In front of the television, a well-dressed, charming man watched the confrontation between Lynch and Oula with a displeased look.

He picked up the phone beside him, dialed a number, and after a moment said into the receiver, "Get them to change the subject, she's offended so many people, this time make her ask some normal questions like a regular host..."

After saying this, he hung up the phone and continued watching the television.

The phone was right next to him, just by the sofa. In most household layouts, the phone wouldn't be placed by the sofa; that's not where a phone belongs.

For example, what if the host is entertaining guests and a sensitive call comes in?

Avoiding it would make the guests feel their relationship wasn't good enough that even a phone call had to be avoided.

Facing it, some might feel that the call was related to them, perhaps someone was speaking ill of them, or something else.

Not avoiding it, not all calls can be openly displayed in front of unrelated people, and it is a poor treatment of the caller to allow a private conversation between two people to include a third party, it's not a good experience.

So in most households --- here we need to exclude the ordinary families who place the phone by the sofa more for showing off.

Apart from those people, most families would place the phone in a corner further from public areas or arrange it in a separate room.

From the decoration of this house, it's clear the owner is not a poor individual, with a fire burning in the fireplace beside the sofa, and an old stag's head with exaggerated antlers that could elicit shrieks from some ladies mounted on the wall above it.

On the surrounding walls, there are other animal heads like bears and lions, lifelike, and not discussing the cost of hunting these animals, merely making them into exquisite specimens and preserving them is not a cheap expense.

The decorations in the room, along with several paintings worth tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands on another wall, indicate this is not an ordinary family, and the owner shouldn't make such a simple mistake as placing the phone by the sofa.

But he did it because his work is very busy, busy to the point where he needs to take calls anytime and anywhere.

This gentleman is a Congressional Representative and holds a position on the Appropriations Committee.

In the Federation's congressional system, the Appropriations Committee is one of the eight standing committees and a very important institution, responsible for non-military fiscal budget appropriations of the elite, wielding great power.

This old man is one of them, with strong social relationships.

The show currently playing on TV, the host named Oula is precisely his daughter.

No matter how busy he is, as long as he has time, he will definitely watch this program, expressing his concern for family members.

But only they themselves know what this is truly about.

He continued eating, the roast meat, carelessly grabbing with his hands, his hands full of grease, these traits at this moment, don't resemble those of a big shot at all.

His eyes flickered with a certain light, seemingly recalling something.

In fact, it's not only him reminiscing; Oula on the television also fell into some unpleasant memories.

A word from Lynch stirred her spirit, bringing her back many years.

When the show's director informed Lynch that Oula was trouble and provoked program guests, Lynch took time to call the Security Committee.

He is now a special adviser to the Security Committee, and he has the authority to access non-top-level confidential files---it should be noted here that even non-top-level confidential files are not disclosed to the public.

The secrecy and declassification proclaimed by the Federation Government have never been a matter concerning the public, only those with special identities can access those non-confidential and declassified files.

As for confidential files, higher identity and permission are needed, with the highest level being the President himself.

Very soon, some superficial information somewhat related to Oula reached Lynch's ears, as for more, such as her and her family, no authorization was granted.

It's not that Lynch's qualifications were insufficient, but according to Federation law, no institution may initiate investigations and inquiries against individuals engaged in public service, Representatives included.

This law was enacted to avoid during political struggle, both sides unrestrainedly using state institutions as weapons to attack and harm each other, which indeed avoided many problems but also created many issues.

Because of this, Lynch knew that Oula's father was a Congressional Representative, and without higher authority's approval, Lynch couldn't access personal information about her and her family, but the Security Committee gave Lynch some additional information, which was that Oula's uncle was sentenced to heavy punishment for violating Federation law.

Federation law is sometimes unclear, with some lawyer apostles causing the boundaries of law to sway, but on some issues, the law expresses itself with decisiveness and accuracy — particularly on child and women protection issues.

Combining some traits he observed during the appearance, Lynch drew some horrifying conclusions.

When Lynch proposed this hypothesis, Oula fell into memories.

Life will always have its discontentments; the Lord grants you riches others don't have, but might take away your health, gives you a strong body, but might forget to give you a wealthy life.

In this world, there aren't many perfect things, life will always have some regrets, regardless of whose life it is, it's always true.

Oula's childhood wasn't very happy, but fortunately, those bad, angering or terrifying things have become the past; now she is detached from those shadows.

Through these years of commotion, those past events are almost forgotten...

Almost!

If Lynch hadn't brought this matter up, she might have been able to continue pretending she forgot.

This made her feel fear, but also more anger, she felt as if she was stripped naked by Lynch and exposed to the public eye.

She subconsciously glanced at the audience in the live show, in a daze she seemed to return to that day!

And at that moment, she came to her senses, subconsciously touched her hair, her face first turning pale but soon reddened by anger, "I only asked you some slightly sensitive questions, but you attacked me viciously this way, Mr. Lynch, is this the attitude towards ladies that you learned in school?"

"I've heard that public schools are very chaotic, I've done related programs before, early romance, violence, mutual attacks between students and between students and teachers?"

"It seems you've learned everything comprehensively from public schools!", she said, still smiling as she added, "I heard you had ambiguous relationships with many girls during high school, that's the benefit of a handsome face, you don't need anything else."

Harsh, vicious, every guest who ever appeared on "Oula Ninety Points" has had this feeling, they hate this feeling, yet have no way to avoid it.

The show's director who walked back from outside held a cue card with some content written on it and showed it to Oula on stage; the show just began, and pausing now could trigger unnecessary trouble, so the show had to continue, thus he could only convey the legislator's words to Oula through the cue card.

Oula saw the cue card in the director's hand, Lynch saw it too, and he gave Oula a meaningful smile, a smile that made Oula feel uneasy, while her anger burned stronger.

The experiences of her childhood made her very strong-willed, wanting to control everything, and believing that as long as she could control everything, she could control her destiny.

She always managed to accomplish this, and this time she felt she could do it again, she wanted to regain the initiative.

She fixed her hair, looked at Lynch, and decided not to follow her father's will, "What, do you think I'm wrong, Mr. Lynch?"

When she posed this question, Oula still mentally applauded her own wit, having invited Lynch to the program, she must have gained some understanding of him.

She knew Lynch attended the most ordinary public schools in Sabin City from elementary school, what do public schools represent?

Endless chaos, in the Federation's education system, public education has always been seen as the shameful part of the education system, public and private education is always the polar opposites.

One side dismisses classes at three o'clock, at most by half-past three, with no homework assignments.

On the other side, classes end at five or six at night, with loads of homework assignments.

Beyond the differences in schools, children like Oula from such backgrounds also need to undergo tutoring from home teachers, which is also an unwanted past.

But these would become the pride of every upper-class person.

She slightly raised her chin, looking at Lynch with an unreserved haughtiness and arrogance.

No matter how well Lynch develops now, he is just from an unremarkable background, from the social bottom, he will never match up to Oula in terms of background.

Such sharp attacks left the whole studio pin-drop silent, with the program being filled with tension right from the start, making it exciting.

People watched Lynch, wanting to see how he would respond, but this time, people seemed less eager to hear his answer than before.

Maybe it was empathy?

Uncertain, perhaps.

People looked at Lynch, who bowed his head in thought, knowing that if he didn't answer well, it wouldn't just be his loss.

The corners of Oula's mouth had already turned up in a victorious smile, as if she had already won!

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