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.

up early and saw the news first thing in the

grabbed her phone and went to Adelaide's bedroom, intending to wake her

Unexpectedly, Adelaide was indifferent.

"Chloe, don't worry. Let me finish

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

Chloe was speechless.

the discussions among netizens grew increasingly

Adelaide slapping a stranger became a

in the millions. Whenever someone mentioned Aurelia, a flood of netizens

incident, and Chloe roughly divided them into two

Adelaide, as a public figure, was wrong to

for the complete story. Share the joy of reading with others and spread the word. The

never had any scandals.

who remained neutral, waiting for the truth to come

and Rena also

her fiery temper, kept messaging Chloe in

getting up? Shouldn't we be doing some damage control? If this keeps up,

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

worried the onlookers were, it was useless if the main character

spiraling out of control, took a car

situation, the three of them

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

it didn't take a genius to realize there was a puppet master pulling the strings. Those suspiciously enthusiastic commenters? Probably bots fueled by espresso and stock photos, hired to drown out reality