The Million-Dollar Heart novel Chapter 104

Percival shot a glance at the reporter speaking to him.

The reporter was young. He was sporting a pair of black-rimmed glasses, and the moment his gaze met Percival's, he felt a chill run down his spine, making him step back instinctively. But when he saw Arabella's tear-streaked face and Michael writhing in pain on the ground, his sense of "justice" overpowered him. "What are you looking at? Did I say something wrong? I think Michael should go get his injuries checked out and sue you for intentional harm!" He blurted out.

Others chimed in. "Exactly. Those who abuse their power and oppress others will eventually get their just deserts!"

"Vivienne is such a letdown. The Hawthorn family raised her, and yet she let her fiancé drive them to the brink of bankruptcy. What an ungrateful brat!"

"We're definitely going public with what happened today. We want everyone to see your true colors!"

"I think they should publicly apologize to Hawthorn Group and compensate them for all their losses."

Arabella seized this opportunity. She fell to her knees and began begging Vivienne while sobbing. "Please, beg the Ellington family to spare the Hawthorn family! I'll take all the blame! Please! Do you really want to see the Hawthorn family go bankrupt to be satisfied?"

She lay on the ground as her voice choked with emotions, pleading over and over again. She looked like the wronged underdog.

But hidden from public view, her eyes showed an intense hatred.

Arabella's public kneeling and begging to Vivienne were not voluntary.

But no matter how much resentment she harbored for Vivienne or how much she didn’t want to kneel in front of her, she had no choice but to do it.

Without the Hawthorn family, she would lose her support, so her ambitions and desires would be impossible to achieve.

After all, where in the world could she find someone like Beatrice, who valued her, the adopted granddaughter more than her own granddaughter?

This was a hurdle she had to cross.

So, although she was unwilling, Arabella still kowtowed vigorously.

With each kowtow on the ground, she told herself, "Arabella, just endure this once. You'll get back double the humiliation you suffered today on Vivienne."

Vivienne hadn't said a word since the beginning. She just watched Arabella's performance with a smile, as if she were watching a hilarious comedy. She even seemed rather amused.

Beatrice wouldn't be so foolish as to think that she could force Vivienne to spare the Hawthorn family by holding Thaddeus captive. Beatrice's strategy was to bind Vivienne with morality.

Most people tend to sympathize with the underdog, regardless of right and wrong, and the underdog always has the upper hand in public opinion.

Now it seemed that she and Percival, even the entire Ellington family, were oppressing the weak with their power, while the sick Beatrice and crying Arabella were the oppressed.

If someone were to record the situation in the room and post it online at this moment, it would definitely spark a public outcry sympathizing with the weak and condemning the strong.

Anyone else would have surrendered under such family pressure and public condemnation.

Regrettably, she was Vivienne.

They misjudged her. She was not the kind to be easily bound by morality.

Especially when dealing with morally corrupt people.

Vivienne remained silent. She just wanted to see what Arabella would do if she didn't agree.

Interesting, right?