Chapter 962
After returning from the Fletcher Residence, it was almost New Year’s. Meanwhile, the news of Mark’s
‘passing’ was spreading throughout the country, and it made a huge impact on the entertainment
industry.
In the final three hours before the voting period of ‘Light of Cethos’ closed, someone’s votes exceeded
Michael’s by several thousands and pushed him to second ce in the ‘Best Artist’ category.
Some time ago, Sophia and Michael had been travelling abroad and were busy getting it on.
If making love for others was rolling in the hay, then instead of rolling, Michael would be doing
somersaults. What was more, he never said no to Sophia’s ‘requests’.
With Sophia’s busy schedule, it was rare that she could even take time out to deal with work, let alone
pay attention to thatpetition. Thinking that Michael had the upper hand, she never realized that
someone else was catching up to him.
In the final three hours, Sophia saw someone named ‘Nichi Gates’ from second ce overtake
Michael and bagged the top spot of the Best Artist category. Meanwhile, Michael lost by only a few
hundred votes and came in second.
She was baffled.
In fact, Nichi Gates was a popr pretty boy many years ago. His real name was Nichs Yates, and
he was almost thirty. He was getting older, and the audience all got bored of him. Meanwhile, there were
many new, young and fresh faces making their debuts. He was losing poprity, so he changed his
name and went through a transformation. In a few years, he sharpened his acting skills and became a
hunk. He also starred in a few blockbuster movies and became an example of an impressive
transformation.
Not only that, but it was also reported this year that he was married and had a child who was now four
years old. He even appeared on the reality show named ‘Where Are We Going, Dad?’ and attracted
countless fans. As such, his poprity exceeded Michael’s.
Once the list was confirmed, the inte was full of negativements about Michael.
‘The ipetence of the actor who faked his death is finally exposed without his grandfather around.’
‘Taylor Murray is only mediocre at best. I told you his acting skills aren’t good at all, and he’s not
attractive anymore. It’s a wonder that he still received that many votes. I’m just waiting for ‘The Winter
Breakthrough’ to flop.’
‘What is this sleazy old man still doing acting like an idol? He’s old news, and he’s now endorsing
stainless steel basins, how low! Hurry and retire already, and stop hurting my eyes!’
‘He was probably just making Mark Fletcher happy. He’s over thirty and he’s still wearing makeup and
entertaining his grandfather, how disgusting! Now that Mark Fletcher is dead, the Fletcher Family will
never promote him anymore because they have long known that he’s not that great. ‘The Winter
Breakthrough’ may not even be released! Even Scarlett divorced him a long time ago. Now all he has left
is a miserable life and stainless steel basin endorsements.’
‘I’ve seen him in real life, and he’s ugly as h*ll. Even if he was twenty years younger, he’d still be ugly. I
really can’tprehend how he became a national idol.’
…Screw you, you’re ugly! Your whole family’s ugly!
It was just a couple days before the new year, and Sophia was so infuriated that she jumped out of her
bed in the middle of the night to look for herputer. She wanted to fight those haters!How can I let
you nder my beloved idol?
In fact, she was so angry that she wasn’t even interested when Michael tried to fool around with her.
At that moment, she was sitting in front of theputer. Michael sulked while he watched Sophia having
a virtual catfight with the haters, and he snuck a nce at the viciousments.
Evidently, it was as if he had lost his protective shield since Mark’s ‘passing’. All the dirt on him seemed
to have popped up, including groundless usations that he bedded a male model from years ago.
It was as if the haters had alle to life as soon as Mark was not around to protect him and wanted to
punish him to death.
Now that Mark was gone, Michael’s protective shield was gone along with him. He was not included in
the Fletcher Family’s genealogy record book until he was in his thirties. On top of that, after he finally
managed to marry into a rich family—to Miss Scarlett Mitchell a.k.a Sophia, he was still dumped in the
end. Subsequently, he resolved to endorse stainless steel basins.
He was the epitome of a middle-aged, sleazy, washed-up celebrity.
At that moment, Michael also felt that Taylor Murray was very pitiful.
Not only that, but he also fooled around with numerous female celebrities that led to one of the female
celebrities dying from miscarriage. During filming, he used special effects makeup, and he was simply
bad at acting. If his acting was good, it was because he used a stand-in actor. Moreover, the ims that
he performed all his own stunts were used to be fake. Even his gender was fake, and he was actually
a woman. In short, everything about him was fake.
After Sophia shot down the nders of Michael’s acting skills and using a stand-in actor, she shot down
rumours about his involvement with male models and female celebrities, box office fraud, and
paedophilia. After that, a wave of false rumors about his gender surged again. Everyone was talking
about Michael like they personally knew him!
At this moment, Sophia was exhausted.
She went from using her official ount and speaking respectfully, to creating new ounts and talking
vulgarly. In the end, she decided to quit when she got tired.
Pulling her onto hisp, he turned off theputer andforted her, ”That’s enough, online arguments
are boring anyway. We should go to sleep. It’s New Year’s Eve tomorrow!”
Sophia was so frustrated that her dark eye circles were starting to appear. She wrapped her arms around
Michael’s neck. “Maybe you should skip the award ceremony.”
After the news of Mark’s passing, everyone was bullying him thinking that he’d lost his protection. Things
could get worse if he attended the ceremony!
How could she tolerate anyone bullying her idol?
Michael kissed the back of her hand. “It’s fine. I’ve been in the industry for more than ten years, and
there’s nothing I haven’t faced. Besides, if they want to insult me, they will. You can’t control them.”
Sophia was sullen for the rest of the night. The next day, Maddie came to apologize. This contest was
organized by theirpany in coboration with dozens of other media agencies, and she had invited
Michael to the award ceremony. She did not expect that this would happen, and now she was
embarrassed.
“I think maybe Taylor should skip the ceremony this time round and wait for things to die down.”
In fact, it didn’t matter to Michael whether he attended or not as it all depended on Sophia.
Sophia refused and snickered, “No, he should go. Why shouldn’t he?”
She thought this was an extensive scandal that was organized and well thought-out as it even came all
at once. Someone must be orchestrating all this.
Besides, Michael had been a hit for many years, and other celebrities could never reach his level. When
he finally ‘died’, they were relieved. However, he had returned and was more popr than ever. As soon
as he came back, ‘The National Treasury Action’ was released and it was a box office sess and won
many awards. Then, he immediately started filming ‘The Winter Breakthrough’, which was also a huge
production.
In addition, he was set to film ‘Doctor Invincible 2’ and a whole series of Hollywood superhero movies. It
was said that he had signed a contract for four movies, which caused a lot of jealousy among the male
actors.
How could they not hate him?
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However, he used to have Mark as a shield, so they did not dare to be reckless. Now that Mark had
‘died’, they thought Michael no longer had protection and that it wouldn’t be long before he lost his
poprity. So, they revealed their true colors.
It looked like his attendance at this award ceremony would be absolutely necessary.