The Day I Kissed An Older Man

Lucas pulled her back onto his shoulder, saying, "Do you remember what I said? I'll never ask you to do anything you don't want to do. Since you don't like the questions those reporters ask, I'll make sure they'll never appear in front of you again."

It was not an empty promise. Melody's heart raced as she listened. She knew it was not right to feel this way, but when she was being pressured by the reporters, she had also wished for them to disappear completely.

Lucas definitely could do that.

"Forget it, they also have families to support," said Melody eventually.

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when they pressured her? They were like flies, buzzing around wherever there was heat. They called themselves reporters, but they had long lost the professional ethics a reporter

was wrong for them to cause the reporters to lose their jobs. "I'm fine

had other plans in mind. At the very least, those reporters needed to understand what questions were acceptable and what

were unprofessional and unwilling to do so. They preferred to believe in another kind of 'truth' fabricated by Wendy. Simply because the buzz generated by those lies was greater and more attention-grabbing. Social media users enjoy certain narratives, so they just keep scripting

ones who could generate the most buzz. They always lived under the fear of the reporters catching even a hint of something. Melody had already suffered once under their hands, and Lucas did not