Elle Fanning had been feeling a bit troubled lately.
Her relationship with her sister Dakota had always been excellent.
The doors to Hollywood were opened for her by her sister. At just two years old, she entered Hollywood by playing her sister's younger self.
Although Elle Fanning started acting at a very young age, she still experienced a normal childhood. After receiving several years of education at her grandmother's house, her parents decided to send her to school so she could interact with her peers.
In the past, she thought this was great.
At school, she could discuss topics relevant to her age group with friends, hang out with her girl squad, go shopping, watch movies, and talk about male celebrities...
But now, she was really annoyed.
Because she suddenly realized that within her small social circle, the frequency of discussions about that guy Martin was so high.
Martin's handsomeness, Martin's talent, Martin's playboy nature, even Martin's abilities (in bed) were favorite topics among these schoolgirls.
Before, she might have joined these conversations without thinking much of it.
But ever since that night when she had that embarrassing accident in front of Martin, she always felt there was something strange between her and Martin.
No, to be precise, her feelings toward Martin had become strange.
It was as if, as if there was some secret connection between them now. Was it because they had seen each other's most private moments?
She wondered what Martin felt about it.
Elle Fanning suddenly found herself wanting to get closer to Martin, yet she felt somewhat afraid.
All this made her irritable whenever she heard topics related to Martin.
And it wasn't just that.
Since that night, she would often dream about Martin—and they were those kind of wet dreams. Every time she woke up, she had to take a shower and change her underwear.
Whenever her sister wanted to visit Martin on set, she couldn't help but want to tag along.
But every time she followed her sister to the set, she didn't dare to interact much with Martin and could only find other things to kill time. This, ironically, made her become very close with Sofia, who would take her around each time.
Ah, and she also met a girl named Kristen Liu.
From her observations, this girl's relationship with Martin was definitely not ordinary.
But strangely, when she shared this speculation with her sister, her sister didn't seem to mind at all.
This made her can't help but entertain some little thoughts of her own.
If her sister didn't mind, then could she also...
"No no no, I can't do that. He's my sister's boyfriend."
"But, Martin isn't just Dakota's boyfriend alone!"
"Besides, Dakota doesn't mind these things."
"Martin is really charming! So physically fit, so talented!"
Elle Fanning shook her head. What was she thinking?!
The voices of her girl squad chatting reached her ears:
"Which do you think is better, Divergent or The Hunger Games?"
"I think the new film from Martin's company, The Maze Runner, is more interesting."
"No no, of course it's The Hunger Games. It's the originator of this genre of dystopian young adult fiction."
"Isn't it Harry Potter?"
"Pfft, are you still a child? Liking children's books?"
"Harry Potter isn't children's books! Many adults like it too."
Elle Fanning looked at the arguing group and felt they were so childish. She had already seen Martin's having sex with her sister.
She immediately felt a sense of superiority over them.
Then she felt troubled again. How could she get more opportunities to interact with Martin?
...
Meanwhile, Martin was at home looking at some news.
In the summer of 2014, an 18-year-old boy named Conrad was found dead in his car.
An apparent suicide.
Upon hearing the news, his teenage girlfriend Michelle was extremely grief-stricken, depressed all day long.
When attending her boyfriend's funeral, she tried to comfort his mother.
She even actively prepared a fundraising event in her boyfriend's name for remembrance.
But at the same time.
The police found something strange in the text messages on the deceased's phone.
One message—"I was scared, I thought you were really going to do it"—caught the police's attention.
This was part of a conversation between Conrad and his girlfriend Michelle before his death.
So, Michelle knew her boyfriend was going to commit suicide?
Not only that, in his final messages with his girlfriend,
Conrad tried to delete their text messages.
What was the teenager trying to hide?
What exactly did Michelle know?
During the police investigation, more strange issues emerged.
Michelle's family didn't know anything about Conrad.
Let alone his family.
For someone as important as Michelle's boyfriend, she had never mentioned him to her family.
Dramatically, before Michelle attended Conrad's funeral, Conrad's family was equally unaware of Michelle's existence.
It was only after their son's accidental death that the mother, Roy, learned her son had a girlfriend.
There were too many oddities about this.
At the funeral that day, upon seeing her boyfriend's mother Roy for the first time, Michelle gave her a warm hug.
Even though they had never met before.
Then during the baseball fundraising event, while giving a speech, Michelle choked up expressing her remembrance for Conrad.
But the next second, when the baseball game started, her mood instantly soared, her excitement evident on her face.
Her natural switching of states made people doubt the sincerity of her true feelings...
Finally, the police used technical means to recover the deleted messages from the phone and learned the truth.
It turned out Michelle was the direct cause of Conrad's death.
She had encouraged and urged her boyfriend to commit suicide.
Even when her boyfriend got scared and wanted to stop, she forced him to continue.
It turned out her boyfriend Conrad himself suffered from severe depression.
Due to experiencing domestic violence in his original family, he couldn't escape his negative side.
And Michelle also had a history of depression.
The reason she encouraged her boyfriend to commit suicide
Was purely because she wanted to use this to gain attention from the outside world.
This also explained why Michelle called friends first thing after Conrad's death, crying and seeking comfort, while her friends and parents didn't know about Conrad before this incident.
And Michelle's abnormally enthusiastic mood surge at the baseball event.
She even directly ignored questions from her boyfriend's mother, trying to squeeze into group photos—somewhat shameless behavior.
A person extremely craving to be the center of attention would go to any lengths to achieve their goal.
Two people both plagued by depression, when they met, didn't save each other.
Instead, they became a negative influence on each other.
Ultimately leading to tragedy.
Of course, Michelle also had to pay a heavy price for her actions.
In the end, Michelle was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to 25 months in prison.