Lewd videos of my best friend, Katie Anderson, are suddenly leaked online, and I defend her in public. However, Katie ends up accusing me of leaking the videos in the first place.

All of a sudden, the entire Internet turns against me. I get blacklisted by the whole entertainment industry and get cyberbullied online as well.

Katie's die-hard fans abduct Mom by throwing a sack over her head and record lewd videos of her, driving her to so much shame she jumps off a building and dies.

Meanwhile, Dad drinks rat poison and dies next to Mom's grave.

After my family is torn apart, I ask Katie why she wants to frame me for everything.

She replies, "Samael is the richest heir in the city. This is his fetish. You were the one who made everything into a big fuss. Of course, it's you who'll have to bear the responsibility for everything!"

Samael Crews slinks his arm around Katie's waist and looks at me with a mocking smile on his face.

"Did you think you were just trying to help out a fellow woman? Sorry, ex-girlfriend, but your precious bestie here is nothing more than an obedient lapdog of mine!"

I end up being sold to Meowmar and eventually die from mistreatment.

When I open my eyes again, I realize that I am reborn on the day that Katie accuses me of leaking her lewd videos online.

This time, I choose to ignore her completely.

"What should I do? The entire web is sharing my indecent videos online! How am I supposed to hold my head high in society again?" Katie Anderson's familiar voice rang in my ears.

I immediately snapped back to my senses and focused on the video auto-recommendation playing on my phone.

The screen showed a young woman shaking and moving her naked body on a man in a mask, and she looked like she was enjoying herself very much.

The gasps and pants in the video were very clear, and it sounded exactly like how Katie was gasping and panting in panic right now.

Instinctively, I quickly pinched myself in the thigh.

Ouch.

However, it didn't hurt as much as when I was tortured and forced upon in my past life.

Finally, I accepted the fact that I had been given a second chance at life. I had been reborn on the day when Katie's deepfaked sex videos were leaked and caused a major uproar in the online community.

"Gabriella! What should I do? Don't you have a few friends in the internet business? Can't you please help me check who's behind this account and IP address?" Katie asked, her eyes reddened as she looked at me pleadingly.

In my past life, I contacted everyone I knew and spent a huge fortune hiring a techie to find out the true identity of the person hiding behind the account. As it turned out, it had been my boyfriend, Samael Crews, all along.

I couldn't bear to watch Katie get bullied and tortured by the online videos and comments anymore. So, without further hesitation, I immediately broke up with Samael and even gave all the evidence of his crime to Katie.

I then advised her to report the incident so that the law would be on her side and she could exercise and protect her legal rights.

However, I never thought that Katie wouldn't just decide not to sue Samael—in fact, she brought a whole horde of reporters with her to our filming site and sobbed in front of the cameras, accusing me of being the one creating the deepfake videos and spreading them online.

"Actually, Gabriella has always been bullying and threatening me all this while. All I did this time was to audition for the role of the main female lead, and then, she started spreading fake intimate videos of me online!

"I'm only finally speaking out today because I can't bear to see this type of bullying happening in the entertainment industry anymore. I don't want there to be more victims like me. We need to drive bullies like her out of the entertainment industry!"

I responded to her in shock, "Why are you saying this about me? I've already told you before that the account belonged to my ex-boyfriend!"

"That's right!" Katie immediately said, getting more and more worked up as she pointed a finger in my face. She yelled, "You tried to cover up your tracks and purposely used Mr. Crews' account to leak the videos online!

"You framed your own boyfriend! You're just too heartless and cruel, Gabriella Fox!"

I froze on the spot and couldn't believe my ears.

The reporters immediately swarmed toward me as camera flashes went off in my face.

Suddenly, dozens of hashtags began trending online, such as "#GabytheBully", "#FakeBesties', "#HeartlessActressGabriella", and more.

The online community wouldn't stop swearing at me or cursing me and calling me names. They never knew the truth, but that didn't stop them from calling me a heartless wench, messaging my parents and calling them names, and even doxxing my address and splashing red paint on my doors.

Even the people in the entertainment industry continued framing me and saying that I always behaved like a diva on set, making things even worse for me.

Katie's die-hard, lunatic fans even tried to avenge her by hiding near my home and ambushing Mom by throwing a sack over her head. Then, they forcefully took lewd photos and videos of her and leaked everything online.

Mom was in such a state of shame and distress that she left a suicide note before jumping off a building to her death.

Meanwhile, Dad felt so guilty about being unable to protect Mom that he remorsefully drank rat poison and died in front of Mom's grave.

My family was destroyed. I was also slapped with an exorbitant fine for breach of contract by my entertainment company, so I had to work hard to try and pay everything back. In the end, I got scammed into getting sold to Meowmar, and my life was totally ruined.

A couple of years later, the people who spread online hate about me suddenly went online to apologize, saying that they had only continued slandering my name because they were just hopping on the hate train for clout. They recorded an apology video and sent it to me.

More and more people came out and apologized.

However, the one person who should have apologized the most, Katie, gleefully posted a photo of her wedding certificate online instead.

She had stepped on the bones and ashes of my entire family while holding a massive wedding reception in Dayris with my ex-boyfriend, showing off just how much in love with each other they were.

At the thought of that, I felt my chest boiling with unprecedented anger. However, I did all that I could to suppress my emotions.

I started voice recording on my phone and then turned to address the melancholic Katie, speaking in a soft voice, "You don't have to pay any heed to the videos. If you're clean, time will soon reveal the truth."

Katie's expression changed. "I thought that you hated people who spread lewd videos and rumors like this the most, Gabriella. You're my best friend in the industry. Shouldn't you help me find out who's the one behind all this?"

I shrugged nonchalantly and said, "I think it's best that we leave the investigation to the police. I'm just a regular citizen, after all. I don't have the means or authority to investigate people."

Then, I closed my eyes and pretended to drift off.

Katie wouldn't stop droning on and on next to me, trying to convince me to get my connections to investigate on her behalf.

I knew that this was part of her act, so I stood firm with my decision.

When Katie noticed that I wasn't responding to her, she glanced at me curiously before finally leaving.

To prevent her and Samael from framing me and using me as a scapegoat again, I immediately took out my notebook and jotted down everything that had happened in my past life in chronological order to get a better picture.

In fact, I even rejected a number of scripts from famous directors just so that I could avoid Katie as much as possible.

Just when I thought that I was safe from the tragedy in my past life simply because I'd managed to stay out of Katie's business, Katie suddenly went on live stream and sobbed to her audiences, accusing me of getting jealous of her and bullying her by making deepfake lewd videos of her and leaking them online.

She wouldn't stop crying for the entire length of the live stream, and the way she described everything made her sound very legitimate. If it weren't for the fact that I knew I did absolutely nothing, I would have even believed her myself.

That afternoon, there was a loud knock on the door of my rented apartment.

There was a crowd and a number of policemen standing at the door, with Katie and Samael standing right next to the police.

Samael's face was dark as he began questioning me. "Why did you spread Katie's lewd videos online? Are you trying to drive her into a corner?

"We only broke up last time because you wouldn't stop bullying people. I never thought you would still be as evil and hateful even a year after our breakup!"

I looked straight into his eyes and answered with a smile, "If I'm not mistaken, the account that leaked the videos belonged to a private account under Crewsome Entertainment. The only person who has access to that account is you.

"How dare you accuse me of a crime if you don't have any evidence to support it?"

Samael was stunned. Then, he gritted his teeth and said, "Stop acting. You never should have done it in the first place if you never wanted anyone to find out! I'm here with the police today. Are you still not going to admit to your crimes?"

Katie piped up, "That's right! Gabriella, you know what you've done! If you'll apologize to me in front of everyone now, I promise that I'll even write you a statement of forgiveness!"

She then hooked her hand around Samael's arm and leaned into his chest, looking at me with a smug, challenging stare.

I chuckled coldly. "You're making up rumors about me without any evidence, I see. Be careful, or I'll sue you for defamation!"

This was the first time I had lost my temper with the press and reporters around, and everyone was shocked.

Katie walked over to the cameras with reddened eyes and began sobbing to the audience on live camera. "Look, everybody! Look at what she's doing! She committed a crime and still refused to admit that she was wrong and refused to apologize!

"Instead, she turned on the victim and threatened me instead! What's becoming of this world now?"

Samael comforted her and said, "Don't worry. I will take this into my own hands!

"Gabriella Fox, you spread lewd media of other people online because of your jealousy, and now, you're threatening the victim in return as well? I bet you can't wait to get thrown into jail for the rest of your life!"

"Me? Jealous of whom?"

I was on the verge of laughter. "I am an A-list actress. What's the point of me getting jealous of someone in the D-tier? Does that even make sense?"

I didn't want to waste my breath on arguing with them anymore. I turned and addressed the police instead, saying, "Officers, I have never spread anybody's lewd or indecent media online, and I have also never bullied anyone on set.

"I hope that you will investigate this matter closely and prove my innocence!"

The officer then said, "But your best friend testified and said that she personally saw you creating the videos…"

I thought for a few seconds and asked the officer, "Don't you find it suspicious at all? If she really saw me making these videos, why didn't she stop me then and instead waited until the videos went viral online before going on live stream and accusing me of it so that she can go viral now?

"As far as I know, Katie just signed a long-term contract with Samael's Crewsome Entertainment. I have reason to believe that they conspired to frame me for this crime!"

The officer thought about it. However, Samael and Katie began to panic.

Just then, a deranged-looking woman with disheveled hair dashed out from the surrounding crowd. She was Katie's mother, Betty Watson, and she threw a huge fuss as she fell to the floor with a wail and began screaming bloody murder.

"You're also a woman! How could you publish my daughter's private videos online? How is she supposed to find a husband next time? I spent so much money bringing her up!

"I don't care! You must pay! You must pay us back! Since you're living in such a posh apartment, you should just pay us 500 million dollars, and I'll get Katie to write you a statement of forgiveness!"

Her arrogant, morally manipulative statement made me so mad that I couldn't stop myself from laughing.

Yet, Betty immediately jumped on that when she heard my laughter and began accusing me even further.

"Officers! Look at her! She's not the least bit remorseful and even dares to laugh in our faces!"

I couldn't stop myself from speaking in a disdainful tone, "I've also seen the video. The part showing the female is very blurry and warped, and it's obvious that it was created with AI.

"And yet, you didn't care about upholding your own daughter's pride or dignity and declared affirmatively that it was her sex video. You must really love Katie so much!

"Or, am I right to say that you're worried now that Katie won't be able to find a husband anymore, so you're trying to extort money from me for your own retirement plans? Maybe to buy a house?"

Betty reacted like I had just hit the nail on the head and immediately jumped to her feet. "You're shitting nonsense!"

I glanced at the rest of the crowd and said, "If you want to continue framing me, at least show me some stone-cold evidence. You keep accusing me of creating the lewd videos and bullying you on set, but it's your word against mine. Where is your evidence?"

The audiences in the live stream seemed to come to their senses as well.

"That's right. It seems like Katie is the one who keeps accusing Gabriella of bullying her, but when asked how, she couldn't come up with anything solid."

"Damn! I feel like we'd just been misled and fed the wrong information the entire time. Let's just keep watching. Maybe there'll be a twist at the end."

"Twist? Keep dreaming. A woman would never joke about her sexual purity!"

I then played the recording of Katie's conversation with me in front of the camera so everyone could listen properly.

Then, I said, "I'm really curious, Katie. You were still asking and begging me to help you find out who could have leaked the videos back then. It's barely been a week, and now, you say that you saw me creating these videos instead. What's going on?"

Katie panicked when she heard me and tried to snatch my phone away from me. I quickly ducked and avoided her.

Her eyes bore straight into me as she gritted her teeth.