Lily Yariel’s social media account was set to auto-login, so the hacker accessed it with ease. Right before her eyes, the hacker posted screenshots of the negative reviews to her page.

After posting a few screenshots of the negative reviews, the hacker then posted a screenshot of her author dashboard on an overseas adult website, along with a screenshot of a purely graphic, erotic story...

’Wh-what is happening???’

Lily Yariel instantly panicked.

’If people find out that I, the great Queen of Romance, have been leaving negative reviews for a rookie and have sunk to writing smut to make a living, I’ll be a global laughingstock!’

She frantically grabbed the mouse, trying to delete the posts, but the computer was completely out of her control. As if it had a mind of its own, it kept relentlessly exposing the secrets on her hard drive—

While they were her secrets, they were all shameful deeds, including leaving negative reviews for Mrs. Quincy and secretly writing erotic novels.

In Aridia, distributing obscene content was illegal. As long as the act was committed from within the country, posting to an overseas website wouldn’t allow one to evade the law.

Lily Yariel had 270,000 followers on her social media, after all. Even though more than half of them were purchased bots, the rest were real, active users.

Seeing Lily Yariel publish such a strange series of posts, her followers were confused at first. It was only after reading everything that they understood what was going on.

Lily Yariel’s account had definitely been hacked! 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Former fans who had stopped supporting her but hadn’t unfollowed, along with some new followers who didn’t know about her fall from grace, all lost their cool and jumped in to watch the drama unfold.

[What am I seeing? Lily Yariel is making a living writing smut now?]

[Hahaha, the Queen of Romance has actually sunk to writing smut. How pathetic.]

[Once a plagiarist, always a plagiarist. I’ll hate her forever. This is exactly what she deserves. So satisfying!]

[This is too much. When plagiarism didn’t work, she started hounding Mrs. Quincy with negative reviews. A woman’s heart is truly the most venomous!]

[Whatever you do, heaven is watching. Even the hacker couldn’t stand it anymore, LMAO...]

A few days later, Lily Yariel was taken away by the police, but that’s a story for another time.

Claire gave a lazy yawn and returned her computer screen to normal.

In the past, she probably wouldn’t have had the guts to use hacking to track down a negative reviewer. But ever since she started studying under Teacher Hartwell, she’d found that she dared to do anything, completely without hesitation.

Whenever her legal rights were violated, her first instinct was to use any means necessary to defend herself.

’Hacking into someone else’s computer isn’t a good thing, I know, but I didn’t invade Lily Yariel’s personal privacy. I even exposed her criminal activities.’

’You could say I was doing a public service, right?’

’Whatever. It’s her own fault for being so vile. I was just giving her a taste of her own medicine.’

’Then again,’ she thought, ’maybe what I did wasn’t entirely right. If Adrian Quincy found out I did something like this, would he be displeased? Or even angry?’

’Honestly, he’s not even here. Why am I dwelling on this? Get busy, Claire, get busy!’

Claire shook her head and got back to writing.

...

「The next day.」

Claire was woken up early in the morning by a phone call. It was a message from Little Prince Hale, who was waiting downstairs at her hotel. He was cordially inviting her to visit a car show at the convention center.

Claire didn’t even have a driver’s license and had no interest in cars, so she started trying to think of a way to refuse.

But before she could come up with an excuse, her doorbell rang.

Little Prince Hale was at the door, extending the invitation in person.

Claire knew she couldn’t get out of it and had no choice but to go with him to the car show.

On the third day, Little Prince Hale invited her to an ancient tomb museum in the same manner. The fourth day, it was the botanical gardens, and the fifth day, an amusement park...