Chapter 274 Killing Two Birds with One Stone
A plan took shape in Thomas’s mind almost instantly.
He quickly abandoned his original idea of using money to smooth things over.
Instead, he decided to go for a kill–two–birds–with–one–stone strategy-
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Not only could he settle the girl’s accusation against him, but he could also push Asher–this potential threat–into a pit he could never crawl out of.
Without a doubt, making Asher the scapegoat was the option with the highest return.
Thomas wasted no time putting his plan into action.
First, he heavily edited the original surveillance footage, scrubbing every single frame that showed him from the recording.
And not just himself–he also deleted footage of the other witness.
If he was going to pin this on Asher, he couldn’t allow any unpredictable elements.
The kid on the bench–though Thomas wasn’t sure exactly what he saw–could still become a risk if the police found and questioned him.
So, he erased him too.
Later, he would personally track him down.
After cleaning up the footage, Thomas reached out to the girl who had accused him of harassment.
She was a technical college student–poor education, went by the name Lin Yang.
The moment they met, he made his offer crystal clear.
Thomas handed her a price no ordinary student could refuse.
And Lin Yang didn’t bother playing hard to get. She agreed on the spot.
By accepting the money, she agreed not only to retract her original accusation and pin the blame on Asher instead–but also to fully cooperate with Thomas’s plan.
He then sent someone to Stellarford Academy to secretly steal Asher’s student ID–an essential piece of fabricated “evidence” for the crime.
With the doctored surveillance footage, Lin Yang’s role as a credible eyewitness, and the conveniently planted physical proof…
It was more than enough to get Asher convicted.
The guy would be disgraced, his reputation destroyed, and his future obliterated-
A ruined Asher could never be compared to him.
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Chapter 274 Killing Two Birds with One Stone
The boy named Edgar.
Poor. Divorced parents. Mother paralyzed and completely dependent.
His weakness couldn’t have been more obvious.
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Thomas didn’t even need to try hard. He simply approached Edgar and fold him he wanted to make a deal.
He offered him a sum of money–enough to improve his mother’s life, even possibly get her the treatment she needed.
The condition?
Edgar wasn’t to breathe a word about anything he saw that night. He just had to play dumb and stay quiet.
The moment he heard the offer, Edgar was tempted. It didn’t take long for him to agree.
The deal was sealed quickly.
Everything was going exactly as planned. Almost too smoothly.
But-
What Thomas never expected was for Jean to step into the arena.
And with her came Jolene.
He wasn’t particularly afraid of Jean, but she bore the Ginger name…
Suddenly, things were getting complicated.
He had tried to gently push Jean out of the picture, but she turned out to be more stubborn than he imagined.
Since that didn’t work, he was done playing nice.
He’d already burned his bridge with Dominic–what was one more enemy?
Besides, his top priority now was Asher.
And he would get rid of him.
At any cost.
“Thomas, Asher’s going to lose today, right?” Selena glanced sideways at him and asked suddenly.
Thomas gave a small smirk. His voice was cool and casual. “Of course.”
He couldn’t imagine a scenario where Asher might win-
Not even with Jean and Jolene causing trouble.
