Chapter 388

People went wild. If there was any doubt before, now they were absolutely sure—it was Emma Russell’s voice. She’d been sent abroad for burn treatment after a fire, and since returning, she’d been all over the TV—donating here, appearing there, even auctioning off her personal items to help kids in poor villages. Everyone had her pegged as the gold-standard “model citizen,” the textbook child of a respected political family, always putting others first. So when this shady video dropped, yeah, jaws hit the floor. The web blew up with people refreshing their feeds, trying to figure out what exactly was going down and if anyone had the inside scoop. And just like that, Emma Russell was trending—front and center on Weibo’s hot list. An hour later, when Emma finally caught wind of the chaos, the first thing she did was go into crisis mode: trying to pull the posts, scrub her name off the trending list, and get some PR posts up to spin her image. Meanwhile, Benjamin Russell, the Mayor, was ou