The Ex-Wife's Burning Elegance

The livestream chat exploded. Comments flew by at lightning speed:

"Do the dog impression! Come on, bark like a dog! I wanna see it!"

"Let's all bark together! Woof, woof, woof, woof, woof!"

Seeing the chaos, Howard Shaw quickly set up a live poll.

He invited everyone to vote: should he bark like a dog or should he quit the competition?

And as for a third option... there wasn't one.

Back when this all started, Harry hadn't given Stella any other choices. He wasn't some benevolent saint who'd let a foreigner humiliate one of their own.

The host, hearing about the poll from the director, thought privately, "Howard's

finally catching on. That's a brilliant way to stir up controversy."

Controversy, after all, was the secret recipe for going viral these days.

The bigger the scandal, the more attention it drew.

Addressing the viewers, the host announced, "We've opened up a live poll online. You can all go and cast your votes-think of it as giving Mr. Harry a bit of advice."

even the host, had any intention of helping Harry out

the moment, using Harry as bait to rake in views and

was irreconcilable. Without

when there was a homegrown prodigy right

as Mr. Walden, who'd ignored a genius and picked Rachel —a

phones, eager to

chatted as they

come to the next round in person. Better book tickets online now, or they'll

only thinking about tickets now? They sold out five minutes ago! I

all this unfold, Harry was so furious he nearly

for Mr. Walden,

hesitated, and then swallowed his

If Walden defended him, he'd lose both face and dignity. Steeling himself,

host, catching Harry's desperate

was the same

others quit or

was his turn, he didn't want

following the director's que, he announced, "The poll results are in-eighty percent of viewers want Mr. Harry to do the dog impression instead

main reason? People wanted to see Harry embarrass

watched Harry with a