"When the translator first worked on the original article, they actually believed it might be true and even felt a bit of resentment toward Director Moran. But at the end of that article, the translator discovered a super huge secret! See the words circled in red? They say: 'To be published tomorrow night!'"
"At first, the translator didn't understand what those words meant. But after connecting the dots, they realized something terrifying—this was clearly a setup to frame Director Moran! That article wasn't meant to go live until the next day, but someone at the site must not have read it carefully and posted it early!"
"Once the translator realized this secret, they broke out in a cold sweat. Why was it supposed to be published the next day? Why not post it the same day? Think about it—it couldn't be more obvious! The article was released during the Avengers premiere! The movie hadn't even finished its first screening, and the exposé was already up!"
"How could there be so much so-called 'solid evidence' before the first screening was even done? Even if Director Moran really did want to inflate the box office, she wouldn't start before the movie actually played! And most importantly, for that evidence—witness statements, ticket stubs, all that—to be ready before the screening even ended, it all had to have been prepared ahead of time!"
"How can this be anything but a setup? What the hell is going on over there in the U.S.? Can't they see such a massive loophole? Final word: Hollywood is trash. Director Moran, just come shoot movies in the East! We've got people, money, and way fewer dirty tricks!"
The translator's post was uploaded to a massively popular forum, and within minutes it became a red-hot thread, spreading rapidly to discussion boards all over the internet.
People were stunned by this new revelation. Not even TV dramas were this wild.
"Holy sh*t! Hollywood's this shady? Even a top director like Moran gets framed?"
"Why would they do this?!"
"Do you even need to ask? Obviously, a competitor set her up. There are tons of summer releases—if Moran drops a film, how are the rest supposed to survive? I'm definitely watching it. Her style is so my thing!"
"Maybe she pissed off the wrong person. Like some big shot wanted the lead role in her film, got rejected, and is now taking revenge or something."
"Preach, OP. Hollywood is garbage. Moran should just come film in the East!"
"+1 to the comment above. Hollywood is garbage. Moran, come to the East! Next commenter, keep the chain going."
"+1. Hollywood is garbage… balabala."
The same sentence was copied and pasted hundreds of times in the comments, and it followed the post everywhere as it got re-shared across the internet. Major news portals soon caught on. Once they located the screenshot of the original report and confirmed it wasn't photoshopped, they immediately pushed the story to their headlines.
These major portals were also regularly referenced by international media. And since this was about Laila—and it had now been reversed from the other side of the planet—how could it not be a bombshell story? So Western media quickly translated the Eastern coverage and reported on it.
When Americans woke up the next morning, the first thing they saw was a massive reveal—courtesy of news translated from the East.
"Oh my god! Could what the Easterners found actually be real?!"
"Someone tell me—were those words really there at the end of the article?"
"How come the Easterners caught it, but not a single one of us did?!"
American social media was in chaos.
Then someone spoke up: "A lot of people said the article disappeared because Moran's team hired hackers to delete it! But what if the website itself found the issue and took it down?"
"That's totally possible! I mean, it blew up this big—do you really think the Moran family would've called in hackers? If that were so easy, wouldn't every celebrity just do that every time a scandal broke?"
"But why did it take someone from the East to spot this?!"
That was the question everyone was asking.
The incident happened in the U.S., and anyone who was online knew about the report. People had spent all night looking for evidence, bashing Laila and her movie, chasing clout, crying out for justice—yet not one person had actually finished reading the article and noticed the most crucial detail at the end.
What did that mean?
It meant people's hearts were restless. They only saw what they wanted to see and ignored everything else.
It meant they had climbed onto their moral high horses, wielding ugly words and faces to condemn an innocent person.
#WeOweMoranAnApology
The hashtag started trending on Facebook. More and more users joined the discussion. Those who had misunderstood Laila because of the article were filled with remorse, many flooding her Facebook page to apologize.
And soon, under the guidance of a few savvy voices, the apology trend evolved into:
#WeOweLailaAMovieTicket
#BuyATicketToMakeItRight
As a result, all presale tickets for Avengers were sold out within three days—even before noon. Unless you went to a remote theater, even the worst seats were long gone.
"What the hell happened?" Roy sat up groggily. The high of "we're getting married" was finally wearing off, and he remembered last night's online rumors about "buying the box office."
But when he rushed to check his computer, the narrative had flipped completely overnight. He was stunned. How could things have changed so dramatically in just one night?
Laila leaned over and glanced at the screen. "Is there a problem?"
"What did you do last night?" Roy looked at her like she was some kind of miracle worker.
"What I did last night… You seriously don't remember?" she teased, raising a brow. "Pretty sure we both know exactly what I was doing."
Caught off guard, Roy's brain short-circuited a little. Of course, he knew what they had done last night. She hadn't touched her phone or keyboard the entire evening, let alone contacted anyone.
But then how had everything turned around so suddenly?
"You had to have done something! Come on, tell me!" He was desperate to learn from her—next time something like this happened, he didn't want to just sit around like an idiot while she handled it all. Honestly, the more he thought about how she had distracted him with a simple "let's get married" while the world was on fire, the more he wanted to smack his past self for being so easily manipulated.
Buying fake box office numbers was a huge accusation, yet she had treated it like it was no big deal.