As Stella approached Keegan, he immediately reached out to remove her sunglasses. She frowned and was clearly unhappy with the gesture. So, she asked, "Why did you take off my sunglasses?"Keegan responded, "You're wearing sunglasses on stage. It distracts the audience's attention away from the recruitment talk."Stella snorted. "Yeah, you can control me. But, can you also control the audience's attention?""Pfft," Aldor could not help but laugh. "Madam is truly a performer. She has a bit of comedic talent."But, as soon as Keegan shot Aldor a glance, Aldor cleared his throat, trying to act natural.Keegan folded the sunglasses and put them in his pocket. "Stella, sit next to me and behave yourself. Don't talk nonsense.""Okay," Surprisingly, Stella did not argue with Keegan this time.At three in the afternoon, the recruitment talk had officially begun.Mr. Jackman started by giving a brief introduction to the collaboration between the Vinci Rivera Group and the university. Th
As Sophia was speaking, the large screen behind her switched to a presentation slide interface. However, what appeared on it was not what she had mentioned about the "Rising Star" project but a paternity test report. Scrolling down, it revealed Sophia's birth certificate and her parents' information.The presentation slides detailed Sophia's parents — Albert and Hylda — having an extramarital affair and giving birth to her, putting her in a welfare home, and then arranging for Albert's wife — Rainee — to adopt her.The sudden revelation left the audience bewildered, and the media quickly realized that something was amiss. They were frantically filming the scene."Holy shit. Sophia is Albert's illegitimate daughter!""Who's Albert?""He's the husband of the couple who adopted Sophia. Isn't he her adoptive father? How could he be her biological father?""It's written on the slide that Albert had an affair with his secretary, resulting in the birth of Sophia. To cover it up, they pu
Sophia turned around with a confused look on her face. As soon as she saw the content on the presentation slide, her face went pale.The information displayed on the presentation slide was beyond belief. The perpetrators mentioned in it did not have any morality or decency. Worse still, everything on the screen was true and had happened to Sophia herself.Sophia had been upholding her image for so long, deceiving so many with her fabricated stories. How could her fans ever forgive this kind of deception?In the ivory tower of academia, the students' experiences were relatively simple, and the way they expressed their emotions were straightforward. They shouted and demanded Sophia be kicked out of their campus. Some threw water bottles; some threw fruits; one even threw a shoe, which landed right on Sophia's face, causing her nose to bleed profusely.The university's top officials quickly instructed teaching and non-teaching staff to maintain order. As for the Vinci Rivera Group's s
Within just half an hour, topics such as "Sophia is A Bastard" and "The Vinci Rivera Group's Recruitment Talk at Trinity University Failed Miserably" made it into the trending list.Sophia had set a perfect image beforehand. Those hashtags, including "#orphan", "#inspiring", and "#rising against all odds", which had meant to be her labels, became sharp weapons against her after her image collapsed. Since she was in high school, she had used her "orphan" status to gain attention from the public and become a well-known "inspirational internet celebrity". Almost all of her fans followed her due to her "miserable" childhood and "never give up" attitude toward life.Therefore, when her image collapsed, her former supporters turned on her instantly. Every time her social media page was refreshed, she would lose hundreds or even thousands of subscribers. In just ten minutes, she could lose tens of thousands of fans.Sophia had often said on her social media that, [I've been through the sto
"You grew up with Sophia in the same house, yet you didn't see the signs. But, now that I think about it, Sophia's round face and bulbous nose are obviously inherited from Albert, aren't they? And Albert, that shameless man, not only cheated on your mother but also had her help him raise his bastard child. He's not even worthy of being called a human!"Felicity kept talking like a hindsight expert, feeling that many things had already foreshadowed Albert's despicable behavior. After she finished speaking, she noticed that Stella was silent. So, she spoke softly, "Stella, you're not mad at me for cursing Albert, are you?"Stella came back to her senses and calmly said, "I don't care." Albert no longer deserved to be called "father" by Stella for what he had done."Felicity, do you know how the Vinci Rivera Group is doing now?" Stella asked."They're being roasted on social media. Many reporters are waiting outside their office building for interviews. The Vinci Rivera Group has been
Some netizens started to make up stories using a picture. They claimed that after they had sent their CVs, the Vinci Rivera Group's HR staff discriminated them based on their education and region and even verbally harassed them.The collapse of Sophia's image resulted in the fall of the Vinci Rivera Group into a corporate reputation crisis. People began to question its corporate image. After all, before Sophia's scandal, there was another incident caused by Jackson six months ago.Behind the incident, it seemed that someone was deliberately fanning the flames and directing the blame toward the Vinci Rivera Group. The discussion on corporate image and employee quality was more heated than that of Sophia's scandal. This outcome deviated from Stella's initial expectations.Meanwhile, after the incident, Keegan and others were able to keep the situation under control with the help of the university's top officials and police who arrived later. They did not leave Trinity University until
Sophia, on the other hand, got agitated. "Mr. Kane, it must be Stella. She had the motive. When we were discussing the process of the recruitment talk, she was absent for a long time. That must have been the time she swapped the files in my USB drive! We should check the surveillance footage—""Enough!" Keegan's voice was cold. "Do you think that at this point, anyone cares who's the culprit? Can this salvage the damage that has been done to the company's reputation?"Sophia turned pale. Her lips were trembling, and she could not say another word.Jackson glanced at Keegan. "Keegan, isn't it possible to investigate the root cause while also salvaging the company's image? If someone hadn't intentionally caused this incident during the recruitment talk, how could we have ended up in this mess?"Keegan looked at Jackson and said, "I've always said that we should focus on promoting the project instead of putting in personal agendas. Look at what you did. You relied on Sophia's image to
Cordelia stood outside the door, listening to the discussion. She pursed her lips for a long while before she finally said, "Keegan really lacks interpersonal skills. Only a handful of the old guard really supported him."Baldwin was speechless. He thought, 'I was under the impression that you were worried about how you should handle this matter while you were standing at the door. I never expected you to be so nonchalant about it and only concerned about your grandson's personal connections. They said that you were biased, and you didn't deny it at all.' Baldwin then said, "The young master's expertise lies in research and development, not handling these sorts of situations."Cordelia commented, "When Keegan was growing up, I put all my effort into training him to excel. But, I neglected to teach him the art of eloquence. He really needs to learn it from Stella. Look at her. She's strong when she needs to be, and soft when appropriate. And, she never backs down from what she wants.