Before anyone online could react, both A&C Entertainment and A&P quickly released statements–each just a single line and a passport–style photo of Alessia. Other than thepany names, the posts were word–for–word identical, as if

    someone had just copied and pasted:

    “She was never a privileged heiress–she’s the founder of A&C Entertainment/A&P.”

    Tristan Hollis: @Alessia Hi, boss. My go–toposer, Moon.

    Liam Morton: @Alessia Blood siblings. The big brother’s a bit hopeless–thank goodness for my brilliant little sister.

    Ethan Morton from Libra & Associates: @Alessia Blood siblings. The big brother’s a bit hopeless–thank goodness for my brilliant little sister.

    Eddie Chase: @Alessia Thanks for introducing me to such an amazingwyer, @Ethan Morton from Libra & Associates.

    The Whitley Group: SOS! Our boss’s wife @Alessia is just too incredible. The boss is worried she’s out of his league. Offering $10,000 for tips to help him win her heart for good!

    The apanying picture was a cartoon: a teary–eyed guy clinging to a girl’s leg, with the caption, “Lessie, how can I live without you?”

    With all these industry heavyweights publicly taking her side, it didn’t matter if people didn’t recognize everyone else–Tristan and Liam were household names; from toddlers to octogenarians, who didn’t know them?

    The fan bases for both families mobilized immediately, fiercely loyal, and with the public’s insatiable appetite for drama, the website crashed in no time.

    Thankfully, it happened during the day, so the programmers didn’t have to pull an all–nighter patching things up. Tempers spared, the site was back online soon.

    Peachi: /iiOh /imy god, plot twist after plot twist–this is the best drama ever!

    y the World: What a legend! Main character energy!

    Just Passing Through: Can someone please exin what’s going on? I’m here for the tea, but I can’t make sense of any of it.

    Popcorn Watcher: To sum it up–aside from the baby switch, everything else was fake. The real heiress was the one bullied; she returned to her biological family just as her adoptive home fell on hard times. The imposter heiress, after enjoying a few

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    cushy years, lost everything the second the real one came back.

    Popcorn Watcher: And get this–the so–called imposter didn’t just mope around. She started her ownpany, wrote songs, made her family rich, and was top of her ss. As for getting into Aristocrat Academy–please! She was ranked first in her grade, valedictorian of the city, full schrship, and collects a $66,000 annual award!

    Princess: Seriously, that’s Alessia we’re talking about! Who at the Academy hasn’t asked her for help? And that so–called “real heiress” is such a drama queen. She acts like all rich kids are idiots, but anyone with eyes can see she’s up ito /iino /iigood/i!

    After that, more and more people spoke up for Alessia–most of them her fellow students from the Academy.

    It took just one ss period for public opinion to flippletely.

    BREAKING: The real heiress caught partying wild overseas!

    The scandals just kepting–before the inte could finish digesting thest bombshell, a new one dropped.

    Photos, all faces blurred, showed her in bed, making out in bars, even caught on camera with a crowd of guys and girls getting high in some sleazy club.

    Truth–seeker: Whoa, this is insane! Is this even legal?

    Summer Soda: Has anyone really not heard about her? This so–called real heiress always acted superior–even before she went back to her birth parents. Backed by three brothers and family money, she constantly bullied the pretty girls and even forced a transfer student out.

    Seven: Wait, are you from the same school? I heard about that transfer student too. She finally made it out from a tiny mountain town, but just because she was pretty and kind, she was bullied iso /ibadly she had to go back.