Shattered Illusions: Love, Lies, and Redemption

“What’s with both doing their own thing?”

Cedric asked, while glancing at Timothy’s phone screen, and his expression shifted slightly.

Two trending topics were almost back–to–back.

#MrDashiellRomanticFlowerGift/

#HottestRacerLucianSuspectedNewRomance #

“Sir, I won’t see you out, take care,” Cedric hastily said it to Timothy before scurrying off to the CEO’s office.

Before entering the office, he had already skimmed through the trending gossip.

“Boss, you and the missus made the hot search. You went to Ms. Hawthome’s solo concert yesterday and the lady asked you to pick up a bouquet for her, right? Well, someone snapped a pic of you with the flowers and it’s blown up online, and it’s all the rage now”

“The missus went to Mr. Lucian Dashiell’s race last night and got caught up in a misunderstanding. Some pics that look kinda cozy ended up on the trending list too.”

As Cedric spoke, he handed over his phone, and felt a sense of unease gnawing at him.

Those photos of Lizetta and Lucian did look quite intimate.

The netizens are clueless about their relationship, so they munched on those sugar–coated rumors, and now Boss Rem being cuckolded was on the trending list.

He wondered if Remington will blow his top after seeing this.

However, Remington seemed utterly indifferent to the online scandals, simply stating, “Isn’t it time for the video conference? Get ready.”

Cedric, taken aback, pocketed his phone again, “What about the trending stuff?”

“Get mine pulled down,” Remington instructed.

Cedric nodded, “Got it, so obviously the missus‘ will be,”

He subconsciously thought that the gossip about Lucian and Lizetta would be taken down as well.

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But Remington spoke up again with a chilly tone, “Leave the rest, and don’t report her matters to me

anymore.”

“Huh?” Cedric was completely flabbergasted.

Remington glanced up, clearly dissatisfied with his reaction time.

“Didn’t catch that?”

Cedric shook his head quickly, “Got it.”

But as Cedric left the office, he looked back in disbelief.

Behind the desk, Remington was as composed as ever.

Yet the boss was now turning á blind eye to the missus affairs.

Now there’s a real problem brewing!

In the dance studio, Lizetta sat down for a break, dripping with sweat.

Yolanda was next to her, stretching and browsing the hot searches.

“Liz, you must be trending material, getting on one list after another. But hey, netizens think you and Lucian are a match made in heaven! A wild rogue racer X ice–cool gorgeous campus belle. Wow, netizens these days are on fire; they even dug up your college beauty queen days and the dance video when you won the Lotus Cup.” Text content © NôvelDrama.Org.

Last night, Lizetta and Yolanda went to watch Lucian’s car race..

Just as she had a few extra words with Lucian, she was snapped in so–called intimate photos and plastered online.

With Lucian being hot stuff since he came back, Lizetta got dragged into the trend.

She didn’t really care though, thinking that she was just a regular person, and the hype would die down soon, but Yolanda was gobbling up the drama.

“Lucky we went to the race yesterday, or we’d just be watching Evelina the bitch and Badass Remington trending today; talk about frustrating. Now we each have our own trend, fair and square, isn’t that great? But I bet Evelina and Badass Remington’s trending was staged by her, she always played games. As long as she kept stirring the pot, it’ll burn eventually!”

Lizetta had seen the trending topics about Remington and Evelina too.

In the photos, the man was holding a huge bouquet, probably having personally delivered it on stage to Evelina.

During the two years of marriage, she certainly hadn’t received any flowers from Remington.

The photos also captured Evelina’s parents sitting with Hanna, and the netizens were buzzing about an Impending wedding.

They talked about how perfect childhood sweethearts were and how well the parents got along; some netizens had already listed auspicious dates for the year, urging them to tie the knot.

“Ha, Badass Remington is in such a rush; he barely inked the divorce papers and was already planning a wedding with the bitch! What a jerk, cheating so hard he might just split his seams!”

Lizetta was lost for words.

“Wait, my comment won’t post. Huh, looks like the trend got pulled?”

Yolanda refreshed the page a couple more times. Not only was the hot search gone, but the whole topic had been scrubbed clean; every related article, post, and comment was shown as 404.