77: Chapter 77: Idols Pay the Price for Fan Behavior 77: Chapter 77: Idols Pay the Price for Fan Behavior Evan Sumrs felt sowhat uneasy when scrutinized, with the hand resting on his knee curling slightly into a fist.
He began hesitantly, “I know what Grace’s fans did was wrong, but this has blown up too much online.
Grace has lost all her popularity among common people, and many fans are…
unfollowing her.”
Evan grew more agitated as he spoke, and his eyes were full of distress when he ntioned Grace.
“Am I Grace’s mother?” Serena Sumrs interjected.
Evan was taken aback, seemingly not understanding the aning of her words.
Serena sneered coldly, exposing her scalded arm, “Although Grace didn’t do it herself, it’s directly related to her.
Even if Mr.
Sumrs doesn’t follow fandom culture, you should know about how idols are accountable for their fan’s behavior, right?”
Evan was shocked when he saw the scars on her arm.
“This, this is?”
“Can’t you tell?
A scald.”
Serena’s gaze dropped, and as her fair, luminous fingertips carelessly slid across the wound, a smile still lingered on her lips.
“If I hadn’t dodged in ti, my face would have been burned instead.
Didn’t Grace tell you about this?”
Evan had no idea Serena was so severely injured.
He clearly saw a video before coming here.
From that woman charging at Serena, to Serena pinning her underfoot.
Throughout it all, Serena didn’t frown once.
So, Evan subconsciously thought Serena hadn’t been hurt at all.
But now…
seeing the bright red scald, Evan couldn’t lie to himself.
If that boiling hot water had splashed on Serena’s face, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
No wonder…
no wonder the Shaw Family insisted on calling the police and making that woman pay the price.
It turns out Serena was really injured.
After listening to Grace’s description earlier, he was biased, subconsciously feeling that Serena was bitter about being made happy against her will.
But now it seems, things aren’t as simple as he thought.
“Serena, I’m sorry, I didn’t know you were injured,” Evan said, looking remorsefully at Serena.
“I can take full responsibility for your dical expenses, but please spare Grace.
It hasn’t been easy for Grace to get where she is in the entertainnt industry.”
Serena scoffed, her gaze at Evan full of sarcasm.
“Who am I to Grace?
Why should I swallow all the grievances and make sacrifices for her?”
“Am I her father or her mother?
Am I obliged to be responsible for her reputation too?”
Serena’s words were blunt and could even be described as crude.
But Evan shafully had no ground to refute.
Because Serena was the victim.
She had the right to refuse to forgive Grace and her fans.
But what about Grace?
Evan pleaded desperately, “Serena, I know you’ve been wronged, but haven’t you bullied Grace before?
Let’s call it even, okay?”
Upon hearing this, Serena laughed coldly.
Even?
She had never bullied Grace, where did this ‘even’ co from?
“You keep saying I bullied Grace, what unforgivable thing have I done that you hate so much?” Serena stood up, her face full of anger.
She slowly approached Evan, enunciating each word, “I’ll own up to what I’ve done, but don’t even think about slandering with things I haven’t done.
I’ve tolerated you all before because we were blood-related, but now I’ve severed my ties with the Sumrs Family.”
Having lived for so many years, encountering such an odd family, Serena felt she had truly broadened her horizons.
“Serena, do you really have to take things to the extre?” Evan stared at Serena angrily.
He couldn’t understand why Serena Sumrs couldn’t just take a step back.
She had previously caused so much grief to Grace, but they, the Sumrs Family, were never aggressive like this!
Serena lowered her eyelashes, her lips twisted in a bitter smile.
Is this what the master talked about, the blood ties and the unbreakable connection of the tendons even if bones are broken?
If all her family could offer was hurt, then she was better off without them.
“Evan, isn’t it your Sumrs Family who has been ruthless?” Serena looked up, her clear, bright eyes staring straight at the boy in front of her.
“It was you who brought back to the Sumrs ho, and it was you who despised for not being presentable.
You’re the ones who declare that I am the young Miss Sumrs, and it was also you who arranged for to be soone’s stand-in groom…”
“You think bringing back was so grand favor, believing that I was coveting Grace’s belongings, but what have I gained?”
Serena’s lips curled into a mocking arc, her gaze toward Evan ice-cold, sending an unprovoked shiver down one’s spine.
Evan opened his mouth, wanting to say sothing, only to realize he had no way to refute Serena’s words.
Serena gestured to the servant, instructing: “Bring down my suitcase from my room.”
The servant hurriedly went upstairs.
When he returned, he was carrying a suitcase.
This suitcase looked sowhat familiar to Evan.
It seed like the suitcase Serena used to pack her things when she first ca to the Sumrs house.
Evan frowned, puzzled, “Serena, what do you an by this?”
Serena opened the suitcase and then opened her phone’s cloud photo album, handing it over to Evan.
Evan looked on, baffled.
“The suitcase contains everything I took when I left the Sumrs ho.
This photo was taken when I first arrived.”
Evan glanced at the photo on the screen, then at the suitcase.
Just one look, and Evan understood Serena’s point.
The sa suitcase, though the items inside were arranged differently, they were all exactly the sa.
Three changes of clothes, a set of pajamas, a pair of shoes.
And a shampoo and shower gel bottle about the size of a hand.
Besides that, there was only a wooden box that looked unremarkable but was exceptionally exquisite.
“This can’t be!
This isn’t true!”
Evan shook his head in disbelief, collapsing onto the sofa.
Didn’t Grace say that mom and dad bought Serena many nice things, even she felt envious?
Why didn’t Serena take any of them?
If she was as vain as Grace claid, how could she leave those things behind in the Sumrs ho?
“You can’t still believe, can you, that Mr.
and Mrs.
Sumrs were so good to that they would let Grace suffer?
I’ll tell you the truth, the things I used were mostly brought from my own ho in the mountains, I didn’t take anything from the Sumrs family.”
Watching Evan’s devastated figure, Serena couldn’t help but feel sowhat amused.
“This can’t be possible!
Mom and Dad clearly bought you quite a few pieces of jewelry and clothes…” Evan refuted subconsciously.
Serena let out a scoff, she never realized before how naïve Evan could be.
So naïve it was laughable.
“Whether they bought things for or not, you are more than welco to check the purchase records.
But to be honest, I didn’t exactly leave the sa way I arrived, considering Grace broke one of my phones and never compensated for it.”
Serena “tsked” inwardly.
At a loss.
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