Substitute Her to Love You (Charlotte and Patrick)

Chapter 376

In the next three days after the accident, Glenn had been at home all the time. Since Patrick had controlled the public opinion, most of the paid influencers on social media wouldn't mention us as they forwarded Emily's posts.

Even though someone did, the post got deleted immediately.

If someone mentioned us in the comments, the paid posters hired by Patrick and the netizens would spontaneously scold them.

Over these three days, nobody judged Glenn and me, the victims. Whoever mentioned us would be scolded. In the netizens¹ opinion, we couldn't be more miserable enough and that we shouldn't be implicated.

Therefore, up to now, only Emily and Shelton were the leading roles in the whole scandal.

However, over the past three days, all the paid posters and influencers started to take advantage of the popularity of this scandal and made comments about this matter. Although most of them criticized Emily for being a mistress, more and more of them began to target Shelton.

After all, he took the initiative to do it.

And Emily was just a little maid.

If he hadn't taken the initiative, the whole scandal naturally wouldn't have taken place.

In many netizens' opinion, Emily was just a 20-year- old girl whose world view hadn't yet been completely solidified. After meeting Shelton, who was gentle, considerate, sexually potent, and successful, she naturally was confused and did something inappropriate.

This kind of comments gradually gained support on the Internet.

Seeing this situation, other paid posters began to make comments and voiced their own opinion.

The netizens were powerful. In just a few days, Shelton, who was originally a benevolent and kind doctor, became a degenerated villain, bringing discredit to the industry.

When I flipped through these comments, I couldn't help but feel a little worried in my heart.

If I were the protagonist, no matter how mentally powerful I was, I probably would collapse.

However, over the past few days, no matter how the netizens scolded Shelton, he didn't voice his statement. I even wondered whether he had gone abroad and that he wouldn't bother with these things in City Y at all.

Recently, Nancy and I had been working on designing the teahouse.

We had a tacit understanding. And regarding the style of the teahouse this time, both of us were familiar with it.

So while designing the teahouse, we handled it with ease.

That evening, we were going to refine the drawing and work out a draft. To finish the work in one go, the two of us worked overtime for a while.

After we finished refining the drawing, we revised whichever part failed us.

By the time we were done, it had been 11 p.m.

Nancy planned to send me home.

However, we smelled strong alcohol as soon as we went out.

I turned my head to look for where the smell came from. Then, I saw someone leaning against a corner of the wall and sitting still there.

Nancy and I were both shocked.

We looked at each other and decided to go over there together.

Nancy took out her cell phone and turned on the flashlight, illuminating the corner of the wall. NôvelD(ram)a.ôrg owns this content.

Under the light, I saw that the one lying there was none other than Shelton, the popularly-searched

one online.

"Why is he here?"

Seeing him like this, I felt sad. After a moment of hesitation, I walked over and pushed him, "Are you awake?"

Shelton lifted his eyelids slightly. Seeing that it was me, he twitched the corner of his mouth, smiled, and said, "Seeing me in this state, aren't you quite happy?"

I didn't expect that after I hadn't seen Shelton for days, the first sentence he said to me would be actually this.

I didn't know why Shelton would think so. There was no hatred between us. Why should I like to see him end up being in such a miserable situation?

I frowned slightly, "Get up. It's cold here. I'll get a taxi for you and send you home."

He shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Home? You're not there anymore. There's no home."

His words touched me. I wanted to help him up. However, Shelton was so heavily weighted. Even if he was sober, I probably couldn't help him up. Now that he was drunk, making him more heavily weighed. In that case, no way that I could support him.

Nancy stood next to him and said, "Call the police." "Don't." I took the fact that Shelton was popular online into my consideration. If he went to the police station, he surely would dominate the trending topics once again. So I said, "Let's try to help him up."

Nancy and I spent a lot of effort dragging Shelton into the studio and putting him on the sofa.

After that, I found that I had been sweating profusely.

In fact, I wasn't sure whether Shelton was indeed drunk at our door or just acting. There probably would be a lot of bodyguards waiting for us later.

After all, because of the scandal online, he was utterly discredited. And it was likely that he would do something desperate.

I said to Nancy, "You should go home first. I'll call Patrick and let him come here."

"I'll keep you company." Nancy refused to leave me alone.

"It's okay. I've been with him for so long. And I know what I'm doing. You can leave now."

Under my repeated persuasion, Nancy left in the end.

As soon as Nancy left, I planned to call Patrick.

However, when I took out my cell phone and planned to dial Patrick's number, someone suddenly reached out one hand and grabbed my cell phone.

I turned around in fear and saw Shelton, who had been drunk just now, was awake now. He looked at me with my cell phone in his hands.

However, the look in his eyes was extremely disoriented, indicating that he was still drunk.

After confirming that he was still drunk, I felt a little glad in my heart.

However, I was a little nervous as well, fearing that it would be a trap.

As I was worried about what Shelton would do next, he suddenly sat up from the sofa with a bitter smile at the corner of his mouth, tilting his head, "See? After leaving me, you are living a good life. So, no one needs me."

"It is not like this," I said subconsciously.

However, I didn't know why Shelton would suddenly say this.

Shelton had a completely blurred look in his eyes. He raised his head and looked up in my direction. It was unknown whether he was looking at me or not. Moving his lips slightly, he said, "Sure enough, no matter where I am, I'm redundant. No one will like me. Do you know? In fact, when I was young, my mother often scolded me."

"She scolded me for being a good-for-nothing, saying that I didn't have the ability to make my father stay with us and that I couldn't do anything well. So I had been more conscientious than others since I was a child, hoping to win my mother's praise. However, no matter how hard I tried, including scoring 100 and getting first place in the whole grade in the examination, my mother wouldn't praise me. However, as long as I failed to do something well in the slightest, my mother would beat me up and scold me, saying that I was useless."

I stood there and listened to Shelton's words. A scene showing a helpless little boy and a cold and cruel woman showed up in front of me.

It turned out that Shelton was so poor when he was a child.

I took two steps forward.

Without looking at me, Shelton continued, "When I was very young, I knew that I was a child of the Cowell Family. At that time, I often read the news of the Cowell Family in the newspaper. Originally, I didn't feel much about it. But when I was in my senior year at high school, Patrick began to be covered in every report...

"From then on, my mother scolded me to a more intensifying extent. She compared me to Patrick in every way. I had been a top student at Patrick's age and had won a top-grade prize in International Mathematical Olympiad, which she had forgotten. Every time I retorted, she would hit me...

"After I took the college entrance examination, she knew that I probably would leave her. So she used me to vent her anger on me and asked me to study commerce, saying that I should be better than the children of the Cowell Family. At that time, I secretly changed my major in the application form into medicine."

Hearing this, I was originally sad.

However, at this time, a strange smile suddenly appeared on Shelton's face. After a long pause, he continued, "I changed my major at college to kill her without leaving any traces behind."