Viya's POV
The press conference ended in chaos.
And somehow, it worked in our favor.
The core research team was already respected.
Add Miranda and Margaret's very public humiliation. Add Robert getting dragged out in handcuffs for leaking confidential information.
The whole thing snowballed into a trending topic. Then another. Then several more.
News stories multiplied faster than I could track. People who hadn't even heard of Blackwood Enterprises yesterday now knew one thing: we had developed a breakthrough medication for Lunar Fever.
Then I noticed another topic climbing the charts.
*Ice King CEO and Genius Researcher—Real or Just Chemistry?*
I stared at it for a moment.
People were already shipping us. Caesar and me. It hadn't hit critical mass yet, but
