Chapter 70 Photos Posted Online
Without knowing when it started, Isabella had gotten used to telling William about her daily life.
Actually, since coming to Emerald City, she had always been lonely.
The people in the Taylor Family all looked down on her and wouldn't even bother talking to her. She had no family to confide in.
Things only got better after she met those friends from dorm 602.
Now she felt William was pretty nice too.
As William listened to Isabella talk, he gazed intently at her eyes. When Isabella smiled, her eyes curved into crescents. She ate too quickly and eagerly, getting marshmallow all over her mouth and even on the tip of her nose.
But Isabella was enjoying herself so much, completely unaware.
William pulled out his handkerchief, wanting to wipe her mouth clean.
"What are you... doing?"
Isabella's eyes widened as she stared at William reaching his hand toward her.
She realized William was gently wiping her mouth for her, and her face immediately flushed red.
"William, just tell me and I can do it myself. You don't need to do it for me." Isabella said embarrassedly, quickly taking the handkerchief from William's hand and roughly wiping her face.
William watched as Isabella rubbed her cheeks red and reminded her, "You don't need to use that much force."
After wiping her face, Isabella quickly stuffed the handkerchief back into his hand.
Having finished the marshmallow, she frowned, "Now I'm starting to feel like it's a bit too sweet."
William took out today's lunch box and milk from the car and handed them to her. "Take these back to your dorm, eat them when you're hungry."
"The box is insulated, so don't worry about it getting cold."
Isabella took the lunch box, thanked William, and turned to walk toward the school.
As she entered the school gate, she couldn't help but look back and found William still standing by the car, watching her go.
Isabella was clearly stunned for a moment. Looking at William's tall figure, she realized that in her memory, no one had ever taken the initiative to care about her like this.
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Ever since the incident with Charles, the people in dorm 602 hadn't spoken to Juniper for many days.
Feeling the rejection from the people in dorm 602, Juniper's emotions were on the verge of collapse.
She was filled with resentment, but there was nothing she could do.
If they ignored her, she couldn't possibly beg to talk to Violet and the others.
Juniper had been holding in this frustration for a long time. When alone in the dorm, she couldn't help but pull out a photo on her phone again.
In the photo, Violet was struggling with a man.
This was what she had taken at the bar that day.
That day when she found Violet, she saw a man harassing Violet around the corner. She didn't dare go forward and originally wanted to take a photo of that scene as evidence. Right after taking the photo, she saw Isabella appear and chase the man away.
Juniper stared at the photo.
Because of the shooting angle, in the photo, Violet looked like she was hugging the man, appearing very intimate.
Juniper gripped her phone tightly, her expression turning dark.
As long as this photo was posted online, Violet's reputation would be ruined.
After thinking it over, Juniper opened the campus forum and directly posted the photo using an alternate account.
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That day, Isabella was eating with Violet and the others in the cafeteria when she kept feeling people around them looking at them with strange expressions.
"What are they looking at?" Isabella frowned.
"Maybe they think we're good-looking." Aurora said narcissistically.
Isabella: "..."
She turned to look at Scarlett. "Don't you guys really think it's weird? Ever since we sat down here, people keep glancing over. It can't just be my imagination."
"I felt it too. It seems like people have been pointing at us since we entered the cafeteria. I think I heard them saying something about being kept or something."
"Being kept?" Isabella furrowed her brows.
What was that about?
Just then, Violet's phone suddenly vibrated several times in succession.
Several messages popped up.
Violet frowned and looked down to check them.
It was a message from a male classmate.
[Violet, what's going on?]
[Someone's exposing you on the campus forum!]
[Link: Senior Year Class 11's Violet passionately embracing rich man off campus, proof of being kept!]
Violet's fingers froze, and she clicked on the link.
The page quickly jumped.
Then, a post appeared before her eyes.
The poster's ID was a string of numbers, and the post time was over twenty minutes ago.
The comment section below the post already had over a thousand comments.
[This is Violet from Senior Year Class 11. I heard she's pretty good-looking, but I didn't expect her to sink to being kept by an old man!]
[She's in my class. She often skips classes. I didn't expect this kind of thing?]
[The guy in the photo is so ugly, how could she stand it?]
[I heard she leaves school every night. Could it be that she's really going to meet the old man at hotels?]
Most people were just watching the drama, though some speculated that the poster had a grudge against Violet.
Isabella was sitting right next to Violet and could see Violet's phone screen from the side, naturally taking in all the content.
Aurora and Scarlett also seemed to sense something and picked up their phones to check the campus forum, immediately freezing.
"Who's so horrible? Isn't this slander?"
Just then, a few girls walked past their table.
"Look, look, that's her, Violet from Senior Year Class 11."
"The one being kept is her, the tall one with curly hair, Violet."
Although they deliberately lowered their voices, the words still reached the girls' ears.
"She's so pretty, why would she..."
"Keep your voice down, don't let her hear."
Violet: "..."
She locked her phone screen. "Never thought I'd become a celebrity at school one day."
"Who's so horrible?" Aurora was furious. "Who took the photo? Violet, when that man was harassing you that day, did you see anyone else around?"
Violet shook her head. "I was so focused on getting away from that man's harassment, I didn't really pay attention."
The forum incident made them all lose their appetite. They hastily ate a few bites and returned to the classroom.
But unexpectedly, the situation continued to escalate. The next day, even more people were paying attention to it.
Some people dug deeper into the identity of the man in the photo and surprisingly discovered that the man pulling and tugging with Violet was actually the boss of Vanguard Enterprises Group!
This immediately alarmed many big bloggers.
Business news headlines were suddenly flooded with hot topics.
#Vanguard Enterprises Group's Jesse keeps senior student from Stellar High School#
#Unscrupulous businessman Jesse, chaotic private life, cheating#
#Vanguard Enterprises Group's pharmaceutical products suspected of non-compliance#
A small controversy had unknowingly expanded.