"In your fans’ eyes, it must not be that you initiated it. So it could only be that she deliberately pretended to fall and seduce you."
Maddox Allenson’s face grew colder and colder. His lips moved slightly, wanting to say something, but he couldn’t utter a single word.
Because he knew that what Mike had said was true.
This matter wouldn’t affect him much.
Everyone would think that Joanna Lawrence was intentionally trying to gain attention from him.
Even her fall would be considered deliberate by others.
She would be labeled as a scheming woman who wanted to become famous through a scandal with him.
"I’ll be more careful in the future."
After a long silence, Maddox looked at Mike pleadingly, "Mike, we must help her this time. She’s still young, and her career has just begun. It can’t be ruined because of me. I beg you, please help her, okay?"
"From now on, I won’t take the initiative to find her anymore. I’ll keep my distance from her."
Mike had been waiting for him to say those words.
In fact, it was unlikely that Joanna’s problem couldn’t be solved.
If he couldn’t handle such a small matter, his job as an agent would have been taken away long ago.
He made this situation seem so serious just to force Maddox to say those words.
To make him voluntarily maintain a distance from Joanna.
No amount of preaching would help.
Only by showing Maddox the consequences of being involved in a scandal with Joanna could his restless heart finally settle down.
"Will you really keep your distance from her and not seek her out anymore?"
"Yes." Maddox lowered his eyes, covering the bitterness at the bottom of his eyes, and smiled bitterly, "I wouldn’t dare to seek her out anymore. I don’t want to... harm her."
If his affection could only bring her trouble, what else could he do besides giving up?
He couldn’t bear to let others hurt her, let alone hurt her himself.
"Alright, remember that." Mike stared at him, saying word by word, "You said it yourself. I’ll help you handle this trouble this time. But if it happens again, don’t bother finding me."
Joanna learned about the scandal involving her and Maddox Allenson from a phone call with Linda.
When she received the call from Linda informing her that the scandal between her and Maddox had caused a stir on the Blog, she was quite surprised for a while.
"Linda, you mean I’m having a scandal with Maddox?"
After getting a positive response from Linda, she still hadn’t quite understood, "But, what kind of scandal can there be between me and him? We... don’t have anything scandalous, do we?"
She had already tried her best to stay away from Maddox.
When they weren’t working together, there was no interaction between them.
Even when they were interacting, it was never just the two of them alone—there were always other people around.
"Of course I know that you and Maddox can’t possibly be involved in a real scandal. But the situation is getting out of hand now. His fans are accusing you of deliberately playing tricks to get attention from him, and there’s no response from his side yet."
"In short, the current situation is very unfavorable for you. The company will send out public relations to make a clarification for you, but as for the effectiveness, I don’t know. As you know, his female fans are not easy to deal with. They now believe that you’re deliberately trying to seduce Maddox. Even if we clarify it on our side, they probably won’t believe it."
"For now, don’t make any responses. Just wait and see how Maddox’s side responds."