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Wendy had always wanted to become the head of the Foster family. Over the years, she had quietly buile her own network of influence. Felix had turned a blind eye to her activities – not out of sibling affection but because he didn’t want his son to hold all the power alone.
“So I’ve spoken out of turn, then.”
Henry’s face was expressionless. “There’s still a lot at the company that needs my attention. I won’t keep you.”
With that, he turned and walked out of the study.
The secretary stepped closer. “Sir, your son’s been getting a bit unruly lately. He’s planted quite a few of his own people inside the company, and the bodyguards you assigned him – he’s dismissed them. At this rate, won’t he slip out of our control?”
“My own son, I know him. Don’t speak out of place again. He’s still the future head of the Foster family. One word from me, and you’d be out of the Foster family yourself.”
“…Understood.”
Felix drew in a deep breath. “Look into who leaked the story about Claire University Medical School. This cannot keep spreading. If the old incidents come to light, that would truly be our end.”
“Yes, sir.”
The secretary quickly withdrew to handle it.
Meanwhile, Eliza noticed that the Foster family had already begun damage control. Within an hour, every previous post had been scrubbed, and they had issued a lawyer’s letter. They also rolled out a list of charitable contributions over the years, stirring some supporters to push back against the rumors.
But none of it really addressed the core issue. Many still suspected the Foster family had engineered the last flu outbreak.
“Looks like the Foster family really does have something to hide,” Eliza murmured.
If they were innocent, they wouldn’t have handled PR like this. With such a heavy accusation, the logical move would be to release the research data on the last new drug, compare it to the flu timeline, and show the paper’s publication date against the outbreak. That could actually clear their name.
Eliza understood this. Henry understood this. There was no way Felix didn’t understand.
Yet Felix still refused. Which only made it clearer that there was a problem with that drug.
What exactly had they been experimenting on?
“Ms. Eliza, Mr. Hayes has had the names of deceased students and missing students compiled. All the records are here.”
The secretary laid the lists and files before her.
Flipping through them, Eliza saw that in the last twenty years, there had been a startling number of disappearances and suicides át Claire University Medical School.
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In the past, with less developed media, few people knew about such cases, But now, with instant only news, every disappearance was widely publicized. It only looked like the numbers had grown in recem year -in reality, the pattern stretched back decades.
“So many students vanishing or killing themselves without explanation the school never gave an official statement? No parents demanded answers?”
After all, these were their own children sent far from home to study medicine.
“From what we found, these students were mostly from small counties, often female, with two or three younger siblings. Their family situations were modest. We visited some families ourselves. Each had received condolences from the medical school. Before parents could even reach the campus, the school had cremated the bodies and sent the ashes home with a senior administrator along with roughly one million in compensation. Back in those years, that was enough to secure a comfortable life. The families came to believe their children had taken their own lives under pressure, and saw the school’s actions as generous. Naturally, they didn’t cause trouble.”
“No wonder no parents ever went to the school demanding answers,” Eliza said coldly. “They’ve refined the process over the years.”
“As for the missing students, the school gave those families five hundred thousand in money and offered ‘reasonable‘ explanations claiming the students left during exchange programs, went abroad with foreign. classmates, eloped, or ran away from home to escape their upbringing.”
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