Master of his heart (Max and Brielle)
Chapter 1298

Leona furrowed her brow. A statement from Stellar Stage Entertainment? Could it be about the tipping drama with Emma?

A grin quickly spread across her face. "I knew it! The company had to step in. Emma might be refusing to return the money, but Stellar Stage Entertainment has a great reputation. They wouldn't let one of their streamers get away with something like this. Emma definitely crossed a line, forcing them to make a statement."

"Do you guys know why I joined Stellar Stage Entertainment in the first place? It's because the atmosphere here is top-notch." Leona, feeling victorious, puffed out her chest and continued. "But seriously, what Emma did was over the top. All she had to do was return the money, and now she's probably going to get kicked out."

Leona expected her chat to blow up after her comments, but the atmosphere remained eerily silent. No one echoed her sentiments. The smile on her face faded as she asked uneasily, "What's going on? Why isn't anyone talking?"

Suddenly, the chat sprang to life, but it wasn't her fans who were speaking up.

"LOL, today I learned what digging your own grave looks like."

"Leona's not wrong, Emma did step on Stellar Stage Entertainment's toes. Looks like the company had to act."

"Stellar Stage Entertainment's vibe really is something else, LOL. I bet Leona hasn't even read the statement. Her comments just backfired."

"Epic live streaming fail, can't stop laughing. She looks like a total fool right now."

Seeing these comments, Leona's face paled. Was the statement not about the tipping incident? She quickly checked Twitter's trending topics and found Stellar Stage Entertainment's official statement, which was already buzzing with comments. The statement clarified two points.

First, Emma's makeup was bought with her mom's bracelet, not a bracelet as previously thought, and it was her mom who made the purchase without Emma's knowledge. The viewers' slander was baseless, and Leona, accused of inciting cyberbullying, would lose a quarter of her points and be muted for a day.

Second, the news about a ten-year-old child tipping a streamer wasn't about Emma. The tips received by Emma came from an international account. Stellar Stage Entertainment warned that it would sue those spreading rumors to protect its artists.

The statement cleared Emma's name but dragged Leona through the mud. Emma's mom indeed pawned her own bracelet, not a child's trivial savings. With these clarifications, coupled with Leona's recent live stream comments, she appeared both foolish and malicious. Her live stream was now flooded with over three million viewers, all there to witness the debacle.

"LOL, can't stop laughing! Her smug ranting just got uploaded, what a fake."

"An angel? My foot! So malicious, blaming it on a bracelet when it was a heartfelt sacrifice by someone's mom."

"Emma faced so much cyberbullying because of your casual snark."

"A schemer, no angel at all, such an embarrassment to women!"

Leona, now facing a backlash far worse than Emma ever did, was in disbelief. The tipping drama had hit the top of the trend lists, attracting even more viewers. Leona was petrified, clueless about what to do next. As she recalled her recent remarks, she was on the verge of tears.

Her attempts to end the live stream

were clumsy, and her tearful breakdown was captured and mocked by everyone. Emma's follower count had dropped by over two million, leaving her with three million-still in the lead, but declining. And with the incident trending, it was dubbed the most spectacular fail in history.

Leona's comments were edited into

numerous videos, earning a notorious title. Tea Talk. Reviewing Leona's comments since she started streaming, targeting Emma, all were manipulative, leading to severe cyberbullying against Emma, whose mom even ended up hospitalized for a week. Throughout that week, Emma didn't stream. Who wouldn't feel sympathy?

Accusations flew, pinning the blame on a girl just trying to make her way out of a small town, utterly

defenseless against theet

Leona, overwhelmed by the criticism, was too scared to stream again, her face drained of all color. How did it come to this? How did

everything flip upside down so suddenly?! She just couldn't accept it!!