Rural Belle & Three Heirs by Harper Hall

Chapter 284 Trending Topic

Anissa's words left Quentin speechless for a moment.

After a few seconds of stunned silence, he finally spoke, his voice heavy with emotion, "Look, Anissa, some things are better left in the past. I really hope you won't stir up trouble.

You know why I married you back then, and you know how you gave birth to our three kids.

I've given you respect, so please don't make things difficult for me. If we can live peacefully, everything will be fine. Otherwise..."

Quentin didn't finish his words. Without waiting for Anissa to respond, he hung up the phone.

Staring at the abruptly disconnected phone, Anissa burned with fury. Yet years of practiced restraint allowed her to forcibly swallow the scalding anger rising in her throat. She blinked hard, the tears threatening to spill from her eyes now trapped behind an iron-willed dam.

To wield power, she reminded herself through gritted teeth, one must endure the invisible crown's weight-its responsibilities like barbed wire, its pressures like molten lead. Within moments, her features recomposed into their signature glacial mask, colder than midwinter frost crystallizing on glass.

Standing beside her, Isidora watched the complex changes in Anissa's expression carefully. At that moment, she suddenly understood why Anissa could hold her position as Mrs. Martin.

Because she could endure the grievances that ordinary people couldn't.

To impress Anissa, Isidora posted a message on a mysterious Facebook account. Overnight, a video of Aurelia slapping an ordinary people appeared on major media platforms across the country.

The TV, the internet, and video channels were flooded with discussions about the incident.

Some media outlets, to attract traffic, even edited high-definition footage of Adelaide slapping Isidora. In the video, Adelaide's slap landed clearly on Isidora's face. Isidora covered her face, looking aggrieved and afraid to retaliate.

Uninformed netizens were led to believe that Aurelia was abusing her power, using her status in the industry to assault an ordinary people.

and saw the

intending to wake her up and discuss how

Unexpectedly, Adelaide was indifferent.

she told Chloe, "Chloe, don't worry.

Adelaide stood up for Chloe, her hands trembled with panic at the thought of anyone so much as ruffling Chloe's hair. But now, as she found herself drowning in the whirlpool of public outrage, Adelaide yawned and applied eye cream with the serenity of a sloth on Valium - her "beauty sleep" took priority over collapsing reputations. Chloe was at a loss. She wanted to find Adelaide's assistant to

Chloe was speechless.

among netizens

hour, the news of Adelaide slapping a stranger

in the millions. Whenever someone mentioned Aurelia, a

incident, and Chloe roughly

Adelaide, as

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that she had always had a good reputation and never had any scandals. If she was driven to the point of hitting someone, it must have

was a third camp, who remained neutral, waiting for

Rena also saw the news

her fiery temper, kept messaging Chloe in the group

When is Adelaide getting up? Shouldn't we be doing some damage control? If this keeps up, it's

stress. I have evidence. Should I release all the videos? Isidora

onlookers were, it was useless if

the situation spiraling out of control, took a

heat of the situation, the three of them each grabbed a computer, registered

efforts of the three of them were laughably outgunned. Every post they managed to publish vanished within minutes -

strings. Those suspiciously enthusiastic commenters? Probably bots fueled by espresso and stock photos, hired to drown