Goodbye, My Love

Sure enough, the Torres family got wind of the news.

“Find the people behind this! All of them! I want to know the stupid people who dared to tell such lies about Lorrie!”

Aldo was breathing fire, same as Rowan and Wesley.

When Loraine was a child, she had gotten lost and lived in the countryside. It was taboo in the Torres family.

They were afraid that Loraine would be reminded of her traumatic experience in the countryside if she saw the news online. They immediately made sure it was deleted and began to investigate who was behind it.

By this time, Loraine had already seen the news. She couldn’t sit back and do nothing. She immediately began to fight back.

She posted a picture of her degree certificate online. This was to prove that she wasn’t a middle-school dropout like the rumors claimed.

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Several doubtful comments poured in.

“The department of architectural design, Presal Institute of Art? Gosh, you are such a bad Liar!”

“She clearly takes us for fools. In this day and age, it’s easy to forge a certificate. If she’s a graduate of such a prestigious school, then I’m a Harvard alumnus. Ha-ha!”

Seeing that they wouldn’t take her word for it, Loraine contacted one of her professors at Presal Institute of Art to help her inform the school’s management to back her claim. Soon, her graduation photo was posted on the school’s official Twitter account. They also retweeted the tweet of her degree certificate.

The trolls couldn’t speak on her educational background anymore, so they stuck to speaking about her dating life.

Loraine immediately fired back at them with a single tweet.

“I’m a twenty-five-year-old divorcee, who is still young and beautiful. I have every right to hang out with whomever I deem fit. My dating life isn’t anyone’s business, so fuck off!”

The other protagonist of this slanderous news, Wesley, tweeted sarcastically to address the statement that Bryant Art Gallery issued.

“Of what use is an art gallery that’s discriminatory, backward, and has no artistic quality? How about you change it to a museum for historical artifacts?”

As a big shot in the art world, Mr. T had countless followers online.

Once his tweet dropped, his fans launched verbal attacks at the gallery. Some of them even staged a mini-protest in front of it. Asa result, the gallery was forced to shut down temporally.

This was just the beginning of its downfall. The art regulatory body sanctioned it. The sanctions and bad PR affected business for all the branches of Bryant Art Gallery all over the world.

In the end, the stock price of Bryant Group fell.

The Bryant family kept receiving several bad news in the span of a few days. Liza suddenly had a heart attack and collapsed. She was rushed to the hospital immediately.

Around the time Marco was discharged from hospital, the public’s perception of Bryant Group had hit rock bottom.