Chapter 9: A trending video about to be released
Andrew ended the call, relief finally touching his brows as the tension settled down.
"That woman was surely going to get what was definitely coming for her," Andrew said briefly, finally calming down.
Seeing that, one of his friends finally chipped in.
"Yeah, I got everything on record though," he said, his voice calm and carrying a sense of pride.
"Now that is genius. You are now finally thinking like the genius you are," Andrew said, happiness washing over him.
"With this video we might actually finally blow up." The happiness brewing inside him was so immense he just wanted to hug Joe.
"And once it does blow up, our plan can now finally be set into motion," he said cheerfully.
For a long time now, Andrew and his father had been trying so hard to sabotage Hydra Oil so badly and keep it away from them.
The sad thing was that the company already legally belonged to Paul since they had beaten her up that night and forced her to sign the papers.
But the thing was that they couldn’t just send her out of the house and the company like that. It was going to be big news in the company and in the world, and obviously with enough digging from external figures, they were already going to be found out.
The best thing now for them to do was to create an alibi. So as planned, Andrew and his friends created a small social media account to paint Miss Stephanie as a bad mother and a bad CEO.
And with Paul pushing the videos with money he got directly from Miss Stephanie somehow or the other, the videos were gradually getting some reasonable views.
But not enough to become a global trending issue.
And they still didn’t have the chance to release the real tape they had ready for whenever any video on the account got viral.
Once the video they had aired, it was not going to be a surprise at how fast Miss Stephanie was going to lose everything.
Being Forbes number 80 was an achievement, but it was only a matter of time before everything really came falling down.
And Andrew couldn’t wait to actually be the one to cause that to happen.
"Done editing. Finally posting," Joe said with a smug look.
"Well, here goes nothing. I have made sure to edit everything in order to make her look at fault and bad. And you know, with my editing skills, if you watched it you would really ask if it was you."
Andrew immediately took the phone and began looking at the video getting ready to be uploaded. To his surprise, he couldn’t help but shout out in joy.
He truly couldn’t actually believe he was the person on the video. With all the parts of him being violent cut out, all the viewers would see is a boy being humiliated in front of his friends as he tried to explain to his mom that the boy in question came to see him.
"So excellent. It’s really good. You’re a genius," Andrew said, giving Joe back his phone.
"You owe me one grand," Joe said, posting the video immediately with a striking caption:
{The head of the Hydra Foundation humiliates son over nothing. Does this woman even deserve to be where she is?}
And surely enough, within minutes it was the account’s highest viewed content.
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"Today was really great. I mean, I loved it so, so much." Miss Stephanie hadn’t stopped talking on the way back to Logan’s house.
She was still happy. The rush of happiness she had never felt before—she couldn’t remember the last time she was this happy despite living in her very own house.
It was very sad that one could be a hollow version of themselves in their own house. So sad that it got Miss Stephanie thinking about the very trajectory her life was headed toward currently.
And all this concern she had poured straight to Logan.
Because at the moment, it was like he was the only one on earth that understood her the most.
Every other person was either there because they needed something—money, job, connections, or something else.
But for someone like Logan, he had known her for two good years and had never once asked for money.
Although Miss Stephanie didn’t really have all the knowledge on his financial status, it was still very obvious that he was not really that financially stable. After all, he was still a college student.
Yet after about a year of not speaking, he still remembered her favorite coffee brand.
It was just so heartwarming.
In no time, they finally reached Logan’s worn-out apartment building and it was time for him to leave.
"Logan, it has been so lovely having you around. Please do come again sometime. Don’t mind my silly son," Miss Stephanie said, hesitating as if she really didn’t want him to go back yet.
"Well, please do promise me one thing," Logan said, looking into her eyes with all seriousness, like what he was about to say meant a lot.
"Yeah, go ahead. As far as it’s something I can do," Miss Stephanie said confidently, trying her best to look composed.
Logan moved his hands to her face, clearing the little hair at the corner of her eyes.
Miss Stephanie froze up, her face turning cherry red, not knowing how she could react.
"I know after what happened your husband is going to abuse you... Please don’t let him. You have the right to stand up for yourself. I really feel bad seeing all these scars on your beautiful face," Logan said, showing slight sadness in his eyes.
[Miss Stephanie attraction points +100]
[Miss Stephanie attraction points +100]
[Miss Stephanie attraction points +100]
The attraction points kept adding again and again, surprising even Logan himself. He had actually thought that this stunt of his was going to pull at least a hundred or two hundred attraction points.
But boy was he wrong. The system kept showing him messages until her total attraction points finally capped at about 6000.
That was already 6x rebate and he still hadn’t even spent a single dime on her.
Logan kept eye contact, still keeping his saddened look—not because he was faking it, but because like everyone else, no one was going to like it when their crush gets beaten up and ends up having bruises every single time.
But Logan was not about to expect what was going to happen next.
Miss Stephanie pulled him straight into a deep kiss, their mouths meeting in one sexy moan from her.