Chapter 1343: Not Restricting Her Freedom

Chapter 1343: Chapter 1343: Not Restricting Her Freedom

Aurelia checked everything over once and didn’t find any listening devices.

She lightly tapped the stud on her earring.

After a moment, Hadrian Turner’s voice came through: "Aurelia! Are you—you okay? I suddenly couldn’t get in touch with you, and a ton of stuff about you exploded online. Where are you now? You’ve already been released, right? There shouldn’t be anything else, right? What about Mr. Nightshade? Is he with you?"

Hadrian Turner’s questions came one after another, and Aurelia suddenly didn’t know which one she should answer.

So she simply didn’t answer any of them.

She went straight to asking Hadrian the thing she’d been thinking about. "Can you see what’s going on over on Mason Nightshade’s side?"

"You’re not with Mr. Nightshade?"

Hadrian sounded a bit surprised.

Right after, Aurelia heard the sound of keys clacking on his end.

Very soon, Hadrian’s voice came again. "Mm... it’s a little tricky. The places where Mr. Nightshade stays all have really high system defense ratings. It’s hard for me to break in."

"But," Hadrian added, "I can give it a shot. I’ll just need some time."

"Take your time and keep trying."

From now on, she might never see Mason Nightshade again.

She had to do everything she could to avoid having contact with him; every extra encounter was an extra wound for him.

Being able to see her like this, she was already content.

Forgetting is the hardest thing.

Trying to completely cut away someone you once laid right over your heart is almost impossible.

Aurelia wasn’t that ruthless.

Back then she’d been so decisive because this whole mess was endangering Mason Nightshade.

But this love that had sunk into her bones, into her very life, was something she simply couldn’t forget.

Aurelia had never even thought about trying to forget.

Breaking up doesn’t mean you stop loving, and it absolutely doesn’t mean you have to wipe the person from your memory.

"Aurelia, have you checked the stuff online?" Hadrian’s voice sounded again.

As soon as Aurelia heard that, she knew it had to be something about her.

"About me?"

Hadrian hesitated for a moment before saying, "Even though the charges against you have been cleared, the impact of all that previous dirt on you..."

Hadrian didn’t have to finish the sentence; Aurelia already understood.

What celebrities fear most is a stain on their record. Once a stain appears—whether it’s real or not—their career will take a hit.

Most entertainment media outlets love writing about topics that will resonate with the public.

Like a star who looks glamorous on the outside but is morally bankrupt underneath, with blood literally on their hands.

But when it comes to clarifications, not many people bother to report them.

First, they’ve already said all the nasty things; if they publish clarifications now, isn’t that just slapping themselves in the face? Second, when they were condemning, netizens were all righteously furious, but once it’s time to apologize? One by one, they’re nowhere to be found.

Aurelia had been expecting this outcome for a long time, so she wasn’t surprised.

She had Hadrian pick a few representative trending topics and read them out to her, so she could get a solid sense of how people were talking about her online.

The next morning, Aurelia woke up very early; Alaric Wood was already downstairs.

"Alaric, I need a computer. I have to get back to my work." Aurelia picked up a shrimp dumpling and popped it into her mouth.

"Okay."

There was a hint of indulgent affection in Alaric’s eyes; he agreed without even thinking.

"I’ll have them send over a new computer in a bit."

After finishing breakfast with Alaric, Aurelia went back to her room.

Not long after, a servant brought the computer up.

Even though Alaric had said before that he wouldn’t restrict her freedom, she hadn’t expected him to actually follow through.

Aurelia turned on the computer, got online, and the moment she logged into Weibo, all kinds of private messages started bombarding her.