Free Web NovelChapter 60: Chapter 60: From Fan to Hater
After his meeting, Ethan Sinclair thought about what Chloe Sinclair had said earlier and finally called his assistant.
"Investigate this incident and see if someone is fanning the flames behind the scenes."
He paused before continuing, "Report directly to me once you find out. Don’t tip anyone off."
On his end of the line, Ethan Sinclair fell silent for a good while.
’He was just now realizing that this situation might not be as simple as he’d thought.’
’The Kennet First High School forum clearly didn’t have much traffic, with maybe only one or two hundred daily users. Even if the incident was a big deal, it shouldn’t have blown up so fast in just a few short hours.’
’Plus, the flood of damning accusations came one after another, catching everyone off guard.’
’But if someone was fanning the flames from behind the scenes, that was a different story.’
"And one more thing. Don’t let Chloe’s former homeroom teacher off the hook. Expose what needs to be exposed. Find some sensationalist social media accounts to hype it up." freēwebnovel.com
He didn’t say more, trusting his assistant to know what to do.
After hanging up the phone, Ethan Sinclair suddenly calmed down and sighed heavily.
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「Early the next morning, on Weibo.」
An account that was clearly brand new suddenly went viral.
The reason was a lengthy post she had published, accusing Laura Rhodes—the Kennet First High School teacher who had so successfully played the victim online—of being a homewrecker who had seduced her husband.
Previously, Laura Rhodes had crafted the image of a pitiful victim crushed by the powerful elite. Her act was so successful that she gained over 300,000 followers. A livestreaming company even took notice and signed her to a contract, and she had been raking in cash ever since.
However, when she saw the lengthy post, she immediately panicked.
But after the initial panic, she quickly collected herself.
’All I have to do is deny it.’
Emboldened by her previous success with the victim narrative, Laura Rhodes wasn’t the least bit afraid. Instead, she went and responded to the matter publicly.
This move immediately caused her favorability among netizens to soar.
After all, no homewrecker would come out so openly to deny the accusation.
However, a surveillance video that surfaced next exposed her completely.
In the video, she and a man were acting extremely intimately, all lovey-dovey as they walked to the entrance of a hotel.
What happened next needed no explanation—everyone knew what they were there for.
Not even a few minutes after the video was released, the anonymous Weibo user who had written the lengthy post directly uploaded a picture of her marriage certificate.
People patiently made the comparison, and the result left them stunned.
Holy crap!
The man on the marriage certificate was indeed the man from the video, but the woman in the video was not the one on the certificate.
In an instant, the netizens who had just been defending Laura Rhodes felt like they’d been played for absolute fools. They immediately unfollowed and turned on her.
[I’m sorry, everyone. I used to fantasize about her.]
[I’m sorry. It’s my fault. I can’t believe I trusted a homewrecker.]
[Laura Rhodes really sold that sob story, didn’t she? Saying she was forced out of her job by threats from Chloe Sinclair’s family? I bet you were ’encouraged’ to resign because of this little affair of yours, huh?]
[The comment above is probably the truth.]
[Piggybacking on this thread to say something. I’m a senior in Class 7 at Kennet First High School. Laura Rhodes was my homeroom teacher back in my first year. Just so she could look good, she ordered us all to get short, student-style haircuts. I’m a girl, and I refused to cut my hair, but she just grabbed a pair of scissors and chopped off the hair I’d been growing for seven years, just like that. After that, my grades plummeted, and she got the whole class to turn on me. I ended up developing depression from all the psychological pressure. If you don’t believe me, you can go look at my Weibo posts from two years ago. I am absolutely not lying!]
The comment was quickly upvoted to the top, garnering over two hundred thousand likes. Laura Rhodes didn’t dare try to secretly delete it.
After all, if she deleted it, she would be well and truly finished.
