Rising From Betrayal Reborn As The Family Outcast novel Chapter 44

Chapter 44

The live chat exploded with comments.

[I’ve got chills. Her vocals are incredible.]

[She’s so good I want to drop to my knees and call her daddy.]

[Who the hell started the rumor that Alicia was weak?]

[So you’re telling me someone with THIS much talent and skill was holding LUMIA back?]

[That’s the biggest joke I’ve heard all year.]

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[Ms. Sterling looked so confident earlier, acting like Alicia was beneath her. I actually thought she was better, but now, iykyk.]

[Honestly, when you compare the two, that “professional” with her double major suddenly looks like trash.]

[I finally get why Alicia went off on X after she left the group.]

[So who really got screwed over in LUMIA?]

[It’s pretty obvious who the real victim was.]

[God, thinking about what Alicia went through makes me feel awful for her.]

[She got dragged through the mud by LUMIA’s fans and the other members’ stans for being useless and dragging the group down.]

[I really want those people to watch this and see who’s actually useless.]

[No wonder they used her. All I can say is I went from hater to fan today.]

[I’m a fan now, too. That performance was hot as hell. OMG.]

[Same. Instant fan.]

People respected strength, and Alicia had just proven she had it in spades.

Naturally, she was winning them over.

On top of that, after everything she’d been dragged through before, people were starting to feel genuine sympathy and protectiveness toward her.

Even some of the people who’d attacked her in the past felt guilty and embarrassed about it now.

In this moment, countless viewers were converting from haters to fans, from casual observers to devoted supporters.

This time, the backlash wasn’t aimed at Alicia anymore.

Instead, the criticism targeted Starlight Entertainment, Haley, and the other four LUMIA members.

Even Alicia’s longtime fans and new supporters couldn’t hold back, flooding LUMIA’s group X and Starlight Entertainment’s official account with angry comments

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As for Haley’s X, it had already been attacked before, so she’d disabled the comment function entirely.

Haley had been watching the livestream the whole time.

When she saw Alicia nail the music video performance flawlessly, her expression turned ugly.

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She’d known before that Alicia’s singing and dancing skills weren’t any weaker than the other four members who’d trained at Hocem.

In fact, ever since the group debuted, Alicia had been paying for private lessons with professional vocal and dance coaches out of her own pocket.

But Haley never expected that after deliberately sidelining Alicia for a year, her skills hadn’t declined at all.

If anything, they’d gotten stronger, which meant Alicia had kept training and practicing this entire time.

This was one of the things Haley hated about Alicia.

It reminded her of Celia back in the day. Celia had already been so powerful and wealthy, with everything she could want.

However, when they were in college together, she still pushed herself to excel at everything and stole the spotlight from everyone else.

And Alicia’s rapid improvement in singing and dancing was something Haley hadn’t known about before.

During the past year of being used as a scapegoat and getting trashed online, Alicia had never shown this level of skill.

‘Looks like that little bitch never fully trusted me after all, Haley thought bitterly.

In that moment, she realized the truth.

Alicia had probably been planning to leave the group for a while now.

No wonder she’d been so cooperative these past six months, even though her attitude had grown colder and colder, no matter what Haley threw at her.

Haley felt like she’d been played for a fool.

All the dirt she’d thrown at Alicia had backfired spectacularly, and now it had become the perfect setup for Alicia’s comeback story.

After all, Alicia’s solo livestream today had proven beyond doubt that her skills weren’t just equal to LUMIA’s other four members. Alicia was actually stronger.

Felicity made the perfect comparison point.

Haley was kicking herself now, regretting that she’d let Felicity tag along with Nicole to that variety show

LUMIA’s X account was getting slammed with comments.

In the past, the group fans and the other four members’ stans would’ve jumped in immediately, ready to go to war.

But this time, most people chose silence.

They hadn’t expected that the strongest performer in LUMIA, the one with the best vocals and dance skills, was actually Alicia, the member their favorites had been subtly painting as weak and dragging the group down.

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After watching that video of Alicia learning the choreography on the spot, they had no ammunition to fire back at the critics.

The group fans, especially, were feeling bitter about the whole situation.

Some of them suddenly remembered what had drawn them to LUMIA in the first place-it was watching those five girls stand on stage together when the group first formed, all of them working so hard to shine.

They couldn’t pinpoint exactly when they’d started questioning and hating Alicia.

Maybe it was because the other four members kept dropping hints that Alicia bullied them, that she was a tyrant who lorded over the group.

Those subtle suggestions made fans feel protective of the others, and their dislike for Alicia just kept growing.

After all, everyone hated bullies in real life.

Haley and Starlight Entertainment had also worked to diminish Alicia’s presence, marketing her as a dead weight who dragged the group down.

So the fans had been manipulated, plain and simple.

In that moment, plenty of group fans didn’t just lose their support for the group-they couldn’t hold back from turning on them with sarcastic questions and criticism.

Running aggressive fandom operations had its obvious benefits, but when it backfired, the damage wasn’t light either.

The solo fans were doing okay, and fans of the other three members were still defending them hard.

But this time, it was mainly Felicity’s fans who jumped ship, and her popularity took the biggest hit.

No surprise there, since she was the one who got called out and embarrassed on the variety show.

The thing was, Felicity started it every single time-and every single time, she either backed down almost immediately or got shut down on the spot.

Her fans felt embarrassed and disappointed, like they’d been backing the wrong person this whole time.

Some tried to defend her, but they got shut down so quickly that they just went silent.

In the live studio, trainees looked at Alicia with stars in their eyes, completely starstruck.

The ones who’d been picked for Alicia’s group were especially smug, standing there with their chests puffed out like they’d won the lottery.

Alicia was incredible.

And this whole thing was going to blow up, bringing insane levels of attention and popularity.

They’d definitely ride that wave and benefit from it too.

Maxwell looked ridiculously proud, even more excited than when he performed himself

He couldn’t help but brag “See? I told you Alicia didn’t cheat She’s always been this talented

‘She’s my sister, he thought. ‘She’s always worked hard to be the best at everything”

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Everyone around him stayed quiet. ‘What’s he so proud about? Does Alicia even know him that well?”

His fans were speechless, too.

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They thought. We spent so much time trashing Alicia before, and now he’s over here acting like her biggest fan.

They felt awkward. ‘Hey, please stop. Can you be serious for once? Stop embarrassing us. We can’t even bear this anymore.

Nicolas’ expression softened with a deep, satisfied smile. “Exactly. She’s the best.”

‘She’s my childhood friend, he thought. My future wife. She’s always been like this since we were kids. Wherever she goes, she shines.

Nicolas’ fans thought to themselves, Why is he losing it too? Don’t copy Maxwell. Please don’t start sucking up to her.

Then Nicolas glanced at Felicity, whose expression had crumbled entirely, and her face turned cold.

He added with pointed meaning. “It’s good to prove yourself. Otherwise, some people keep thinking they’re the most professional while everyone else is just dead weight holding them back.”

Because of Nicole’s position, they couldn’t say certain things outright.

But for someone like Felicity, who had targeted Alicia before, they didn’t need to hold back.

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