Chapter 105: Throw him out

Victoria nodded faintly. "In that case, let me repeat myself clearly: expel him. Throw him out permanently."

How dare a pathetic nobody like this stand up in a public hall and hurl vulgar slander and insults directly at her Julian?

She was never going to let him walk away unscathed.

Panic consumed Ben Wanli entirely. As the absolute majority shareholder of Capital University, Victoria held total, uncontested control over every administrative lever of the school. For her, expelling an ordinary student was literally nothing more than uttering a single word.

A crushing wave of profound regret battered Ben Wanli’s chest.

If I had only known the true, terrifying relationship between Julian Vance and President Sterling... I never, in a million years, would have allowed myself to be used as a pawn to target Julian!

"President Sterling, I know I was completely wrong! I swear on my life I will never utter a single disrespectful word about Julian again! Please, I’m begging you, do not expel me... give me one more chance!"

Ben Wanli dropped heavily to his knees right on the floor.

He began frantically kowtowing, banging his forehead against the hard tiles as he wept and begged for mercy from Victoria.

Victoria remained completely unmoved, her expression frozen like stone. She turned slightly toward her secretary.

"Secretary Evelyn, check your records: what corporate entities does this student’s family own?"

Secretary Evelyn replied smoothly, "Reporting to President Sterling, his family operates a mid-sized commercial building materials manufacturing company."

Victoria commanded coldly, "Coordinate with our acquisitions department and bankrupt their family business within the next three Hours."

"Understood, President Sterling." Secretary Evelyn nodded immediately, showing zero hesitation.

Crushing a minor family business like Ben Wanli’s didn’t even require three full hours— one minute was more than enough time to completely strangle their supply chains and force liquidation.

Once President Sterling issued a corporate blacklist directive, which major commercial bank or logistics supplier in the country would ever dare to conduct a single cent of business with Ben Wanli’s family firm?

"What...?!"

Ben Wanli’s face twisted into a mask of pure, unadulterated terror.

Not only was President Sterling expelling him from the university in disgrace, but she was also ordering the complete, intentional destruction of his family’s entire corporate livelihood!

If his family’s company went bankrupt, how on earth was he supposed to maintain his lavish lifestyle as a wealthy young master?

"President Sterling! Please, I’m begging you, spare our family company!"

"Everything I did today was entirely my own foolish doing—it has nothing to do with my parents! Please, I Begging you, do not drag my family down into this!" Ben Wanli screamed hysterically, tears streaming down his face.

Seeing that Victoria possessed zero intention of showing mercy or altering her verdict, Ben Wanli’s mind snapped under the immense pressure. In a desperate bid to save his own skin, he violently whipped his head around and pointed an accusatory finger directly at Leo Vance sitting nearby.

"President Sterling! It was Leo Vance! Leo Vance is the one who secretly ordered and manipulated me into targeting Julian Vance!"

"If you want to punish someone for orchestrating this smear campaign, punish Leo Vance!"

Leo vance :"..."

Sitting in his row, Leo Vance forced his face to remain as calm and expressionless as possible, though his heart hammered violently. "Ben Wanli, are you completely insane? What on earth does my existence have to do with you running around spreading malicious rumors about Julian?!"

Ben Wanli roared back, his voice cracking with fury: "Leo ! Don’t you dare sit there and lie through your teeth trying to deny it! You are the mastermind who forced me into this!"

"If it weren’t for your constant instigation, would I have ever bothered wasting my time targeting Julian?! My family’s building materials company relies heavily on lucrative supply contracts from the Vance- corporate network! I had no choice other than to obey your commands and play your dirty games! Leo Vance, don’t even think about washing your hands of this!"

Leo Vance forced a cold, sarcastic smile. "Ben Wanli, since you’re standing up here loudly claiming that I gave you orders... where is your concrete evidence?"

"Evidence...?" Ben Wanli’s face drained of what little color remained. "I... I don’t have any formal written evidence!"

Leo Vance had strictly communicated all instructions verbally during private conversations.

Where on earth was he supposed to produce physical evidence?

"Since you possess zero evidence to back up your unhinged claims, then stop barking lies and trying to frame me for your own stupidity," Leo sneered, raising his voice to address the auditorium.

"Principal Smith, President Sterling—this unhinged student Ben Wanli is merely trying to save his own skin by frantically framing and dragging innocent people down with him! Please do not believe a single word of his desperate lies!"

High up near the doorway, Victoria Sterling cast a single, sub-zero glance toward Leo Vance.

If it weren’t for the fact that she occasionally wanted to leave Leo Vance around as a minor source of cheap amusement for her Julian, this pathetic parasite would have been quietly erased from society weeks ago.

Fine. Let him stick around just a little longer.

Victoria spoke with absolute indifference, giving a brief gesture to the security detail: "Drag him out of my sight."

Thud—

Two towering, muscular men dressed in matching black executive suits and dark sunglasses strode silently into the lecture hall. With grim, expressionless faces, they locked their heavy grips onto Ben Wanli’s arms, physically hoisting him off the floor as if he weighed nothing more than a ragdoll.

They began dragging him backward down the central aisle toward the double doors.

Even as he was being hauled out in public disgrace, Ben Wanli thrashed wildly, screaming at the top of his lungs: "Leo Vance, you despicable, treacherous, shameless scoundrel!"

"President Sterling! It really was Leo Vance who manipulated me into doing this! Because Leo couldn’t stand the fact that Julian was the true biological son of the household, he constantly felt threatened and ordered me to execute these smear campaigns to destroy Julian’s reputation!"

Up at the center aisle, Julian watched the chaotic spectacle unfold, shaking his head with quiet amusement.

Ben Wanli and Leo Vance... truly behaving like two rabid dogs tearing each other apart over scraps.