CHAPTER 636: CHAPTER 592: REPUTATION PLUMMETS

Wang Daman took a swig of alcohol, the alcohol getting to his head, and his friend’s instigations made him feel more and more like he’d been played: "Damn it! Like I said! Who is Yan Yueqing anyway? Top-tier big capital! Why would she come out of nowhere to take over such a broken factory of ours? And just before it went bankrupt? How could that be a coincidence! She must have known about this plan all along!

She calculated the timing precisely, pretending to be some Savior, spending a little money to keep us in place, then taking the company into her own hands... just waiting for today! Waiting to grab that sky-high compensation for demolition! People like us are just pawns on her chessboard! Used and then discarded! What arrangements? I think it’s just to fob off beggars with a couple of coins!"

"That’s exactly it!" Sun Tao firmly echoed on the other end of the phone, "Old Wang, you’re absolutely right! This woman is deeply scheming! On the surface, she does charity, wins people’s hearts, but behind the scenes, she’s making her cunning calculations! She eats meat, and doesn’t even give you hardworking people a sip of soup! You all worked yourself to death for her for a month, and what’s the result? She reaps the benefits without lifting a finger, and you all get nothing and have to worry about your jobs! Can you just swallow this?"

Fueled by alcohol and his friend’s urgings, Wang Daman’s anger was completely ignited: "Swallow my ass! She’s nothing but a hypocrite! Pretending to be like a Bodhisattva, but in reality, she’s been calculating us from start to finish!"

"Brother, it’s no use if just the two of us know!" Sun Tao lowered his voice, filled with temptation, "Everyone needs to see her true face! Let me help you post it online! Let netizens judge! See how your so-called ’philanthropist’ boss exploits the poor employees! When the public pressure mounts, she’ll have to give you an explanation for the sake of her reputation! Maybe she’ll cough up some of that compensation amount to be shared with everyone!"

"Post it online?" Wang Daman sobered up half by now, a little hesitant.

"Yes! Post it online!" Sun Tao continued to persuade him, "Old Wang, this is the only chance for you to help yourself and your coworkers who didn’t get any benefits claim justice! Are you willing to just be played for a fool, squeezed dry of your value, and then kicked to the curb? Think about your wife and kids! Think about your mortgage!"

Sun Tao’s words wriggled like a snake into Wang Daman’s ears, hitting the deepest discontent and fear in his heart.

Thinking about the soon-to-be-lost job, thinking about how his colleague Li Guozhu might suddenly get rich overnight, thinking about Yan Yueqing’s offhand promises... Anger completely drowned out reason!

"You’re right!" Wang Daman’s eyes reddened, his jaws clenched, "I can’t just be her workhorse for nothing! Alright! I’ll tell you all the information I know and you make sure to post it online for everyone to judge!"

A few hours later, a newly registered small account named "Unmasking the Hypocritical Mask of Capital" simultaneously posted a carefully edited recording on several high-traffic social media and short video platforms, along with highly provocative text:

[Shocking Exposé! Top-tier Charity Queen Persona Collapses! Pocketing Massive Compensation with Empty Promises, Low-level Employees Become Cannon Fodder!]

The recording had been edited, completely obscuring Wang Daman’s voice, but his sorrowful and indignant emotions were quite empathetic:

"Her, Yan Yueqing! She had it all planned from the start! I’m willing to bet my life on it—she already knew the state planned to conduct major projects here! What ’new energy’? You think she’d hear this news later than us?!"

"Why did she just so happen to take over when the company was about to go bankrupt? Pretending to be some hard-saving Bodhisattva?! This is just a show! A ’charity’ drama played for us, played for outsiders! Spending a small amount, topping up wages, then raising salaries a bit, she stabilized hundreds of us, working hard for her for a full month!"

"What does she want? She wants the land we stand on! This sea! Now that the national plan is here, the red line is drawn, and this land has become a cash cow! The huge compensation is about to fall right into Yan Yueqing’s pocket! And us?"

"Us, who don’t have houses within that red line, are thorough cannon fodder! Worked for free for a month! Tidied up the mess for her, stabilized and revived the factory just waiting for the state to take over! Those with demolition compensation are in luck, making money. And the rest? The company doesn’t even have this sea anymore, how do we raise fish?!"

"What did she say on the phone? ’There are arrangements’? ’Won’t ignore it’? Listen! How dismissive! The manager even tells us to ’trust her’? Trust with what?! The compensation is for the company, it’s for her, Yan Yueqing! It has absolutely nothing to do with us hardworking poor workers! Would she give us a penny?! I reckon she’d at most throw a few dimes our way, like sending beggars off! This is her, Yan the Great Philanthropist’s true face! A hypocrite! She’s been calculating our blood and sweat from the beginning to end!"