Chapter 5: Chapter 5 - The Crowd’s Great Shock
"Sir president?"
"Who is the sir president?"
"What's going on?"
"Didn't he just announce himself as an executive of this company?"
Everybody was dumbstruck by the sight before them and couldn't react for a long time; then they became filled with questions. As for the manager, he suddenly became scared to death.
Although he had no idea why the high-level person would suddenly bow to a nobody and more does he not believe that Ethan was any sir president, his intuition was screaming danger for him right now, just as it had screamed danger to him when he had greedily swapped the ring which caused all these scenes.
"Sir, I… I think you're making a mistake and recognizing the wrong person here; this punk is nothing but a delivery boy here," he stuttered to the middle-aged man.
"That's right, hubby. Why would you bow to that snotty brat criminal who had stolen the diamond-engraved ring you bought for me and made me the greatest joke of all time?"
The revealing dressed woman also approached the middle-aged man and asked, gazing at her sugar daddy as though he was going insane.
"Sir, I've been working with this punk for some time now, and I can also attest to it that he's nothing but a delivery boy."
"That's right, sir. This brat had even pleaded with the manager two weeks ago to start working two shifts so that he could celebrate his girlfriend's birthday."
All Ethan's haters began to testify. However, as soon as the pot-bellied manager heard what the last guy uttered next, the glow in his eyes returned and he forcefully killed the intuition in him.
He had already completely forgotten this, and now, he became certain that Ethan would undoubtedly take the full blame once the couple learned about it.
"Sir," he called out seriously and respectfully. "This punk whom you're calling the sir president had really come to me to request an additional working period from me so that he could gather money to celebrate his girlfriend's birthday. I'm sure he had changed your lady's ring for this reason so that he could give it to his girlfriend."
As soon as the lady in a revealing dress heard this, her eyes almost shot out flame, and she became even more certain than she had been.
Without waiting for her sugar daddy who was still bowing respectfully to Ethan to say anything, she suddenly turned around and screamed.
"What are you fools waiting for? This bastard had really changed my ring! Pummel him half to death now!"
As soon as the gangsters heard the tone which the lady had used for them, deep dissatisfaction flashed in their eyes, and they screamed; whore in their minds. However, since the lady was their master plaything, they forced down their dissatisfaction and transferred their anger at Ethan.
"Bastard!"
They suddenly screamed and brandished their batons ferociously. They were about to rush forward to start pounding Ethan, already envisioning turning him into a cripple worse than a cripple. However, they hadn't taken two steps forward when suddenly, they stopped in their tracks, and their eyes widened.
It wasn't only them, but the eyes of everybody in the place right now, Ethan and the middle-aged man excluded.
In the blink of an eye, a deafening silence that lasted for more than ten minutes filled the place followed by mumbles of shock.
"Had that man really just slapped his woman on the face?"
"Dang! What had just happened?"
That's right. The woman in a revealing dress had just been slapped hard on the face and knocked back by the middle-aged man, her sugar daddy, who was glaring ferociously at her right now.
After eventually forcing herself to stand up from where she had been knocked, the lady in a revealing dress, still looking dumbstruck while clutching the side of her face that had been struck, gazed with disbelief at her sugar daddy, who had always treated her like his gem and egg.
"You… you didn't just slap me, right?"
Apart from the disbelief in her voice, it also cracked and shook, as though she wanted to cry, however, the glare of her sugar daddy on her didn't reduce at all, and only rather intensified.
He growled ferociously. "Not only have you caused massive trouble for me by bringing me here to cause trouble for the sir president, you actually dared to order the sir president be beaten up, are you trying to get me killed?"
The man roared with anger, his eyes rapidly turning red and thick veins bulging out of his neck and forehead.
Nobody could react. Then, in their shocked gazes, the middle-aged man turned around again and bowed to Ethan, but several times lower than the first time.
"Si… sir… sir president, ple… please forgive my ignorance. Please forgive my accusation on yourself, please!"
He pleaded, his voice trembling from fear.
"This…"
The shock rising from everybody's heart increased at each following moment, and they found it extremely disbelieving that the pauper Ethan was addressed as the sir president. This was especially true for the people who knew Ethan.
Feeling all this, Ethan felt the blood in his body pump hard, and he felt the courage he never knew he had in their life rise from within him.
A smirk suddenly appeared at the corner of his lips. "No, no. I'm not your sir president. I was merely an ordinary delivery boy who had just been accused of theft and was on the verge of getting pummeled to death when no investigation had been carried out yet."
Ethan's voice was filled with sarcasm, making the middle-aged man's heart pound hysterically in his chest. He suddenly felt like sobbing.
"I…"
He swallowed hard and suddenly glared hatefully at the manager. Feeling this glare, the manager who doesn't know what to think anymore right now suddenly shivered hysterically and then he was overwhelmed with fear.
'Ethan was the owner of this company?'
'This… this… how is this possible?'
'Wasn't he a mere scholarship from a village who came to work here to fend and take care of himself?'
He was filled with hundreds of questions to which he had no idea if he would get answers. He wasn't the only one filled with this question; everyone there right now was.
Meanwhile, the middle-aged man continued begging Ethan profusely. As for the security guards who had thrown him to the floor and tied his hands behind his back, they were filled to the brim with fear right now, and their hearts were already on the verge of breaking away from them.
They were already sobbing badly inside right now. Although they were filled with questions, they had no time to dwell on those as the fear of what would be done to them already overwhelmed them.
Back to Ethan. After listening to the middle-aged man plea for a long time, he shut his eyes for a second and then reopened them, then he sighed.
"Get someone to take this off me," he pointed his chin to his back.
As soon as the middle-aged man heard this, his heart bloomed with joy. It was as though he had just received a favor from a god.
Without bothering to think, he rushed forward himself, acting like a slave, then with so much care which even he himself had no idea he could employ, he took the rope tying Ethan's hand down, freeing Ethan's hand.
Finally getting freedom,
Ethan massaged and stretched his hands which made them suddenly let out crackles.
With that, his glare went to the pot-bellied manager, and then his eyes flashed with deep hatred and coldness.
"Not only did you send me to a delivery to where you knew I was being schemed against last night, causing me to land in the hospital."
"What?"
As soon as this was heard, everybody there gasped with shock while the manager dared not raise his head. As though he couldn't feel the crowd's shock, Ethan continued coldly.
"I had never offended you before, and I've always been doing your bidding, but look what you had tried doing to me. How evil could someone be? What would my fate have been if not that I'd bought this company before coming here to tender my resignation and I'd been an ordinary person like you'd all thought?"
"What?"
As soon as everybody heard Ethan admit to owning the company, everybody gasped in shock.
'This…'
Although nobody tried convincing the middle-aged man again, they remained skeptical about Ethan owning the multi-billion-dollar company, but now that Ethan had admitted to it himself, the hearts of everybody who knew him began to pound hysterically in their chests, almost bursting apart.
"This… this, how is it possible? Weren't… weren't you just a nobody?"
The manager voiced his mind without knowing.
Ethan chuckled coldly at this. "Me? A nobody?"
He acted as though he had just heard a great joke, then he shook his head. "So, you assumed that I'm really a nobody based on rumors?"
He asked, making everybody feel that nothing was making sense again.
'Wasn't that the case?' they thought and Ethan continued as though he heard them.
"For your information," he began, and then rapidly, his demeanor and aura changed greatly. "I only came here to work to understand the company I wanted to buy. I didn't come here to fend for myself like you'd all always thought."
[Shameless!]
Ethan suddenly heard in his mind, making his face turn red for a moment before quickly returning to normal, but nobody saw it as they were busily filled with disbelief right now.
A deafening silence enveloped the place again with everybody trying to find how novel Ethan's explanation was.
However, a particular person was busily gazing at Ethan with infatuation in her eyes right now.
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