Chapter 1102 Idiotic Lore Communications
A curious Sonia clicked on the notification to open her social media account. As soon as she entered her account, she could see the user that had mentioned her.
Lore Communications? Interesting. The corner of her lips curved upward, for she wished to know why the Lore Communications official mentioned her.
She tapped on the tag section at which she could read the posted contents by Lore Communications immediately. After perusing the text, she could not help but laugh sarcastically.
Since there were not many vehicles straight ahead, Toby took the chance to glance at her. “What’s so funny?”
She lifted her head. “Know what? The Lore Family just tagged me.”
“They tagged you?” His brows knitted.
She showed her phone screen to him. “Yeah. With their official account.”
Possessing great dynamic visual acuity, he was able to read the content clearly although she swayed the phone before him for a moment. His expression darkened. “Is this their apology?”
Honestly, he was dissatisfied because he could not discern a tinge of sincerity throughout the text.
Sonia retracted her phone to read it again before sniggering, “Yup. It is an apology statement. What do you think?”
“It’s just for show,” commented Toby sternly without saving his tutor’s face.
She was content with that as she smiled. “True. If they genuinely wish to apologize after realizing their mistake, they could’ve come to us in person first thing after I exposed them. However, they did nothing until now. People online are attacking Lore Communications and their stock price is dropping. That’s why they thought of apologizing. Funny thing is that they neither met us personally nor released a press conference for an apology. They chose to release a simple statement and mentioned our names. It’s my first time seeing this kind of apology.”
Sonia had a point. If one was genuinely sorry for their actions, they should come up to the victim in person to compensate for their mistake in order to seek forgiveness.
Otherwise, they could hold a press conference and apologize in front of billions of audiences. At least the public was aware that they could put down their pride to express their regrets.
That would impress the audience, who would take it as their sincerity and deem them as a decent company.
Consequently, they could restore their ruined reputation and save the company! Which of those two alternatives appeared less sincere than releasing a succinct statement online? Anyone would agree that any of those two would be better.
Yet, the Lore Family chose such a method rather than executing the other two plans to express their apology.
They’re basically telling everyone that they’re not feeling sorry for their actions. It would’ve been better for them to stay silent.
A cold glint flashed across Sonia’s eyes. “By the way, do you know what they wrote? They mentioned that Lynette acted like that because of immaturity. And what kind of people are immature? Kids. Little kids! They’re basically telling the world that she behaved that way because she’s still a kid, hence the mistake. How hilarious. She’s already like what—twenty-six, twenty-seven? Yet, they call her a kid. What is she? A big baby?”
Toby frowned while hearing her mockery. Not that she said it wrong, but he was displeased by the Lore Family’s actions.
As Sonia had mentioned, he could tell what they were thinking. Clearly, they thought immaturity could understate matters, but it was utterly preposterous.
“Just ignore them and pretend that we haven’t seen their apology,” suggested Toby sternly as he drove the car.
Sonia tapped on her phone. “Don’t worry about that. I think the same way too. I haven’t planned on entertaining them since the beginning. Besides, there’s a lot of smart people in this world. We’re not the only ones who can read between the lines. The netizens will be able to do the same. Look. Someone’s on the same boat as us.”
She showed the screen to him for a short while. “Many of them can see them through. They’re flooding the comment section with taunts.”
His gaze swept across it. “Lore Communications has taken the public as fools. They have it coming.”
“True.” She withdrew her hand to look at the netizens attacking Lore Communication. Her smile did not fade for one second.
Toby hit bullseye; Lore Communication’s statement had basically turned the public as fools by assuming that no one could see through the true meanings behind the message.
However, they were the ones who made a fool of themselves since they had blatantly shown their true color. As long as one was not an idiot, people could see the ugly truth at one glance—the Lore Family was not feeling sorry for one bit.
Ever since the beginning, Lynette and Squirrel Media edited the pictures and released misleading articles to make the public believe that Sonia had cheated on Toby. Due to the way society was constructed to view women, Sonia was bombarded with shades as a result of that.
Whenever men cheated on their partners, the ‘magnanimity’ onlookers would deem it as the same mistake that every single man would make. Ridiculous!
On the other side of the coin, if the cheater was a woman, everyone would reproach her by labeling her as a sinner of enormity. Everyone would tell her to go to hell in rage.
That was why a lot of people hurled criticisms and shades at Sonia when the scandal broke out. They presumed that she had done such things without waiting for the person involved to release their side of the story.
Aside from the inherent hate toward women, Lynette and Squirrel Media did their part by throwing everyone off the scent too.
After Sonia exposed their evil scheme, the netizens were enraged to find out that they were being used, hence the attack against Lore Communications and Squirrel Media.
Due to the stock market crash, Lore Communications reckoned that they could not stay still and do nothing anymore. That was why they released a hollow official statement as a means to appease the public’s wrath and stabilize the stock price.
Still, Sonia did not expect them to be this stupid.
If they intended to stave off the heat and save the company, they could have added an apology directed to the public. Yet, they did not, as only Sonia and Toby were mentioned.
Clearly, Lore Communications took the public lightly and even looked down upon them. Perceiving the people as ordinary beings, the superior company did not mention a word regarding the public at all.
It was hilarious to see how they ignored the public when they actually intended to rebound the stock price. Their thought of apologizing to Sonia and Toby was the same as apologizing to everyone.
How should one think of them aside from being idiotic?
