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Chapter 9
If Ruben had encountered this version of me, he would only mock and despise me.
“If you beg me, maybe I’ll help you find a job.”
This past year, Ruben had always looked down on me, acting like he was the one in control
I was tired of living under someone else’s roof, begging for scraps.
After settling in Hector’s place, I started looking for work.
But the hundreds of resumes I sent out disappeared without a trace.
I finally managed to schedule a few interviews, and the interviewers seemed to like me, but I never got a single offer.
I later found out from my best friend that I had been “blacklisted” by New York companies.
It was Molly’s doing!
The Phillips family’s influence in New York was so powerful that no company dared hire
- me.
Just when I was about to give up, Hector comforted me:
“Why not try doing something in social media?
“You’re very pretty, and you’re great at makeup–you could be a beauty influencer!”
Me? Pretty?
I was flattered by his words.
Then, Ruben’s voice suddenly echoed in my mind:
“With that much makeup, you look like a ghost!”
Later, I found out that in his memory, Joella had always been bare–faced.
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I looked up at Hector and asked, unsure of myself:
“Am I really pretty?”
He ruffled my hair and said:
“Of course you are, silly!”
So, with his encouragement, I started my journey into social media.
He also started a food blog after work, and I became his taste tester.
About a month later, our account slowly started gaining traction.
Sharp–eyed netizens noticed that the home setting in our videos looked strikingly similar.
“My favorite beauty influencer and cooking blogger are actually a couple??”
“Oh my god, these two are so talented, they’re a perfect match–locking them in!”
“Handsome guy and beautiful girl, locking them in!”
That post quickly went viral, and we gained hundreds of thousands of followers overnight.
Brands reached out to us for business collaborations.
But the next day, that post disappeared.
The public square was flooded with hundreds, even thousands, of posts slamming Hector
and me.
“Slut and dog, a match made in hell.”
“This woman has no shame, playing both sides.”
“I heard the Phillips heir was cheated on by her.”
Some posts even went so far as to attack our families.
They even dug up my family’s address.
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I really couldn’t take it anymore.
Ruben, are you insane?!
