[Finally made the call! The higher-ups are sending investigators!]
[The side character's about to be ruined!]
Bonnie fixed me with an icy stare.
"Before the investigators get here, I'll give you one last chance to come clean."
Cliff adopted that insufferable I'm-only-trying-to-help tone. "Once this blows up, you'll lose a lot more than some little preliminary title."
The comments flooded in, praising him:
[The ML is too kind—even now he's giving the second lead a chance to confess.]
[He's SO pure-hearted. That's why he keeps rejecting the FL, because of her engagement to the villain.]
[These two angels can't be together because of that TRASH. The FL has to practically beg him to accept her gifts!]
[Can this simp just explode already?!]
I was starting to question these viewers' collective IQ.
If Cliff were really the saint they imagined, why was he tangled up with Bonnie when he knew she was engaged? His so-called "rejections" were textbook playing-hard-to-get.
One glance at his wardrobe—not a single item under four figures—told me everything. Bonnie had been bankrolling him for God knows how long.