NOVGO.NET Chapter 1827: Victim vs. Reputation Defense
Chapter 1827: Victim vs. Reputation Defense
Villain Ch 1827. Victim vs. Reputation Defense
The days passed.
Like sand through a cursed hourglass—slow, messy, and vaguely irritating.
Just as Allen predicted, the chaos didn’t die down. It spiraled. Hard.
The sex tape scandal detonated across forums, streams, blogs, and even those cursed compilation reaction videos where people with way too much time watched drama unfold like it was high cinema. The first wave was pure shock—memes, gifs, slowed-down breakdowns of positions, frame-by-frame analysis like it was some cursed Olympics. Then came the confusion.
Because there were two versions.
The AI-glitched one.
And the raw one.
And that was when the conspiracy theorists showed up in droves.
Some claimed it was a smear campaign. Others said it was all AI—none of it real, just blackmail fodder from the start. There were people defending Sophia, saying she was brave, courageous, a warrior of truth, and a “survivor in the hellscape of male toxicity.”
Allen had to pause the feed and physically walk away after reading that one.
But the worst part?
Sophia was good at it.
She knew her angles.
She knew her audience.
She played the trembling victim card like a master pianist playing her finale. There were staged tears on a livestream. A pastel-filtered room. A candle burning in the background for “emotional grounding.” And her voice just barely cracking as she said things like—
“It took me everything just to speak. To tell my truth. This… this wasn’t for clout. It was for healing. I hope… I hope this empowers other women who feel voiceless…”
And then she dropped the quote.
That quote.
“They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.”
Allen physically cringed.
Yes. He’d seen that quote before. On actual activism posts. On real-world stories with weight.
Seeing it come from Sophia felt like a slap in the face.
The quotes were fine.
The speaker was a goddamn catfish in feminist clothing.
Allen leaned back in his gaming chair—bare-chested, a little sweaty, hair tousled from the heat of a digital raid—and stared blankly at the screen.
“She’s weaponizing TwitterX therapy talk,” he muttered.
Even his Discourd server was talking about it.
One of his readers—someone who usually only posted about build stats and dungeon rotations—had typed a whole mini-essay about the ethics of sharing victim testimony versus the rights of the accused. The comment thread exploded. There were memes. There were flame wars. There were people who absolutely should not be allowed internet access.
And Darren and Liam?
They weren’t staying quiet.
Far from it.
They were pissed.
Their PR counterattack began with screenshots—chat logs, timestamps, voice recordings.
One particular file went viral: Sophia’s voice, half-sweet, half-snide, telling Darren something similar like, “If you don’t agree, I’ll just cry online and say you forced me.”
Allen heard it and winced.
Brutal.
Then came the message twist.
Darren and Liam claimed they had received the AI-glitched version from a “suspicious third party.” They presented it as proof that someone else—maybe Sophia—had doctored the video to make it seem more believable. They framed themselves as manipulated pawns, used and discarded.
Suddenly, the debate wasn’t about morality.
It was about narrative control.
Manipulation vs. manufactured narrative.
Gaslight vs. deepfake.
Victim vs. reputation defense.
And somehow, all of them still thought Allen was involved.
He wasn’t.
Not this time.
He really, truly wasn’t.
And yet, he watched it all unfold like a bored god flipping through drama channels.
The police got involved next. Because of course they did.
Both parties submitted claims.
Darren and Liam demanded Sophia face charges. For defamation. For digital harassment. For “reputational assassination,” as one overpaid lawyer called it. They also wanted their names cleared. Fully. Officially.
Sophia?
She demanded money.
She said she’d been traumatized. Harassed. Mocked. Unfairly fired. That the least they could do was pay her compensation for “emotional distress.” Or, failing that?
Jail time.
But her demand always circled back to the number.
The coin.
And that’s when the crowd started to shift. Some of her defenders—some, not all—began to hesitate.
Because real survivors don’t usually ask for payment first.
The shine on her story dulled, just a little.
Allen took a long sip of cold water from a glass and sighed.
The whole thing was turning into a PR bloodbath. And the best part?
He wasn’t in it.
He’d ghosted the moment the storm started. Let them implode.
Let Sophia spin her web.
Let Darren and Liam burn their bridges while trying to gaslight the ocean.
He didn’t even need to say a word.
And Gerry?
Gerry was having the time of his life.
Too excited for his own good, really.
Like a kid who accidentally found the parental controls password and unlocked every forbidden channel.
They’d talked at the gym a few days ago—the public gym, no less—and Gerry could barely contain himself. Between sets, he kept looking around like he was going to spot a hidden camera crew waiting to record his reactions.
Allen had reluctantly pulled up the AI-edited version of the sex tape on his phone, just to prove the glitchy finger-flipping, hair-clipping chaos.
Gerry nearly dropped his dumbbell.
“No—no way. This is crazy! This is—Bro—this is CRAZY.”
Allen had to lower the screen like a teacher confiscating contraband. “Yes, you said that already.”
“No, I mean it, this is CRAZY,” Gerry repeated, again—eighth time, maybe ninth. He said it again doing curls. Said it again while pretending to do leg stretches. By the twelfth rep, Allen stopped counting how many times he’d said it and started counting how long until the session ended.
It didn’t help that Gerry was laughing the whole time like he was watching the world’s most scandalous reality show. He kept mouthing “Darren’s gonna cry on stream” like it was a sacred prophecy.
The only saving grace?
Sophia didn’t go to that gym anymore.
Not after the leak.
Not after the everything.
She was… embarrassed. Of course. She’d vanished from her regular spots like a ghost ashamed of its own haunting. No selfies in the mirror. No over-dramatic treadmill cries. No scent of overpriced floral perfume that smelled like guilt and desperation.
And Allen?
Let her run damage control. Let her pretend to be brave with shaky voiceovers and soft lighting.
He had better things to do.