Chapter 1068 Clarification
This was known as leveraging. Lynette had bought the media and a large number of trolls. She even landed her own company in hot water just to publicize this, making all the netizens believe that Charles and Sonia had something going on.
However, the netizens knew that the two of them were friends and had a good relationship. It was impossible for such a thing to happen at all.
Therefore, as soon as he came forward, the netizens would immediately feel that they had been tricked by the aristocrats.
The aristocrats were trying to brainwash them into achieving their goals. Otherwise, why would they blur his face to prevent him from being recognized?
Once the netizens realized that they had been used and fooled by the aristocrats, they would naturally be furious and would double back.
By then, Lore Communications and Lynette would definitely suffer.
Charles and Toby had clearly explained themselves, so Sonia would be a fool if she still didn’t understand.
So, she nodded without hesitation and agreed with the two of them.
“Toby, then we’d do as Charles said. Give him the surveillance footage,” she said as she turned to look at Toby.
Toby nodded slightly. “Okay.” After agreeing, he turned to look at Charles coldly. “Don’t screw this up.”
This made Charles snort coldly. “I’m sorry to disappoint you, but I won’t screw this up.”
“I hope so.” After saying that, Toby turned away and went back to ignoring Charles.
Just then, Toby’s phone rang again.
It wasn’t a phone call this time, though. The network technology department had sent something over; it was the surveillance footage they were talking about.
Once he saw the document on his phone, his thin lips twitched. “The footage has been restored, and they just sent it over.”
Then, he handed the phone over to Sonia, asking her to forward it to Charles.
She took it with a smile. “That’s great.”
“Not only that; the news on the Internet is dying down as well,” Toby added.
This was what the network technology department told him.
The department had tried to drop the heat twice, but Lynette had managed to get Lore Communications to trend it back up.
Now that he discovered it was done by Lore Communications, he sent Tom over as a warning. Because of this, they did not dare to take any more action.
Therefore, it was easy for Toby’s team to clear the Internet trends.
“Let me see.” Once Charles heard this, he immediately turned off the game on his phone and checked the situation on the Internet.
As soon as he went on the web, just as Toby said, the initial filthy site was now clean.
Sonia did not take a look as she was occupied with forwarding the footage to Charles.
She didn’t need to see it, nor did she want to as she knew that Toby wouldn’t lie to her. If he said that everything had been removed, it had to be true.
There was no need for her to double check.
However, at this time, Charles looked at his phone and let out a scoff. “These people are really interesting. Once they discovered that the trend was taken down, they knew we’d taken action. So, they went to say something on your account, Sonny, saying things like if you’re capable of doing such a thing, admit it. Don’t hire someone to take the trend down. I’m angry just by reading it!”
These people were the reason why the world could never be at peace.
But Sonia and Toby did not react to Charles’ anger.
After giving back Toby’s phone to him, she looked at Charles and said lightly, “I knew it would be like this when Toby tried to take the trend down. After all, these people had been causing a scene on the Internet for so long. Now that the page is suddenly taken down, they lost their form of entertainment. Of course, they would be unhappy and naturally turn to anger. It’s normal for them to turn to my profile and attack me. What’s more, this isn’t the first time this happened. It has been like this the past few times when I was caught in a public opinion turmoil.”
She shrugged after saying that, letting him know that she was used to it.
However, he still had a look of disgust on his face. “These netizens really don’t learn their lessons. How many people have we sued in the past? Yet, after a while, they would show up again, yelling and cursing. They’re really unbeatable.”
At the same time, Toby picked up Sonia’s glass and turned it around slightly. When his gaze landed on the lipstick mark left on the cup, his eyes darkened. Then, he planted his thin lips on the same faint mark and took a sip. “For these people, a fine wouldn’t make them learn their lesson. The next time something similar happens, they would still hop onto it. This is a vicious cycle that cannot be broken.”
After saying that, he lowered the glass.
Sonia glared at the man angrily as the tip of her ears turned red.
This guy had a glass of water before him yet he insisted on drinking from her cup. He even took a sip from the lipstick mark that she had left behind.
Wasn’t this a deliberate action to show that he wanted to kiss her?
However, Toby did not notice her gaze as he smiled at her tenderly. “Have you sent the surveillance footage?”
“I did.” At the same time, she replied, she snatched the cup from the man’s hand and pushed his own cup toward him. “Drink from your own cup.”
He was speechless to see this. Huh, so we can’t share a cup now?
Toby looked at the cup in her hand dejectedly.
This was all caught by Charles, who was watching from the opposite side. “You deserved it,” he rejoiced.
This made Toby’s face sink. “Go and publish your post.”
Charles snorted and did not reply.
At this moment, Sonia picked up her phone as well. “I should upload one too.”
“Me too,” Toby said, picking up his phone.
Although he wasn’t directly involved in the scandal, he was still somehow a part of it.
After all, he was Sonia’s man, her official boyfriend.
Since they were clarifying this, as the boyfriend, if he were to keep quiet and just rely on Toby and Charles, it might still not be convincing enough to the outside world.
If he didn’t come forward and clarify things, outsiders might think that the scandal was true.
Therefore, it was natural for him to clear things up as well.
For a while, the three people in the office were all on their phones, editing and clarifying the scandal that had been put up on their respective profiles.
The first post was made by Sonia, and the content was straightforward, with just a few words. “The scandal that was posted online about me finding a gigolo is fake. Don’t believe the fake news. I did not betray Toby Fuller. The man involved in the video is Charles Lane, and we were in the hotel together to discuss the loans with the head of Bank of Caruna of the Seafield branch. I was purely framed by Lore Communications and Squirrel Media. In regard to these two mastermind companies, I will take legal measures to protect my own interest and will not accept any form of reconciliation. In addition to that, other media companies that helped spread the rumors and netizens that added fire to the fuel will be sued one by one. I won’t let this go. I hope I made it clear.”
As soon as her clarification post was up, it immediately made it on the trending list.
This was an arrangement made by Toby.
He had sent a message to the network technology department to boost the post into the trending list as soon as they saw a clarification post.
This was to make sure that everyone would see it.
This was how Brian found out about the news.
He had always been clueless about the Internet. Toby’s transfer last night kept him in his place, and his butt was starting to hurt. He had a lot of things to handle and did not have time to pay attention to the things on the Internet.
It was his assistant that kept him in the loop of what was going on on the Internet. After all, Sonia had mentioned that he shouldn’t come forward and say something.
What’s more, he had just gotten the benefits of being under Toby, so he couldn’t pretend to ignore it. Thus, he immediately logged into his account and forwarded Sonia’s post.
