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Chapter 1

"I'm not Penelope Smith! You've got the wrong person!" I pulled my hand away, but the next second, the woman in front of me suddenly collapsed to the ground."Ow!" she screamed, tears immediately welling up in her eyes. "You hit me! How dare you hit me! Everyone, come and look! Look at this shameless homewrecker! Wrecking my marriage wasn't enough for her. Now she wants to beat me to death!"Her cries drew more people to the entrance of the company building.They pointed at me with disgust and whispered among themselves."Who is that woman? She's so full of herself.""She's an intern! She hooked up with someone else's husband just to get a permanent position.""Unbelievable. She's pretty, but she's got such a rotten heart.""The wife came all the way to her workplace, and she still dares to hit her? What kind of world are we living in?"As the crowd grew larger, I began to lose patience.Today was the day we were supposed to negotiate a contract with the Horizon Group. If thei

Chapter 2

A large man with a protruding belly and dark circles under his eyes stepped out of the crowd.I glanced at the name tag on his chest: [Publicity Department, Jeremy Brooks]"So you're Jeremy Brooks. Perfect timing. Go explain things to your wife." My tone was cold.Once this was over, I'd make sure the head of the Publicity Department had a serious talk with him.But Jeremy looked at me, then suddenly shifted his gaze. He stepped forward and grabbed my hand. "Come on, Penelope. Just apologize!"I froze.When I looked up, I caught a sly glint in Jeremy's eyes. "You're a new intern too, right? Take the fall for Penelope, and I'll make sure you get a permanent position later."As soon as I heard Jeremy whisper in my ear, I understood everything.As a team leader, he'd never met me before. Since he didn't recognize me and I was wearing the company uniform, he'd assumed I was a new intern. He wanted to use me as a scapegoat to appease his wife and protect Penelope!Kylie looked as t

Chapter 3

The air fell silent for a moment.Then, someone suddenly burst out laughing."Pfft, hahaha! I'm dying!" Jeremy pointed at me and laughed. "Didn't expect you to be such a poser. You're just some little girl fresh out of school, and you're pretending to be the boss? If you're the boss, then I'm your damn father!"He wiped the tears of laughter from the corners of his eyes and grabbed Kylie beside him. "Honey, I told you I wasn't interested in her. Now you can see for yourself. This woman is a delusional lunatic!"Why would I ever want her? I'd be disgusted even if she got down on her knees and begged me to take her!"Kylie raised her chin smugly. "You think you can steal my husband? Just look at yourself, you pathetic little nobody. Even if you were the Queen, no man would want you!"The crowd grew increasingly hostile and began closing in on me."Exactly! Keep dreaming!""The boss of a company this big has to be a man!""I got rejected when I applied for an accounting job here,

Chapter 4

Lily expertly pulled an asthma inhaler from her pocket. A few seconds later, I finally managed to catch my breath.Only then did she turn to Jeremy, her expression cold. "Who gave you the nerve to humiliate Miss King like this?!"Jeremy stubbornly lifted his chin, his finger still pointed accusingly into the air. "What Miss King? She's just an intern!"Lily's expression grew colder. She pulled out her phone, opened the company's official website, and shoved it in front of him.The homepage prominently displayed the photo and profile of Fareast Group's CEO."See for yourself."Jeremy leaned in, and his pupils suddenly contracted.The woman in the photo had sharp features and a cold, commanding aura. She looked nothing like the woman standing before him, whose face was streaked with blood and whose hair was disheveled. But on closer inspection, there was no mistaking it. They were the same person!He shook his head violently, as though he could shake away what he'd just seen. "Im

Chapter 5

I spoke slowly as I walked over to Jeremy. "You spread rumors about me, incited the crowd to attack me, and kicked me.""I... I'm sorry... Miss King, I'm really sorry..." Jeremy fell to his knees, his face covered in tears and snot. "Please spare me. I still have elderly parents and children to support—""What children? Didn't you just say that you and your wife were still trying to conceive?"Jeremy froze."Mrs. Brooks, did you know your husband goes around calling you a barren woman who can't give him children?" I asked.Kylie was stunned. She'd been so busy fighting Penelope that she hadn't had time to process what was happening."W-What did you say?" she stammered."Ask him yourself."Kylie turned to Jeremy, but he kept his head lowered, too afraid to meet her eyes.She immediately understood. She lunged at him like a madwoman and began hitting and biting him. "Jeremy Brooks! You bastard!"The police hurried over and pulled them apart.I then walked over to Penelope. "Yo

Chapter 6

"Then let her make a scene," I said.Lily hesitated. "But the impact on the company...""The impact?" I smiled. "Videos of what happened yesterday are already online. Who do you think people will believe?"Lily froze for a moment, then pulled out her phone.Sure enough, yesterday's incident was already trending.The headline read: [The Fareast Group's CEO Cornered and Accused of Being a Homewrecker]The comments section exploded.[This CEO has it rough. Her own employee spread rumors about her!][Jeremy Brooks looks like a complete scumbag.][His wife is pretty pitiful too. Her husband completely fooled her.][Pitiful, my ass! She's just a lovesick fool who helped her husband bully an innocent woman!][Penelope Smith is the real homewrecker. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!]…Public opinion was overwhelmingly on my side.Lily breathed a sigh of relief.But it wasn't long before a new video surfaced.It showed Jeremy's mother, Linda Jackson, crying in front

Chapter 7

"Miss King, Jeremy has been released," Lily informed me."Released?""His five-day detention period is over," she explained. "Kylie and Penelope are being released today too."I raised an eyebrow. "What kind of trouble is he stirring up now?""Jeremy posted a long statement online. He claims you've abused your authority to frame an employee. He also says you colluded with Kylie to set him up," Lily answered.I took the phone and skimmed through the post.Jeremy's statement was so emotionally charged that he painted himself as a pitiful employee persecuted by his boss, while portraying me as a vicious, vindictive woman who abused her power to settle personal scores.People already hated greedy capitalists, so the comments section had descended into chaos once again.[So... who's telling the truth?][Jeremy's already been fired. Why would he lie?][Andrea King has money and power. It'd be easy for her to crush an ordinary employee.][Capitalists are all the same! They frame ha

Chapter 8

"Ow!" Jeremy groaned."Go ahead, kneel! You love kneeling so much, don't you? Then stay down!" Kylie roared."Honey, listen to me! I did it for our family! Penelope is pregnant!" Jeremy blurted out."What?!""I'll make things right with her. Once she gives birth, we can raise the baby as our own. Then we'll have someone to take care of us when we're old!"Jeremy continued to ramble, completely oblivious to the murderous glare Kylie had fixed on Penelope."You're pregnant too?" Kylie demanded viciously."Wait!" Jeremy exclaimed. "Honey, what do you mean by 'too'?"But neither woman answered him.Penelope grabbed Kylie, who retaliated with a vicious slap across the face.The two women immediately broke into a violent brawl.Jeremy scrambled to gather the scattered medical reports. Clutching the ultrasound scan, he pleaded desperately, "Stop fighting! Please, stop! You're both pregnant!"Kylie seized Penelope by the hair and dragged her across the ground. "Your bastard isn't g

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