Farewell to Love: The CEO's Desperate Chase novel Chapter 165

"So today's livestream was finally normal. There was a glitch in the first second or two, but then it got fixed."

"Right? We nearly missed out on such a talented singer!"

"I was in the audience, and every time I tried to post about it, my comments were deleted or hidden. It got so frustrating."

"Same here! Every time I saw outside clips of Serena's performance, I thought, ‘Wait, why is there such a huge difference?' But nobody ever replied to me. Turns out my comments were only visible to myself."

…

One after another, audience members who'd been at the show began to speak up online, venting all the frustration they'd bottled up.

Naturally, a single question began to surface in everyone's mind:

"So…who was behind this?"

…

Speculation exploded across the internet.

People started by suspecting all the other contestants, but it was obvious the sabotage had started from the very first round. Back then, Serena hadn't even attended the rehearsal because of her injury—no one else had seen her performance. Besides, Serena was an artist under Donovan Entertainment; there was no reason for competing companies to target her.

Then, people began to recall something: during that time, "Yesterday Once More" had taken the competition by storm, nearly dominating the field. In the end, it ended up tied with Vivienne's "Faint Whispers" for The Untouchable & The Marked.

That's when a new wave of suspicion swept the web:

"Could it have been Vivienne?"

"Now that you mention it, it all lines up."

"Vivienne's the only one with enough clout to challenge Donovan Entertainment, especially with Tyler backing her. She was the heavy hitter that night."

"Exactly. ‘Faint Whispers' almost didn't beat ‘Yesterday Once More.'"

"Right, and wasn't it the technical glitch with ‘Yesterday Once More' that forced the tie? I remember people saying Vivienne had an edge because she wasn't a professional singer."

"I even heard a rumor that before the first live show, Vivienne's team went around ‘giving hints' to the other contestants."

"Is that really true?"

"Who knows? It's just gossip. But if you look at the second live show and this one, all the contestants' performances have improved a lot!"

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