Chapter 984: Chapter 984 Dragged into the Water_1
Previously, many brands wanted to collaborate individually with Hannah, but in the end, Teresa Gordon managed to negotiate collaborations with the team instead.
Initially, the brands weren’t too eager, but eventually they all agreed, considering Hannah’s popularity and traffic.
However, if the news about Smile 9’s disbandment is true, subsequent collaborations would be greatly affected.
When Tiffany Lynch’s assault scandal broke out, fans and agents didn’t hesitate to divert public attention by spreading rumors of internal discord within the group.
Although everyone was well aware of the situation, talking about disbandment was an entirely different matter.
After all, the team had signed a two-year contract, and only half of that time had passed. If a disbandment were to actually happen, it would be a significant blow to everyone else.
Teresa Gordon’s phone had been ringing nonstop since the evening, with calls not only from collaborators but also numerous newspapers and marketing accounts trying to gauge the situation.
Yet she herself was unclear about what was going on.
Smile 9 didn’t have any competing girl groups in the same period, so it surely couldn’t be a boy group that bought the trending search, right?
Before Teresa Gordon could understand what had happened, the rest of the group became restless.
The first to speak out was Sunny Lee.
Originally, she gained a number of couple fans on the group’s variety show due to her interactions with Lucy Taylor but after the incident with Tiffany Lynch, the two had a fallout, and naturally, they wouldn’t cooperate to stir up any popularity.
Since then, Sunny’s popularity began to decrease, and she eventually ended up just like the other two members who bought votes for attention.
Although it seemed calm within the group, privately, there was some contempt for Sunny’s "betrayal of a good friend."
After all, Hannah was nice, willing to return and join them for group variety recordings and stages even after her own career flourished.
Having such a successful friend was a good thing from any perspective.
But Sunny had given up on that herself.
And now, at this critical juncture, she jumped out with an ambiguous statement.
The underlying message of her words was that since forming the group she’d received few resources and opportunities, that the company’s treatment was unfairly biased, and she could only watch enviously as others went to events while she stayed in the variety show villa.
She even implied she was standing up for others, dragging everyone into the issue.
At the end, she added that if she had such resources, she would definitely work harder and not let anyone down.
A few hundred words in a short post shouldn’t have caused much of a stir given Sunny’s current popularity and influence, but just this post with only a few dozen comments initially surged onto the trending search.
Her teammates were almost suffocated with frustration by such a destructive team member.
They, who relied on their own abilities to debut, certainly didn’t need her to stand up for them.
It was clear she was sowing discord!
—This trending topic... was bought, right?
—Who is this person? Do I know her?
—I’m a fan from the selection show; let me introduce her to you. This is Sunny Lee, one of the members of Smile 9. She used to be considered a model of reversing her fortune through the show, and the couple she formed with Lucy Taylor on the group’s variety show was quite popular. But for some reason, her popularity inexplicably dropped later on.
—To the one in front, it wasn’t inexplicable. According to rumors, there was a conflict. Both of them stopped interacting in the group’s variety show, and later Lucy Taylor started collaborating with Hannah Winter on stage performances.
—Why does this statement sound so tender and pitiable? Are you sure Tiffany Lynch didn’t steal her phone to post it?
—No, if I remember correctly, didn’t this girl insinuate something about Hannah Winter causing isolation within the group?
