The Broken-hearted She And The Icy He

Chapter 22 Not Dead Yet

Lily’s hotel name, her phone number… even her ID number had all been leaked online by the ever-“resourceful” netizens.

All because John was that famous.

And the rumor of her being a mistress? It dominated the trending searches.

The internet was flooded with slander, abuse, and mockery. Strangers from every corner of the web cursed her, told her to go die, even damned her entire family.

Too bad for them–those curses were wasted.

Her family… had already perished sixteen years ago. And she had no plans to die.

She was going to live. Live long, just like her parents had told her to.

Lily could guess with near certainty: the photo of her leaving the marital home had been leaked by Elsa’s people, stirring public opinion and weaponizing the internet mob.

She was still contemplating how to counterattack when her phone rang.

It was the director of God of War.

“Mr. Applebee, good morning. I—”

Just a little incident, she meant to say. I’ll be there soon to sign the contract.

But before she could finish, Mr. Applebee’s voice, cold and full of contempt, cut her off. “Lily, don’t bother coming.Our studio doesn’t work with voice actors who have moral stains. We’ll never collaborate with you again.”

Lily froze. He’d seen the headlines too.

She’d auditioned five separate times to get the role of Athena.

And now, because of baseless slander, it was gone.

“Mr. Applebee, please, there’s been a misunderstanding. I’m not a homewrecker-”

Click.

The call ended.

She redialed.

Busy signal.

He had blocked her.

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of her phone, Lily felt

hard. So hard. It took

someone else had crushed it with the flick

cry–but she

“Come on, Lily. Keep

fall. The more they want you filthy and broken. The higher you’ll rise

Keep going.

of filth. All that trash thrown at

a long time,

water—until she could no longer smell the rot

hair was dry, she didn’t rush to post her

louder. The scandal was growing

that John’s bias for her would prevent him from speaking out. Elsa wanted her ruined. Disgraced

what Elsa hadn’t

Lily had solid evidence

wanted to

until this scandal reached its boiling point, and then

what it meant to be despised

bed and

Or so she thought.

but her mind dragged her back–to

days when

her parents died, she was

child. Within

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adopting her.

couple who had just lost their

Boltons–Blanc and Nancy–the wealthiest family in the country and

and had always longed for

her arms and