Chapter 485 - 482: Attack Together

"I know. So what?"

"So what if you know? The internet is flooded with hit pieces on you right now. It’ll be nearly impossible for you to turn this around."

"If you won’t think about yourself, have you thought about your family? They’re also suffering under all this online speculation. Your father’s company stock dropped several points today. If you cooperate with me, I can guarantee I’ll get to the bottom of this."

"If you want my cooperation, you’ll have to explain everything first, won’t you? You’re using Silas Sinclair and Liana Marsh as pawns?"

"You’ve hit the nail on the head. That idiot, Nina Sinclair, wanted to destroy you and get her hands on the Sinclair family fortune, but she ended up implicating herself first. And I did, in fact, use that pair of adoptive parents of yours to help me manipulate public opinion."

...

The video was about ten minutes long in total.

However, the further they listened, the more shocking it became.

Chloe Sinclair had deliberately had Eight erase the part about that file, so no one knew what Joseph Shaw was really referring to when he mentioned ’cooperation.’

But that wasn’t important.

The netizens weren’t thinking along those lines either.

They were more shocked that the whole thing had been a lie.

Ten minutes later, the first batch of netizens who had finished watching the video began to post their reactions.

"Holy shit, this is insane! What the hell is going on!?"

"Meaning the whole thing was a setup from the start, and we all fell for it."

"Chloe Sinclair’s adoptive parents are disgusting. How could they plot against a child they raised for more than a decade?"

"Can’t believe Nina Sinclair was involved in this too. I’m speechless."

"This proves her adoptive parents aren’t as kind as everyone online said they were. In fact, you could call them malicious, screwing over their own adopted daughter like that."

"Heh, that adoptive brother of hers was always a piece of work. I’m a student at Emberfall University, and I was standing right next to Chloe Sinclair when her brother came demanding money. Ryan Sinclair kept spouting off about needing five hundred thousand, and his attitude was absolutely vile."

"Whoa, hold on, I must have missed this part of the drama. What kind of family just casually asks for five hundred thousand? Weren’t her adoptive parents supposed to be poor? Why the sudden need for such a huge amount of money?"

"Yeah, five hundred thousand? A normal family would have to save for years to get that much, even if they scrimped on everything."

"Heh, I knew those adoptive parents were no good. This is just too much."

"Heh, they probably figured that since Chloe Sinclair found her biological parents, and they’re rich, five hundred thousand would be a small amount. But in my opinion, demanding half a million right off the bat shows those adoptive parents are bad news."

The haters immediately scoffed when they saw this.

"It’s only five hundred thousand. Her adoptive parents raised her for over a decade. She can’t even give them that?"

"Exactly. Even if her brother was in the wrong, her adoptive parents raised her for eighteen whole years, and she turned out this successful. What’s the big deal about giving them five hundred thousand?"

"But it’s true that Chloe Sinclair just walked out on them, right? Didn’t give her adoptive parents a single penny. That’s a question of basic decency."

"Tsk, tsk. Stop making excuses, fans. Who knows what that recording even is."

Soon, many people began to question whether the recording was fake.

After all, a single recording wasn’t enough to prove Chloe Sinclair’s innocence.

Not unless Chloe Sinclair could produce more compelling evidence.

But before they could celebrate for long, the Sinclair Group’s official social media account posted a statement.