The next day at work, Lilith couldn’t wait to inquire about Mabel Quinn’s blind date situation. Although the date was the day before yesterday, Mabel had taken a leave yesterday to attend her teacher’s funeral, so today was the first time she met Lilith. Mabel repeatedly emphasized that she really had a boyfriend and didn’t need any blind dates.
While chatting with Lilith, they suddenly heard the loud sound of a door being forcefully pushed open. Lyra Grant rushed out of the office, covering her mouth, and headed towards the restroom.
"What’s up with Lyra, does going to the bathroom need to be this urgent?" Lilith muttered.
In the restroom, Lyra was vomiting over the toilet bowl as if she wanted to bring up everything from her stomach. This kind of vomiting had been happening for several days, but today it seemed even worse.
A terrifying thought formed in her mind... Could she... Could she be pregnant? That time, after being forced by those people, she was too scared that her situation would be discovered and forgot to buy the morning-after pill, and now, the period that was supposed to come didn’t, plus the vomiting...
No, she didn’t want a child, especially one whose father’s identity was unknown!
Lyra trembled all over, but the most urgent thing was to first figure out if she was pregnant.
After a long while, Lyra finally stopped vomiting, but when she returned to her department, she found everyone staring at her.
Cui Mianmian stepped forward and said, "Lyra, um... just now, someone saw a post about you on the online forum."
"A post about me? That’s no big deal," Lyra forced a smile and said. Because of the film adaptation of "Sound of the Wind," as the original author, she was often discussed online.
"Hey, just see for yourself," Cui Mianmian handed over her phone, and on the screen was the post.
Lyra initially didn’t think much of it, but the more she read, the more alarmed she became. The post directly revealed that the novel "Sound of the Wind" might not have been written by her. It compared "Sound of the Wind" with her other novels, analyzing the writing style, plot preferences, and so on, with detailed comparisons. Clearly, the person who posted had done their homework and was not just making baseless allegations.
The comments below included quite a few additional notes, "So it was , I also felt it was getting worse as it went on."
"I heard that besides the high sales of ’Sound of the Wind,’ her other books’ sales are quite bad, and her family even buys books to boost the sales."
"I also heard that this book was plagiarized from a novel written by her high school classmate. At that time, her classmate made a fuss, but unfortunately, Lyra’s dad was a senior executive in a big company and suppressed it."
Reading those comments, Lyra felt a rush of blood to her head. Without thinking, she charged to Mabel Quinn’s desk and angrily questioned, "Mabel Quinn, you’re so despicable to post such slander about me online. Haven’t you ruined me enough?"
Mabel sneered; she knew exactly which post Lyra had just read. While Lyra was in the restroom, a colleague happened to see the post and shouted, so everyone in the screenwriting department went to see it.