The Wolf of Los Angeles.

Chapter 130 Pushing the envelope
In the morning, Bro Derek put on a suit and came downstairs.

Sarah has prepared breakfast.

The atmosphere between the couple was harmonious and there seemed to be no gap between them.

Just last night, the two reached a new agreement. After Bro is done with his busy schedule and Sarah wins the Golden Globe, they will find a third person who is also interested in this game to join their game.

It could have been earlier, but Sarah considered that the baby in her belly was related to the prize, so she planned to wait until after the miscarriage.

As planned, she had not yet told Bro about her pregnancy. She would wait until she was a little more pregnant and they could have a threesome so she could give Bro a surprise.

Her belly got bigger, and it was exciting to have her husband watch her with another man.

Sarah thought it would be more interesting if that bastard Hawke could be brought in.

Bro hurriedly ate his breakfast and said, "I have to prepare for a New Year's party. I may be very busy recently. The public opinion about your case has reversed. If someone makes things difficult for you later, you can put all the blame on me."

Sarah smiled and said, “You are my husband, I will not let you go.”

After breakfast, Bro picked up his briefcase and went out to work.

Sarah walked him all the way to the car.

When he arrived at Akerman Films in Santa Monica, Bro found that many people were looking at him strangely.

He looked around and those gazes were quickly withdrawn.

Entering the office, Bro asked the secretary for some newspapers, wanting to see how the media attacked him as a bad husband.

As expected, many media outlets called him a scum among men.

Some people also said that he was a violent person and so on.

Bro is not a star and doesn't care about these things at all.

But when he turned to the Los Angeles Times, the headlines in the entertainment section made him frown.

"Sarah Parker is a pathetic woman. Her weakness, tolerance and compromise will only make the abuser more aggressive."

The entire report was full of lamentations and dissatisfaction with Sarah Parker, and even severely criticized her actions, believing that she set a bad example.

The Hollywood Reporter criticized Sarah for being completely different from the characters she played, saying she was not a new-age woman and was still living decades ago.

Another newspaper said what Sarah did was a step backwards for society.

Bro closed the newspaper and called Sarah: "Have you read today's newspaper and some media reports?"

Sarah said in a low voice: "Caroline just called me, I saw it."

Bro comforted them, "Don't worry about them. When the heat subsides in a few days, they will naturally shut up."

"Don't worry, I'm fine." Sarah acted very virtuous: "Just focus on your work and don't be distracted by my little thing."

Bro hung up the phone, there was a knock on the door, and his assistant Guerrero entered the office and closed the door.

"Are you still going to the training class?" Guerrero asked.

Bro was busy preparing for the New Year's party: "You are in charge of this issue." He asked, "Do you have a suitable candidate?"

Guerrero said roughly: "There are two women in their 20s, from other places, who have a strong desire to become stars, live alone in Los Angeles, their original families have long been broken up, and they have basically no contact with their parents. They are particularly outstanding in appearance and figure."

Bro had a lot on his plate, but the mission still needed to be completed: "Contact Carol and handle it the old way."

Guerrero responded, said goodbye and left.

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Sarah and Carolyn were discussing media criticism in Sherman Oaks when a commotion broke out outside.

"Are the reporters here?" Sarah asked.

Caroline suggested: "It doesn't sound like someone is protesting. Should we go upstairs and take a look?"

Sarah got up and went upstairs to look outside the courtyard with Caroline.

A large number of women, more than a hundred in number, gathered on the road in front of the door.

The women held up banners and posters of Sarah from Sex and the City with protest slogans written on them.

There is also a part that encourages and calls on her to be braver and use legal weapons to protect her own rights and interests.

Sarah was angry: "Are they crazy? I forgive Bro, what does it have to do with them!"

Caroline consoled him: "Just ignore them, they just want to attract attention."

Soon, many reporters who received the tip-off rushed over.

By noon, the incident was reported in the midday entertainment news of many entertainment channels.

Media outlets like Fox that lean right are a minority, and most left-leaning media outlets report on Sarah, at best, as a weak and incompetent woman.

In the afternoon, another group of women came to protest.

When a woman is pregnant, her hormone secretion is unbalanced and her emotions are prone to problems. Sarah was furious.

Caroline seemed relieved, but she was secretly fanning the flames.

California is the stronghold of the left, and the Sister March has been deeply rooted in Los Angeles for many years and can mobilize a large number of people.

Not only in traditional media, but also on the Internet, there are waves of criticism against Sarah.

Bro paid attention to public opinion and the latest situation at his doorstep, and returned home early to comfort his wife.

He was a producer who took charge of the overall situation, and he immediately gave instructions to Caroline, a professional: "It's your job to calm down public opinion as soon as possible."

Caroline said: "I suggest that we split it into two parts. One part will be done by me, communicating with the media to reduce the negative public opinion. The other part will be done through legal channels. Your lawyers can send a lawyer's letter to the relevant media, and they will be more restrained."

She stressed: "Equal rights organizations are very troublesome. We will just ignore them and it will calm down naturally after a while."

Bro was in Los Angeles and had some knowledge of women's rights. He knew that it was difficult to deal with them, so he immediately told Sarah: "Don't contact or bother them, understand?"

Sarah said: "You are my husband, my family, and you hold up the sky for me. I am not stupid."

That's what she said, but she was thinking about herself first.

An idea suddenly sprouted in Sarah's mind: if she pushed Bro out again, these things would definitely calm down.

After all, she had already pushed it out once, so she naturally had the idea of ​​pushing it out again.

Husband, shouldn’t you bear all this for your wife?

Bro kissed her and said, "I'm going to the study to call the lawyer."

What Sarah was thinking about was the things she had put away.

She asked Caroline to wait in the living room and hurried to the ladies' cloakroom. She found that nothing had been moved, so she felt relieved, changed her coat, and came back to continue her discussion with Caroline.

Caroline, the PR manager, also talked about conventional PR methods, but she knew very well that these would not work when she and Hawke were having an affair.

Because of the previous plastic surgery incident, Sarah was much more sensitive than before. She vaguely sensed the crisis and asked while Bro was away, "What should I do if public opinion cannot be controlled?"

"I need to know what you think." Caroline said, "What do you think."

Sarah struggled for years in Hollywood to get to where she is now: “There’s no way I’m going to give up my career.”

The things she had just read gave her confidence, and she said calmly: "Go find Hawke tonight. This matter is the sequelae of the last public relations. He has the responsibility to help me solve it."

"I'll go now." Caroline got in the car, left Sarah's house, glanced at the increasing number of women gathering, and headed straight for East Hollywood.

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Fountain Street, West Coast Studios.

Hawke asked Edward to take the information of Pete's Mexican nanny to Campos. He sat in front of the computer, opened the IMDB website, looked at the comment section of "Sex and the City", and then went to the official website of the series and wrote down the studio address.

Like most Hollywood crews, "Sex and the City" also has a small company with independent financial accounting.

Hawke looked through the message board of the official website and saw that some female viewers had left messages expressing their dissatisfaction.

"Sex and the City" is a TV series whose main audience is women. The heroine, who lives in New York, becomes more and more independent and even feminist as the plot develops with each season.

Hawke specifically asked Caroline to write a statement forgiving her husband for domestic violence, which was very unfeminist.

There was a knock on the studio door, Hawke went to open it, and Caroline came in.

Hawke asked directly: "What's the situation with Sarah?"

Caroline told Hawke her traditional coping method, emphasizing: "Sarah made it clear to me that she did not want to give up her career."

"Very good." Hawke called Caroline to the computer and said, "Communicate with the people in the Sister Parade and mobilize people to leave messages on IMDB and the official website of the series."

Caroline pulled out her cell phone.

Hawke continued: "Let the Sisters March organize a group of female drama fans to protest outside the Sex and the City studio in Burbank. Today's public opinion and protests can just maintain a certain level of heat. Tomorrow the focus will be on these three aspects."

He made appropriate adjustments based on Miss Mee's reaction: "Since Sarah doesn't want to give up her career, let's give her a chance to make a choice."

Caroline put away her phone: "I'm going to another sister parade." She asked Hawke: "When are you going to see Sarah?" "Tell her I'm out of town dealing with another client's business." Hawke wanted to let the incident fully develop: "I will rush back tomorrow morning and arrive in Los Angeles at noon."

Just as Caroline left, Campos called: "Boss, I received the information Edward sent."

Hawke said: "You are Mexican, and your target is the first generation of Mexican immigrants. It is easier for you to contact them. Just do what the savior says. Money is not a problem."

Campos responded: “I understand.”

The target Hawke was talking about was, of course, Pitt's Mexican nanny.

The other party works as a nanny and lives on Old Olvera Street, where Mexicans live. Her financial situation is not very good.

Hollywood stars like to find nannies through third parties, so the wages they pay are deducted a layer, and the nanny actually gets not much.

That afternoon, many media outlets and website editorial offices in Los Angeles received letters from Sarah and the Bros.' lawyers.

The lawyer's letter was somewhat useful, as these media were much more subtle in their reports the next day.

Caroline's PR seemed to work.

In effect, the battlefield has shifted.

In front of Sarah's mansion, only a few people were protesting, calling on her to stand up bravely from tolerance, compromise and weakness and to safeguard women's rights.

But more people came to the Warner Studios in Burbank and gathered in front of the "Sex and the City" studio.

These radicals, posing as fans of the show, criticized Sarah Parker for being weak and incompetent, saying that her performance was seriously inconsistent with the image of the heroine Carrie Bradshaw, and that Sarah Parker should be kicked out of the cast in the new season.

On the unofficial forum of the show, people have been posting messages calling for a boycott of Sarah Parker from starring in the next season of "Sex and the City".

Inside the studio, producer Patrick stood at the office window, looking at the hundreds of female protesters outside, feeling a little angry.

The last time Sarah Parker got involved in a plastic surgery scandal, it made him very angry. Fortunately, Lancome was the most affected and the scandal was quickly settled.

Unexpectedly, the fire spread to the crew.

There was a knock on the door, and Cindy, the associate producer, came in. She said, "Take a look at the official website and IMDB. There are more and more fans leaving messages, and the comments against Sarah are getting more and more intense."

Patrick sat in front of the computer and opened the web page to take a look.

Crazy female fans swept across the two websites like a swarm of locusts.

"It's disgusting that a weak and incompetent woman in real life plays an independent woman."

"If this is Sarah Parker, I will cancel my subscription for next season."

“I’ll unsubscribe too.”

Patrick looked at his assistant: "What do you think?"

Cindy said, "There are only a few hundred people outside, and there aren't too many comments online. The unfavorable public opinion has just begun, but it will gather momentum very quickly. Once it becomes a wave, the reputation we have worked so hard to build up in the past few seasons will be at least half destroyed."

Patrick nodded slightly: "The ratings of the series have already begun to decline. This will bring Sex and the City to an early end."

Cindy said, "Put pressure on Sarah Parker and ask her to solve the problem as soon as possible. It would be best if she could come up with a solution today."

Patrick said, "Call her."

"I'll call her." Cindy went back to the office and called Sarah to put pressure on her.

As an associate producer, she could speak more seriously, after all, Patrick was above her: "Sarah, you need to resolve the current trouble as soon as possible. The situation is very dangerous. Your supporters may become the people who hate you the most at any time. If this happens, the foundation of your career will be destroyed."

In the Sherman Oaks mansion, Sarah hung up the phone.

Caroline asked, "What's going on with the crew?"

"Can the crew step in?" Agent Sophia took great pains and worked with several partners to get Sarah's agency business. She didn't get any commission and encountered a lot of trouble.

Her interests were now tied to Sarah's.

Sarah said: "The crew gave me an ultimatum and asked me to come up with a solution today."

This put her under great pressure: "Do you smell the danger? If this matter is not handled well, my supporters may disperse."

Sophia said: "They reacted too much."

Of course Caroline knew the reason. Without Hawke and herself jumping around, the so-called public relations crisis would have been resolved long ago.

Sarah's thought came back again.

She thought again of the things she had put away, and even felt a little relieved in her heart that the situation was actually under her control.

Caroline has known Sarah the longest, and she has also been involved with Hawke. Seeing Sarah in deep thought, she deliberately said, "Your fans are all women. Once the impact of this matter expands, it will affect several women's products you endorse, not just Lancome."

She sighed, "We are all women, we understand women's minds, we tend to be emotional in doing things and spending, and our likes and dislikes are just a matter of thought."

Sarah was still hesitant, as she also had feelings for Bro.

Caroline is very clear about what she does when it comes to getting paid: "The most popular female singer this year is Alison Faith. The reason she is popular is that she followed the social trend after the selfie scandal."

Sophia is a woman with left-leaning ideas. She doesn’t understand the inside story. She pointed at the wound on Sarah’s neck and said, “Domestic violence happens the first time, and it will happen countless times. He hurt you so badly.”

Sarah thought of what Hawke had whispered in private, that this public relations effort involved certain uncontrollable risks.

What Hawke meant at the time was that Bro might not be willing to come forward.

But now it seems that uncontrollability appears in another aspect.

Sarah still had a trump card and said, "I want to hear what Hawke has to say."

Caroline said, "He can be here at noon."

"Let's go over there now." The seed in Sarah's mind not only sprouted, but also grew vigorously.

She thought about herself being fucked by someone else, while her husband was watching excitedly beside her and telling that man to go harder.

She thought of that night when she was beaten by her husband and cried out in pain.

At this moment, Sarah took her refined egoism to the extreme. As she walked out of the living room, she glanced at Bro's photo frame and cursed in a low voice: "Shameless! Pervert!"

She went to the cloakroom and dragged out three suitcases, one of which was filled with daily clothes, accessories, cosmetics, etc.

Another doll disguised as a camera and a selfie camera, as well as evidence of the crime in a plastic bag.

The last one was dragged to her safe and filled with documents, contracts, and a series of valuables.

Sarah packed these things and tidied the house so that it looked no different than usual.

She called Caroline and Sophia to come and help put the suitcases on the Bentley.

Caroline asked, "Have you made up your mind?"

Sarah pulled up her clothes, revealing the scars on her arms and legs: "I can't stand it anymore!"

Sophia and Caroline had no idea what was happening and exclaimed, "Oh my God!"

As women, they shared a common hatred for the enemy.

Sarah held their hands tightly and said, "You are the only ones I can rely on."

Sophia nodded vigorously.

Caroline reminded, "And Hawke."

Sarah said, "Come on, let's go see Hawke."

The three of them got in their cars and walked out. As soon as they turned out of the house, Bro Derek's car drove towards them.

The latter stopped the car and lowered the window.

Before he could ask back, Sarah also stopped the car: "Honey, why are you back?"

“The public opinion is not right,” Bro said.

Sarah smiled and said, "Don't worry, it's okay. The crew and the distributor HBO are preparing to make a move and asked me to come over to discuss it. You wait for my good news."

HBO is backed by Warner Bros., which reassures Bros.: "If you need me, please call me immediately."

"I will." Sarah rolled up the window and drove out.

Bro didn't go home either. He turned the car around and prepared to go back to his company in Santa Monica. He had a lot of things to do recently and was busy at work.

Back at Akerman Films, he found that Barack Burnham, chairman of the charitable foundation, had arrived.

Barack closed the office door and said, "I went to Malibu and have some funds that need to be approved by your crew."

Hollywood crews are the most convenient for money laundering, and Bro is already used to it: "Give me the information."

Barack took out the information and handed it to him, teasing his old friend: "Wife slave, your wife has been very troublesome recently. If you were a producer like you, you would have no problem finding any woman..."

Bro interrupted him: "You don't understand my happiness! Besides, Sarah is my wife, don't make fun of her."

Barack waved his hands: "You are such a wife slave that I am speechless." He was too lazy to say anything else: "Let's go."

(End of this chapter)