Crowning Night arrived right on schedule for Ottilie Kensington.


    Just as everyone had predicted, Ottilie swept the votes and took home the championship.


    To maximize the buzz, the showrunners had even invited Rosita Lockwood to present the award.


    Rosita glided onto the stage in a morous gown, high heels clicking against the floor as she moved gracefully toward Ottilie, the roar of fans filling the air.


    The two sisters, at the height of their careers, embraced each other on stage, both breaking down in tears of joy.


    It was a moment that moved countless fans.


    Thunderous apuse filled the hall as the triumphant championship anthem yed.


    The show was being broadcast live. At that very moment, in the second-floor study of Skybreeze Retreat, Briony Kensington and James Dney were watching the awards.


    James had a bag of chips in one hand and a can of soda on the table beside him.


    To really set the mood, James had set up a projector for maximum cinematic effect.


    Watching Ottilie and Rosita sobbing in each other''s arms, James rolled his eyes so hard it was almostical. "Give it a minute-they''re fake crying now, but just wait, the real tears areing."


    Briony just pressed her lips together to hide her amusement.


    Finally, the awards ceremony arrived. Rosita took the trophy and handed it to Ottilie herself. But just as the crowd reached its fever pitch, the giant screen behind them suddenly went dark.


    A momentter, a recording yed over the speakers-


    Rosita: [I really was just pretending to faint.]


    Bill: [Why put yourself through that?]


    Rosita: [Because I... I can''t y folk music, I can''tpose at all!]


    Bill: [What? Then why did you im you wrote those songs?]


    Rosita: [I bought them off someone. The copyright is in my name!]


    ...


    The crowd erupted in uproar.


    Even the seasoned host on stage was left speechless,pletely thrown by the chaos.


    Rosita and Ottilie stood frozen, stunned.


    Before they could collect themselves, several police officers marched onto the stage.


    "Rosita Lockwood, Ottilie Kensington, you are suspected of stealing creative works for profit. The original author has filed a report, and your actions constitute copyright infringement. Pleasee with us to the station for further investigation."


    In the chaos that followed, Ottilie and Rosita were led away by the police.


    But the "surprises" of Crowning Night were far from over.


    The screen flickered again—this time, footage from Rosita''s wedding,plete with photos and video that had once set the tabloids aze.


    [Oscar-winning actress Rosita Lockwood had a child out of wedlock nine years ago-Irwin Wentworth, raised by the Wentworth family! The so-called ''heir'' is not even of Wentworth blood!]


    Inside the control room, the director was losing his mind. "What are you waiting for? Cut the feed!"


    A tech shouted back, panicked. “I can''t! We''ve been hacked!"


    The director could only stare in horror as the broadcast rolled on.


    The screen shifted again-a new video appeared, this time of Lauren Lynn.


    Lauren wore a hospital gown, her cheeks sunken, looking gravely ill.


    "My name is Lauren. I am the biological mother of Rosita Lockwood, and today I am recording this video to reveal Rosita''s true nature..."


    "Rosita started an affair with her stepfather, Saul Lockwood, when she was seventeen. When I found out, she refused to stop. She even had multiple abortions for Saul. Later, after Saul was left paralyzed, she began an affair with Quentin Lockwood..."


    "Nine years ago, she gave birth to a child overseas. She told me the baby''s father was Stewart Wentworth. After the child was born, for the sake of her career, she handed him over to Stewart-even though Stewart was already married."


    "Stewart''s secret wife treated that child as her own. But four years ago, Rosita insisted oning back and used her status as the birth mother to interfere in Stewart''s marriage, plotting against his wife time and again...”


    "To secure he illegitimate child''s ce in the Wentworth family, she repeatedly encouraged the boy to harm Mrs. Wentworth, who was


    pregnant at the time. I have


    no


    concrete proof, but I remember Rosita was filming in Silveridge the very day Mrs. Wentworth hadplications in childbirth. Right after the incident, Rosita abruptly left the country. Doesn''t that seem suspicious to you?"


    "The inte never forgets. Four years ago, Rosita''s fans doxxed Ms. Kensington, who was actually Mrs Wentworth. But Stewart and Rosita forced Mrs. Wentworth to publicly deny everything. I''ve heard she''s been hiding out, desperate to divorce Stewart, but he refuses to


    sign the papers..."


    "Recently, I found out by chance that the child isn''t even Stewart''s. I asked Rosita


    about it, but she wouldn''t tell me the truth..."


    “I have terminal cancer. Before I die,


    I want to set the record straight. I beg you all don''t let Rosita keep deceiving her fans and the public, She abandoned her own child and refuses to admit it. Someone like her isn''t worthy of your admiration..."


    The video ended, but the hacker wasn''t finished.


    A momentter, a second, even more explicit video shed onto the screen-


    In the footage, a man in a devil mask concealed his face, but Rosita''s features and body werepletely exposed.


    It was everything that had happened that night in Barrie Lockwood''s study.


    The crowd was in uproar.


    The live broadcast was cut off atst.


    Rosita''s career was utterly destroyed.


    At the station, Ottilie and Rosita were ced in separate holding cells.


    Their so-called "sisterhood" dissolved in an instant, each one scrambling to pin the me on the other.