Chapter 402
Lydia’s frantic, desperate explanations just made her look like a total joke.
Emily, who had been watching the Cloudland Winery livestream the whole time, didn’t hesitate to clap back when she heard Lydia. “It’s not up to you to decide who owns this account just by running your mouth.
“Since you’re saying I stole your account, then show us the proof.” Let Lydia figure out how to prove it herself.
After that, Emily just chatted a bit with the viewers in the livestream comments, then ended the broadcast.
She’d already achieved her goal for the livestream today, so there was no need to keep hogging the spotlight and interrupting the Cloudland Winery promotion.
But after ending the broadcast, she did one more thing. She posted the files from the USB drive Tina had given her, which proved she never plagiarized Lydia’s work, straight to the internet.
She captioned it. [If you’re not a plagiarist, let’s see your evidence.] She was putting the ball in Lydia’s court now. Let’s see if she could actually come up with anything.
These days, netizens aren’t easy to fool. If there’s even a hint of a clue, they’ll dig it up and expose everything. As expected, with all the hype from both sides, Lydia totally blew up online.
Emily even paid to push the topic higher on the trending list, making sure even more people jumped into the discussion. She just wanted to see how much sway Lydia’s system really had over people.
But as it turned out, the system wasn’t all that powerful, otherwise, the backlash against Lydia wouldn’t have kept getting louder online.
With everything blowing up like this, it was obvious even without thinking that the Bennetts would come after her to defend Lydia. So Emily just cut off every way they could contact her.
By staying out of sight, she knew Andrew would only pay more attention to her. And Austin’s behind-the-scenes cleanup would fly even more under the radar.
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Lila was stunned, taking a long time to react. She tried to speak several times but could only manage a deep sigh. She knew the Bennetts would eventually regret their actions.
Just as Lila was hesitating over how to comfort her, someone suddenly kicked the door to the private room wide open.
Andrew stormed in, his face burning with anger, all traces of his usual poise and aristocratic air gone. “Emily, how long do you plan on hiding from me this time?”


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