Chapter 48
It was eight o’clock at night.
A few rational netizens went through the details of the incident in detail and even posted a video of
Lucille drowning in the water. They wrote: “Look at all of you spewing curses without even knowing
what happened. Why can’t you spare two minutes of your time to see the full story?”
There was nothing more convincing than direct evidence.
In the video, a group of young men and women were giggling and laughing.
They seemed to have some kind of tacit understanding as they whispered together. In the end, as if
they had reached an agreement, one of the girls suddenly reached out and pushed Lucille, who was in
the video, into the river.
Plop!
It created a huge splash.
That was not the end of it. After Lucille fell in, the eight young men and women were still grinning.
Every time. Lucille emerged from the water, one of them stretched out a hand and pressed her head
back into the water. She gurgled, causing the water’s surface to bubble.
Each time she struggled, she would be pushed back in.
This went on dozens of times.
Until the last time, Lucille was shoved into the water and there was no movement on the surface of the
water for a long time.
Because she no longer had the strength to struggle.
The video stopped abruptly, and then a line of red words appeared.
The words said: “If it were you, would you choose to be generous and forgive them for hurting you and
nearly killing you?”
Other than the bots who were deliberately smearing Lucille’s name for the sake of money, the rest of noveldrama
the upstanding netizens all had their fists clenched after watching the video.
Someone else posted: I want to curse, but I don’t know if I should or not. Either way, you can’t tell
people whether they should forgive someone or not. That’s a sin.”
Another said: “I feel so angry on her behalf. I seriously think I’m going to suffocate. Ugh!”
One more added: “Does that reporter think they’re the Virgin Mary or something? How can he ask such
a question? I hope that when he encounters the same situation in the future, other people will tell him
to forg and forgive, too!”
One person chimed in: “As a person who has been hurt before, I would never forgive the person who
once hur me! If I really told him that I had forgiven him, then he wouldn’t feel guilty at all. What about
me? Why should I pay for other people’s mistakes?”
Another stated: “It’s those people who preach about forgiving others that truly disgust me. How are
there still people who say that forgiveness is a virtue? F*cking idiots!”
It was only about two hours, and the comment section had completely switched sides.
The netizens who strongly supported Lucille’s refusal to reconcile or forgive seemed to have gone mad.
With their combined strength, they managed to defeat the huge wave of bots one after the other.
When the negative news initially broke out all of a sudden, most of the other netizens and people
uninvolved did not say much about it.
It wasn’t until more and more people insulted Lucille that they couldn’t hold back their curiosity and
went in to have a look. Then, they lost it.
Particularly, after watching the video of Lucille drowning in the water, the upright netizens went to see
the question the reporter asked when interviewing Lucille.
“Don’t you think you’ve gone a little too far, Miss Jules? Those parents have painstakingly raised their
children and devoted their efforts to nurturing them. Even if they’ve made a mistake, why can’t you be
kind and choose to forgive them when they’ve made it clear that they’ll do better in the future?”
Tsk!
A netizen commented: “Hilarious. Who does this reporter think he is?”
One other wrote: “I don’t understand what the people who told her to forgive them are thinking. Why
does she have to be considerate of the people who tried to kill her? If it was over something small, then
so be it, but this is attempted murder!”
One person replied to that comment, saying: “If it were me, I wouldn’t have compromised even if it was
a small issue. I would endure for a while and keep calm. The more I think about it, I would only suffer if
I were to submit. As long as I can properly protect my rights, then it’s not wrong. It’s not wrong at all.”
After the public’s opinion complete turnaround, the bots kept trying to fight back, but they couldn’t even
leave a dent.
In other words, the netizens weren’t taking sides. Instead, they could empathize with the victim who
had been wronged and hurt.
After all, they knew how to put themselves in Lucille’s shoes, so they knew how she must have felt.
The bots retreated one by one. Coincidentally, the time that Samuel had paid for them to work was up.
When the time came, all 200,000 of them disappeared.