Possessed No More: The True Star Returns to Claim Her Throne-Chapter 60: The Person Behind the Scenes

But as soon as Riley Perry started trending, the situation blew up. Her most dedicated haters arrived on the scene in an instant, turning the post’s comment section into a toxic cesspool. It quickly racked up over a thousand comments, but they were utterly absurd.

Comment 1: A celebrity is cursing people out, sending "regards" to their entire family tree. Someone like that should be kicked out of the entertainment industry!

Comment 2: Yeah, right. She didn’t even curse them back eighteen generations. Thumbs down.

Comment 3: So a celebrity curses and they get kicked out of the entertainment industry. If a normal person curses, do they get kicked out of the human race? So scary, so scary. I guess I’ll never curse again.

Comment 4: Uh, so you’re not allowed to thank someone’s entire family? Then how am I supposed to express my gratitude next time?

Comment 5: Nope, you can’t. If someone helps you, you can’t say thank you. If they spend 800,000 on you, you can’t make a peep. Otherwise, you’ll be kicked out of the entertainment industry!

Comment 8: The main thing is, which word is the actual curse? I’m not seeing it.

Some netizens saw these comments and cursed inwardly, ’To hell with "thanking their whole family"!’

Comment 12: I seriously doubt that trending topic from a couple of days ago was real. Who falls from that high and is totally fine, then goes back to filming the next day?

Comment 13: Yeah, yeah, I agree. I suspect it’s fake too. Maybe a certain celebrity is trying to create a ’peerless martial arts master’ persona!

Comment 333: There’s a term called ’directing and starring in your own show.’ Everyone should look it up. Maybe the wire harness getting cut the other day was just part of her act.

Comment 334: Whoa, now that you mention it, I remember—the production team even called the police. Riley Perry must be incredible to get the cops to play a supporting role in her act!

Comment 335: ...

The haters: ’What the hell! Did some weirdos sneak into our ranks?’

The casual observers were also baffled. ’Aren’t these comments a little... off? So passive-aggressive!’

’Are these really haters?’

’Not sure. Let’s keep watching!’

As soon as Riley Perry made the post, some of the actors on set saw it. A moment later, Felix Sherman liked it!

Who was Felix Sherman? She was a major award-winning actress with over seventy million fans. The moment she made a move, her fans mobilized. It didn’t matter what was going on—if their idol liked someone, could that person really be bad? So, a wave of people went and followed Riley.

Then came Director Miles. The young woman had been targeted on his own set and had nearly lost her life. Plus, a special assistant from The Sinclair Conglomerate had personally contacted him, asking him to take good care of Riley Perry. So, when Director Miles heard from his assistant that Riley was trending, he immediately followed her account and liked her post.

Next were the actors and crew from the set. Riley Perry had never offended anyone; in fact, her serious and professional attitude toward filming had earned her a lot of goodwill. And just like that, Riley Perry gained even more followers!

And then, Riley Perry started trending again with a new hashtag: #RileyPerryThanksThePersonWhoBoughtHerTheHotSearchTopic!#

The comments below were full of laughter: "You want thanks? The kind that thanks you and eight generations of your ancestors!"

But none of the neutral observers felt Riley Perry was in the wrong. Someone paid for a trending topic to smear her, and she politely thanked them in return. How was that wrong?

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「Inside a corporate skyscraper in Dragonspire.」

’How was that wrong? Everything about it was fucking wrong!’

The mastermind behind the scheme fumed as she read the comments. She raised her phone and slammed it to the ground. CRACK! Another phone was completely destroyed.

"Useless trash. You can’t even handle a simple smear campaign properly. You actually let that woman gain more followers!"

"What’s the deal with that paparazzi you hired? He tailed her for this long and all he got was a single photo of her going to work?"

The bodyguard resisted the urge to wipe away his sweat and explained quietly, "Hayden Santos is one of the top paparazzi in the business. If he didn’t get anything else, it’s probably because this Riley Perry genuinely doesn’t do anything scandalous. Otherwise, it would have been exposed by now."

"’Top of the business?’ What’s so great about him? Replace him! Hire a private investigator to tail her. I refuse to believe she’s completely clean."

What else could the bodyguard say? ’You’re rich. You call the shots.’

"Yes, Miss. I’ll arrange it right away."

After the bodyguard left, only one person remained in the room.

’Host, our mission is to change the original owner’s fate and prevent her early death. The female lead and male lead have nothing to do with us. Even if slandering the female lead earns you resentment value to buy the things you want, there’s no need to fight her to the death.’

’Her fortune has risen again. The risk to you in confronting her is now even higher!’

The woman retorted angrily, ’If I don’t go against her, where am I supposed to get all that resentment value? And don’t you forget who’s been earning the points for your upgrades!’

’I thought this trial mission would be easy,’ she fumed. ’Especially since I arrived so early. It should have been simple to change the original owner’s tragic fate.’

’And of course, I succeeded.’

’Instead of the original owner getting lost and trafficked, I made it so the female lead did. But I still have to live out a full life in this world in the original owner’s place. How could I ever tolerate being inferior to anyone else?’

’Not even the female lead. Especially when it comes to looks!’

So, upon learning that the female lead had entered the entertainment industry, she had relentlessly targeted her. And, of course, she had succeeded. She had even managed to steal a significant amount of the female lead’s fortune in the past.

But lately, for some reason, not only had she failed to gain any resentment value, but the female lead’s fortune was soaring higher and higher.

’This system must be broken,’ she thought. ’All day long it’s ’you can’t do this, you can’t do that.’ When I ask for help, it refuses. If not for that, I would have killed the female lead the moment I arrived and saved myself all this trouble.’

Hearing its host’s rant, the system didn’t dare say another word.

’Our mission is to change the original owner’s fate,’ the system thought. ’Since this is a novice world, the host received a starter pack that allows her to exchange resentment value for points. Those points can be used to redeem items in the system’s store.’

’But in truth, it’s not actually necessary to collect this resentment value. What kind of world-hopper cares so much about their looks? The mission should be the top priority. Besides, the system can collect resentment value from normal people, too—it’s just not as potent as what comes from the male and female leads. For the same incident, we might get one or two points of resentment value from a normal person, but from the leads, that amount could be multiplied by a hundred or even a thousand.’

’It was just a newly manufactured system and didn’t know anything when it first bound to this host. As a result, it completely botched the insertion point for their first world. When they arrived, the original owner was only five years old.’

’Before it could even process what was happening, the host had taken the female lead out and abandoned her. Just abandoned her!’

’The host did receive a massive amount of resentment value from that, but for the next decade or so, they had no contact with the female lead. They could only scrape by on the resentment value from other people, which was just a drop in the ocean compared to what the female lead provided.’

’For example, stepping on the female lead’s foot might earn one hundred resentment value points, whereas doing it to anyone else would only yield 0.01.’

’On top of that, the host was obsessed with her appearance. Any resentment value she earned was immediately exchanged for items from the store that could enhance her beauty.’

’So, they were perpetually "poor." That is, until a little over three years ago, when the female lead suddenly appeared and joined the entertainment industry. The host was ecstatic. She would periodically leak scandalous material about the female lead, earning a great deal of resentment value and redeeming many good items from the system store.’