Chapter 1070 Sonia’s Reply
At the same time, warmth filled her heart. It turned out that getting loved by fans was such a wonderful feeling. It was a new experience, and definitely a great one.
Sonia’s lips curved into a slight smile as she replied to the fan again, “Thanks for liking me. And don’t worry, I’ll never let you down.” Will I cheat on Toby?
That’s impossible! We will only end our relationship peacefully when the love we once had for each other no longer exists instead of betraying each other in such a way.
The fan who received her promise on the other end held her phone to her chest, her face turning red from excitement. The other netizens and fans were envious when they saw Sonia’s reply to that fan.
They wanted to get a reply from her too. All of them were shippers of Sonia and Toby, but they did not start shipping the two because they had any spectacular talents.
After all, they were not celebrities. The fans started to ship Sonia and Toby together because of their looks, identities, as well as their love history.
That was because their identities, and the fact that the two reconciled after their divorce, reminded the fans of the angst that was present in many fictional romance novels.
Now that the stories in the books had turned into reality, the fans were excited and shipped them at first instance, but that was all to why they shipped Sonia and Toby together.
However, when she replied to them personally, they suddenly realized that their idol was different from the main character of a book—fictional and unapproachable.
Their idol was someone living in the same world as them and she was an amazing girl.
In the beginning, the fans had only shipped Sonia and Toby like they were the main characters of a book, but now, the fans shipped them as a couple in real life.
As compared to fictional characters, the fans actually loved shipping couples in real life more because they could only get closer to their idols this way.
For instance, the fan got closer to her idol earlier when Sonia replied to her, didn’t she?
Hence, the other fans followed suit and started to comment as they wanted to receive a reply from Sonia.
After she saw what was happening, she found that hilarious.
Yet, it was impossible for her to reply to everyone because that would be too exhausting for her. She still had time to reply to a few confused fans, though.
For instance, a fan exclaimed, ‘Oh my god! She clarified the situation, but isn’t it too late? Why didn’t she do it earlier? Plus, how can she prove that the news is fake with just a few words?’
Sonia replied quickly, ‘We did not clarify things in the beginning because we were collecting evidence. And now that we have all the evidence, we can prove our innocence. As for why I did not upload the evidence, that’s because it will be published by the other person involved in the rumors. Let me ask all of you a question. Aren’t you guys curious about why my face is the only one visible, and the man’s one is not, in the picture when that rumor involves the two of us? Also, have you guys ever wondered why there was no information about the man in Squirrel Media’s post?’
All the netizens were stunned upon reading her reply. That’s right. We were too shocked about how Sonia ‘had an affair’, and were reading more updates about the rumor online. It seems that we did not realize that the man’s identity was not mentioned in the article and that the man’s face was unclear in the pictures. From the start, our attention was on Sonia and that she had an affair.
Before this, none of them realized that the article was strange.
Now that Sonia mentioned it, they finally noticed that there was a huge problem here.
The rumor arose because of the supposed mistake made by two people, but they ignored the man and just blamed it all on the woman instead. There must be a reason why this situation happened.
As for why…
The netizens started to return to the news article and the few pictures posted by Squirrel Media.
In the pictures, the man’s face was deliberately blurred while the article only criticized the woman and had no information about the man’s identity at all.
With all that, anyone would neglect the man at first glance and blame it all on the woman as only her face could be seen.
The netizens realized they had been brainwashed at this moment!
This was the power of the media.
Suddenly, all the netizens were angry.
‘What the hell? This is too scary. I can’t believe I got brainwashed by a news article.’
‘Exactly. This article was capable of leading me to think about certain things. I wouldn’t have believed this in the past and would only think that other people were just babbling nonsense, but now I do. Now that I think about it, I was probably influenced by the media into believing something was real in the past, but I just never realized it. Thank goodness that Miss Reed reminded us about this; otherwise, we wouldn’t have noticed anything.’
‘You’re right. When I think about it, I understand certain things that I did not earlier. I know why Squirrel Media deliberately blurred the man’s face out as well as said nothing about his identity. That must be because we know the man, and we know that it’s impossible for Miss Reed to have an affair with him. Squirrel Media did this so that we won’t recognize the man and so we would believe that Miss Reed had an affair. This media company is nasty.’
‘I agree. Now, I think I kind of know who the man is. It must be Lane Corporation’s president.’
‘I have the same thoughts. If it’s him, then it’s nonsense that Miss Reed had an affair. From what I understand, the Reed and Lane Families have been family friends for a long time. Miss Reed and President Lane grew up together. They would’ve gotten together long ago if there was anything between them, but they did not in the last thirty years. This meant that they were too close to each other and only treat each other as families now. No matter what, I have no romantic feelings for the boy that I grew up with and only look at him as an older brother while he treats me like his younger sister.’
‘Judging from that, this time, the man in the rumor is probably President Lane. Otherwise, why would Squirrel Media blur his face and not want us to identify him? That’s because they know it’s impossible for Miss Reed to have an affair with President Lane, so they blurred his face so we would believe whatever they posted. How shameless.’
Sonia liked this comment as soon as it was posted, and it made the netizens go wild once again.
‘Holy sh*t! I got a like! Does that mean we’re right and that the man is really President Lane?’
‘Yes, it’s Charles. He’ll post the evidence from his own account later. Stay tuned,’ Sonia replied once again.
‘I will!’ On the other end of the screen, the netizen whom Sonia replied to nodded her head excitedly.
When the netizens saw that Sonia had confirmed the man’s identity and said that he would share the evidence later, half of them went to visit his profile, waiting for the evidence to drop.
As for those who stayed, they still had questions for Sonia.
For instance, one of them went straight to the point and asked something everyone wanted to know, ‘Miss Reed, there’s something I don’t understand. Why did Squirrel Media make up a rumor about you? As we all know, you’re with President Fuller, and everyone in the country knows how influential he is in Seafield. Since you’re with him, no one should be daring enough to offend you. Why did Squirrel Media do this without a care about the consequences they would face? Is there any bad blood between you and the higher management of Squirrel Media?’
