American Tax Officer

"Alright, President, as long as you handle it on your end, I promise the Los Angeles Branch won't make a move!"

After hanging up the phone, Charlotte returned to the parlor with a defeated face.

Seeing her come in.

Still unaware of what had happened, Obadiah and Donald stood with their arms crossed, smiling broadly, ready to watch her impotent fury, but to their surprise, her next statement left them completely dumbfounded.

"Fine, Director Obadiah, let's just let this matter go, we won't pursue it further…"

"What?"

Obadiah and Donald were stunned.

This wasn't the script they expected.

Shouldn't you, Charlotte, keep barking furiously? You're compromising just like that?

This isn't like you at all!

Before the two could figure it out,

a tax authority employee walked in, approached Obadiah and Gray, and whispered something to them.

After listening, they finally understood.

They said that Charlotte, who was always like a mad dog, suddenly stopped her barking.

It turned out that members of the Los Angeles Branch had been scared nearly to pieces by something David had said on television earlier.

"Hahaha!"

Obadiah and Donald weren't professionally trained, but having held high positions for many years, they normally could control their demeanor. However, this incident made it impossible for them to contain their laughter.

The thought of Charlotte, who was supposed to come and accuse them, now about to kneel and beg for mercy almost brought tears of laughter to their eyes.

Charlotte's face turned even more ashen. Suppressing the anger and humiliation in her heart, she managed to say, "Have you had enough laughter? Can we talk about the important matters?"

Obadiah held back his laughter and responded, "Talk about what? We're all ears."

"I mean, let's just drop this matter. What do you think?"

"If we drop it, what else can you do?"

"F—"

Charlotte swallowed back the second half of the expletive and grudgingly said, "From now on, the Human Rights Organization and your department will keep to our own paths, and that will be the end of it!"

What she was actually saying was,

from now on, our Human Rights Organization won't mess with you or target you anymore, and you better not let David mess with us either!

From here on, you take your Sunny Road, and I'll take my Single-Plank Bridge, without interfering with each other!

Obadiah and Donald, of course, understood. At that moment, they felt incredibly satisfied.

This Human Rights Organization had been nipping at their heels for so many years, and their tax authority hadn't had a good way to deal with them. Now, finally, David had given them a lesson!

But then again, after being bitten by the Human Rights Organization for so many years, now that they had caught such an opportunity, how could they let it go so easily without making the other party pay dearly?

With this in mind, Obadiah said with a chuckling tone, "Heh, President Charlotte, you make it sound so simple. For years, it has been your Human Rights Organization constantly biting at our tax authority, trying to gain fame from us. And now you say let's keep to our own paths and that'll be the end of it? Where in this world do you get such a good deal?"

Now that they were the ones being asked for a favor, he was not about to use any polite language, and his posture was even more condescending.

"What do you guys want, then?"

"We don't want much, we only have two demands!"

"Let's hear them!"

"First, for all these years, whenever our Tax Authority took any action or tried a criminal in court, you would attack us on social media and various TV stations. Now, you escalate things by protesting with banners right at the doorstep of our courthouse, seriously damaging our image. I demand that you publicly apologize to our Tax Authority!"

"Impossible!"

Charlotte was nearly suffocated with rage.

Not only had he come here and endured humiliation, but his subordinates had been handed heavy sentences by the Tax Authority, causing them to lose face in front of the whole world. And now they were supposed to publicly apologize to the Tax Authority?

This was practically like tearing off his face!

Director Obadiah didn't get angry but turned to Donald and said, "Didn't David say he wanted to go to the Los Angeles Branch of the Human Rights Organization? Ask him if he has any other business to deal with. If not, he should hurry up and go take a look..."

"According to his plan, he should be getting ready for a tax audit on Hollywood. But since the Human Rights Organization issue has come up, I think it would be good for him to deal with this matter first."

"Oh right, don't just deal with Los Angeles. He should also pay a visit to the Human Rights Organization branches in other California cities to clear out the troublemakers!"

"..."

Their back-and-forth singing made Charlotte so angry she almost flipped the table.

It was one thing to target the Los Angeles Branch, but now they also wanted to move against branches in other cities?

This was nothing short of sheer audacity!

But as angry as she was, the Los Angeles Branch was already showing signs of collapse simply because David had publicly stated he would pay it a visit.

If David were to say he was visiting other cities, then the Human Rights Organization branches in those cities wouldn't fare much better either.

With this in mind, Charlotte stretched her hand to her leg and pinched her thigh fiercely, gritting her teeth and saying, "Fine, we will publicly apologize. State your second demand!"

Upon hearing her concession, Obadiah and Donald both tacitly stopped their discussion.

"That's more like it, President Charlotte!"

Director Obadiah praised her with a smile, then continued, "The second demand isn't much.

Now the outside world always says that our Tax Authority abuses private punishments and our standards for sentencing are too harsh, so after you make your public apology, you need to tell the public that you wholeheartedly support the sentencing of Ted and his two associates and inform everyone that those three, being suspects of tax evasion, deserved their punishment!"

"Fake, impossible!"

Charlotte stood up swiftly, enraged like a bull, her eyes bulging as she glared at Obadiah.

The outside world accusing the Tax Authority of abuse of private punishments meant pointing fingers at their very own Human Rights Organization.

But that wasn't the key point.

The key thing was that Ted was one of their own.

In front of the whole world, to publicly support the Tax Authority's sentencing and to accuse their own people of deserving their punishment, never mind how the world would see it, her own organization would be in an uproar!

After all, if we couldn't protect our own members, that's one thing.

But now, assisting the Tax Authority in accusing our own members? What use did she have for staying in this organization then?

She might as well defect to the Tax Authority!