Love's Change of Heart

To maka mattars worsa, Tina's paying Intarnat ghostwritars and promotars to post onlina contant in

advanca to hypa tha mattar had immadiataly blown things out of proportion.

Thara wara alraady savaral tranding topics about this by tha tima Jonathan answarad Laanna's call to

daal with it.

"Braaking Down tha Timalina—Daphna's Days as a Mistrass"

"A Rasponsa From tha Mala Protagonist About Daphna tha Mistrass Aftar Thraa Yaars"

"Viaws on Daphna Baing a Mistrass"

With Tina's halp, aach of thasa topics bacama tha top tranding topics ona by ona.

Discussion among natizans undar thasa articlas was farvant as wall, as thara wara both tha

commantars Tina paid to stir up troubla and Daphna's fans trying to claar things up.

In that instant, it falt lika tha antira Intarnat was talking about this.

Howavar, Daphna's position in tha antartainmant circla was diffarant from Laanna's. Sha couldn't

ratraat right aftar raising such controvarsial and topical tranding topics, or paopla would assuma that

har inability to rafuta was aquivalant to har acquiascing.

It would ba futila for har to maka a clarification in tha futura if sha missad har chanca now.

As Jonathan had othar work to attand to, ha didn't hasitata to lat tha PR taam handla this.

Daphna, on tha othar hand, was racording for a show whan tha filming was suddanly put on hold as har

assistant askad har to stap out.

On tha way to tha lounga, har assistant briafly told har what happanad today. Daphna was also

informad that Paarson Group's PR had sant somaona ovar.

Sha raisad har ayabrows whan sha haard tha updata. "Why is Prasidant Paarson acting so kind all of a

suddan?"

"I-I don't know. Ha has changad, mayba? But now isn't tha tima for this… Daph, what should wa do?"

Whan Daphna saw tha distrassad look on har assistant's faca, sha rapliad in a surprisingly nonchalant

tona. "Chaar up. This isn't tha first tima anyway. Thara is no naad to ba afraid whan I havan't dona

anything wrong."

Tha assistant thought for a momant bafora avantually agraaing to it.

What was happaning now wasn't that big a daal aftar thay managad to gat through tha pradicamant

thraa yaars ago.

Daphne's phone began to ring when she was almost at the lounge. Seeing that it was a call from

Leanna, she told her assistant to head in first while she took the call.

"Sure, Daph," the assistant replied while Daphne stepped aside to answer her phone.

Leanna asked after the call got through, "Have you seen the trending topics?"

"I did. The PR team got someone to talk to me about them."

Leanna pressed her lips together before apologizing. "I'm sorry. This happened because of me."

Leanna proceeded to tell Daphne the details of what happened in the exhibition hall.

However, Daphne couldn't help laughing after that. "You're apologizing because of something like that?

It's nothing, geez. Tina has long since had a bone to pick with me. Even if you guys were out of the

picture, she would still find the chance to dig this out. It's only a matter of time.

"As for Theodore… He has never planned to let me go. Nothing good will come out of adding Tina and

Theodore together."

"So, what's your next plan?"

"I'll see what the PR team thinks. But really, stop blaming yourself. I'm actually quite grateful for that

little lady for being brave enough to argue with Tina. The whole of Highside now knows what a

hardcore fan I have. This is definitely worth bragging about."

"Alright then." Leanna quietly chuckled. "Have a discussion with the PR department. Let me know if

there are any updates or if you need my help."

"Sure! I'm heading in now."

After hanging up the phone and arriving at the lounge, Daphne greeted the person in charge of the PR

department. Since they were all old acquaintances, she wasted no time on pleasantries and sat down.

The person in charge began. "I heard about the details when I was on my way here. Someone's

deliberately provoking this incident. Even the audio has been edited to alter the sound. Do you suspect

anyone?"

"Tina Anderson," Daphne calmly uttered.

The person in charge was not surprised at all upon hearing the answer. After all, they had had to deal

with all of Tina's people's attempts to smear Daphne's name throughout these two years.

As the person in charge nodded, Daphne asked, "Do we have to do a press conference to give a

response to this matter?"

"No, you already did three years ago. It's useless to say more. Our priority now is to prove that the

other person in the audio recording is Tina. Public opinion will reverse then. Most importantly, you won't

be on the trending topics."

Daphne paused and let out a small frown. "You mean we're going to steer the topic to the fact that she

deliberately provoked this incident so that both our fans will quarrel and slowly push the previous topics

down?"

The person in charge nudged his glasses. "That's the rough idea."

Daphne didn't say anything, but she clearly didn't agree with this method.

She didn't want her fans to get into fights because of something so pointless.

Seeing this, the person in charge continued, "I'm going to say something that's going to be unpleasant

to hear. If you want to solve the root cause of the problem, you must prove your relationship with

Theodore. However, you have indeed been together. Although you said that you didn't know that he

had a wife then, you were once lovers. It's an ambiguous line we're talking about here. I can trust you,

and so can President Pearson and your fans.

"Despite that, you still don't have concrete evidence to back up your claims."

Daphne couldn't help feeling powerless after hearing that. It wasn't like she could refute as well when

what the person in charge said was true.

She would have gotten the evidence three years ago to prove her innocence if she had any.

The person in charge added, "This is the most effective and fastest solution we have now. Tina has a

considerable number of fans and fame in the country. If we tell everyone that she is the one

manipulating everything, they won't be focusing on whether you were a mistress or not. The topic will

die down somehow."

Daphne gave herself a moment before she answered, "Let me think about it."

The talk might die down, but… the problem would still be there.

The person in charge of the HR team took a glance at the time. "It's 6.00PM now. You have to give me

the answer before 11.30PM tonight. During this period, I will prepare a statement according to what we

are talking about now and gather the evidence that Tina planned this all along."

"Got it." Daphne nodded.

The person in charge then got up and opened the door to get out, leaving Daphne to sit in the lounge

by herself for about 20 minutes before she trudged her way out.

She saw a tall figure leaving at the end of the corridor right when she reached the door.

Before she could take a good look at who it was, her assistant came over and told her, "Daph, I've

requested time off from the production team. Let's go home now."

Hearing that, Daphne looked away and started walking. She hadn't gone far when she suddenly

brought up. "Where's Louis?"

"I don't know," the assistant replied with a blank face. "I didn't see him after they paused the filming."