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Chapter 684
Jasper was taken aback, his arms still in midair. He had wanted to comfort Alyssa with a
hug.
“I only wanted to…”
“I said, stay out of this!” Alyssa had no patience to deal with him further. She stormed
away from him, still
on her phone, and slammed the door as she walked out.
The warmth and tenderness Jasper had so achingly wished for disappeared just like that.
Their shared
moment from earlier burst, just like a short-lived bubble floating up into the sky.
Alyssa didn’t take the antique Jasper had given her. To her, family was the most important
thing right now.
Sadness filled Jasper’s chest, making his heart twinge in pain.
But now wasn’t the time to be depressed. He quickly recovered and left the room.
“Mr. Beckett, I just saw Madam leave looking absolutely pissed. Did you upset her?” Xavier
asked
worriedly, a sliver of blame in his eyes. After all, his boss had always been known to get on
Alyssa’s wrong
side.
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“Something’s happened to Madam Lyla,” Jasper said, his gaze dark.
“Huh. No wonder there was some commotion downstairs!” Xavier quickly took out his
phone and looked
up the news online.
He suddenly frowned, showing Jasper the screen. “Look at this, sir!”
Jasper focused on the video that played on Xavier’s phone. Narrowing his eyes, he
snatched the phone
away to take a closer look.
It was a video from decades ago, and the resolution was blurry. Yet it was still clear
enough to recognize
Lyla standing onstage while she shakily covered her legs. A clear liquid was flowing down
between them.
The audience erupted in shrieks and gasps of shock, followed by countless snapshots from
cameras as if
they were starving wolves jumping upon fallen prey.
“My … my mother was Lyla Nelson’s biggest fan. She told me about how Lyla’s reputation
got ruined
because of the rumors that she was on drugs and how she even pissed herself onstage
during TS
Network’s celebratory live broadcast,” Xavier explained.
He couldn’t bring himself to watch the video. “The internet wasn’t as powerful back then
as it is today, nor
were the phones back then capable of taking videos, so the news didn’t spread as
rampantly as it is today.
“But my mother had attended the broadcast in person, being a fan and all, so she had
seen the incident
firsthand.”
Jasper was getting more and more upset by the second.
An incident like urinary incontinence in public was worse than a death sentence for
someone like Lyla, who had been the number one celebrity actress loved and adored by
countless people nationwide.
Xavier went on to say, “My mother also said that the incident was all over the news and
magazine
headlines the next day. You could get it anywhere!
“But only a couple hours later, every single shred of news about the incident suddenly
ceased to exist in
public. She had no idea who had bought all the papers, but they couldn’t find a single
report on it anymore.
Jasper knew just exactly who had done that for Lyla-Winston Taylor.
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Only a man of his power and influence could force the entire country’s media outlets to go
silent on Lyla’s
incident.
“It looks like whoever leaked that incident today has been keeping it in the works for a
long time. Seeing
how they were able to acquire videos that Mr. Taylor had destroyed, they mustn’t be an
ordinary person,”
Jasper analyzed calmly.
He was able to maintain a composed demeanor even though Alyssa had basically
backhanded him just a
moment ago.
“Whoever it was must either be someone from TS Network itself, or they were directly
involved with what
happened to Lyla all those years ago.”
“Good analysis, sir!” Xavier exclaimed.
Jasper’s expression was frosty. “Look into this immediately. I want you to get me every
single person who
was involved in this incident, including any reporters, social media accounts, and whoever
recorded that
video in the first place.”
“Right away, sir!”
Jasper then hurriedly left, leaving/Xavier behind.
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