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Furthermore, he demanded that Kaleidoscope act accordingly and stop protecting the screenwriter. Not only did he ask for compensation and an apology, he also told them to ban the screening of ‘The Lost Relative’ in all theaters, claiming that this was the only proper way to deal with the situation.
As he was a victim, his every word sounded reasonable.
All of a sudden, he seemed to have spoken the thoughts of every single author in the nation. All the authors quickly gathered to boycott ‘The Lost Relative’ and demanded that Elder Wu provide a public apology.
At that moment, every single piece of evidence pointed towards Elder Wu being a plagiarist. All of a sudden, it felt like no one could prove his innocence.
Elder Wu felt angry and wronged. Faced with the public’s inability to differentiate bet**en right and wrong, he ended up falling ill.
“Hurry out here and apologize! Stop being a chicken!”
“This screenwriter had many good scripts in the past, I never thought he’d make a mistake like this. Has he perhaps exhausted his talents?”
“Regardless, I think all plagiarists should self-destruct on the spot.”
Seeing the comments online, Elder Wu’s family did not dare to notify him of it. All they could do was sigh amongst themselves.
Meanwhile, Emma hurried over to visit the old man after she heard he had fallen ill.
“Miss Miller, you didn’t need to come here. This was not your fault. Plus, you’re about to give birth. This is very dangerous for you,” Elder Wu’s wife exclaimed. “My old man has been honest his entire life. I can’t believe someone has decided to frame him. I will never believe that he plagiarized anyone. On the other hand…”
“…my grandson actually called his grandfather shameless during dinner yesterday! If it was someone else, I wouldn’t have minded as much. But, tell me, at his age, how is the old man supposed to handle all this?”
After hearing this, Emma could only try her best to comfort the old woman, “I trust in Elder Wu, so I have not given up on clearing his name. I feel honored to have acted out his script.”
“Miss Miller, thank you.”
Emma shook her head. In reality, she felt quite guilty inside, because she had a feeling that the entire incident was targeted towards her and Elder Wu was just a convenient chess piece.
Emma did not question who the culprit behind the entire mess was. Apart from Song Xin, who else could it be?
Firstly, Song Xin was the only one with such a deep grudge towards her, and secondly, Song Xin was an author; she naturally understood how web novels worked.
However, Emma still needed solid evidence.
So, that day, after visiting Elder Wu, Emma returned home and locked herself up in the study room to read the entire 540,000 characters from the start…
But…Emma did not anticipate the seriousness of the matter. Under the harsh p**ssures of the internet and the distrust and misunderstanding from family – on the third day of the incident – Elder Wu wrote out a will and overdosed on medicine to attempt suicide. Although his family discovered him on time, the excessive amount of medicine resulted in brain damage and threw him into a coma which he had yet to wake up from. Meanwhile, the doctors warned that even if he was to wake up, the damage was serious and may result in dementia.
But, even at this point, the internet still claimed that he deserved it and that it was right for him to attempt suicide due to guilt. They even wondered why he hadn’t just died and ended things cleanly.
“Ridiculous! The internet these days is frightening. The old man has already been pushed to this extent, yet they are still speaking nonsense. I feel bad for Elder Wu…”
After hearing Lisa’s opinion, Emma slammed her hands loudly on the table. Lisa quickly covered her ch*st in fright; this was the first time she had seen Emma throw her anger. Emma’s emotions were never written on her face.
“Emma…”
“Let me have some peace…”
Lisa understood that Emma was in a bad mood, so she nodded her head and quietly retreated out of the study room. Just as she was about to turn around and leave, she discovered Eric’s tall figure standing in the doorway.
The savior had arrived!
“Boss…Emma’s angry.”
“I heard,” Eric replied calmly. “You can leave, I’ll take care of her.”
“OK,” with Eric around, Lisa felt a lot more assured. Now that things had gotten to this point, no one wanted to see the current result.
A moment later, Eric pushed open the door. As soon as he saw Emma sitting at the computer desk at a loss, he strode over and sweeped her into his arms, “You are almost a mother, don’t you know how to analyze the situation and react accordingly?”
“Eric…I can’t seem to find an answer this time. I really can’t find it…”
“You’re just flustered. It’s not that you can’t find it,” Eric comforted as he held her in his arms. “This is the state that your enemy wants to see you in. The more you blame yourself, the happier she will be.”
“But…”
“There are no buts. Nothing is too difficult for the Emma I know. Even when she had never studied acting before, one word from me was enough to make her start from scratch. Right now, you are no different. You’re just a little flustered…” Eric comforted. “I’ve read through Elder Wu’s script. A person’s writing style remains consistent. So, our only hope is within these 540,000 words.”
After listening to Eric, Emma calmed down and finally nodded her head, “OK, I’ll listen to you. You are never wrong.”
“You must be tired, go get some rest…”
Emma looked at Eric, checking to see if there was any chance of avoiding his orders. But, Eric’s exp**ssion was firm, so she had no choice but to nod her head, “OK, I’ll get some rest. But, I need to stay by your side to be at ease.”
She couldn’t be too impatient in finding her answers. What she needed to do now was regain her composure.
Afterwards, Emma lay in Eric’s arms and slowly fell asleep.
It seemed, she was truly tired…
Seeing this, Eric opened his laptop and selected the novel, ‘The Tracker’. Reading one word at a time, Eric ended up spending an entire night running his eyes through the whole thing. Of course, he gained a lot from doing this…
The next morning, Emma woke up in Eric’s arms. Seeing his focus locked on the novel, Emma’s heart ached, “Have you been reading all night?”
“Don’t mind that for now. Come and have a look at this.”
Eric showed Emma a screenshot, “See what you can find.”
Emma leaned on the computer desk as she sat bet**en Eric’s arms looking carefully at the laptop screen. Soon, she spotted the problem, “The writing style is different; the vocabulary is different; it doesn’t feel like it’s from the same person.”
“The differences are found around the 200,000 words mark, 250,000 words mark, 400,000 words mark and the 450,000 words mark.”
“Are you trying to say that this novel was completed by a few different people?” Emma asked in an unsure manner.
“Yes, and it was done in a short period of time,” Eric replied. “I asked Luke to do some research into people in the web novel field and discovered that the fastest record amongst the most famous writers is 50,000-80,000 words in 3-4 days. If a few people took on a few ten thousand words each, a book could be completed within 10 days.”
“But, the contract existed long ago…” Emma remembered the contract.
“The contract is real, but who could guarantee that this was the original content?”
Emma was awoken by this simple query, “In other words, the other party deliberately lied to us. Let’s go look at the contract and question them about the content.”
“I’ve already asked Luke to look into it. Web novels are different to tangible books. It’s possible to edit a web novel after it’s been published. The reason why we couldn’t find any information about this book online is proof of one thing: it has either been tampered…or it has never had so many words to begin with and someone added to it.”
After listening to Eric’s analysis, Emma had to admit that she was imp**ssed by this man.
Of course, she was also imp**ssed by Song Xin’s evilness.
“So, if we find these writers and records of the web novel being edited, can we prove Elder Wu’s innocence?”
“I don’t need to make a move myself,” Eric brushed his hand across Emma’s cheek lovingly before he rested his chin on her shoulder, “All we need to do is release our findings to the public. I’ve realized, the best writer amongst the group has begun to clean and edit the chapters. This must mean that they are afraid of being discovered.”
“Since someone’s actually editing it, let’s approach it from another angle and accuse the web novel platform owner of being a part of it.”
“Actually, I trust in the judgment of the netizens more,” Emma said after calming down. “The only reason why they are so angry is because they support the original writer and dislike plagiarism. But, Elder Wu…”
“Everything will pass.”
After hearing Eric’s words of comfort, Emma nodded her head.
“I feel like my brain doesn’t work anymore.”
“Baby brain lasts three years, I won’t blame you,” Eric k**sed Emma gently on the forehead.
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