Chapter 102 How About Live Streaming
Sophia knew that no matter how clearly she explained, these people wouldn't believe her. The best approach was to let someone the public trusted handle it. Calling the police was currently the fastest and most effective solution.
Until the needle pricks your own flesh, you don't feel the pain.
She had her bodyguard take James and Michael back to the Johnson Villa while she dragged those three women to the police station.
The three women, including the blonde one, immediately panicked and yelled at her, "Are you crazy? We're not the ones who called you a homewrecker. Why are you dragging us to the police station? If you've got guts, go find that woman directly!"
"I need to pick up my son from school. I don't have time to go to the police station with you. If you want to explain you're not a homewrecker, go by yourself. Why drag us into this? This is insane!"
"Everyone online is saying it, not just us three. Why should we have to go to the police station? I'm not going! What can you do about it?"
The angrier Sophia got, the calmer she became.
"There's surveillance video as evidence. I don't know about others, but your indirect insults in front of me were recorded crystal clear."
"You can choose not to go now and wait for the police to come to your homes to invite you to the station. I have all the time in the world to deal with you."
The three immediately fell silent.
Sophia swept her eyes around the other parents who looked at her with contempt, her voice cold. "Anyone else like them can come with me to the police station to clear things up." "If I find out any of you are gossiping in front of my children, I guarantee I won't let that person off easy."
Her gaze was like a harsh winter wind, making everyone around tense up. They immediately looked away and distanced themselves from her and the three women.
Not one of them dared to meet Sophia's eyes.
Soon, a police car arrived.
No matter how unwilling they were, the three women were taken to the police station.
Meanwhile.
Lily was quite pleased reading the mocking and cursing comments about Sophia in the comment section. She had prepared herself for Raymond to come looking for her, but unexpectedly, she first received a call from the police station.
When Lily arrived at the police station, Raymond hadn't come yet.
Lily had fallen for Raymond at first sight at a matchmaking gathering arranged by both families. She thought he felt the same way, but the next day she received his cold rejection, clearly stating they weren't suitable for each other.
A pampered princess had never suffered such humiliation.
The more someone didn't like her, the more she wanted to win them over!
Later, Lily kept appearing around Raymond, creating various coincidences, but each time she was discovered before getting close.
To this day, apart from that one family-arranged meeting, she had never had another chance to be alone with Raymond.
Learning that Raymond hadn't arrived yet, Lily wanted to leave.
But she was stopped by the police officers.
Lily gritted her teeth. Though unhappy, she still followed them inside.
In the mediation room.
The three women were making a racket, saying they had to go back to pick up their children. Even after the police said the children had been safely sent home, they still refused to cooperate.
Sophia knew they were panicking.
Especially when they heard that Sophia had contacted a lawyer to sue them for defamation, their faces all changed color.
In modern society, many people think gossip is just for entertainment, that they're just talking casually without causing any harm, so of course, they don't need to take any responsibility.
Just like the malicious comments she saw in Lily's comment section.
People hiding behind the internet felt they could unleash their malice without restraint, thinking no one could find them.
Sophia was determined to teach them a lesson.
She would deal not only with people offline, but online as well!
The blonde woman's eyes widened when she saw Lily, exclaiming with delight, "You're Big Pear! Great! Quick, tell the police!"
"This woman ruined your relationship with your fiancé and seduced him. We're not spreading rumors. Please vouch for us!"
The other two looked at her hopefully as well.
Lily looked at them with disgust and annoyance. In private, she wasn't as sweet and pleasant as she appeared online.
All her friends fawned over her and agreed with everything she said. Lily showed no kindness to these three women.
She rolled her eyes. "Who are you people? Do I know you?"
When Lily came, she had already notified her family lawyer. If the police hadn't said Raymond would also come, she wouldn't have bothered.
Seeing Sophia sitting calmly in the chair across from her, Lily looked her up and down without courtesy. Finding no trace of plastic surgery on her face, and that she was even more beautiful in person than in photos, Lily became even more irritated.
She sat across from Sophia and sneered, "So you're the homewrecker who seduced my fiancé. You don't look like much."
The lawyer beside Sophia solemnly reminded her, "Madam, please watch your language."
Lily didn't take him seriously at all. "Who are you to talk to me like that!"
The man introduced himself, "I'm Ms. Johnson's lawyer, Francis Vasquez."
Lily: "So what if you're a lawyer? Everyone has a lawyer."
Just then, her lawyer rushed in, immediately apologizing to Lily. He was about to assume his professional lawyer stance when he saw the stern, distinguished man across from him, and his pupils contracted.
"Mr. Vasquez." The Baker family's lawyer broke into a cold sweat internally.
Francis was the best lawyer in the country. Even if everyone from their entire law firm joined forces, they might not be able to beat him.
Lily didn't notice her lawyer's expression, looking down at Sophia across from her with undisguised contempt.
"You can handle this, right?" Lily said to her lawyer.
"Well..." He felt like he was about to lose his job.
Lily's account that posted the video was on an APP developed by her family. After posting the video today, the backend directly gave it hundreds of millions of views, reaching the top of trending topics within an hour.
She didn't think there was anything wrong with posting photos of Raymond and Sophia online, and was even quite pleased with herself.
However, when Sophia proposed live-streaming the communication process, Lily's expression changed, a trace of guilt flashing in her eyes.
The three women, including the blonde, panicked even more and disagreed.
"No way! We can't live-stream! We're ordinary people, we don't accept being on camera! If you do this, we'll sue you!"
"Our husbands are all important people. If people found out our children go to the same kindergarten as a homewrecker's child, how embarrassing would that be!"
"That's right, we're all respectable women. We don't want to be associated with a homewrecker. How unlucky!"
Children who could attend Empire City's best private kindergarten all came from families with some means, as you could tell from what these three women were wearing.
Hearing them say this, Lily immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
"I don't agree to live-streaming either. After all, I'm a public figure with millions of followers. I can't just accept live-streaming casually, and I definitely can't appear in the same live stream as a homewrecker who seduced my fiancé."
Thinking of the comments cursing Sophia as a homewrecker, Lily felt extremely satisfied, lifting her chin and looking at her smugly.
"Didn't you make such a big deal about calling the police to talk to me? Well? Why aren't you talking? This is the first time I've seen such a shameless homewrecker."
Lily's attitude made it clear she would never admit fault. Seeing Sophia remain silent, she became even more convinced that bringing a lawyer was just a bluff.
Sophia raised her eyelids slightly. "No rush, not everyone's here yet."