"Mom is useless! Maybe I really wasn't cut out to be an actress. Maybe I chose the wrong path from the very beginning..."
Rosalie could not help hugging Mark as she sobbed.
After five years of development, Rosalie and Mark had gained quite a bit of fame in Hollywood's GG circle.
By all rights, talent agencies should have approached them and signed them long ago.
Yet in reality, not a single one had.
Whenever Rosalie auditioned for important roles in productions over the years, she was rejected without exception. Sometimes, she was not even given a chance to audition.
This time, she had spent over half a month carefully preparing, then confidently auditioned for an important female role in the movie "Tomb Terror." In the end, she was still rejected by the production crew.
The blow devastated Rosalie!
She even began to wonder whether she had been wrong to turn against her family just to pursue a career in Hollywood all those years ago.
"Mom, could it be that you offended some big shot in the entertainment industry, and they've been targeting and suppressing you?"
Mark spoke up to remind her.
"That's impossible..."
Rosalie instinctively wanted to deny it.
She had always been nothing more than a low-level extra. How could she possibly have had the standing to offend a Hollywood big shot?
But after calming down, Rosalie found the phone numbers of several directors and prepared to ask them about it.
Through filming GG productions over the years, she had built up some connections in the entertainment industry.
A moment later, Rosalie set down the phone with a dark expression and angrily spoke a name. "Cathy Dale!"
Through her inquiries just now, Rosalie finally learned that Cathy Dale had been targeting and suppressing her all along!
Cathy Dale was a top Hollywood actress herself, and the CAA talent agency behind her was the largest talent agency in America and even the world.
Many of Hollywood's biggest stars and artists were signed to that company.
Cathy Dale had once publicly declared that if any other talent agency signed Rosalie, she would never cooperate with that agency again.
A top star like Cathy Dale could generate hundreds of millions of dollars in value every year.
Before Rosalie had demonstrated sufficient value, those talent agencies naturally would not offend the superstar Cathy Dale for her sake.
At that moment, all the information about Cathy Dale instantly surfaced in Mark's mind.
Cathy Dale, Tony Stark's ex-girlfriend.
Back then, Tony Stark had fallen out with Cathy Dale at a production wrap party, then turned around and took Rosalie to a hotel room.
Cathy had clearly come to hate Rosalie over that incident, even disregarding her status to suppress a nobody like her.
"Cathy Dale, you damned bi—"
Rosalie could not help cursing out loud, but after noticing Mark beside her, she swallowed the rest of the profanity.
If she had simply been unlucky and unable to make it in Hollywood, Rosalie could have accepted that.
But now that she knew Cathy Dale had been plotting against her from behind the scenes, Rosalie could no longer endure it!
"Mom, do you want to see Cathy Dale get what's coming to her?"
Mark's eyes shifted as he quickly came up with a way to deal with the woman.
"She's a top Hollywood star and CAA's cash cow. What can we possibly do to her?"
Rosalie looked at her exceptionally intelligent son in confusion.
Over the years, Mark had gradually revealed his extraordinary intelligence in front of Rosalie.
Rosalie had been shocked at first, but when she remembered that Mark's biological father was Tony Stark, she came to accept it.
With the smartest father in the world, wasn't it perfectly normal for his son to be exceptionally intelligent?
Rosalie no longer treated Mark as an ordinary child. She even discussed certain household matters with him.
"Mom, watch me get revenge for you!"
Mark turned and sat down at the computer beside him, then switched it on.
"Tap tap tap..."
His fingers flew across the keyboard. Before long, he wrote a Trojan program and hacked into the CAA talent agency's database.
He then searched through the data and found Cathy Dale's home address, phone number, social security number, license plate number, and other personal information.
"Mark, h-how did you do that?"
Seeing the information displayed on the computer, Rosalie widened her eyes in shock.
"I just taught myself on the computer!"
Mark replied as though it were only natural.
With his powerful learning ability, although he had studied network technology for less than a month, he already possessed skills comparable to those of a top hacker.
"Th-this is something you can teach yourself?"
Mark was only five years old, yet he had taught himself to become such an incredible hacker. Naturally, Rosalie found it hard to believe.
But when she thought of Mark's father being Tony Stark, she felt that it was perfectly natural for Mark to be capable of such things.
"But isn't this illegal?"
Watching Mark continue working at the computer, Rosalie became worried again.
"As long as no one catches you, doesn't that mean it isn't illegal?"
Mark did not care in the slightest.
He had confidence in his hacking skills. There probably were not many people in this world who could catch him.
A moment later, using Cathy Dale's home address, Mark hacked into her home computer.
Fortunately, her computer had not been turned off. Otherwise, Mark would have had to wait a while longer before acting.
He carefully examined the computer's hard drive and soon found some things that interested him.
"Tsk tsk, this Cathy Dale really knew how to have fun!"
Mark clicked his tongue.
On her computer's hard drive, he saw intimate photos and videos of Cathy with multiple famous male stars, with all kinds of private items scattered everywhere.
Mark knew that many Hollywood actresses had chaotic private lives, but he had not expected things to be this chaotic.
"Mark! You're a child. You can't look at things like this!"
Rosalie's face turned bright red. She stepped forward and covered Mark's eyes with one hand.
"Okay, okay, Mom. I won't look."
Mark hurriedly closed the photos and videos.
If he posted those videos and pictures online, they would certainly cause a stir and damage Cathy's reputation.
But they were still far from enough to utterly ruin her and end her career.
After all, Hollywood stars having chaotic private lives was practically an open secret. Everyone had long since stopped being surprised by it.
Mark had not intended to use those things against Cathy in the first place.
He began searching the contents of Cathy's emails, using keywords such as "blackie" and other racially discriminatory terms.
It was now 1998. Although instant messaging software existed, most people still believed email was safer.
Cathy was a famous Hollywood actress. They would not casually say such things in public, but they might make inappropriate remarks in private.
Sure enough, Mark quickly found a large number of Cathy's inappropriate remarks in several emails.
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