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    After a brief goodbye, he ended the call, already plotting his next move. Freya assumed the matter was closed and didn’t think much of it afterward.


    A flurry of message notifications pinged in session.


    She opened them—it was the group chat with her friends.


    Frederick had sent several screenshots andmented, “Kristian was the one who hurt Freya, and yet thements are ming her! I’m so mad. I feel like getting into a heated exchange with them.”


    Greta replied, “Don’t bother. The trending post got taken down. She probably doesn’t want more attention. If you stir it up again, it might just explode all over.”


    Moss chimed in, “Why not just hack them?”


    Riley added, “These trolls live off drama. They’re nobodies in real life, so they get their kicks from stirring up trouble online. The more you react, the more they thrive.”


    Frederick gritted his teeth. “Talking nonsense without the facts—it’s disgusting!”


    Greta responded, “That’s the inte. That’s why scandals keep flipping back and forth.”


    Frederick was still fuming. “So annoying! If it weren’t illegal, I’d shut those trolls up myself!”


    “Don’t be mad. I’m not bothered,” Freya reassured them while watching the messages roll in.


    Frederick, however, was fuming and had already started arguing online.


    Later, he called Freya. “Freya, why not juste clean about who you are? Let’s see if they will still im you married Kristian for money then.”


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    “No need. If I say something, it’ll only give those clout-chasers exactly what they want.” Freya wasn’t the least bit flustered.


    Her thoughts were more with her father. Given his nature, if he saw those discussions, he’d probably have Briggs Group release a public statement dering her the heiress.


    And if that happened, things would spiral out of control.


    It wouldn’t just be a petty squabble between her and Kristian anymore. It would escte into a media war between Shaw Group and Briggs Group.


    And the online users? They’d have a field day.


    “Are we seriously just going to let them run their mouths online like that?” Frederick was fuming, jumping to Freya’s defense.


    “The trending topic’s already been taken down,” Freya replied evenly. “Even if they keep yammering about it, it won’t lead to anything real. Give it a minute—something new will pop up, and today’s drama will be yesterday’s news.”


    Frederick looked like he still had more to say, but Freya, thinking of her father, decided to end the call.


    Her father probably hadn’t even noticed the whole fiasco online on his own. But that didn’t mean someone else wouldn’t go out of their way to point it out to him. Maybe n had already told Hugh about it.


    “Mr. Briggs.” Toby, the secretary, approached n with an iPad in hand and held it out. “There’s a trending topic from today. Would you like to take a look?”


    “What’s the point in looking at some boring topic?” n was swamped with work.


    He believed the faster he cleared his desk, the sooner he could kick back and finally take a real vacation. He nned to use the break to sit down with Freya and discuss her stepping in to lead Briggs Group next year. After all the years he’d put in, he’d earned a little breathing room, hadn’t he?


    Toby, well aware of Freya’s real identity, didn’t lower the iPad. He added carefully, “The trending topic is about Freya.”


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