"No need to thank your own man, right?" Melody Thorne smirked and snorted.

Laughter came from the other side of the phone.

"Come to the office and keep me company later?"

"Sure," Melody Thorne hung up the phone.

"Oh my, it’s getting cuter and cuter," Nina King chuckled, standing behind Melody Thorne.

Melody Thorne laughed, "See, find a good man and marry him, don’t become a spinster."

Nina King "...I don’t have anyone to marry, do I?"

"Something bad, something bad ma’am," a soldier rushed in, "I found out that the male star you manage drove to an apartment building and then a fat woman inside jumped off the building. Not only did she jump, but she had stab wounds, and when that guy named Howie came down, he was covered in blood. He’s now been beaten up by the crowd."

"Howie committed murder?" Nina King said in shock, "Are you sure you didn’t see it wrong?!"

"No, absolutely not."

"Photos have already been published online," Harold Chapman spoke.

Melody Thorne glanced at it; indeed, photos were posted. The images of the fat woman falling to her death from the building were gruesome.

And Howie walked out of the building, the photos taken of him were very clear, and he had quite a bit of blood on him, holding a knife in his hand.

Beneath were furious words from the public, calling him worse than an animal.

Online, the strong demand was for Melody Thorne to fulfill her previous statement and withdraw from the entertainment industry.

"He must be crazy," Nina King was almost dying of anger; she and Melody Thorne had been defending him, and he acted so impulsively!

"He didn’t do it!" Melody Thorne said very assuredly. The reason why she signed Howie under her name was, firstly, because she knew he was a decent person who would eventually become very popular, and she absolutely believed he was not involved in murder or drugs.

"I also believe in him," Nina King said, "He clearly promised me before that he wouldn’t do anything rash."

"Harold, have your people bring Howie here, just say it’s to investigate the truth. Tell those people not to make wild guesses until the facts are clear!"

"Okay."

When Howie was brought over, he was already a mess, covered in wounds from the public’s beating. Melody Thorne asked Nina King to take photos of him for potential future use.

"Howie, why were you at that fat woman’s place? What exactly happened?" Melody Thorne’s face didn’t look good; her instincts told her this was likely a big scheme set by someone, targeting not just Howie but also her and the entire company.

Howie was covering his head with both hands, all his arrogance completely worn away! 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

"Isn’t the truth just as you saw? Do you still plan on trusting me?"

Even he no longer trusted himself.

"I don’t want to drag the company down, nor do I want to drag you down. I’ll announce a statement explaining to everyone that you were there to protect me, that’s why you showed up. I offended that person and killed them!"

"Howie... you"

"Nina," Melody Thorne interrupted Nina King, "If we trust him and he himself doesn’t want to investigate, then we have no reason to bother with him anymore. Someone like him doesn’t deserve to stay in our company!"

Melody Thorne was angry, and intentional!

Howie painfully hugged his head, banging it against the wall a few times, "I didn’t want this either. That woman wasn’t killed by me, she was already stabbed when I arrived. After she saw me, she inexplicably fell off the building. Now everyone thinks I committed murder, what can I do to prove my innocence? Do I even have innocence to speak of?"