"Who is Maggie?"
"Two days ago, didn't Boss connect with a female streamer named Maggie during a livestream? I thought that woman was fake back then!"
"Is it the emotional coach on TrendTok with 6 million followers?"
"Yes, it's her! Someone who specializes in selling courses to scam people."
"May all scammers die!"
"Every single one of those people selling courses on TrendTok is a scammer."
"Brother Jared, we support you!"
"Buddy, you even bought a course for $2,700? You really have more money than sense!"
"It's actually funny that there are still people who believe in emotional coaches like Maggie."
...
In the livestream room, the bullet comments surged like a tide. Netizens expressed sympathy for Jared's plight and strongly condemned Maggie's behavior of bait-and-switch advertising.
Just then, dozens of people appeared in the frame, holding a long banner.
"Brother Jared, who are those people behind you?" Elliot asked knowingly.
Jared turned his phone camera towards the people behind him and said to the camera, "These friends behind me, like me, all bought Maggie's emotional course and were scammed by her."
"So many people were scammed by Maggie?" Elliot said, feigning surprise.
"Yes, we were all scammed by her."
"Maggie is a scammer."
"We were all ripped off."
The crowd behind Jared loudly accused her to the camera.
"Wow, Maggie actually scammed so many people?!" Elliot's tone was full of disbelief.
[No way? There are actually so many people who were scammed?]
[I just went to Maggie's TrendTok account and saw that quite a few people really bought her courses.]
[Maggie looked like a gentle and kind person, I didn't expect her to be like this.]
[I originally thought that no one would believe this kind of emotional coach, but I didn't expect so many people to be fooled! It's really shocking!]
[Brothers, I've already gone to Maggie's TrendTok account to leave a message scolding her.]
[Go, go, go, let's all go blast her!]
[Count me in.]
...
Netizens discussed animatedly, and many netizens spontaneously went to leave comments on Maggie's TrendTok account.
Next, Jared and his group of 70 people took two large buses and headed towards Maggie's company in a mighty procession.
Elliot kept an eye on the movements of Jared and the others while listening to Maggie's activity through his headset.
At this time, Maggie was having a meeting in the company conference room.
Half an hour later, the two large buses slowly stopped in front of the Dream Media Company building.
Over 70 victims streamed out of the buses. They gathered at the entrance of the building and unfurled a long banner that read:
"Maggie, TrendTok 6 Million Follower Emotional Blogger, Return My Hard-Earned Money!"
This scene immediately attracted the attention of passersby, and many people stopped to watch.
In the conference room on the sixth floor of Dream Media Company, Maggie was still meeting with company executives, discussing how to further expand the company's scale and increase course sales.
"Bang!"
The door to the conference room was pushed open from the outside.
A young female assistant ran in in a panic, gasping for breath, and said:
"Ma... President Maggie, this is bad, something has happened! A group of people came downstairs to the company, holding banners and saying they want... they want you to return their hard-earned money!"
"What?" Maggie was confused when she heard this, "What are you saying? Who wants me to return their hard-earned money?"
Before the assistant could answer, she heard a deafening roar of shouting from outside the window:
"Maggie! Return my hard-earned money!"
"Maggie! Come out and face us!"
"Maggie! You scammer!"
Maggie quickly stood up, left her seat, and walked to the window, looking down.
She saw that the area downstairs at the company was packed with people. They were holding banners, shouting hoarsely, and continuously chanting slogans loudly. The sound was so loud that it could be heard clearly even through several floors.
What shocked Maggie even more was that there was even a Salt City TV station interview vehicle among the crowd.
"Who... who are they?" Maggie was completely bewildered.
"They are all students who bought your emotional course," the female assistant replied.
"Ah?" Maggie suddenly panicked. She had never encountered such a situation before and didn't know what to do for a moment.
"The one leading them seems to be called Jared, he came two days ago." The person speaking was a woman standing next to Maggie, who was Maggie's agent. She pointed to a familiar figure in the crowd downstairs and said.
"Jared?" Maggie looked down carefully and indeed saw Jared in the crowd.
This Jared had come to the company once two days ago. At that time, Maggie thought that if she ignored him, he would back down.
She didn't expect him to be so persistent. Not only did he not give up, but he also gathered so many people to come to the company downstairs to cause trouble.
"President Maggie, should we call the police?" the female assistant asked.
Maggie shook her head. Calling the police wouldn't solve the problem at all. This was a civil dispute, and the police would only mediate; they wouldn't solve the problem.
The most important thing was the current scene. With so many people downstairs holding banners, this matter would definitely be exposed online.
It might even become another trending news item.
Streamers rely on fans and traffic.
If this gets so big that the whole internet knows, who would still buy her course?
Her image would collapse.
The seriousness was no less than Sweet Nina being reported by netizens for tax evasion.
What to do?
Maggie didn't know what to do for a moment.
She, as the boss, didn't know what to do, and the others were even more clueless.
"Quick, notify the security guards, tell them to go down and stop those people, absolutely do not let them rush into the company," Maggie instructed the assistant.
"Yes, I'll go right away!" The assistant ran out in a panic.
After a while, seven or eight security guards blocked the entrance of the building, preventing the troublemakers from entering the company.
The crowd didn't rush into the company immediately.
They just gathered at the entrance of the building, holding banners and shouting slogans, surrounding the company gate completely.
As time went by, more and more onlookers gathered, and the atmosphere on the scene became increasingly tense.
At this time, in Elliot's livestream room, the number of online viewers had already exceeded 100,000.
The livestream effect was maximized.
"Haha, it feels great to ride this wave of traffic," Elliot looked at the constantly soaring numbers on the screen, his heart filled with joy, "Teacher Maggie, I'm sorry, I'm using your popularity."
Time passed by minute by minute, and in the blink of an eye, it was 11 o'clock in the morning.
The crowd downstairs had already been gathered at the company entrance for over half an hour.
And Maggie?
At this time, she was hiding in her office, feeling like she was sitting on pins and needles, extremely anxious.
"What to do? What on earth should I do now?"
Maggie was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, but she still couldn't come up with a foolproof plan.
(End of this chapter)
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Translator and Editor - Husband
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