Chapter 85 Rose
"You're Rebecca's lawyer?"
Scratching his balding head, the vice principal said with an unhappy expression: "Students these days are really out of control! Such a small matter, and it's escalated to the point of hiring a lawyer? This is ridiculous!"
Floyd was stunned.
He had thought the vice principal was saying those students who slandered and smeared Rebecca on the forum were out of control.
He didn't expect he was actually talking about Rebecca?
Floyd said with a serious expression: "Rebecca is the one being defamed. It's not really appropriate for you to say that, is it?"
"Then what should I say?"
The vice principal sneered, "Empire University has twenty thousand undergraduates, plus graduate students, doctoral students, and all faculty and staff—at most forty thousand people. The number of female students is over ten thousand. Out of more than ten thousand people, why aren't they spreading rumors about others but specifically targeting her alone?"
From the moment he took on Rebecca's case, he knew the progress wouldn't be smooth.
After all, it involved a prestigious institution like Empire University, and it was students trash-talking on the school forum.
He had already obtained from the school official in charge of the network and forum the real identities and information of "Rose" and those IDs with the most malicious comments in the comment section.
Orion Cooper, the vice principal of Empire University, was in charge of student affairs. With his cooperation, they could talk to those trash-talking students, have them publicly apologize to Rebecca, then delete the posts, and the matter would be settled.
As for how the school would handle it, that was Empire University's business.
But Floyd didn't expect that just taking the first step would be this difficult.
Without Orion's cooperation, how long would it take him to find everyone by himself?
Moreover, the police officer who came with him couldn't possibly follow him around every day to talk to students one by one.
Seeing the work at a standstill, while on the forum, the post kept getting more and more comments, reaching new heights.
Floyd decided to return to his office first and think of another plan.
"Take care, I won't see you out..."
Orion had a casual, do-as-you-please attitude.
Just as he pulled open the office door, Floyd suddenly stopped, turned around and said to Orion: "The student with the ID 'Rose' is named Samuel Cooper. Right now it's just at the level of spreading rumors—a public apology and deleting the post can solve it. But if this blows up and Rebecca insists on not accepting mediation, do you know how many years a defamation conviction carries?"
His eyelids twitched, and Orion froze like a statue.
Part of him thought Floyd was bluffing him, that he couldn't possibly know Samuel was his son, and was just hoping he'd consider things from the school's perspective.
After all, once this kind of reputation-damaging case got involved, no matter how small, it would be Empire University's face that was lost.
But another part of him thought he did know.
The office fell quiet. Orion frantically typed on his keyboard, searching for information about defamation charges and sentencing.
After reading the content clearly, sweat suddenly poured from Orion's head.
If such a record was left in his file, what kind of good job could Samuel find after graduation?
Forget about big companies like the Windsor Group—even mid-sized companies with some standing in the industry probably wouldn't consider him, right?
His heart tightened. Without even bothering to wipe his sweat, Orion stood up and rushed out, "Mr. Ryan, wait..."