Overprotected By My Tsundere CEO

Chapter 1014 - 697: Best Supporting Actress Award [End] Couples Variety Show Live Stream

"We are the XX police station of Fenton City Police, we have just received a report. Luna Durant is suspected of committing multiple illegal acts including violent assault and attempted murder. We would like Luna Durant to come to the station for investigation."

"..."

While netizens were still in a daze, a man in a police uniform appeared in the live stream.

Then, someone shouted "Turn off the stream," and a few panicked figures appeared in the live stream room, hurriedly shutting it off.

Twenty million people witnessed this scene.

Now, even with more financial resources, nothing could hide this. This clip of video, almost as if it had grown legs, spread rapidly online, leaving netizens who had just learned about "how miserable Luna Durant’s live broadcast was" utterly stunned.

[I was in the middle of writing a thousand-word essay cursing Nora Scott, and seeing this left me dumbfounded.]

[Laugh secretly upstairs. My five-thousand-word paper was just a period away from completion, then a notification popped up, and I didn’t even know whether to click send or not. (Damn it, I should have sent it before checking the notification.)]

[I genuinely felt sorry for Luna Durant. I suspect I might be an idiot.]

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[Don’t be quick to take sides, can’t you people have some opinions of your own?]

[Violent assault, attempted murder?? Is no one paying attention to what the police said! This is no small matter!]

[Even if one thing doesn’t justify another, the fact that Luna Durant can be confronted by police for ’attempted murder’ might prove her character is flawed. This whole suicide to live broadcast could be her self-directed show?!]

[Damn, is there another twist?! I really thought Nora Scott was done for this time. But... just because Luna Durant has issues doesn’t mean Nora Scott is innocent, right?]

[It must have been a drama directed by Luna Durant herself! Otherwise, given her fiery personality, if she really had evidence against Nora Scott, how could she possibly keep it hidden?! The problematic one is obviously her!]

[I want to know what’s really going on with Luna Durant, is anyone looking into it?! Who’s teaming up with me to ask for updates on Fenton City Police’s official Weibo?!]

...

Faced with the huge desire for knowledge from netizens, the official blog’s response wasn’t clear, yet a batch of marketing accounts suddenly emerged.

They released some videos and audios to the public.

In the videos, it showed Luna Durant privately bullying her assistant. The location, time, and clothing kept changing, clearly not the result of just one or two incidents. Luna Durant was adept at using a whip, leaving the assistant’s skin lacerated and flesh blurred with a single lash, coupled with vicious verbal attacks, which made viewers’ hair stand on end.

[I actually believed her nonsense on the hospital bed! Being so fierce in private like a demon, how could she possibly be bullied at will?!]

[Damn! Luna Durant is the one who most deserves punishment! Luna Durant, go to hell!]

[She totally treated the assistant as less than human! Those abusive words completely dehumanized the assistant as if they had no rights at all!]

[Could this possibly be something a person would do?!]

...

As one group of netizens raged and freaked out over the video, another group was petrified by an audio segment, feeling the biting cold of midwinter in the warmth inside.

It was a conversation between Luna Durant and a stranger.

The talk involved planning to "harm" someone, and Luna Durant remained calm from start to finish, treating human lives as trivial. But her indifferent tone sent shivers down listeners’ spines.

Someone checked online and found news of the accidental death of the person they discussed, and immediately, it sent chills down their spines.

[My God. Shouldn’t someone like Luna Durant go to hell?!]

[??? I thought she was just spoiled and unruly, but turns out she’s a demon.]

[Thinking about how I once supported her makes me feel nauseous.]

[The net of Heaven is wide but not loose.]

...

Originally, the stream attracted a large audience because of the association with Nora Scott and boosted by Annabelle Pinto’s support. With attention at its peak, all these revelations naturally turned everyone’s focus away from Nora Scott and onto Luna Durant.

At the same time, netizens couldn’t help but flock to Annabelle Pinto’s Weibo to vent their outrage.

Annabelle Pinto was quick to delete her Weibo post supporting Luna Durant.

But it was useless.

The topic gained so much traction that her backing of Luna Durant had already spread, and nothing could hide it anymore. The online outrage could drown her in a sea of spit.

...

With over ten million netizens following the case, the police showed impressive efficiency and quickly released a statement, confirming each and every one of Luna Durant’s crimes. Among them, the charge of "attempted murder" was substantiated without any falsehoods.

Netizens were furious and wished they could flay Luna Durant alive online to appease their anger.

Before long, somehow marketing accounts dug up more rumors, this time about Luna Durant’s family, all related to the Durant Family’s notorious reputation in the northwest, known for committing all sorts of evil acts. The evidence was laid out in front of netizens to prove that Luna Durant was simply trying to tarnish Nora Scott’s name.

Netizens:

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They regretted consuming any gossip related to Nora Scott!

During this time, the entertainment company behind Luna Durant initially intended to utilize the situation for some publicity, but this backfired spectacularly, impacting the other signed artists of the company.

At the same time—

The website of "Twelve" directly revoked Luna Durant’s voting eligibility.

Annabelle Pinto, however, was still present.

Yet, due to Annabelle Pinto’s act of speaking up for Luna Durant, netizens questioned whether she was in cahoots with Luna Durant or just trying to ride the wave; either way, her reputation took a severe hit.

In the vote for Best Supporting Actress, the gap between Annabelle Pinto and Nora Scott widened continuously until Nora Scott surged far ahead, leaving no doubt as she claimed "first place".

On the day the official results were released—

Nora Scott posted two tweets.

First, stating her inadequate acting skills and lack of virtue, she refused the "Best Supporting Actress" award.

Secondly, she announced that she and her husband would be participating in a couple’s variety show.

Netizens: ???