The entire crowd fell into silence upon hearing this.
Everyone's gaze was fixated upon Joshua.
"What wrong, coward?” Adrian crossed his arms in front of his chest, a triumphant expression etched in his eyes. "Joshua, please don't blame Daddy for being cruel like this. Luna killed your grandmother, and we already have plenty of evidence for this, but why are you so stubborn to insist on performing an autopsy to obtain new evidence?
"Well, if you indeed find new evidence, then all's good, but if you can't find any, then this means you deliberately damaged your grandmother's dead body.
"This is an act of disloyalty to the family, and it'd be understandable if I chased you out of the Lynch family itself, but I'm showing you mercy and only asking you to give up your shares instead of being exiled."
With that, he raised his eyebrows and asked, "So what is it, sign or no sign?"
Joshua narrowed his eyes but did not reply.
The reporters murmured underneath their breaths at this sudden twist of events. "How could Joshua Lynch possibly give up all his shares of Lynch Group? After all, this is the company he spent many years working o n, so how could he give it all up so easily?"
"But if he doesn't sign this contract...he won’t be able t o proceed with the autopsy without Adrian’s authorization."
"Can he really find new evidence with the autopsy?”
"Who knows? All we know now is that all the evidence points to Luna, except the autopsy. If he goes on with the autopsy, he might be able to prove Luna’s innocence. If he doesn't, then Luna will have to go to jail..."
"If it was up to me, I won't even sign the contract.
She's just a woman; it doesn't matter if she's innocent or not. To risk losing more than a hundred billion dollars of Lynch Group assets over a woman isn't worth it at all..."
"That's right... That's more than a hundred billion we're talking about. You can get so many more women with that money..."
Joshua furrowed his brows when he heard this.
Michael, who was standing next to Adrian, felt just as triumphant. He immediately set down the documents on the desk in front of Adrian and said, "Come on, Joshua. Tell us if you're going to sign or not!"
This was the first time he had ever seen Joshua like this.
Tsk. Joshua had even claimed that Luna was the most important woman in his life, but in the end, when faced with the risk of losing the family inheritance over her, he still hesitated.
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