Atrophy of Love: Mr. Harris, Stop Fooling Around! novel Chapter 485

Charles was not military personnel, and although he violated regulators and killed someone in the streets, he only did so in self-defense and to avoid causing further damage.

Moreover, he had contributed a lot to the effort of arresting Mr. Zellner. Hence, in the end, he was exempted from punishment and was also commended by the government. As a reward, the government proposed a favorable tax reduction to Harris Corporation, along with a series of other benefits.

However, Charles turned them down. “All I ask is that Mr. Zellner is exempted from the death penalty, I don’t want any of these offers. In fact, I don’t mind donating 20% of Harris Corporation’s annual net profits to the government too.”

After all of Mr. Zellner’s scheming and everything he had done to Sophia, it would be a shame to let him die just like that.

He wanted Mr. Zellner to suffer like Leah, to make their lives a living hell so they would repent for everything they had done!

20% of Harris Corporation’s net profits was not a small number at all.

The Department of the Treasury was constantly in deep debt, and they were never able to carry out civilian projects because of the lack of resources, and most importantly, money.

After discussing with the government, they agreed to accept his request. On the surface, Mr. Zellner was given a death sentence, but in reality, they did not shoot him. Instead, they followed Charles’ request.

Aside from that, the government handed over most of their new projects to Harris Corporation as a token of thanks for all of Harris Corporation’s contribution.

However, there was still one troubling matter to handle, and that was Harris Corporation being involved in human experiments.

If they got rid of Charles, the next chairman of Harris Corporation might disagree with Charles’ proposal to donate 20% of the company’s net profits to the country.

Just as everyone was worried about this matter, Master Harris approached the government side and bore full responsibility for the case.

“I was the one who approved the human experiments, it has nothing to do with Charles and Harris Corporation. Aside from funding the experiments, Harris Corporation did not participate in anything else, and I can attest that Charles was unaware of everything.”

“As for the doctors, I hired a few doctors from outside and sent them over to participate in the experiments whereas the others were sent by other companies. Please talk to me if you need any more information, there’s no need to trouble Charles and Harris Corporation any more.”

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Sophia was still recuperating in the hospital when she received the news that Master Harris turned himself in.

She was extremely shocked. “Is he that kind of person to do that sort of thing?” she asked Charles.

She still could not imagine someone like Master Harris to actually sacrifice himself for the greater good.

“Of course not,” Charles replied, “My aunts and uncles are already upset enough when they heard that I want to surrender 20% of the company’s net profits to the government. They wanted to use the human experiment case as an excuse to ship me off, then Justin would take over as the president and Luna would become the chairman.”

His eyes turned cold and revealed a jeering look. “In Grandfather’s eyes, Luna will never be a Harris because she’s a girl, whereas Justin was just never a Harris, to begin with. How could Grandfather allow Harris Corporation to be led by outsiders then?”

That was why Master Harris was willing to come forward and accept all the responsibility. It was to prevent Charles from being taken away and Harris Corporation falling into the hands of an outsider.

Sophia lowered her gaze and thought for a moment before she suddenly came to a realization. “You didn’t offer such a high amount of net profits just to make sure that Mr. Zellner doesn’t get a death sentence, did you? You always thought of all this, right?”

Charles’ silence confirmed her guess.

Grandfather was like a ticking timebomb, and although he did not have much time to live, it was a risk to keep him by his side. He had to eliminate all factors that might potentially prevent his and Sophia’s wedding from going smoothly as planned.

Sophia sucked a deep breath. With this brain of his and all the elaborate scheming, no wonder she was unable to run away from him in the past.

“Are you scared of me?” Charles frowned slightly when he noticed her pale face. She did not even panic for a moment when she was facing Mr. Zellner, yet she was showing signs of being afraid of him.