Never Mistake a Queen for a Lapdog novel 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."

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.