Never Mistake a Queen for a Lapdog novel Chapter 369

After finishing her conversation with Scott, Noreen asked Sophia to pull together a summary of Aetheria’s press conference—she wanted to take a look herself.

Sophia hesitated, stammering, “Maybe you shouldn’t bother. There’s really nothing worth seeing.”

Noreen raised an eyebrow. “What’s going on?”

Sophia pouted, her voice thick with annoyance. “It was supposed to be a game launch, but halfway through, it turned into some kind of romance announcement.”

Unfazed, Noreen insisted that Sophia send her the recording anyway.

The first part of the conference actually focused on Aetheria. But once a reporter steered the questions off course, the whole event devolved into a public spectacle about someone’s love life.

Apparently, Sophia was so irritated that she just cut the latter half of the video before sending it over.

Worried she’d missed something, Noreen decided to check Aetheria’s official account herself.

The most-liked video at the top had nothing to do with the game at all.

She was just about to scroll past it and look for actual game content when the screen suddenly cut to Seth.

Noreen’s hand froze.

A moment later, Seth’s voice filled the room—a heartfelt confession she’d never heard from him before.

“She’s brilliant. How could I bear to tie her down with marriage? Even if we get married, she’ll still be free, able to soar wherever she chooses.”

Noreen lowered her gaze and let out a quiet, mocking laugh. How poetic. So this is what Seth looked like when he truly loved someone.

How ironic, after more than seven years together, this was the first time she’d ever seen this side of him.

But it didn’t matter anymore.

She swiped away the video and skimmed through other clips and comments about Aetheria.

From the initial teasers to the beta, right up to the launch, most of what was presented was actually Scott’s work back when he was still at TechVenture.

But there had been some tweaks to the character designs.

For example… the female characters’ outfits had gotten noticeably more revealing.

She could never stay calm about any of this.

Every time she saw those two parading their relationship all over social media, she felt nothing but anger on Noreen’s behalf.

Noreen had been with Seth for seven years, and not once had he ever acknowledged her publicly, let alone introduced her as his partner.

Back then, Noreen had been so humble—she’d even proposed to him herself, and was willing to settle for a secret marriage.

Even then, Seth had never really cared for her.

Now he was flaunting his new love without a second thought, as if Noreen never existed.

How could she not be furious?

She wanted nothing more than to give those two a piece of her mind—permanently.

Noreen gently tried to calm her. “Let me tell you some good news, just to cheer you up.”