readbooksol Chapter 1011 - 694: Supporting Actress Award [04] Counterattack [Second Update]
Chapter 1011 - 694: Supporting Actress Award [04] Counterattack [Second Update]
Overnight, public opinion fermented, and the insults and accusations against Nora Scott swept in overwhelmingly.
Praised before.
Scolded before.
Sometimes, a change in attitude towards a person happens in the blink of an eye.
Moreover, none of these people have ever interacted with her personally.
And, due to Nora Scott’s fame and the seriousness of a life lost, it directly led to a reversal in the vote for the Best Supporting Actress in "Twelve." Luna Durant received a large number of sympathy votes, and some bystanders who didn’t want to get involved also cast their votes for Luna Durant, just to suppress Nora Scott.
A month’s preparation by Nora Scott’s fans was thus suppressed by this group of indignant bystanders, and the gap in votes between the two was rapidly narrowing.
[Nora Scott, you better pray Luna Durant is okay, or a life for a life!]
[I don’t know what kind of humiliation she faced to choose to give up on herself, Nora Scott, people act while heaven watches! Where is your conscience?!]
[Nora Scott, go die! Get out of the entertainment industry!]
[We are insignificant and can’t do much, our group can’t compare to someone’s fans, but that doesn’t mean we don’t exist! Nora Scott, you will face retribution!]
[Nora Scott, won’t you have nightmares at night?]
...
The next day, Nora Scott opened her eyes to awaken and saw a pile of unsightly messages, lightly furrowing her brows.
She stepped into the living room in slippers and heard Pedro Langley on the balcony having a phone call with Nathan Salt, likely discussing public relations matters.
For events like this one, ordinary PR can’t suppress it. The only methods that can be used are to lower the heat and delete posts. But with Nora Scott’s level of fame, it’s impossible to suppress, only minimize the impact of the public opinion.
"Don’t bother."
Nora Scott yawned and said to Pedro Langley.
Pedro Langley turned his head to look at her.
"I’ll solve it right away." Nora Scott waved her phone, smiling very casually.
Momentarily dazed, Pedro Langley told Nathan Salt to act according to the situation, then hung up the phone and returned to the living room.
"Do you want to start with Robert Durant’s family?" Pedro Langley could only think of this straightforward approach.
The first moment he saw the news, Pedro Langley thought of exposing the crimes of Robert Durant’s family. When that group of online users clamoring for "fairness and justice" saw, even if they had a little bit of reason, they would shut up and discern right from wrong.
However, Robert Durant’s family’s crimes also involved some confidential matters that couldn’t be easily made public.
Pedro Langley, although focusing on Nora Scott, did not want to deal with whatever mess. However, he had to be mindful of Nora Scott’s thoughts; if it was Nora Scott, she would definitely put public opinion second and thoroughly expose Robert Durant’s family’s crimes first.
So he temporarily set aside this best solution.
"Start directly with Luna Durant." Nora Scott toyed with her phone single-handedly and smiled at Pedro Langley, "But you can also reveal a bit about Robert Durant’s family."
Pedro Langley was slightly stunned, "Weren’t they saying Luna Durant was acquitted?"
"That’s because Robert Durant’s family’s crimes didn’t involve her," Nora Scott squinted her eyes, "It doesn’t mean she’s really clean."
"..."
Pedro Langley thought of Luna Durant’s assistant.
Understood.
Nora Scott glanced at Pedro Langley’s expression and knew that he had guessed. She raised her eyebrows, "Before, I already had Rosie start with Luna Durant’s assistant and found some of Luna Durant’s deeds. The evidence is almost all gathered. I was initially going to hand it directly to the police, but since she wants to make a big fuss—"
She paused briefly, Nora Scott lazily lifted her eyelids, suddenly chuckled lightly, with a slightly cold tone, "Then let her have it her way."
*
In the hospital, Luna Durant lay on the hospital bed, her body still weak, but she forced herself to struggle and scroll through her phone.
Seeing the vicious attacks, abusive humiliation against Nora Scott, Luna Durant just felt extremely delighted.
It was worth it.
Although hurting the enemy by a thousand costs her eight hundred, but—
Seeing Nora Scott brought down.
Recently, Nora Scott had been thriving without knowing what she had gone through during this period.
Her father and sister were successively imprisoned, she was investigated by the police, every minute and second was torture.
In a short period of time, she lost everything.
Nora Scott, however, gained everything, and even her acting skills, which were criticized, were reversed because of this.
She was not reconciled.
So she orchestrated this drama herself.
The manager entered the room, "Now public opinion has completely turned towards you. I’ve arranged for reporters to come over, and there will be a live broadcast asking you about the incident. Perform well."
Now that Robert Durant’s family had collapsed, the manager’s attitude towards Luna Durant was not as before. However, due to Luna Durant’s current popularity, the manager still didn’t give up on her.
"Mm."
Luna Durant nodded.
Her gaze swept around, and Luna Durant belatedly realized something and asked the manager, "Where’s my assistant?"
The manager asked, "That one from your family?"
Luna Durant’s assistant was not assigned by the company but was self-brought. All along, it was that assistant who managed Luna Durant’s clothing, food, housing, and transportation, and the manager was not familiar with that assistant.
"Mm."
"She told me today that she already resigned," the manager replied.
"..."
Luna Durant’s expression instantly darkened, and she gritted her teeth.
How dare she?!
Unlike ordinary people, that assistant had signed a contract of servitude with the Durant family, sold to the family since childhood, life and death were under the Durant family’s control! She was more like a talking dog raised by the Durant family rather than a person!
Even if the Durant family collapsed, the contract was still there, how dare that bitch leave on her own?!
"Resigned"?!
Those words didn’t exist in her life!
She had to listen to Luna Durant’s commands for a lifetime!
"You—" Luna Durant gasped, her face turning purple with anger.
But because of her weak body, she couldn’t get her words out, and started to cough violently.
The manager, in the end, didn’t turn a blind eye, walked over, patted her back, and helped her lie down, "Take a good rest, gather enough energy to face the reporters and live broadcast. It’s just an assistant, I’ll have the company find you another one."
"..."
Luna Durant was so angry she couldn’t speak.