The Unlucky Turn by Mark Twain 268

However, since Dante had already done it, and his intentions were good, she couldn’t say anything against it.

Leilani simply replied to Callahan: [Thank Dante for me.]

Callahan replied quickly: [When I return from my business trip, I’ll take you to the estate to thank him in person.]

Leilani had no objections. It had been a while since she last saw Dante at his eightieth birthday party. It was time to find a chance to visit him again. After all, Dante had sent her quite a few gifts recently.

Judie peeked from the side, a sly smile on her face. “Ooh~ Is someone going to meet the family again? Does this mean I’ll be drinking wedding champagne for you and my cousin soon?”

Judie’s teasing expression was truly begging for a smack. Leilani pushed her head away and glared at her. “Eat your breakfast!”

With the support of various big shots online, the public opinion regarding Leilani had completely turned around.

Callahan’s company was a major corporation, after all, and it employed many talented individuals-not to mention experts in cybersecurity. Soon, someone claiming to be a tech expert exposed the IP addresses of the accounts that had been frantically insulting Leilani.

[Look, everyone. These accounts were all bulk-registered from the same server! They are obviously paid bots! That post and Clive’s statement didn’t have a single shred of concrete evidence from start to finish. They just spread rumors about her like that. I suggest Ms. Leilani call the police and sue.]

As soon as the screenshots were exposed, the entire internet was in an uproar.

[Holy crap! It really was paid trolls blackening her name!]

[No wonder I thought it was weird. I remember a lot of people spoke up for Leilani before, but those rational bystanders were immediately swarmed and attacked by mindless users. I remember several people were bullied into deleting their accounts.]

[Yeah, yeah, I remember that too.]

[I used an alt account earlier just to say ‘I don’t know the truth, so I won’t judge, and I got flooded with abusive DMs. It scared me so much I deleted the comment and the account immediately.]

Many people under the thread had experienced similar things. They hadn’t even been defending Leilani, just expressing neutral opinions, yet they were attacked and insulted by anonymous accounts until they deleted their comments.

[Who did Leilani offend to be targeted like this?]

[Do you even need to ask? It must be the Sloan siblings!]

[But is it true that Leilani went to prison?]

[If she really went to prison, forgive me, but I can’t support her. Someone who’s been to prison can’t be clean, right?]

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[Right, right. Even though Leilani doesn’t seem to have done anything wrong in this specific incident, who knows if she really did time?]

[Come on, I doubt Leilani is that innocent, or she would have come out to clarify it ages ago.]

Just as everyone was arguing fiercely, a guest who had attended Leilani’s birthday party years ago suddenly mentioned the past incident in the comments section.

[What? So in the end, it was Leilani who went to prison? I think I might know what incident you guys are talking about.]

As soon as that guest posted the comment, it piqued the curiosity of the surrounding onlookers, who rushed to reply and ask for details.

[What happened back then? Tell us, tell us! Don’t leave us hanging!]

[So that Leilani really went to prison?]

[Whoa, I feel like I’ve stepped into a whole different world.]

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