Chapter 271

Chapter 271

The Garcia Jewels Company was now a regular on trending topics.

Any little thing happening in the family got recorded by reporters, and Orla being rushed to the emergency room quickly spread online.

At the same time, some medical staff secretly leaked what happened in the operating room.

When people learned that Diana had agreed to keep the company going, many breathed a huge sigh of relief.

On the Johnson family's side.

Cleo had already decided to divorce Nolan, and today the two were sitting together discussing the divorce.

However, they could never agree on the division of assets.

The lawyers from both sides argued fiercely.

While the two parties themselves looked at each other coldly, like strangers who didn't know each other.

Bored, Cleo took out her phone, glanced at it, and narrowed her eyes.

What was Diana doing? Was she planning to save the company? Would that drag Michael down?

As a mother, she knew exactly how much money Michael had—enough to completely help the Garcia family company get through the crisis. But why should he?

That was tens of billions of dollars.

Moreover, once private assets were used, Holden and the others would know the details.

Before the inheritance rights were clear, some things should be kept tightly hidden.

Diana was truly a disaster.

For one woman, Michael had suffered so much.

Cleo looked up coldly, "Do you still want to give your beloved woman a proper status or not? Hurry up and sign. What's mine, no one should think about taking advantage of. I don't want your stuff either."

She didn't understand what was wrong with Nolan. Why did he insist she leave behind the assets she brought?

Nolan snorted, "We've been together for a lifetime. Don't think I don't know your little schemes. You just want to use the money to control me. You're planning to secretly transfer all these assets to Michael's name, right?"

Cleo sneered, "Of course. He's my son. Why can't I transfer the assets to him?"

"Then no way. We'll just drag this out. You have shares in the Johnson Group. If they get transferred, Michael will become the company's second-largest shareholder."

As the eldest son in the family, Nolan should have received more assets.

Unfortunately, after his affair was exposed years ago, Holden, to prevent internal family conflict, never gave him many shares. He could barely maintain his lifestyle.

In contrast, Holden liked Cleo and felt she would completely devote herself to Michael, so she had quite a few shares under her name.

If Michael and Cleo's shares were combined, the amount would be too large and needed to be watched carefully.

Cleo laughed dismissively, her eyes clearly mocking.

"So you'd rather let your beloved woman be a mistress than divorce. Fine, let's drag it out then. Listen carefully—I was willing to talk to you today as a favor. If you come looking for me tomorrow, I won't bother. Let's just drag it out."

After all, she wasn't the one keeping a mistress.

She wasn't the one trying to give an illegitimate child an identity.

After dropping that line decisively, Cleo turned and left without hesitation, leaving only a heartless figure behind.

Nolan watched, grinding his teeth in anger.

Jett walked over from the other side, frowning, "What should we do? If this keeps dragging on, it's bad for us. Now many people in the company look down on me, think I'm illegitimate, and show me no respect."

He had already joined the company as a vice president. In his eyes, everyone except Michael should be sucking up to him.

But the reality was completely opposite.

Since joining the company, forget about flattery—everyone looked at him like garbage.

Those looks cut like knives, impossible for Jett to ignore.

The most disgusting were the company employees.

They were just workers, yet none of them took him seriously. Their words were full of mockery.

Jett admitted his abilities were indeed lacking compared to Michael's, but that didn't mean he had to keep taking this.

What was worse, he couldn't access any of the company's core work.

If this continued, he'd have no authority in the company at all.

The first month in the company was crucial. He desperately wanted to establish his authority and win over important people.

As someone who had only been in power at the company for a few years, Nolan naturally understood Jett's difficulties.

He patted Jett's shoulder, "Just wait a bit longer. Diana's situation is a mess now, and Michael is completely lovesick, putting all his energy on Diana. We can take advantage. While he's not at the company, you can work on winning those people over. I have plenty of money."

Never having truly been in charge, he didn't know how to win people over. He only knew money was everything, so with a wave of his hand, he directly handed over a bank card.

Jett was thrilled. Thinking of the trending topics online, his face showed a vicious smile, "Should we link Michael to the Garcia Jewels Company situation? That would lower his credibility too."

"Are you crazy? Is that what you really think? Listen, I won't allow you to do that. It would hurt the company's interests. If this gets linked to the Johnson Group, no one can handle the stock crash."

What a joke—what was the Garcia Group compared to the Johnson Group?

Under Michael's leadership these years, the Johnson Group's revenue had multiplied, and net profits had increased several times over.

What shareholders were most satisfied with about Michael now was the annual dividends.

If these two things got linked together and the stock crashed, the shareholders would be furious.

To prevent Jett from doing something stupid, Nolan carefully explained all the consequences.

But Jett didn't hear a word, only catching the key point—if the company stock crashed, Michael would be held responsible.

That was exactly the result he wanted.

Soon, a trending topic quietly climbed up the internet.

Someone was saying that the reason the Scott Group dared to supply fake goods to the Garcia Group was because there was a profit chain involved, and the mastermind behind it was the Johnson Group.

The report was absurd, but many mindless people believed it.

Within minutes, it shot up the trending topics.

Not only that, many people started attacking the Johnson Group.

Some netizens even began organizing their own consumer rights activities, believing that Johnson Jewelry Company also sold many fake products.

Jett saw the news and laughed loudly, "Listen up everyone, we need to use this well. We must destroy Michael this time."