In the next three days after the accident, Glenn had been at home all the time. Since Patrick had controlled the public opinion, most of the paid influencers on social media wouldn't mention us as they forwarded Emily's posts.
Even though someone did, the post got deleted immediately.
If someone mentioned us in the comments, the paid posters hired by Patrick and the netizens would spontaneously scold them.
Over these three days, nobody judged Glenn and me, the victims. Whoever mentioned us would be scolded. In the netizens¹ opinion, we couldn't be more miserable enough and that we shouldn't be implicated.
Therefore, up to now, only Emily and Shelton were the leading roles in the whole scandal.
However, over the past three days, all the paid posters and influencers started to take advantage of the popularity of this scandal and made comments about this matter. Although most of them criticized Emily for being a mistress, more and more of them began to target Shelton.
After all, he took the initiative to do it.
And Emily was just a little maid.
If he hadn't taken the initiative, the whole scandal naturally wouldn't have taken place.
In many netizens' opinion, Emily was just a 20-year- old girl whose world view hadn't yet been completely solidified. After meeting Shelton, who was gentle, considerate, sexually potent, and successful, she naturally was confused and did something inappropriate.
This kind of comments gradually gained support on the Internet.
Seeing this situation, other paid posters began to make comments and voiced their own opinion.
The netizens were powerful. In just a few days, Shelton, who was originally a benevolent and kind doctor, became a degenerated villain, bringing discredit to the industry.
When I flipped through these comments, I couldn't help but feel a little worried in my heart.
If I were the protagonist, no matter how mentally powerful I was, I probably would collapse.
However, over the past few days, no matter how the netizens scolded Shelton, he didn't voice his statement. I even wondered whether he had gone abroad and that he wouldn't bother with these things in City Y at all.
Recently, Nancy and I had been working on designing the teahouse.
We had a tacit understanding. And regarding the style of the teahouse this time, both of us were familiar with it.
So while designing the teahouse, we handled it with ease.
That evening, we were going to refine the drawing and work out a draft. To finish the work in one go, the two of us worked overtime for a while.
After we finished refining the drawing, we revised whichever part failed us.
By the time we were done, it had been 11 p.m.
Nancy planned to send me home.
However, we smelled strong alcohol as soon as we went out.
I turned my head to look for where the smell came from. Then, I saw someone leaning against a corner of the wall and sitting still there.
Nancy and I were both shocked.
We looked at each other and decided to go over there together.
Nancy took out her cell phone and turned on the flashlight, illuminating the corner of the wall.
Under the light, I saw that the one lying there was none other than Shelton, the popularly-searched
one online.
"Why is he here?"
Seeing him like this, I felt sad. After a moment of hesitation, I walked over and pushed him, "Are you awake?"
Shelton lifted his eyelids slightly. Seeing that it was me, he twitched the corner of his mouth, smiled, and said, "Seeing me in this state, aren't you quite happy?"
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