The announcement held. That was the phrase his management team used — it held — meaning the coverage had gone positive, the narrative had settled into something workable, and no one had published anything that required a response.
Daryll's follow-up came forty minutes later. A statement posted from Noah Hart's official management account, confirming what the caption had implied: the two had married in a private ceremony attended by a small number of family and close friends. Three photographs accompanied it. Studio shots. Franz in a dark suit, Arianne in a wedding dress, holding a bouquet. In each frame it was just the two of them against a plain backdrop, no guests, no setting, nothing that placed them in a date or a location. The third photograph was a close-up: a white envelope, and on it, two eternity rings side by side. The photographs were clean and controlled, which was exactly the point.
The comment count tripled.
