bChapter /bb82 /b

Skr stowed her suitcase in the trunk and got into the car.

Victor gave Skr a quick once–over. Seeing nothing amiss, he finally asked, “Skr, what on earth happened?”

Skr quickly filled Victor in on what had just happened.

Victor’s eyes turned icy cold. “They im to love me but hurt those

out. They‘

‘re absolutely unforgivable.”

“I’m not going to let this go easily,” he said, pulling out his phone, ready to text ke and demand he send over the topwyers immediately.

As soon as Victor unlocked his phone, a string of missed calls from his agent shed across the screen. Only then did he realize his agent had been trying to reach him multiple times.

Just as he was about to call back, another call came in.

“Qamar,” Victor asked, “why are you blowing up my phone like this?b” /b

Qamar shrieked excitedly, “Thank god, I finally got through to you. Do you even know you and Skr are trending on X right nowi?/ii” /i

Victor nced at Skr. “What’s going on?”

Qamar sent him a link and said, “Check it out for yourself.”

Victor tapped the link and quickly skimmed through it.

“Someone from the crew must have leaked these photos,” he said, his tone certain.

Qamar asked, “Do you know who did this?”

Victor thought for a moment. “I’ve got no leads,” he said.

“I know who it is,” Skr whispered, motioning for Victor to hang up first.

“I’ll look into this and call you back shortly,” Victor said, hanging up before Qamar could say another word.

Skr whispered, “It’s Elianna.”

Victor pondered for a moment. “Elianna is the only one we’ve had conflicts with recently,” he said. “That makes her a prime suspect. Let’s just call the cops and let them handle it.”

“Waiting for the cops to investigate is way too slow. By then, they might’ve already covered their tracks,” Skr said.

As she spoke, Skr texted iLeon/i: [Track down the original poster of that thread.]

Leon received the message and got right to work. In no time, he had tracked it down.

Leon texted: [Ms. Stone, I’ll post it now to clear things up for you.]

Leon quickly contacted several gossip ounts known for posting leaks and gave them the material.

In no time, those gossip ounts posted the videos.

The video alleged that a certain female bstar /bpreviously tried and failed to hurt a male star, only to end up mired bin /bscandal herself. Unwilling bto /bbept /bdefeat, she now cooked up another rumor to drag the male star down and make him the target of public bscorn/b.

She did this to make someone else take the fall and draw all the heat away from herself.

Although the video didn’t explicitly name the female star or the male star, the clues were so obvious that anyone could tell who bthey /bwere talking babout /b

It quickly went viral and topped the trends on X.

The onlinements changedpletely.

[I knew if I waited, the tea would spill and sure enough, here it is.]

[So, it was all fake? Caden wasn’t actually dating Skr?]

[Thank god it’s fake. I almost lost it.]

[What the hell is wrong with Elianna? Why is she so hell–bent oning after Caden? What did he ever do to her?]

[Elianna is so calcting. It’s downright terrifying.]

[Can she just get the hell out of showbiz? Give the industry back iits /iinv.]

A bunch of people swarmed Elianna’s social media, filling herments with hate and spamming her inbox with angry messages.

Elianna gritted her teeth and hissed, “How could this happen so suddenly?”

She immediately called her agent to clean up this mess.