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What was going on? Why did Stephen suddenly kneel to Ethan?
Simon had just said that Stephen was sacrificing for Celestial City while Ethan was cold and ruthless.
Now, Stephen was kneeling to Ethan, which was like saying his so–called sacrifice was kneeling to Ethan, begging him to solve Celestial City’s problems!
In the meeting room, everyone watched Simon with doubtful eyes. “Is this your son’s sacrifice?”
What sacrifice? All he did was bring trouble to Celestial City and kneel to beg someone. Was that his contribution?
Símon gulped. How could he explain this? Stephen had knelt to Ethan in front of everyone. He could not talk his way out of it!
He regretted it now. He should not have connected the video to the big screen. Otherwise, only he would know about Stephen kneeling to Ethan. The others would not have seen it!
His clever plan had backfired!
“Get up now!” Simon roared into his phone.
Stephen heard him and wanted to get up. He had wanted to stand up since he returned to his senses, but his legs had no strength at all.
No matter how hard he tried, he could not stand up, having lost all feelings in his legs.
His hand pressed against the ground as he struggled to get up, but it only made him look like he was about to grovel to Ethan.
The group
watched this scene in the living room and did not know what to say.
They kept helping Stephen, but now, Stephen was kneeling to Ethan and begging for his help!
What did this mean? Did he think they could not compare to Ethan, and that he had to beg a criminal for help?
Simon was also fuming. He wanted to storm over and slap Stephen. Stephen was humiliating the Quinns!
Of all people, he had to kneel to Ethan, the Quinns‘ enemy!
George snapped out of his shock and quickly rushed forward to help Stephen up, asking, ” Are you alright?”
“I’m fine.” Stephen’s face was slightly pale. At this moment, he was still unaware that the
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scene of him kneeling to Ethan was being witnessed by the entire federal government.
Many of them were disappointed in Stephen for not living up to their expectations!
Ethan smiled faintly. “Even if you kneel and beg me, it won’t make any difference. No means no.”
Let alone kneeling, even if Stephen cracked his head open on the ground, Ethan would still not help him.
Stephen gritted his teeth. “You!”
George was anxious. Stephen had just knelt to Ethan in front of everyone, yet Ethan still refused to help?
“Don’t burn your bridges.” Ethan said calmly, “I learned that from you guys.”
George was immediately speechless. What they had done was indeed more ruthless than what Ethan did. They stole his achievements, imprisoned him in a mountain, and told the world that he was a criminal with countless crimes.
Now, the entire Internet was cursing Ethan.
“We don’t need his help.“Someone got up and said, “I have a friend who knows Dr. Rodman. If we get in touch with my friend, Dr. Rodman would help.”
Simon was delighted. “Really?”
George’s eyes lit up as well. Only Stephen was in shock.
George was having a video call with the federal government, and his camera was being pointed at him?
Didn’t that mean everyone saw him kneel before Ethan? And his father was among them!
As this realization hit, Stephen felt a wave of dizziness, nearly fainting on the spot.
Shit! Even if his father did not kill him, he would get a severe beating.
Fortunately, Simon did not want to deal with him at this moment. He urged that man to call his friend for help.
The call was soon picked up.
“Hey, can you help me? Aren’t you close with Dr. Rodman? Ask him to save someone for us. What? You need to ask Ethan?”
The last line left everyone in the room dumbfounded. Ask Ethan? Did they need Ethan’s permission to get Dr. Rodman’s help?
The man hung up. Ethan was standing right in front of them now. How could they not know what his answer would be?
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The man who made the call felt his face burn from embarrassment. Just moments ago, he was confident that he could make Dr. Rodman help them, but in the end, they still had to find Ethan!
Simon said coldly, “Let us go find Dr. Rodman ourselves. Given our status, I don’t believe he would dare to refuse us!”
