Chapter 96: Chapter 96: You Dare Hit Me?
Mic King second-floor hallway.
Ashley Shaw didn’t message Elder Prescott, not because Claire Xavier and the others disagreed.
Upon hearing it, Claire Xavier decisively changed the medium room to a large suite.
It was just because she met a familiar person while carrying two dozen beers from the medium room to the large suite.
Rosalind Lynch.
Ashley Shaw hadn’t encountered Rosalind Lynch since the cake incident.
Seeing Rosalind Lynch this time, she clearly noticed that she’d gotten much thinner.
Her originally somewhat chubby face was now clearly sunken, and even with makeup, it was obvious that her complexion was poor.
Claire Xavier and the others happened to walk past Rosalind Lynch’s suite just as she was opening the door, so they didn’t see her, a group of people energetically hurried into the newly changed large suite.
Ashley Shaw kept her eyes forward, even seeing her, she acted as if she hadn’t seen Rosalind Lynch.
She had accepted money from Rosalind Lynch, and to her, the past matters were resolved.
However, though she wished for mutual peace and no interference, Rosalind Lynch hadn’t reached a consensus with her.
Rosalind Lynch stretched out her slender arm, blocking her path.
Mic King KTV was great everywhere except the hallway was too narrow.
Previously, because the hallway was too narrow, there were instances where men brushed past girls and took advantage of the situation.
Yet, this incident didn’t tarnish Mic King’s reputation and instead attracted more guests with obvious intentions.
However, after official intervention strengthened regulations, the frequency of such incidents greatly decreased.
This didn’t affect Mic King’s popularity.
At this moment, with Rosalind Lynch stretching both her arms, Ashley Shaw couldn’t get past.
Expressionless, she turned her head to look, her tone not exactly polite, but still calm.
"Miss Lynch, I think it’s best if we see each other as strangers now, don’t you agree?"
Rosalind Lynch stared at her intently, as if her gaze could pierce through her.
Ashley Shaw felt uncomfortable being looked at like that, frowning she tried to squeeze past Rosalind Lynch.
Just then, Rosalind Lynch suddenly spoke—
"You’re really pleased with yourself, aren’t you?"
Ashley Shaw’s frown deepened.
"What do you mean?"
Rosalind Lynch stepped back two paces, blocking her path and staring directly at her.
This time, her gaze was full of ridicule.
"Warren... Warren Prescott forced my dad to issue an apology statement for you. Nothing actually happened to you, yet our family had to compensate you so much money... You must be really pleased now, huh?"
Ashley Shaw was silent for a moment and suddenly laughed.
"If I heard correctly, every word Miss Lynch said is accusing me?"
"What else? If not for you, how would my family end up like this? If not for you, how would I..."
Wind up drinking with a bunch of greasy middle-aged men who barely have any hair left!
But of course she wouldn’t say this last sentence to Ashley Shaw.
In front of Ashley Shaw she still portrayed the arrogant, aloof swan princess.
While Ashley Shaw remained the ugly duckling forever!
"In short! All of this is because of you! You destroyed our family, you’re happy now, aren’t you? You don’t think you won’t face retribution, do you? Let me tell you, karma’s wheel is turning, I’m just waiting for the day Warren tires of you and dumps you!"
What nonsense...
"You’re crazy." Ashley Shaw set down the two dozen beers in her hands, calmly reaching a conclusion.
"You’re the crazy one! No, you’re not crazy, you’re foolish. You’re too naïve, thinking that Warren does a few things for you now and will marry you later? Dream on!"
"I’ve never thought of marrying Warren..."
Ashley Shaw said this somewhat uncertainly, in her past life she had constantly wanted to marry him and she did achieve that.
But now, she really didn’t have any such intentions.
Ashley Shaw took a gentle breath to suppress the chaos in her mind and repeated: "I’ve never thought of marrying him, so there isn’t the issue of whether he’ll dump me. However, the saying ’karma’s wheel’ I’m returning to you, oh no, it doesn’t need returning, it’s already caught up with you, isn’t it?"
Rosalind Lynch’s face turned dark instantly.
"Ashley Shaw! You’re asking for it!"
If it weren’t for the surveillance everywhere, she wished she could strangle this bitch right here!
She had suffered losses due to the surveillance concerning Ashley Shaw, so no matter how angry she was, she could only grit her teeth and dare not act.
She angrily said: "This is all your fault! You’re the one who deserves retribution! Don’t curse us here!"
Ashley Shaw continued expressionlessly: "I’m not cursing you, I’m just stating the facts."
"The reason your family is in this state now has never been me."
"It wasn’t me who wanted to attend your family’s reception, nor was I the one who developed the phones with severe safety issues, and I certainly wasn’t the one selling these defective phones."
She paused slightly, looked deeply into Rosalind Lynch’s eyes and said: "Who caused all this is you, your family. Don’t blame all the problems on others, sometimes it’s not a bad thing to lower your head and examine your own issues."
Rosalind Lynch clenched her fists hard, restraining herself from hitting Ashley Shaw.
"You’ve harmed our family like this, how can you have the nerve to say these things? If not for you, why would Warren intentionally keep our family’s news trending for so long? If it wasn’t on the trending news, it wouldn’t even have been exposed."
Ashley Shaw raised her hand.
With a "slap", she fiercely slapped Rosalind Lynch across the face.
Rosalind Lynch’s face was turned to the side from the impact.
She instinctively covered her face and dumbly looked at Ashley Shaw.
"You dare hit me?!"
She was already simmering with anger, and with Ashley Shaw making the first move, she cared little about the surveillance, after all, Ashley Shaw acted first.
She raised her hand to slap back but was steadied by Ashley Shaw who grasped her wrist.
Rosalind Lynch tried drawing back her hand, only to find Ashley Shaw’s strength surprisingly strong.
Ashley Shaw’s face seemed covered with a layer of frost.
"Rosalind Lynch, this slap is for those victims! I thought you were just cheap, but turns out your true maliciousness shows—the customers who suffered facial injuries because of your family’s phones, weren’t they your family’s debtors? You’re not even guilty and act like suppressing the news was the right thing? Do you realize keeping your family’s phones in circulation would harm how many people?"
She remembered clearly, in her past life the phone issue wasn’t exposed so early, resulting in the number of victims reaching four figures.
Including many children.
Yet Rosalind Lynch was clearly unapologetic to them and only distressed by her family’s loss.
She was unworthy to even be called human!
"What does it have to do with you? You weren’t disfigured! Stop pretending to be a saint here!"
Ashley Shaw was about to slap Rosalind Lynch’s face again.
Rosalind Lynch instinctively closed her eyes.
But the anticipated slap never came.