Chapter 21 What Could Have Gone Wrong (2/2)

As soon as he was out of John's sight, James returned to his normal carefree way. He put one hand on Henry's shoulder and gave him a friendly advice. ”Henry, you c

an start your investigation regarding Nina and Isabella's relationship with the posts on the campus forum. Both the posts have provoked much discussion in the past few days. There has to be something fishy going on,”

”Mr. Shi, it's not a good idea to gossip.” Henry felt that John's advice was useless. As expected, wherever James went, he would always be carefree and wildly unrestrained. It was only when faced with John that he would behave as meek as a lamb.

”It's different from gossiping. It is more of satisfying our curiosity, so go on and check it out.” James liked logging on the campus forum to help him kill time while in school. Had it not been for the juicy gossips that he got to read there, he would have been bored to death by now.

Meanwhile, Henry buried himself in his computer. For him, all things related to the Internet were just a piece of cake. As efficient as ever, he stealthily hacked into the school system, restored the posts on the school forum, and checked the IP information of the anonymous posters. In less than ten minutes, the whole matter had been sorted out and brought to light.

He printed out the vital information and handed it over to John.

”Mr. Shi, these are the posts about Nina Lu and Isabella Zhang. Both of them posted against each other on the school forum. And this is the payment record of Isabella's purchase of the Pheromone Perfume. Based on what I was able to gather on the Internet, I assume that Nina might have been sprayed with the perfume by Isabella and then she accidentally met you. The next day, Isabella captured photos of Nina wearing disheveled clothes as she walked out of your room. To tarnish her reputation, Isabella posted it on the school forum. Nina must have found out, so she lured Isabella out in retaliation and had some hooligans beat her up. To humiliate her, she also posted it on the school forum.

However, you took a video of Nina looking on as Isabella was being beaten, and you gave it to the Zhang family. As a result, Nina became a target of the Zhang family and she got into trouble.

As to what happened afterwards, you are already aware of it, Mr. Shi.” And boy, how clearly he knew what happened next!

John quickly browsed through all the information before him, until his eyes fell on the post where Nina had been falsely insulted and accused.

”Having heard the full story, now I suddenly understand why Isabella tried to frame Nina today. She even had the guts to use me! Good thing she didn't succeed in the end. But there is something I can't keep my finger on. How did Nina find out that it was Isabella who set her up on the school forum? Did Albert help her investigate? And how did Isabella find out that Nina was the one who had her beaten up? I think Nina is too smart to have made such a careless mistake. What could have gone wrong?”

Henry was silent and didn't know how to reply.

'Your uncle John is the one who leaked the information to the Zhang family, ' he thought.

He stole a brief glance at John and found that his face was as dark as ink. Indeed, James had a way of always doing things to make his uncle angry.

The pieces of paper and malicious remarks against Nina stung John's eyes painfully. He couldn't believe that she had been badly slandered like this.

'If Isabella has nothing better to do in her spare time, she should spend it licking the public toilet until it becomes sparkling clean, ' he thought to himself.

In an outburst of anger, he tore up the documents.

He threw them into the trash can lividly, and tapped his fingers on the table. Then he looked up and inquired, ”Did Isabella try to use you?”

”Yes, she did,” James earnestly replied as he patted his chest and promised that he was telling the truth. Isabella did take advantage of him. Had it not been for Nina's cleverness and wit, he would have been easily fooled by her.

”Did you hear that?” John looked at Henry with malicious intent.

Henry understood what John meant right away, even without any specific instructions. ”Yes, I will immediately retrieve the contract and inform them to cancel the collaboration with Zhang Group.”

”Okay, go on,” John nodded with satisfaction and waved his hand dismissively, indicating that they should go out of his office.

Both James and Henry sighed with relief, thankful that they were able to go out of the lion's den unscathed.

As soon as they stepped out of the office, James was filled with gratitude and bragged boastfully, ”Uncle John really treats me the best. Because of me, he is even willing to cancel the collaboration with Zhang Group.”

It was so undeniably touching and heartwarming!

Henry shook his head and rebutted, ”Think about it. Have you ever wondered why Mr. Shi didn't order me to cancel the collaboration when you said Isabella used you?”

”Yes, why?” James was also confused and he was left puzzled.

Henry smirked mischievously and thought to himself, 'He did this not for you, but for Nina.'