdle, hadn’t he?
At the very least, Noreen wasn’t going to run away anymore.
Before Noreen even arrived at the office, she received a call from Sophia Cole.
“Ms. Gilmore, something happened!”
“An investment analyst from Investment Division III jumped off a building!”
Sophia took a deep breath before rushing on. “And the night before he did it, a long essay was posted on our internal company forum and several social media platforms, signed by him.”
“In his suicide note, he accused the company of long-term exploitation, forced unpaid overtime, and specifically claimed we drove him to death for the sake of profit margins… The internet is exploding, and the media has already started blowing up our phones.”
Noreen’s expression instantly darkened. The cold, razor-sharp focus of an executive surged back into her eyes.
She told Sophia that saving the man’s life was the absolute priority; everything else came second.
“He’s still in emergency surgery,” Sophia replied. “The situation doesn’t look good. They might not be able to save him.”
Noreen ordered crisply. “Send me the analyst’s file within five minutes. Also, have the Legal and PR departments assemble in my office in ten.”
“Lock down the scene. Don’t let anyone unauthorized near it. Calkthe police and contact his family. Until we get to the bottom of this, strictly forbid employees from spreading any unverified information
“Understood!”
The moment she hung up, the atmosphere in the car dropped to freezing.
The previously romantic and flirty tension vanished completely, replaced by a suffocating, heavy pressure.
Seth glanced at her. Noreen had
completely shifted into work mode. There was no trace of the soft
her
vulnerability from earlier m he
beautiful eyes-only ruthless,
calculated decisiveness.
“The situation is escalating too fast,” he pointed out. “It doesn’t look like an accident.
It feels premeditated.”
The man was still in surgery, yet his suicide note had already perfectly ignited public outrage and sparked a massive PR crisis.
It was impossible not to suspect foul play.
Noreen had naturally realized this as well, which was why she mobilized the PR department to suppress the trending topics while reaching out to the family for a resolution content
However, these standard procedures would only serve as a band-aid.
Seth added, “Someone is weaponizing this tragedy to crash Winrich’s stock.”
Exactly as Seth had predicted, the crisis was spreading too wildly to be contained. Noreen reviewed the viral post; it had only been live for an hour.
Yet it already had tens of thousands of likes and comments.
Furthermore, the hashtag about Winrich exploiting employees was skyrocketing up the trending charts.
The current online climate was incredibly toxic, acting like a swamp of pure emotion. The public was constantly on edge, ready to turn any minor incident into a massive witch hunt.
Once dragged into it, logic didn’t matter—the harder a company fought back, the deeper it sank into the quicksand of public hatred.
Netizens were like sharks smelling blood in the water. They didn’t care about the truth; they only craved the release of destroying someone.