Weibo crashed twice as over a hundred thousand users flooded in to watch the drama unfold.
The topic’s popularity soared, and the situation was still escalating.
Soon, under another trending topic—#ThePlotTwist, SerenaSherwoodFakesVictimhood#—netizens also discovered a video.
It was related to the nine-photo collage she had posted to play the victim.
In the video, Serena Sherwood was wearing the latest haute couture dress and was decked out in sparkling jewelry.
Her entire outfit screamed luxury, meticulously styled down to the last strand of hair.
Her high heels CLICK-CLACKED sharply on the living room floor as she ordered the maids around, her demeanor every bit the proud and arrogant superstar.
“Mindy, lock up all my jewelry.
Don’t touch those small cases.
If you lose a single piece, you’ll go to jail!”
“Hey, hey, my awards!
Be gentle with those.
You can’t afford to replace them if you damage one.”
“Put all the scripts in the cardboard boxes and seal them.
Don’t you dare rummage through or read them.
If any plot details leak, I’m holding you responsible.”
“My couture gowns can’t be folded!
They’ll be ruined!
How many times have I told you?
Put them in garment bags and carry them over one by one tomorrow.”
“…”
The video had both picture and sound.
Netizens could see and hear everything clearly.
Their anger erupted in an instant!
Serena Sherwood looked so high and mighty, like an arrogant queen on the red carpet.
Where was the pitiful victim she pretended to be?
[So this is what Serena Sherwood is really like at home.
She’s a completely different person from the sweet, gentle starlet we see on TV [Stunned].]
[Hey, all you stans, your precious idol is sooooo pitiful!
Ten cases full of jewelry, a new dress worth over five million…
Why don’t you sell your blood to donate to her?]
[You’ve still got two kidneys you can sell to buy her a human-skin handbag.]
[These stans are just a swarm of flies, buzzing toward the freshest pile of shit!]
[Hey, commenter above, people are trying to eat here.
Can you be a little more civilized?
Don’t say ‘shit,’ just say ‘Serena Sherwood.’ If you know, you know.]
“…”
The netizens were in a frenzy, celebrating as if it were New Year’s.
Riding the wave of popularity, Iris Dalton logged onto Weibo, reposted the video, and even gave a ‘like’ to the helpful user “The real GoldenKoi.”
That’s right.
Both videos were posted by a sockpuppet account with the username “The real GoldenKoi.”
Iris Dalton casually posted on Weibo, dropping a bombshell while she was at it.
[@IrisDalton: You two idiots, @VincentThorne and @ShaunAdler, if you love being simp brothers-in-law so much, then get on your knees and lick for all you’re worth.
Just don’t mess with me!]
The moment this bombshell dropped, the fans were all stunned again.
What?
Since when were President Thorne and Young Master Adler brothers-in-law?
Simp brothers, at that?!
But netizens are omnipotent.
A helpful ‘lore master’ immediately came online and, after some deep digging into Stellan’s wealthy families, even revealed that Vincent Thorne’s rumored girlfriend was Stellan’s number one socialite, Claire Sherwood.
She was Serena Sherwood’s sister.
Soon, the thread went completely off-topic, turning into a discussion about the past and present lives of these pitiful rich-boy buddies.
This dragged Stellan’s elite circles into the fray.
One after another, their secrets were exposed, unearthing several over-the-top soap operas of love, hate, and revenge.
He loves her, but she doesn’t love him.
Instead, she loves him and him.
He can’t have her but can’t let her go.
She runs, he chases.
She can only ask him and him for help.
In the end, she and him get a happy ending, while he and him get a bad ending.
The full drama is not yet over.
More plot twists to come.
To be continued…
Netizens: “…?”
Serena Sherwood’s fans were also dumbfounded.
Rich family feuds?
What the hell did that have to do with them?
They had desperately defended their ‘little fairy,’ only to find out they’d been played for fools.
They were the real clowns.
Just moments ago, the fans had been attacked by a horde of inexplicably aggressive netizens, forcing them to retreat and conserve their strength.
To fight another day!
But who knew that the moment they turned around, a bombshell like this would drop.
Serena Sherwood playing the victim online, painting her newly returned sister as a vicious, scheming drama queen—all of this was just typical rich-sister mudslinging.
The fans shouldn’t have taken it seriously.
But after they had gotten invested, they discovered Serena Sherwood’s arrogant and cruel side, which left them wanting to cry but having no tears left.
The fans went into seclusion.
They didn’t dare make a peep and started frantically deleting their previous comments.
When they were being mobbed by millions of netizens earlier, they could still hang on.
This time, they really couldn’t take it anymore!
They were done.
They wanted to pack up and run.
But deleting their comments was useless.
A user named “The real Slick” directly posted a long-form image.
It was filled with screenshots of insults directed at Iris Dalton, along with a long list of the fans’ IP addresses.
The actions that followed were like a thunderclap: encirclement, mass reporting, account suspension, and demands for compensation…
The full-service package had been arranged.
Shaun Adler’s and Vincent Thorne’s fans were also dumbfounded.
Their idols had gone all out to support Serena Sherwood, only to get slapped in the face like this?
The wealthy young masters had become simps for a drama queen?
Who were they supposed to complain to?
Serena Sherwood was a real piece of work, a bona fide scheming bitch!
In an instant, Shaun Adler’s and Vincent Thorne’s fans erupted.
They swarmed Serena Sherwood’s Weibo, fuming as they launched a full-scale flame war.
The power of tens of millions of fans was terrifying.
Wave after wave, they ripped Serena Sherwood and her fans to shreds.
Serena’s fans were berated into submission.
Most of them were just fans of her persona, idolizing Serena Sherwood’s status as a wealthy heiress to satisfy their own fantasies and vanity.
They couldn’t compare to the highly dedicated, career-focused fans.
So, the moment things went south, they stopped trying to act tough and began to back down.
If you can’t beat them, avoid them.
They just quit the fandom and deleted their accounts.
In just ten minutes, Serena Sherwood lost seven million followers!
Of course, more than five million of those were ghost followers.
Iris Dalton had given the order to have them all stripped away.
The remaining fans were fuming in the Super Topic threads, constantly crying foul, but no one paid them any attention.
*
「Elysian World Entertainment.」
The public relations department office was packed.
Employees who should have already gone home for the day were instead working themselves into a frenzy.
The company was facing a PR crisis, and no one dared to leave at a time like this.
Everyone stared helplessly at the trending topics on Weibo.
The PR department wanted to cool down the hype, but the ten trending topics were as if they were embedded online, stubbornly fixed on the list, refusing to budge an inch.
With no other options, they resorted to using paid commenters to clean up Serena Sherwood’s image.
But the astroturfing companies weren’t taking any jobs related to Serena Sherwood, so they had to do it themselves.
They mobilized the entire department, contacted her agent and top fan leaders, and tried to rally the fanbase to help Serena score a win.
The head of the PR department personally joined the fight and was now anxiously scrolling through the comments on Weibo.
Most people were posting sarcastic remarks.
Only a few of Serena Sherwood’s die-hard fans were putting up a last-ditch resistance, but they were quickly drowned in the flood of comments.
The PR department saw this wasn’t working and continued to organize large groups of people to jump in and provide support.
[How did nobody see what a huge green tea bitch Serena Sherwood is?
Just watch her commercials—so frail and pretentious, it’s enough to give you goosebumps.]
[Did Serena Sherwood deliberately dox her sister online?
How could a poor little thing who just came home possibly threaten her position?
Don’t tell me this is a ‘real vs.
fake heiress’ trope, is it?]
[Holy shit!
The more you think about it, the scarier it gets!
Commenter above, I believe your theory!]
[Where did all these haters come from?
Serena is a kind little fairy, a flower of a wealthy family.
She wouldn’t deign to compete with an illiterate sister.]
[Serena was just expressing her sadness on Weibo.
What’s so wrong with that?
Are you all trying to hound her to death?]
[And to those using the video to make a point, that’s enough!
Serena is a rich heiress, so what if she’s a little spoiled and willful?
What’s wrong with ordering maids to do work?
It’s not like the maids aren’t getting paid.]
[Exactly!
You shameless haters are just using moral standards to attack Serena because you’re jealous she has maids waiting on her, aren’t you?
You’re so salty!]
[Serena wasn’t wrong, either!
A country bumpkin’s house really isn’t as big as a rich family’s bathroom.
What’s there to be so salty about?]
Another chaotic battle erupted on Weibo, drawing in countless drama-watchers who savored every moment.