Ch. 2061..2065

Chapter 2061

Not a single person uttered a sound, save for Isabella who was groaning and gasping from the pain with her hands clutching her stomach region.

Then, she gritted her teeth through the pain to look up at Isabel. She had nothing but hate in her eyes, and it was evident that she was going to tear Isabel apart.

She shouted in a shrill voice, "Isabel, just wait! | will not let you get away with this. | will ruin your career and get you kicked out of the entertainment industry!"

Isabel smiled sarcastically. "And how do you plan to get me kicked out of the entertainment industry? Using your cheap and dirty tricks?"

Isabella flinched upon hearing this. Hate gleamed in her eyes again as she hissed through clenched teeth, "I have pictures and videos of you with your boyfriend!"

Isabel was briefly taken aback but kept her wits about her." And how is releasing footage of my love life supposed to ruin my reputation?"

Isabella frowned, her gaze turning sinister. "What do you think will happen if | leak these videos to the media outlets?”

There was a chance that she could compose a distorted narrative after spreading those pictures and videos across the internet. It may or may not cause some controversy.

One way or another, it was sure to affect her relationship with Roland.

Isabel's eyes sharpened, and she responded with a similar threat, "Isabella, if you dare to release that footage, | will tell everyone about you and Decker!"

Isabella laughed, "Ha! You don’t have any proof of us being together. Who is going to believe you even if you do tell?"

Isabel took an aggressive step toward her and looked down at her condescendingly. "What? Hasn't Decker told you about his fiancee? His fiancee is the daughter of the Houstons in Southboro, but you wouldn't know that, would you?"

The smile on Isabella's face disappeared instantly.

Isabel continued with a mocking scoff, "What do you think is going to happen once his fiancee finds out about you getting involved with him? Do you think she will come for you? Do you think she will dump him right away?”

If the Houstons exercised their influence, they were sure to end Isabella's career with no chance of her ever coming back. Furthermore, if the Houstons called off the engagement, Decker would lose significant backing, and his standing in Southboro would be completely crippled. At that point, he would scarcely have the mood to keep Isabella around anymore, and he would dump her in a heartbeat to try to win back the Houstons.

Either way, it was not going to end well for Isabella.

For all her flaws, Isabella was a smart person, so she should be aware of the implications as well. Her immediate expression upon hearing this was proof enough that she understood.

She stood up still clutching her stomach, still maintaining the glare at Isabel even though the sharpness in her eyes was dull and blunted now. She threatened unconvincingly, " I’m still not going to let you get away with this!"

She ran off after that.

Isabel cocked an eyebrow and turned back to Carla. "Are you okay?"

Carla smiled reassuringly. "I'm fine."

Isabel smiled at Triss and Ramona and waved them on. "Get ready to get on the runway. I'll go get changed."

Triss and Ramona had yet to recover from the shock of witnessing the melodramatic events back there. They were suddenly snapped back to reality and murmured at the same time, "Okay."

Isabel took Carla to the dressing area.

Meanwhile, Triss and Ramona proceeded toward the line toward the stage.

One thing that was clear was that everyone's mind was no longer on the fashion show. From the ones who were about to step on the runway to the ones who had already finished their walk on the runway, they were all thinking about the same thing.

They continued staring in the direction where Isabella and Isabel went off in and slowly reeled themselves back to reality. Someone whispered, "What happened? Why did they start fighting?"

Someone remarked, "Isabella must have done something to Isabel's dress, which led to Isabel getting revenge by stepping on her dress. Isabella probably couldn't bear the humiliation and decided to resort to violence only to end up getting kicked hard. Oh my, Isabel is just so cool, it's unbelievable. | think I'm in love.”

She refused to take disrespect from anyone and had zero hesitation in exacting revenge right away. She never cared what people thought of her.

Some people were skeptical. "How are you so sure that it was Isabella who tampered with the dress?"

‘The dress she's wearing is made by arguably the best fashion house in town. How could it possibly have been torn before she stepped on stage? Someone must have tampered with it. Besides, you can tell based on Isabella's reaction when her dress was stepped on. It looked like even she knew she had it coming. Instead of being surprised, she went straight to charging at Isabel. She has to be guilty to have done that."

"Good point."

Chapter 2062

By the time Isabel returned to the changing room, both Amanda and the spokesperson for the fashion house of the dress she wore had texted her.

Amanda bombarded her with several voice messages. Most of them were of her screaming Isabel’s ears off. Isabel could feel her seething fury even across the screen.

Meanwhile, the spokesperson of the fashion house was frantically explaining that the issue was the dress could not have possibly stemmed from them and that they would conduct a thorough investigation to find out what went wrong.

Naturally, Isabel did not need their explanation to realize that they were not the ones responsible for what happened. It was the handiwork of Isabella.

However, she would need proof that Isabella was the one who had done it. She decided to entrust the matter to them. She sent a reassuring reply, "| believe you guys."

Then, she went to social media to see what the people thought about what happened.

Carla noticed and gently advised, "Isabel, why don't you stay off the internet for now?"

This only made Isabel more curious. She wondered what people were saying about her, so she went to her feed without any hesitation.

Just as she thought, her name was first, second, and third on the trending chart.

The first one on the list was captioned: "Isabel steps on Isabella's dress and exposes her."

Followed by: "Rumor is that Isabel and Isabella fought backstage."

The third one wrote: "Isabel nearly exposes herself on stage due to an accident with her dress."

There were a lot more trending keywords that more or less had something to do with her, and most of them were negative comments about her.

Except for the third one on the chart that praised her composure during the incident, the rest of them harshly criticized her.

One of them went, "How could Isabel do something so horrible and step on Isabella's dress? Even if the two had history, she should not have stooped so low."

"| know she's always liked to brand herself as this very suave person, but she's taken it too far this time." "| have to say, I'm so disappointed in her."

Most of the neutrals did not approve of her actions; they thought she was uncivilized and disrespectful. Isabella's fans, on the other hand, were far more aggressive and were out in full force.

“How low! | hope she gets punished by karma!"

"Despicable! | hope she gets run over by a truck!"

"Isabel is just a horrible person through and through. She'd better come out and apologize to Isabella. Otherwise, she should get kicked out of the entertainment industry!

Everyone, share this message on every post you see!"

Isabel's fans were mobilized as well. They tried to defend her stance, but with the optics of the situation, most of the neutrals were more tempted to take Isabella's side. With Isabella's fans being so vocal, many neutrals found themselves swayed toward Isabella's side and agreed that Isabel had gone too far this time. The wave of public sentiment quickly drowned out what Isabel's supporters had to say.

Isabel did manage to find a handful of sensible comments that offered a nuanced view of the incident. One of them went like this, "Something seems off to me. Think about this -it was Isabel's dress that ripped on stage first, and her stepping on Isabella's dress happened after that. As bold as Isabel is, | don't think she is the type of person to act rashly without considering the consequences. I'm sure she found out that it was Isabella who did something to her dress, so she was only retaliating.”

"That's right. Isabel has been a star for so many years. She knows what she's doing. | think it was an act of revenge."

It did not take long for someone to refute these points, "Do you have evidence to prove that Isabella was responsible for what happened to her dress? If you don't, then stop making up these conspiracy theories. We saw Isabel stepping on Isabella's dress on camera. That right there is proof! Proof that Isabel is a cunning, evil person!"

"That's right. Besides, Isabel did not have it as bad as Isabella. At least, she managed to cover herself just in time and even finished the walk."

“Maybe she orchestrated this entire thing herself to seek attention because she knew it would drive clicks. What happened with her stepping on Isabella's dress was nothing but a disgusting act!"

The thread of comments went on and on, with people piling on the original commenter. It got bad enough that at one point, the original commenter decided to delete the comment and step away from the discussion.

Meanwhile, Isabella made a new post. It was a picture of her with tears in her eyes. She did not add any caption to the picture, but one could see the anguish in her eyes.

It also seemed highly likely that Isabella had bought an army of bot accounts to further stir the flames, so Isabel was now public enemy number one.

All kinds of nasty things were said about her.

Chapter 2063

Chapter 2063 Isabel frowned.

Since Carla was right next to her, she immediately noticed Isabel's deflated mood. She tried to say something to ease Isabel's mood, "Isabel, they don't know the truth. They're just parroting what everyone is saying. Don't let this affect you."

"Yeah," Isabel muttered weakly and put her phone away. She rose and walked out. Carla followed closely beside her. Just as they were about to walk to the parking lot, they bumped into Isabella who was approaching from the opposite direction.

She had changed into a new set of clothes as well. This time, she walked with her chin raised and with an unusual air of arrogance and self-satisfaction. "Isabel, let me clarify that | didn't post those pictures of you and your boyfriend."

Isabel swiped a glance at her but could not be bothered to engage with her.

Isabella chased after her and continued to antagonize her," Isabel, you'd better give me a sincere apology, or else I'm going to end your career!”

Isabel suddenly stopped and turned back to confront her," Do you want me to kick you again?" Isabella's expression suddenly cowered in fear as she hurriedly retreated away from Isabel.

Isabel said with a tight grimace, "Isabella, stop trying to kid yourself. Both you and | know that even if you somehow manage to kick me out of the entertainment industry, | can bring you down with me as well. I'll make sure to take away everything you have.”

There was not a tint of friendliness in her voice. Her tone was vicious and heavy. Isabella was too stunned for words, and she stared at her in silence for a while. Then, Isabel turned around and led Carla away with her.

Isabella came back to her senses and said to herself with a mocking sneer, "Your cheap intimidation won't work. People are already calling for your head online! If you're as capable as you think you are, why don't you clear your name?"

She was more upset that she could not come up with this response until now, so she cussed out loud, "B*tch!"

Meanwhile, after Isabel entered the parking lot, Carla quickly walked up to her side and put on a comforting smile, "You looked so cool back there when you confronted Isabella. You looked like some sort of business empire overlord!

Even | was intimidated by you."

Isabel smiled and pinched her chin teasingly. "Have you fallen in love with me?"

Carla blushed a little and hurriedly nudged her hands away."

How do you still have the heart to joke around when things are looking like this?"

Truly, with the way things were right now, there was nothing worth laughing about.

Isabel took a breath. She continue approaching her car and promptly got in once she reached it.

As soon as she got in, she saw Roland sitting in the backseat waiting for her. He wore a suit and a matching pair of leather shoes. He sat upright and carried himself with grace as usual.

However, his brows were furrowed, and he fixed an intent look on Isabel. He must have seen the latest drama online and came to be with her.

"Roland..." Isabel felt like the gloomy clouds in her mind were instantly swooped away by a gust of wind. She felt a comfortable warmth taking over and threw herself at Roland.

Roland extended his arms wide open and took her in his arms. He consoled her, "It's okay. | have my people dealing with the situation."

"Hm." Isabel nodded. She looked up at him again with a sudden thought that came to her, "But | did step on Isabella's skirt." "| saw it too." He made a look before assuring her, "But | trust you. | know you wouldn't have done that for no reason." Isabel's eyes lit up.

It was rare for Roland to be so direct with his gestures of affection. However, Isabel was still ina dejected state. "But everyone online is angry at me. They're trying to kick me out of the entertainment industry."

Roland grimaced tighter and pulled her in closer. His voice grew gentle and reassuring as he said, "Don't listen to what the people are saying. | will help you take care of this entire thing. Trust me."