Chapter 1042
Half an hour later, the profile pictures attached to those accounts went dark one by one, displaying notices that the users had been banned for violating community guidelines.
The once-deafening digital battlefield went dead silent.
Sophia stared at the tablet, her jaw dropping as she watched the negative data metrics rapidly flatline to zero. “How… how did this happen? There were millions of people cursing us just a moment ago…”
Noreen glanced up from her work.
Sophia quickly handed over the tablet, explaining the source of her shock.
Noreen raised an eyebrow. A thought suddenly crossed her mind, and she pulled out her phone to dial a number.
The call connected almost instantly, and a sweet, youthful voice came through the speaker. “Mom.”
“Why aren’t you asleep yet?” Noreen asked Katy Joyner gently.
With the time difference, it was late at night where the girl was, long past her bedtime.
“I was just about to,” Katy replied.
“Did you hack those accounts?”
Knowing she couldn’t hide it, Katy confessed. “I don’t like it when they say mean things about you.”
In her eyes, Noreen was the absolute best person in the entire world!
What right did a bunch of strangers have to hurl abuse at her?
Noreen let out a helpless sigh. “Leave the grown-up business alone. Be good and go to sleep.”
Katy always listened to Noreen, so she readily agreed.
Not long after the call ended, Sophia frantically knocked on the door again, her panic palpable. “Bad news, Ms. Gilmore. Director Yates and the others have called for an emergency board meeting. I heard…”
She trailed off, trembling, too afraid to finish her sentence.
Noreen remained unfazed. “Heard what?”
“They… they’re planning a mass withdrawal of their shares.”
Noreen’s typing paused for a fraction of a second before she simply replied, “Understood.”
The board meeting was convened on incredibly short notice, but every single member showed up.
Noreen was the last to arrive. Even from a distance, she could hear the loud chatter echoing from the room.
Unsurprisingly, it was all intensely negative and pessimistic.
The moment Noreen stepped through the door, the air in the conference room seemed to freeze, becoming so oppressive it was hard to breathe.
Outside the massive floor-to-ceiling windows, the city’s neon lights still sparkled brightly.
But inside, the electronic display showing Winrich’s plummeting stock chart looked like a jagged knife, violently plunging into the hearts of every board member present.
“Noreen, are you even listening!”
Director Yates slammed his hand on the table so hard water sloshed out of his glass: “Rumors are flying everywhere, and the stock has hit rock bottom! If you don’t come up with a solution right new, ou entire net worths are going down with Winrich!”
The other directors chimed in with their own furious agreements, their collective anxiety and rage permeating the confined space.
Every set of eyes was fixed on the silent woman sitting at the head of the long table.
Noreen sat in the dim light, her
slender fingers idly tracing the contours of her fountain pen. Her
expression was completely apathetic, as if the disastrous ey numbers on the screen had
absolutely nothing to do with her.
Cóntent
Faced with Director Yates’s roaring demands, she still didn’t say a word. Her silence
only dialed the tension in the room up to a breaking point.
“Say something! When you dragged us into this, you swore up and down that our investments were safe!”
Director Yates was seeing red. He shot up from his chair and jabbed a finger at her. “You promised that the company ever faced catastrophic operational risks abnormal stock volatility you would
buy back our shares a net
original
price! Are you trying to back out
now?”
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At the mention of a ‘buyback’, the movement of Noreen’s fingers finally came to a
halt.