Chapter: 500

“Can it be posted online again?” Ariana asked with her guilty conscience eating away at her.

“I won’t know until I talk to the editor, but either way, all my efforts to gain heat have been in vain.” She croaked, her voice cracking slightly.

Sonia took a deep breath to settle her rising emotions. She was on the verge of having a breakdown. Her voice climbed a few octaves as she whined on the phone, “It’s unbelievable that this kind of person even exists. He did all of this just because he thought the novel was surreal. Surely he isn’t aware that it’s normal for novels to be fantastical! I have a feeling that he failed in pursuing a woman using the lead character’s techniques, so he decided to vent out in anger.”

She was right.

Ariana gulped, but instead of confirming Sonia’s theories, she just put on a fake look of frustration. She pretended that she didn’t know who this man was and cursed along with Sonia, “Your novel is a great success, and that is undeniable to anyone who has read it. I don’t think some random report is going to keep your book from being back online. As for that reader, he was probably so obsessed with the fictional plot you created that he did this…”

know how to continue discrediting the reader. After all, Theodore did all of this for her, which made her a part of this whole report situation. Sweat beaded at the nape of

had suddenly become very still and very quiet. She paused her frantic pacing as a thought occurred to her.

better of her, knowing that Sonia liked to gossip. She bit her tongue for fear of accidentally revealing something that would make Sonia suspicious and lead her to find out that Theodore

ridiculous part of all of this was that Theodore reported the novel because of words that had unintentionally slipped from her mouth. She did not need her mouth to get her in trouble

at the risk of sounding fake, “I just want to know if you were asleep. Since you’re not, I’ll leave you to it.” After that, she hung up,

What was wrong with Ariana? Did she really call her just to ask if she had gone

relief as she hung up. She jumped as her phone vibrated in her hand. It was a friend request

in an instant and then converted his alias into Pursuer #1

it fitting for him, which

merely texted goodnight to each other. The

unprecedentedly relieved because it felt like

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