Her voice trembled with hysteria, but beneath it was something razor sharp.
"I will hold a press conference from wherever I am! I will send anonymous tips! I will leak the evidence myself! I will tell them how you manipulated the brake inspection report! How you pushed for schedule changes that day! How you ensured she was alone in that car!!!"
"Enough!!!" Mao Li barked, panic finally seeping into his tone.
His mind was racing.
If even a fraction of that resurfaced, he would be finished. The accident had been buried carefully. The evidence cleaned. The connections paid. But scandals had a way of digging up corpses.
And now Hua Ling was threatening to exhume one.
For several long seconds, neither of them spoke.
Mao Li realized he was trapped.
If he cut ties with her completely, she would drag him into the abyss.
If he helped her, he risked further exposure.
He was stuck between a rock and a hard place, with no retreat and no safe path forward.
