Hiding Behind Her Superficiality

Chapter 268

Yelena was so anxious that she paced back and forth in the room. It was a highly anticipated drama even before its premiere, so she couldn’t accept if the drama had flopped just like that!

“Don’t worry. I have a solution!” Elspeth spoke confidently.

“A solution? Since things have come to this extent, if we can’t prove that the author didn’t plagiarize, we won’t be able to turn the tables.”

Why would there be rumors about the novel being plagiarized? And even if it was plagiarized, why would it be exposed exactly at this time?

“Yes, so don’t be too worried. Let’s see how things develop from here. The more it is discussed, the better it is for us.” Elspeth wanted to see whether Emma could have the last laugh later on.

“Elspeth, the post has been liked and shared more than 100 million times. If we don’t clarify this issue, both Luminous and the drama will be done for!” Timothy, who had been monitoring the figures, was disheartened when he saw that most of the comments were nasty comments. However, Elspeth seemed calm and was typing away on the keyboard as if there was no one around her.

“Elspeth, the server is now down! This is horrible! Luminous is being lambasted!”

The main thing was that they lost half of their followers. Yelena’s 10 million followers had been reduced by half. Blake had taken a worse hit as he lost almost 30 million followers!

‘The drama and cast are awful! Get out of the entertainment industry!’

‘Stop making dramas. It’s disgusting!’

‘Still not coming out with a statement? Cowards!’

‘I must have been blind to stan these people!’

Soon, a wave of book fans came to defend the writer.

‘What do you mean plagiarize? Lucrece is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, so it can’t have been plagiarized.’

‘A novel like this is unprecedented. I’ve never read something like that before. The novels that you claim are similar are written by yourself?’

‘I’ve read Lucrece’s novel for almost five years. I’d know better if they are plagiarized. If you dare to chat offline and claim that it’s plagiarized, I’ll tear your mouths apart!’

And it went on and on.

“Elspeth!” Yelena couldn’t take it anymore. “I have an account too. Can you allow me to chat with them? They have lost their minds.” Yelena thought that the netizens had overreacted even if they had selected a plagiarized novel by mistake.

“Don’t worry. I’m almost done.” Elspeth stretched and finished typing the last few words. After that, she logged into her account and posted the article that she had just typed. Everyone was on Elspeth’s page waiting for a statement as being Luminous’ person in charge, she had to come out to deal with the issue.

‘I’m sure that all of you are aware of the issue with Luminous’ script. Below is my clarification on the issue of…’

The article had caused a buzz upon being posted. ‘Forget about everything else, but Elspeth is the author of the novel?’

‘This article is written by Lucrece, who is the author of the novel and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.’

‘They sought Elspeth’s help probably because they don’t dare to confront the famous author.’

‘Whether or not the novel is plagiarized is the book fans’ issue. It has nothing to do with the entertainment industry.’

Some people even posted some nasty comments which were refuted by the book fans. They never would have thought that the author of the novel, actor, and investor were the same person!

An anti-fan commented, ‘So what if you are the author? Can you prove that you didn’t plagiarize?’

Following that, some netizens posted below the comments, ‘Blockhead, you should read the whole article before commenting ignorantly.’ The article clearly stated the publication date of all the suspected plagiarized novels. The information on their website could be validated too. Upon checking, they realized the publication dates of the novels were later than Elspeth’s, aka Lucrece’s, novel! With that, the anti-fans were so embarrassed that they stopped posting. The server which had almost collapsed finally went back to normal.

Most of them had probably left to avoid embarrassment. At the same time, Yelena and Blake’s followers were increasing, becoming 10 million, 20 million, 50 million… Soon, the number of followers had returned to their initial figures and was 30% more than before!

Yelena’s eyes lit up when she saw that. “That’s great, Elspeth! And here I was wondering why you have been so calm throughout it. Turns up you have a great plan up your sleeve! It’s impressive that you managed to search for all the publication dates. They won’t be able to deny it now that we have the proof!”

“Of course, since this is just child’s play for a hacker. Emma sure is stupid.” Elspeth ridiculed Emma.

Meanwhile, Emma, who was about to sit back and watch the fiasco, suddenly sneezed. “How strange. Why am I sneezing when the heater has been switched on?” She rubbed her nose. After a long wait, she was finally going to read about the tragic state Elspeth and Luminous were in. However, she noticed that most of the nasty comments had disappeared. Some of them were deleted by the users themselves and some were done by Elspeth without anyone’s notice.

“What happened?!” The enraged Emma simply grabbed onto someone and asked about the situation. Content rights belong to NôvelDrama.Org.

Seeing that Emma was furious, the person stuttered, “E-Emma, you’ll find out after visiting Elspeth’s Twitter.” Elspeth again! After reading the well-written article, Emma realized that it was impossible to accuse them of plagiarism! Before she could make sense of the situation, another piece of news was published.

This time around, it was a video. In the video, the man and woman were making love to each other. The woman was blushing while lying on the bed as the man thrust into her. Their important parts and the man’s face were blurred out, but the woman’s face was in high definition. As soon as the video was published, it caused a stir on the Internet. The reason being the woman in the video was Emma Walker, the hottest star from Falcon Entertainment!

‘This is big news!’

‘It’s crazy!’

It was now Emma’s turn to be the talk of the town. Emma was stunned when she saw the video. A few seconds later, she screamed so loud that everyone in the whole company could hear it

‘Goodness, she looked so innocent, but she turned out to be a tramp!’

‘So disgusting! I won’t be watching any of her dramas!’

”It’s ‘Song of Viollenys’, right? She’s so disgusting that I won’t be watching it!’

The viewership of ‘Song of Viollenys’ dropped by 50% upon the release of the video and its ratings were extremely low. At this rate, it might even be taken down shortly after its release!

“Elspeth… It must be Elspeth!” Emma took a breath and there was a glint of malevolence in her eyes. She swore that she wouldn’t let Elspeth off the hook.

However, before Emma went to see the director, the president of the company had gone to see her first. “Emma, it is apparent that you are now notorious. To cut our losses, the company has decided to keep you out of the public eye.” It was extremely difficult to cultivate an excellent star, but they had no choice but to abandon Emma at this point.