Female Novel
Chapter 1397
A second clip followed the first, but it wasn’t derived from the recording that Cindy sent to Hannah, butone captured during a negotiation that happened between Sena’s manager and Hannah.
Sena’s team wanted to market her and Ian as a couple. They continued to push the idea even afterHannah indicated that Ian already had a girlfriend, going as far as suggesting Ian to announce that hehad broken up with said girlfriend before fabricating some gossip with Sena.
Upon mentioning Ian’s girlfriend, Sena’s team insisted that she should be more understanding of thesituation as they were doing it for the sake of Ian’s future. Besides, the gossip would be fabricatedanyway.
The one who kept blabbering on was Sena’s manager. Despite the manager’s relatively young age, themanner in which the manager spoke was brash and arrogant. The release of the second clip onlyfurther aggravated the situation, crushing Sena’s reputation altogether.
A lot of the netizens switched sides, chastising Sena for being negligent and pinning it as the reason forher lukewarm reception among the audience. Others even criticized her looks, indicating that theyknew she was a player all along. All of the grueling insults that they hurled at Ian were now directed atSena.
In the meantime, all those who supported Sena had shut up. Some of them even deleted their poststhat showed support for her. However, the public would remember what they said and did even if theytried to backtrack.
Upon witnessing such a turnaround, Cindy was finally feeling reassured. Throughout the few months
that she spent working with Ian, that was her first time experiencing such turbulent emotions. She readthrough most of the online articles before turning to look at Ian. “Quick! You need to see this! There’s aturnaround happening!”
However, Ian still maintained his previous nonchalant attitude. “Are you feeling better now?”
Cindy was finally able to smile. “Yeah. I can finally rest assured. But now I’m curious to see what willhappen to the people who tried to blackmail you.” novelbin
Ian wasn’t that interested at all, so he entered his room after a while. “It’s getting late. We’ll probably begoing back to work tomorrow, so you better go get some sleep.”
Clutching onto her phone, Cindy was still staring intently at the screen. “Sure. Goodnight.” After that,she left for her own room, but she had a hard time falling asleep due to the ecstasy she felt, so shesprawled out on bed to check on the situation online.
To be frank, most netizens were fence sitters, so she believed that those who were criticizing Senamost probably had been slandering Ian back then. Talk was cheap especially when it was doneanonymously online, and most importantly, there were no repercussions to it. Cindy thought seeing thesituation backfire on Sena would free her from her vexation, but reading through the mean commentsdidn’t make her feel any better.
After a while, she put her phone away, deciding that it was pointless to watch other peoplereprimanding others for their actions. Quickly washing up, she turned the lights off before lying down onbed and shutting her eyes.
A lot had happened that day that she wound up dreaming about the same things that had transpired.She dreamed that Ian was doing some indecent acts with Sena in the dressing room. Rushing over todrag him away, she yelled at Ian, “No! You can’t do this!”
The Ian in her dreams regarded her with such a gentle expression when he caressed her face,speaking in a loving tone. “Why can’t I? Don’t tell me you like me as well?”
Cindy jolted awake as soon as she dreamed of that, wiping away a sheen of sweat from her forehead.This is horrible. How could I fall in love with him when I never liked anybody? When she was appointedas Ian’s assistant, Hannah already warned her to not fall for Ian, as it was a taboo to do so.