The Billionaire's True Heiress From Fake Jewel to Real Crown novel Chapter 385

When someone finally recognized Shirley in the crowd, people started shouting at the spot, asking the lucky fan to point her out.

The girl who recognized her just went ahead and tagged Shirley’s social media account straight away. Shirley was used to it. She posted short videos all the time, so it wasn’t hard for people to connect the dots.

Claire was a different story. She kept things low-key and didn’t even have a short video account. The comments were buzzing with curiosity. Everyone wanted to know who the girl next to Shirley was, until someone finally chimed in, “That’s Claire.”

That's when the flood of gossip started.

“What’s up with the James family? Claire and Shirley hanging out and just ditching Cindy?”

“Weren’t Claire and Shirley supposed to hate each other? So now they’re friends?”

“Honestly, it makes sense. Something bigger must have happened. Didn’t you see Cindy raising hell online, complaining that Claire shouldn’t go to winter camp and trying to make her give up her early acceptance to college?”

“Cindy’s really being petty. How does Claire doing well hurt her? If Claire gets in to college early, so what? Maybe Cindy should study harder herself.”

“You probably haven’t heard the whole story. Apparently, Claire’s grades are just too good and Cindy can’t take it. Her mom said she's been crying at home every day.”

At first, everyone was focused on Shirley and Claire’s dance videos, but before long, the discussion got totally off track. No one could stop talking about Cindy now.

Honestly, what Cindy did was pretty shady and it ended up dragging down the whole James family’s reputation online. The internet was having a field day, roasting Cindy again and again.

Cindy still had her own little crew, though. Rose was the first to switch sides, ditching Claire and cozying up to Cindy, and then there were a few other girls—ones who never really got close to Claire but now acted like Cindy was their best friend.

Cindy found out about the dance video almost right away.

Back at home, she was fuming. She didn’t dare cause too much drama with her family around, so she stormed into her room and attacked one of her dresses with a pair of scissors.

The dress was something Octavia had bought, and Cindy used to like it. But the first time she wore it, Octavia had just frowned and said it didn’t look as good as it would on Claire.

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