Chapter 38 Sorry, I Forget About Love
“Gee! She is still so arrogant! I admire her for it, really!”
“If I knew her the first day, I would believe her. How did he find the courage to say that?”
The private chat group had a heated discussion.
“Her biggest atonement is leaving. I wish she knew what she was doing…”
“I am actually interested in her. I will see how she will turn things around today!”
“She will be toast instead…”
“If she can win this one, I will eat my keyboard here!”
“That’s nothing. I will even eat my mainframe computer!”
“Coward! If Rose can prove herself right, I will stand upside down and wash my feet. live!”
Everyone was eager to win the bet…
They all made promises with serious consequences.
“I will stand upside down with my legs spread open and eat noodles, live!”
“I will eat raw eels!”
“Eels? I will stand upside down and eat canned herring, live!”
Suddenly, somebody said: “Does anyone dare to ent shi?”
The chat group was suddenly silent
“I do!”
The journalists were daredevils!
And entertainment journalists were the best among their peers.
“I would also do that!”
“That’s not something to be bragged about. I can eat a ton of sh it!”
“Stop. Guys, I can eat all the sh it produced in Flourish Media this month…”
“I will eat all the sh it in all the public toilets within 5 square kilometers! No one can fight it with me!”
Everyone was trying to be more absurd.
Lucy suddenly rushed into the office and roared to the employees, “Are you all blind? Can’t you see the news in the work chat group?”
Everyone in the office blocks held their breath.
Because they all heard Lucy’s loud voice,
“Hector’s first girlfriend is accusing him of cheating on her and forcing her to have an abortion. Gee… Is anyone listening to me? Are you all dead?”
Everyone felt their blood heat up and run cold.
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They were all scared.
Slap!
A crisp sound made everyone shudder.
Rose smashed her keyboard,
Hector’s dirt was all over the Internet.
But it was half a day earlier than Rose expected.
Rose’s face darkened as she stood up grimly and walked out of the office blocks with her phone.
The others stared at each other in a daze.
“Is that the dirt Rose was talking about?”
“Why was it made public now?”
“How did she get it?”
“Well… Why does she look unhappy?”
After ten minutes, Rose went back to her seat.
She looked better than earlier, but she was still not cheerful,
“Rose, did you do it?” Lakisha’s laughter sounded. “Did you wait until Orange Entertainment gets their magazines ready? I heard all the
advance bookings were called off just now! Gee! Orange
Entertainment must be in a mess now!”
Rose’s expression was complicated, and she didn’t answer.
Because of Hector’s interview with Orange Entertainment, its magazine had his face on its cover and some pages about the interview.
Hector’s fans made advance bookings for over 100,000 volumes.
Orange Entertainment asked the printing plant to work overtime to get the magazines ready before this afternoon.
Orange Entertainment’s directors even posted about the magazines and said the company was efficient. They were mocking Flourish Media for being slow and backward. They thought it was time for Flourish Media to step down and let them have the best resources.
But things didn’t go according to Orange Entertainment’s plan
Without warning, Hector’s first girlfriend popped up and made his dirty secrets public. Hector was the number one jerk on the Internet
now.
Orange Entertainment was startled and quickly removed all its latest magazines.
Flourish Media worked overtime because of the recent dirt on Hector.
It was weird that Hector’s shameful past had remained a secret and no one could find it. Even the old people thought he was a good man.
But now all his skeletons were revealed.
Even his kindergarten teacher said he would kiss girls when he was 3 years old.
At 4 o’clock in the morning, the fourth girl claimed that she used to save money to buy clothes for Hector because he was nobody then.
Rose closed her computer and walked out of the office blocks.
Someone suddenly broke the silence.
“Who said she would eat sh it, live?”
Silence ensued.
A male journalist puked.
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“Rose, it seems you believe in individualistic heroism.” Lakisha and Rose went downstairs together, and Lakisha praised her.
“But I have to point out your mistakes. This is tremendous news. Why didn’t you tell me about it first?”
Rose did have dirt on Hector.
Her information was even more detailed than what his first girlfriend was willing to let on.
After today’s incident, Rose also made what she knew public. Flourish Media delivered reports of the news immediately and won this round. It also mocked Orange Entertainment.
Rose looked down and said, “I felt no one believed in me. They were blaming me. I was afraid I would mess up again…”
Lakisha felt guilty.
“It’s not they didn’t believe you. They were just agitated. It was about Orange Entertainment, so everyone took it seriously. You might not know. but a few years ago, the Roawards Group tried to bring Flourish Media down, and Orange Entertainment struck us when we were down. It even wanted to buy us up…”
A few years ago…
Rose’s eyelashes shook slightly…
Was it when she knelt before the Imperial Garden building all night in the rain and begged Judson to believe in her innocence?
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Rose went downstairs and saw Darrin’s car parked outside.
Whenever she worked late, Darrin would come and pick her up.
“It’s so late. I am worried about you. Your parents asked me to take care of you, so I have to be responsible for your safety.”
Darrin would say that when Rose refused to get into his car.
Rose was lost and didn’t know how to reply to that.
“I am sorry, Darrin. I didn’t remember what happened before I was 10.”
Darrin wouldn’t lie to her, but she really couldn’t remember a thing.
Rose watched her mother jumping off a building and was terrified to the point of not being able to speak.
When she could speak again, she couldn’t remember what had happened before she was ten.
A new chapter of her life began when her mother went up to the top of Autao Building…..
The Roach family told Rose her family died to save them and Judson.
Every time Rose heard that she would feel as if a stone was in her heart. She wanted to cry so badly but couldn’t.
She didn’t remember anything. But she was so distressed. She felt her heart had been in half…
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The Autao Building…
She found all the news reports about her parents.
“Autao’s Investigation-the Lists of the Most Prestigious Companies!”
“Insights into the Industry! Autao’s Investigation Reports of this Season!”
“Which Companies Has the Marvelous Autao Shortsold?
“Autao’s Glorious Downfall? Autao Is Suspected of Fake Investments…”
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How could Judson understand Rose’s obsession with the butterfly brooch?
“Rose, where is my butterfly brooch?”
A little Rose covered her chest with a pale face. “I am sorry, Mom. I lost it…”
That was the only thing she remembered about the first ten years of her life.
