Chapter 301: Not Laughing Anymore
But her smile quickly vanished.
"To all you haters up there, your nasty comments haven’t been deleted. What do you have to say for yourselves now? Nothing? Good, then it’s our turn! First off, giving the show a one-star rating just to tank the score is just plain wrong. Have you devolved after all these years of evolution? This kind of behavior doesn’t even qualify you as a primate!"
"It’s understandable if fans of the original novel aren’t happy. But there’s no need to maliciously tank the score like this. And for all you hired trolls, you’d better tone it down before you get doxxed and publicly humiliated."
"The cast’s acting is on point. To the fans of the original novel, stop harping on it and don’t let these hired trolls sway you. You can totally watch this as a brand new series. The characterizations, plot, acting—it’s all solid. Don’t you disgusting flies ruin the viewing experience for us real audience members."
"Just turn off the bullet comments and immerse yourselves in the sheer beauty of Zane Langdon and Melody Monroe."
"All units are in position. Hired trolls, beat it! And that’s a friendly warning, by the way!"
Soon, some of the most popular negative posts were traced back to the same IP address.
"Server located. Lawyer’s letter incoming!"
"The site administrators have responded. They’re dispatching their tech team to remove the trolls’ posts immediately."
Raymond Ford was completely floored. She started to panic, wondering if what they were saying online was true.
She had paid a fortune to hire people who dared to post things targeting Melody Monroe. Besides, the person she hired had told her their servers were located overseas—absolutely untraceable and completely secure!
’But... it hasn’t even been two hours, and things have already turned out like this?’
’Don’t panic, don’t panic,’ Raymond Ford told herself. ’Maybe it’s just a bluff. They only deleted the comments; they haven’t found the person pulling the strings!’
...
Sean Coleman walked up to Zane Langdon and handed him a bottle of water.
"You’ve been staring at that for almost an hour. Can’t you put the laptop away and rest? Do you know how heavy your filming schedule is tomorrow? It’s late. Go get some sleep."
Zane Langdon still didn’t put the laptop down.
"Your fans are really something else! Unmasking the mastermind in such a short time... The situation has died down now, so you don’t need to worry so much."
"It wasn’t my fans who exposed them," Zane Langdon said, closing his laptop. He twisted the cap off the water bottle and took a drink.
"Not your fans? Then who could it be?" The moment Sean Coleman asked, realization dawned on him.
"Zane, Melody Monroe is a good woman. I guess it was only to be expected that you’d fall for her." Sean Coleman had been with Zane Langdon for many years.
He knew him pretty well.
Zane Langdon had been smitten the very first time he laid eyes on Melody Monroe.
It was a love that began at first sight but remained unspoken.
"I think it’s fine this way. At least my feelings aren’t causing her any trouble."
"It’s good that you can see it that way," Sean Coleman said with a nod.
He knew Zane Langdon was the kind of man who didn’t fall in love easily, but when he did, he wouldn’t let go. Unfortunately, in this world, not every patient wait is rewarded with a flower’s bloom.
...
Melody Monroe was also watching the show, but she was starting more than three hours after it first aired.
She had completely missed everything that had happened online in the preceding hours.
She was only able to sneak a look at her phone now because Evan Fairchild was in the shower.
She enabled the bullet comments, wanting to see how people were reacting.
In just three hours, there were already tens of thousands of them!