Chapter 305 Like A Pitiful Child
After more convincing from the two girls, Alice finally relented, allowing them to proceed with their plan but setting a condition: they were not to harm Hera or her reputation in the process. The two girls pretended to agree but set aside Alice’s condition as soon as they had her approval. Wasting no time, they went straight to work, starting gossip about Hera on the Campus Forum.
They didn’t stop there. They also took a candid, low-quality photo of Hera, deliberately obstructing her features so no one could clearly see her face, leading others to assume that was all there was to her.
While they used a high-quality camera to capture Alice’s photo, they staged her as if she were simply walking around campus. Her hair was gently blown by the wind, with flower petals seemingly falling from who knows where making it look like spring had just arrived.
They worked so quickly that they managed to start the first competition in the school forum even before the second class of the day began.
[Shocking!!! A Beautiful Freshman Said to Be More Beautiful Than the Current Campus Bell!!! But the Current Bell Is...]
They pasted both pictures in the article and reopened the campus bell voting. The problem was that only a few sophomores, juniors, and seniors—who truly knew what Hera looked like—were active in the school forum and voting for her as her fans. Most of the students who were too busy to worry about the campus gossip were the ones who knew her, while the ones who were free to vote were predominantly freshmen.
Alice had been walking around campus with other freshmen since school started the other day. She had already crafted the image she wanted among the students, and even some seniors who had seen her found her very beautiful.
However, Alice never walked with Hera side by side. Her two cronies were too busy slandering Hera in the forum, spreading rumors about her dating five men simultaneously and selling herself for tuition fees and good opportunities in the entertainment industry. They claimed Hera was banned from working any normal job and ended up doing this kind of favors instead to climb up the ladder.
They mixed a little truth with all the lies they wove together to slander Hera and ruin her reputation on campus. Their goal was to make everyone drop her as a role model, making it easier for people to vote for Alice instead. They portrayed Alice as an angel, embodying kindness, gentleness, and compassion in contrast to the tarnished image they created for Hera.
So, when Hera finished her second class, she was too preoccupied with arranging her class materials and notes to realize she was already being slandered. Unbeknownst to her, everyone was now looking at her as nothing but a whore trying to ruin someone else’s reputation on the internet.
To make matters worse, Hera decided to increase her concentration by putting on a headset, blocking out the noise in the corridor while she read her books and munched on a sandwich prepared by Hannah. Unbeknownst to her, she was the subject of open mockery and degradation in the hallways, fueled by the trending forum article. Even the seniors who had known her for two years couldn’t defend her, as they were unjustly accused of receiving sexual favors from her and were thus silenced.