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Seeing the overwhelming support online, Jaxen finally let go of the last bit of guilt gnawing at him.

A few dissenting voices popped up in the comments, but they were quickly drowned out. Relieved, he paid to promote his video, letting the platform push it to a wider audience.

Setting his phone down, he turned to Cody, feeling more at ease. “Looks like most people on the internet still have common

sense.”

Cody gave a sheepish smile, trying to keep him in a good mood.

To boost engagement further, he even launched a giveaway under the official account, and sure enough, it pulled in even more attention.

They were biding their time–waiting for the topic to peak–before dropping their trump card: revealing that Chronos Legal had tried to sue them.

It was a classic underdog move. Big–name law firm picking on a small business? No matter how you spun it, it would look like bullying. Public opinion would be on their side.

Jaxen had the whole plan laid out, and he and Cody spent the afternoon in the office going over every detail.

What he didn’t anticipate was that the video would be discovered earlier than expected–by exactly the wrong person.

Because he’d bought traffic, the platform’s algorithm pushed the video to highly active users.

And by sheer luck, it landed right on Jeremy’s screen.

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Jeremy had just come back from skiing with friends. Slouched on the couch, he pulled out his phone, untouched all day, intending to check what his friends had been up to.

Instead, the very first thing on his feed was a chubby middle–aged man with an oily face and teary eyes, acting like he’d been terribly wronged.

Disgust twisted his expression as he swiped

screen, he felt like he

feed was usually full of friends and old connections from Blorence City.

had just posted a video of a pickup game with

looked like they were having a good time, though a few jabs made it into the audio.

were here, we’d be unstoppable.”

us for girls without even blinking. I’m flying to Strate City

gonna

dunk

on him.”

Let’s roll deep.”

chuckled, then typed seriously into the comments: [Not girls–my girl. Sixteen years old. Prime age

gave the post a like

pathetic middle–aged

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drifted farther from his face. Who the

Jeremy felt his eyes had been assaulted.

algorithm

later–third time’s the charm–the

time, Jeremy was too annoyed to ignore it. He decided to watch, just to see what this guy had

that triggered instinctive distrust. That’s why he’d been repulsed from

he listened, the more familiar

an apology? Wait a minute–wasn’t this about his sister’s case?

kept watching, his face hardening.

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man, red–eyed, putting on an Oscar–worthy victim act, while twisting the narrative completely. Jeremy was

guy get the audacity?

opened the comments and was floored by how

were.

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