Chapter 105 Secretly Protecting Her
The sun rose in the east, and the pink dawn painted the sky red.
Sophia woke up early and reached for her phone on the nightstand to check the time.
She unlocked the screen and found that the post she hadn't finished reading before bed last night was now gone.
Sophia exited the page and searched again.
All the negative posts about her online had completely disappeared.
Could it be Rat's doing?
She opened her chat with Rat and sure enough, saw his message.
[Rat: Sophia, sent the stuff to your email.]
[Rat: By the way, this Lily and her father are real jerks. I'm going to make them taste my skills!]
Sophia: It really was Rat.
Yesterday she had asked him to look into the Baker Group and Lily. Opening the email, it was full of shady stuff about the Baker Group. When she saw what Lily had done, Sophia frowned.
She left Rat a message: [Contact those people.]
Lily's father, Royce Baker, woke up feeling like the sky was falling!
"What's going on!" Wasn't all this stuff destroyed?
His subordinates weren't sure either and said nervously, "Mr. Baker, the PR department is already contacting marketing accounts to delete everything. We'll report to you immediately when there's news!"
Lily came downstairs humming a tune. Seeing Royce, she asked with concern, "Dad, didn't you sleep well last night? You look terrible."
Seeing Lily, a suspicion flashed through Royce's mind - could the Roberts family be behind this?
Royce: "What happened yesterday?"
Bringing this up, Lily raised her chin proudly, "Dad, don't worry about it. I've figured out a way to handle it!"
Royce told her to keep a low profile, then hurried off to the company.
Lily drank her milk, happily waiting to receive a new round of care from netizens this morning. But when she opened everything, all the messages were gone, and even her video account with millions of followers was gone.
She immediately had the company people unblock it, only to discover that the app their family developed had been reported and taken offline.
Lily immediately had the driver take her to the company.
Before properly handling Lily's situation, Sophia had requested leave for James and Michael.
She only learned later that when Lily couldn't find her contact information, she actually went to block people at the kindergarten entrance.
At this time, compared to the chaos at the Baker Group, the study at the Johnson Villa was quiet.
Sophia was teaching James and Michael how to write in the study.
Usually, there was a professional calligraphy teacher who came to teach, and she just gave some additional guidance.
Both children were practicing very seriously.
Emily sat at her custom-made small desk, with a mini children's pen and paper in front of her.
She tried several times to pick up the pen, but put it down in the end.
She turned around and hugged Sophia's leg with a smile, looking up and saying, "Mommy, want to draw."
The warm sunlight outside the window flowed smoothly into the room. Sophia picked her up and sat back in the chair, keeping her company while she drew.
Her phone in her pocket vibrated.
Sophia kissed her head, "Emily, keep drawing, Mommy's going to take a call."
Emily turned and kissed her cheek, nodding.
Rat: "Sophia, found the people."
Sophia acknowledged and told him to hold off for now and see how things go before taking action in three days.
For three days straight, the Baker Group's subsidiaries kept having problems.
After Lily failed to catch anyone at the kindergarten, she immediately went online, crying that Sophia's sugar daddy was attacking the Baker family.
"I thought my family had some resources and wouldn't be easily bullied, but I didn't expect today's mistresses to be so bold, getting their sugar daddies to make up false information!"
She cried pitifully, turning the tables: "Although my account was blocked, justice won't be blocked. I will definitely keep these shameful people buried in darkness forever. I hope you guys can continue to support me!"
Combined with the news about the Baker Group online these past few days, netizens completely believed Lily's words.
Things escalated and dominated the trending searches.
Many bloggers came out to support Lily, and their fans joined the attacking crowd too.
Someone found Empire City Kindergarten and got firsthand information from teachers and parents for a high price, but when they tried to post it online, they found they couldn't upload it at all.
Someone posted this "internet ban" phenomenon online and got a lot of responses.
When they couldn't find Sophia's specific address or company information, they started organizing to splash paint at Empire City Kindergarten and hang banners saying "Mistress's son get out of Empire City Kindergarten."
To avoid affecting other children, the school announced a week-long break for the whole kindergarten.
In the kindergarten parent group, there was nothing but insults toward Sophia.
Lily was smug, very satisfied with the current situation.
Little did she know that for every false accusation she made about Sophia, her father lost another project.
On the distant other side of the ocean, raindrops hit the window.
William faced the storm outside, thinking of those two weeks reuniting with Sophia in Rain Village.
"Mr. Smith, all cooperation between the Peace Group's branch and the Baker Group has been stopped."
Tony continued, "The message that 'Peace Group refuses all project cooperation with companies that have business relationships with the Baker Group' has also been released."
These past few days, other companies that caught wind of this were also gradually terminating contracts with the Baker Group.
The Baker Group's bankruptcy was the outcome.
"Mr. Smith, you're not going to tell Mrs. Smith any of this?" He didn't understand William's behavior of secretly "protecting his wife."
William's voice was low: "No need."
Outside the window, strong winds howled, and another round of storms was about to come.
He calmly looked away, "Prepare for the return home as soon as possible."
Just three days.
Royce was overwhelmed with work.
When he learned that Peace Group's branch was withdrawing all cooperation, his hair nearly stood on end.
He wanted to call William directly, but couldn't even reach his secretary.
Not only that, but other companies were also pulling out of cooperation, and the bank loan that had been finalized wasn't approved.
The Baker Group's internal deficit was already serious. Without capital injection, they probably couldn't even pay employee salaries this month. If this continued, bankruptcy was just a matter of time.
Royce went to beg his old friend Vincent, but only got the response that the group was now controlled by his grandson, Raymond.
And just a few days ago, Lily had offended Raymond online.
Royce developed several sores on his mouth. "Lily, just go apologize to Raymond, I'm begging you."
"Dad, are you crazy! Raymond publicly pursued a shameless mistress, which is like slapping my face, and you still want me to apologize to him? I'm telling you it's absolutely impossible. My pride as Lily won't allow it!"
Royce nearly choked, "The Baker Group is about to go bankrupt, how much is your pride worth!"
Just as the father and daughter were arguing, Sophia's side took action.
Someone made a real-name report online accusing Lily of school bullying!
[My name is Clio Ross, a Southern University graduate. I'm making a real-name report that Lily Baker, online name Big Pear, bullied me at school for four years! I'm reporting that her father, Royce Bake,r bribed the Southern University principal, threatening to prevent my graduation to cover up Lily's bullying!]