Chapter 1497

• Izara lifted his gaze as Nuella stepped closer, her eyes red and watery. She looked at him with a mix of helplessness and guilt. “Brother, if I repost that announcement, Liza will definitely hate me,” she said in a trembling voice. “But if I don’t do it, the judges might hold it against me. I thought about it all night, and I was ready to withdraw from the competition just to avoid hurting her.”
• She paused, then added in a panic, “But my manager… she already reposted it using my account. She said it was necessary. I have a lot of followers, so now people are flooding my page with insults directed at Sister Liza. She’ll think I betrayed her. I didn’t mean for this to happen!”
• Tears welled up in her eyes again as she continued, “I was scared this would make things worse for her. I didn’t want to do it. But they threatened me, Brother… What was I supposed to do?”