For Pepper to become the personal assistant of the playboy Tony Stark, putting aside everything else, her looks had to be top-tier.
You can doubt the playboy's moral character, but you can never doubt Stark's aesthetic taste.
Furthermore, to be able to skyrocket from a personal assistant to the CEO of Stark Industries, Pepper definitely held some extraordinary significance to Tony Stark.
Even though Pepper was a bit older, already 32 years old, a 30-something woman is at the peak of her mature, seductive charm.
So it was entirely normal for Killian to set his sights on Pepper.
At this moment, Harvey watched this emotionless, purely physical collision show with an expressionless face.
If Tony Stark found out he had suddenly been cucked, and that the green hat had been personally placed on his head by the clown he had dismissed with contempt all those years ago...
Would he go crazy with anger?
"But judging from Pepper's current state, she actually seems to be enjoying it?"
"Could it be that certain hidden attributes of this woman have been awakened?"
"Hiss..."
Thinking of this, Harvey inhaled sharply, contributing once again to global warming.
"This earth-shattering gossip is definitely an eye-opener for me."
"If there's any news in 2012 that could surpass the hype of the Battle of New York, the gossip happening today is it."
Ten minutes later.
The front pages of websites like Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook were completely dominated by a single video headline.
Ever since the Avengers debuted, ordinary people around the world viewed the emergence of superheroes with a mix of yearning and worship.
Usually, even the slightest bit of news about the Avengers—like which street an Avenger passed by today, what crime they stopped, or which bad guy they caught—
Would instantly become the hottest trending traffic on the internet.
But today, when netizens saw the private life of an Avenger's inner circle for the very first time...
Everyone was utterly dumbfounded.
As the mastermind behind the scenes, hiding his achievements and fame, Harvey read through Twitter on his smartphone with great relish.
Some of the replies from netizens on Twitter even made Harvey laugh out loud.
[Holy shit!!!]
[Is this the magnitude of the world's richest man, Tony Stark?]
[He can actually tolerate a woman like this becoming his CEO? Could it be that a superhero like Iron Man has some sort of special cuckold fetish?]
[Talent always shows up in the first comment! But what do you mean by 'also'? Please elaborate!]
He had to admit, the associative abilities of this generation of netizens were very strong. Harvey continued reading the next reply.
[The guy's muscle definition is really good, a standard eight-pack physique. I'm jealous of Ms. Pepper Potts!]
[Besides, true love requires the courage to break through all secular rules. Love means freedom!]
[Sisters, be brave and pursue the freedom of love!]
A T0-level (Tier 0) figure actually crashed the thread. Terrified, Harvey quickly scrolled past this reply; this was an existence even he didn't dare provoke.
[I heard Ms. Pepper Potts had a thing with Iron Man a long time ago. Could it be because Stark is lacking in the bedroom department that Ms. Pepper had to seek out other men to satisfy her?]
Interesting. Next comment.
[My abilities in bed are ten times better than the man in the video. If Ms. Pepper Potts has any needs, please DM me. I am willing to provide assistance free of charge...]
Tsk, tsk, tsk! Harvey read with increasing enthusiasm. The omnipotent netizens truly harbored all kinds of talent.
Next comment.
[Could the video uploader have a little conscience?]
[This kind of arbitrary invasion of others' privacy has already broken the law. As an upright lawyer, I must advise you—]
[Hurry up and upload the high-definition video!]
[With mosaic censorship this thick, we can't see shit!]
"The netizens sure have a lot of demands, but today I'm in a generous mood and I'll satisfy you!" A gleeful Harvey was just preparing to upload a new video.
But the next reply made him freeze.
[The 4K restored uncensored video has been uploaded. The address is below. Fellow netizens can extract it themselves. Please call me John Doe, no thanks needed!]
Harvey completely didn't expect that in just a few short minutes, a master would actually remove the mosaic and upload the video.
The internet truly was full of hidden dragons and crouching tigers.
The subsequent replies gave Harvey an even deeper understanding of the genius-level intellect of netizens.
[May good people live a peaceful life. But why does this link require payment? And it costs 5 bucks per download? You damn profiteer, why don't you just go rob a bank?]
Some netizens saw a business opportunity. With a super-hot trending topic like this, not riding the wave to make a quick buck would simply be a disservice to their own souls.
[Guys, I also have the link to the restored video here. It only costs two dollars to download!]
[Two bucks won't buy you a loss, won't buy you a scam, but it will buy you the explosive, untold story behind Iron Man's closed doors...]
[Brothers, why aren't you moving your little hands and giving the author a follow?]
[I also have the link to the restored video, and it's the best value for money—only $0.99!]
There were also some insightful replies.
[Is no one concerned about how the video uploader managed to film a video involving a celebrity's extreme privacy in the first place?]
[Judging from the camera angle, the uploader was standing right there in the room. There's also slight camera shake, so it must have been filmed with a handheld DV camcorder.]
[At such a close distance, it's impossible for Ms. Potts not to have noticed.]
[Thinking about it is terrifying. Is all this a distortion of human nature or a degradation of morality?]
At this moment, hundreds of replies were refreshing every few minutes. The netizens' enthusiasm for discussion was red-hot.
And after the restored uncensored video appeared, it forcefully drove up the real-time visitor traffic of major online media platforms by a massive margin.
To put it plainly, in just a few short minutes, over tens of millions of netizens learned the explosive news that Iron Man had been cucked.
If official powers didn't step in and the video was allowed to continue fermenting, in a few more hours, probably hundreds of millions of people would know the other side of Pepper Potts.
But suddenly, all information regarding this video on the internet was completely wiped clean by an invisible black hand.
Harvey didn't even need to think to know who it was. To possess such massive influence and force major mainstream internet platforms to delete posts...
Besides S.H.I.E.L.D., there was only Tony Stark, the richest man in the world.
"I really want to know what Tony Stark's face looks like right now. Now that he's reached this true moment that tests love."
"Will he fly into a murderous rage? Or will he pretend nothing happened and calmly accept all of his lover's flaws?"
Harvey was extremely curious about this.
As the saying goes, if you want a passable life, you've got to wear a little green on your head.
But he absolutely didn't think that with Tony Stark's conceited and arrogant personality, he could tolerate his woman messing around and getting fucked by other men outside.
Even though it was consensual, with Pepper having this kind of dark history, could Tony Stark really just brush it off with a 'it's okay', forgive her, and become a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle?
Harvey was still pondering the answer when a sudden, roaring sonic boom approached from the distance.
"Speak of the devil, and he shall appear!"
A long white trail streaked across the horizon as the thick clouds were torn open by a gold-and-red object flying at high speed.