Chapter 156: Chapter 156: Fairy Fight
After reading the message, Henry Hartwell asked in confusion, "What does that mean?"
Pure Love Little Man: This friend of mine is the best in our group. His hacking skills are on another level—think of him as one of those legendary, unassuming masters from Aran Temple. In the past, foreigners were always trying to recruit him into all sorts of sketchy organizations, but he just ignored them. But he used to just get recruitment emails. This time, his computer was actually hacked. The whole system crashed instantly, leaving behind only that message. He still hasn’t been able to get his computer back up and running. It’s totally bricked.
Henry Hartwell: You’re saying a more powerful hacker targeted him?
Pure Love Little Man: The Prankster Alliance is a new hacker group. I’ve never even heard of them before. But for a hacker to be able to breach my friend’s computer... can you even imagine how powerful they must be?
Henry Hartwell’s brow furrowed. A faint sense of unease crept over him. He had a nagging feeling that whatever was planned for June 2nd was far more serious than he’d initially thought.
Henry Hartwell: "The Prankster Alliance Party"—what’s that supposed to mean?
Pure Love Little Man: Maybe a hacker war or something. I can’t really say for sure, but it’s definitely going to be a hell of a show.
Henry Hartwell calmly typed his reply: Alright, got it. I’ll be in touch.
After sending the message, Henry Hartwell took a screenshot of the chat log and saved it to his computer. Then, he forwarded the image to Adrian Quincy.
Now, it was all up to him.
...
「That night.」
Claire Sinclair dragged her exhausted body home, utterly worn out.
’Looks like you definitely shouldn’t do *that* the night before a workday. Where on earth did I get the nerve to do it twice in one night with him...?’
’I can’t take it anymore. I’m too tired, with no energy to even cook. I just want to sleep for a bit.’
Claire Sinclair passed out on the sofa. She was later woken by a rumbling stomach, but by then it was too late to bother with cooking, so she went to the convenience store near her apartment and bought a cup of instant noodles.
While her noodles steeped, Claire Sinclair picked up her phone and started scrolling through social media.
A trending topic caught her eye—
#M2LBattleOfTheBeauties For its 10th-anniversary celebration, international luxury cosmetics brand M2L invited A-list celebrities like Selene Haw, Elara Vaughn, and Farrah Roland, as well as countless socialites, making it a true clash of the goddesses. But in the end, M2L officially announced an unknown "little fairy" from outside the entertainment industry as their new spokesperson, sparking heated debate among netizens.
The original poster had created a nine-photo grid featuring the invited celebrities and Claire Sinclair, with Claire’s photo placed right in the middle.
Perhaps in an attempt to highlight how "ordinary" she was, all the celebrities’ photos in the grid had been heavily edited, while Claire’s was an unedited, high-resolution original.
’Luckily, my face wasn’t shiny and I didn’t have any zits. The photo captured my oval-shaped face realistically, and my complexion was fair with a rosy undertone. It actually looks quite nice.’
In comparison, the other eight photos of the heavily edited celebrities had skin that was unnaturally pale and limbs that were long and slender. They looked like something out of a fashion spread, too perfect to be real.
As expected, netizens were in an uproar:
["The OP is such a scheming bitch! They photoshopped all the celebrities’ pictures but deliberately left the ’little fairy’s’ unedited. How much did the other stars pay you to try and make her look bad?!"]
["Are you blind?! Our Selene Haw is gorgeous, but you pick some ugly nobody instead? Boycott M2L!"]
["Our Elara Vaughn is gorgeous too! I’m boycotting M2L forever!"]
["M2L, stop playing dumb! The public can see the truth. You’ll see how wrong you were when your new product line totally bombs!"]
["To all you brain-dead stans in the comments, stop kissing up to those actresses. Yeah, the ’little fairy’ is a commoner, but even without a drop of makeup, she’s prettier than the idols you worship."]
