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The manager never saw this coming and panicked at first, but quickly collected herself and reassured her, “Don’t get worked up yet. We brough song. Luckily, we credited the original composers. We only did it in case the song blew up and they came after us, so wie kept their names in the eran Who would’ve thought something like this would happen now…
Naturally, it was time to let them take the fall!
The manager didn’t finish their sentence but Arianna immédiately understood what they meant.
This kind of situation wasn’t unusual in the industry–dragging someone else down to protect yourself and divert public scrutiny had practically become standard practice.
Arianna didn’t see anything wrong with it either. She immediately said, “Then hurry up. We’ve got a new single dropping in a few days. Get someone to check if the upcoming songs have any issues.”
The manager responded, “Okay, okay, don’t stress. It’s all small stuff. Get ready–we need to rush to the next shoot.”
Arianna wasn’t overly anxious. In fact, her mind had already drifted away from the issue at hand. What truly worried her now was how Aiden would retaliate… and how he would come after the Reed family.
If she had known it would be such a mess, she never would’ve gotten involved. Right now, she deeply regretted her decision–but work still had to go on.
Arianna and her manager soon arrived at the shoot location. But just as they got out of the car, they were swarmed by reporters lying in wait–more than one outlet too. The moment they saw her van pull up, they rushed toward it in a frenzy.
Arianna hadn’t expected this at all. Shock briefly flickered across her face before she quickly put on her sunglasses and said, “Why are there so many people?”
The manager hadn’t anticipated this either. Her face darkened, and she gritted her teeth, “We must’ve been set up by a rival. Remember that international endorsement I snatched from Josephine Walls for you? Her team was fuming. This is probably their doing.”
Arianna cursed, “So what do we do now? We can’t even get through!”
“We have to shoot this commercial today. We’ll just have to force our way in,” the manager sighed. “Those people are ruthless. Just don’t say anything reckless. If they ask about the plagiarism, stick to ‘I don’t know.‘ Say nothing. Got it?”
“Mm.” Arianna nodded in response.
She quickly put on her hat and sunglasses before getting out of the car. As expected, the reporters charged toward them at once, shouting, “Miss Reed, do you have anything to say about the plagiarism controversy?”
“Please step aside,” the manager and bodyguards blocked the crowd as she added, “Miss Reed has to go in and film a commercial, Please don’t delay our
work!”
But the reporters were relentless, shouting, “Miss Reed, please explain–was the license from the Atlantis‘ Piano Prince legit?”
The reporters had completely blocked the entrance. Arianna had no choice but to stop and said, “I don’t know. I wasn’t in charge of the composition- that was handled by our collaborators. As for the plagiarism allegations, I have no idea how this happened. We’ll investigate and hold the responsible party accountable. We owe the public and our fans a proper explanation. Thank you all for your concern.”
Despite her answer, many reporters were clearly dissatisfied.
They had come for dirt, not for her to shift blame. Another reporter called out, “I saw that the lyrics were written by you. How do words used in a plagiarized song?”
eel to have your
Thinking she’d finally found a chance to clean up her image, Arianna jumped on the opportunity and said, “Of course it doesn’t feel good. The reason I chose to collaborate on this piece was because it truly moved me. That’s why I stayed up all night to write lyrics for it. Who would’ve thought… it was plagiarized.”
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As she spoke, Arianna lowered her head with heartfelt emotion, looking genuinely distraught. She continued. 1. feels like my chi it’d be alle to say I’m not hurt. But what’s done is done—If people want to hate me and curse me, I have nothing to say Loan one bia vetting our collaborators more carefully. We won’t be working with those two again.”
With that, Arianna turned and walket! away.
The manager was pleased and quickly signaled the bodyguards t
to clear the crowd.
Arianna spent the entire day filming the commercial. By the time she came out that evening, the reporters had already left. Thinking she could finally po home and sleep, she was startled to see her manager’s devastated face.
“What happened?” Arianna asked, alarmed.
Her manager’s expression looked worse than crying as they forced a twisted smile and said, “It’s over… What do we do now?”
Arianna had a sinking feeling and immediately grabbed the manager’s phone.
The internet had exploded in a frenzy!
Arianna’s name had once again been dragged I to the top of the trending search list for all the wrong reasons.
The headline read: [Shameless Artist Arianna Reed Breaks the Bottom Line Again]
Arianna scrolled down and saw an avalanche of hateful comments. And right beneath them, the top–trending post was a tweet.
The user’s name: Adrienne Petty.
Adrienne Petty: [This was just a poem I wrote two years ago. This is unbelievable! Retweet: “Arianna Reed denies being the composer and says she’s heartbroken as the lyricist“]
The comments were strikingly unanimous:
[Protect our queen, Adrienne!]
[Adrienne, stay strong! You must fight for your rights! Artists like her are disgusting!]
[I can’t believe Arianna turned out to be this kind of person. I’ve been a fan for two years–loved her looks and voice–but I’m heartbroken…]
[Who even is this ‘lowly webnovel‘ author? Admittedly, the poem’s quite good. How have I never heard of her?]
Adrienne’s fans quickly jumped in under that comment:
[Adrienne Petty is our hidden gem! Not only can she write poetry, but her stories are absolutely incredible. You have to check out our queen! Top works: The Story of the Queen, The Queen’s Divorce Manual.]
[You’re the real nobody! Adrienne is a star! I’ll love her forever!]
[Honestly, if Arianna hadn’t plagiarized, l’probably wouldn’t have discovered this author. So maybe it’s a blessing in disguise.]
Seeing all this, Arianna was livid. She shouted, “Why is the trending post still up?”
Her manager looked worse than ever and said, “Someone’s pulling strings. We can’t take it down. If we really want it gone, it’ll co then, it might not work. Arianna, this might really be the end…”
Arianna already had powerful backing. To be cornered like this–there were very few people who could make that happen.
Her heart sank as Aiden suddenly came to mind.
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But she quickly shoved that thought aside, thinking. ‘No, impossible. He wouldn’t stoop to such manipulative, underhanday tactics
‘So… who could it be?”
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