Chapter 228
"You just told me about the secret room like that? Daniel, even with me, you should be on guard. People's hearts can change easily. Even I can't guarantee I won't change, so please, always put your own safety first."
Emily spoke disapprovingly, giving him a special reminder.
She actually felt it was just a matter of a few words.
Little did she know, such words were already quite rare and precious.
Daniel's gaze toward her had unconsciously become even more burning and intense.
Filled with a deep love.
"I'll listen to everything you say!"
Daniel replied in a deep voice.
Emily felt like that wasn't quite what she meant - how did the conversation seem to be getting more and more off track?
Emily simply stopped continuing this topic, to avoid making things weirder.
She left his house and went straight back to her own place to contact Terry.
Emily: [Need your help with something. This is a photo of my child. I need you to get me tracking software right away. Import the photo into it and locate and track his whereabouts as fast as possible. I suspect he's fallen into the hands of human traffickers and may have already been moved. We need to be quick!]
She was terrified that if they were too late, something would happen to Liam.
When Terry heard "human traffickers," his eyes turned blood red.
He had once spent a short time in an orphanage and knew a little girl there who was said to have been kidnapped by human traffickers.
She was his only friend at the orphanage. Unfortunately, he was too weak back then. Later, when he grew stronger, several years had passed since the little girl disappeared, and he never found her again.
So he absolutely despised human traffickers.
Terry: [Don't worry, I'll find the person as fast as possible and catch those traffickers.]
Emily replied reassuringly: [Thanks so much!]
Terry felt Emily was being too polite and distant. He wondered what bad things she'd been through recently.
Terry: [Ms. Johnson, I heard there's a situation over in Zephyria. It's not related to you, is it?]
Emily didn't answer directly but asked instead: [Why would you think it's me?]
She felt she shouldn't have been exposed.
That person behind Orville was quite capable. If her identity was exposed, she wasn't afraid for herself, but she didn't want to implicate innocent people around her.
Terry thought for a moment and replied: [You're SQ, after all. Only you have such capabilities. Plus, I saw the task you posted on the dark web.]
Terry knew she was SQ. As for other people on the dark web, as long as she didn't want to be exposed, no one could trace her through the dark web.
Otherwise, how could she call herself the number one person on the dark web?
Emily: [Keep this confidential. Can you do that?]
If Terry couldn't do it, she might have to use some methods to alter his memory.
Terry immediately promised that no one besides him would know.
Emily didn't mention that Leopard and his crew also knew.
However, they had participated in this matter, and their character at the time was enough for her to give them this trust.
The park incident would inevitably be exposed later. Emily decided to keep a low profile recently.
But she didn't expect Chase to suddenly drop a bombshell.
Making her an internet "celebrity" again.
Chase, who had been cyberbullied and hadn't appeared in public for a long time.
After going back, he surprisingly started a livestream that evening.
He ignored those cursing at him and said directly in the livestream: "First, I want to thank those fans who trust me and have stuck by me. It's because of your unconditional support and trust all along that I've been able to get to where I am today.
Now, I'm personally responding to everyone's doubts and making the following points clear:
1. The songs I sang don't involve any plagiarism.
2. These songs came from my biological sister Emily, but at the time I didn't know they were her work. Instead, I let her suffer a lot of grievances. Through this livestream, I sincerely apologize to her. I don't expect her forgiveness, so afterward I hope no one will harass or cyberbully her in the name of supporting me.
3. Because of the harm I caused Emily in the past, I can't get evidence to prove my innocence. But I won't admit to plagiarism. To prove my innocence, I'm willing to leave the entertainment industry. Also, I'm warning Noah - evil will be punished. You know very well who the real plagiarist is!"
After saying these words, Chase immediately ended the stream.
But this matter quickly blew up online.
Netizens started discussing it from all angles.
Some people believed Chase's words: "I think everything he said is true. I watched the livestream, and his micro-expressions and movements didn't look like he was lying."
Of course, naturally some people acted like they'd caught Chase red-handed and started cursing and mocking him.
"Without evidence, what are you even saying? I think you're the plagiarist, and you dare to smear Noah - absolutely shameless. Noah was generous enough not to make a big deal of it, and you still pop up. You should have left the entertainment industry long ago. You're not leaving on your own - you're being chased away in disgrace by us righteous people!"
So fans from both sides, along with some bystanders, started fighting online.
A rational person couldn't help but weakly comment: "What I'm more curious about is, Chase said he didn't know it was his sister Emily's work, so who took credit for it back then? Why didn't Chase severely criticize that person? Could it be someone very close to him, like a lover or something?"
An early fan of Chase who paid very close attention to everything about him noticed this.
She knew Chase really doted on one of his sisters.
That person seemed to have her own Twitter account, and they had even interacted before.
That interaction had even gained her quite a few followers.
It seemed like once, she had vaguely admitted that those outstanding songs came from her hand.
This fan saw the comment above and felt like she'd discovered some important clue.
She immediately replied to the message above.
[Chase mentioned several times before that he had a very excellent and sensible sister who was the princess of the family. Now he says he had many misunderstandings about Emily and let Emily suffer many grievances, so she definitely isn't the sister he talked about.
I also followed that sister's account, and she vaguely admitted to composing for Chase, so could the person who took credit actually be her?]
Originally, this message didn't get much attention.
After all, most people were just gossiping, and with so many posts flooding the screen, it was easy to miss.
But this message was liked by Sophia.
Sophia even @Byron: "Hurry up and repost that comment I just sent you. It's time to show your loyalty. This is about clearing Ms. Johnson's name - don't drop the ball!"
So soon Byron also liked and commented on it.
The two of them were wealthy people active on the internet. They had spoken up for Emily a few times before, and some netizens who followed them still had some impression, so they immediately saw this message.
Combined with Chase's popularity.
This comment actually got pushed up and was seen by more people.
Many people started investigating who the person was who took credit for Emily's work. She must be the real culprit!
If Lily hadn't sent her a message asking about it, Bianca probably wouldn't have known that Chase had said all this in his livestream and had sent her trending on social media too.