Tamara’s face stiffened.The heat of Sebastian’s palm warmed her arm. No matter how hard she struggled, she could not seem to get away.Staying silent would simply prove the man right. If she struggled, it would make whatever Sebastian was saying about her become true.She would end up being the one at fault no matter what she chose to do. Tamara did not know how to handle the situation. Would her identity be revealed at last?“Cutie-pie!”Margot suddenly appeared, rushing over to Tamara. She grabbed her friend’s hand and made her stand behind her.“Young Mr. Lynch, what are you doing? Why are you being so rude to my friend?” Margot’s expression darkened as she glared at Sebastian.“Why is Sebastian always around Tammy? Was fate messing with them?” she wondered.Sebastian’s handsome features turned cold. “I’m really curious about you. Why are all your friends so odd?”Margot stopped breathing for a moment. Then, she hurriedly explained, “Where did you get that idea? Young Mr.
”You!”SweetTea shot Margot a furious glare, yet Margot was not cowed in the slightest. “What could you possibly have to say? You don’t even have any skills to bring to the table! Do you think that I didn’t watch the live stream just now? You picked Yvette right at the beginning! You were hiding behind your teammates the entire time. Why would it be impossible for a girl to be good at playing Eowyn? If anything, you’re just projecting!”Everyone who had just finished competing heard the commotion and looked over.After receiving the scolding from Margot, SweetTea was instantly stunned.Tamara pursed her lips, smiling slightly. She loved Margot to bits, especially that smart mouth of hers.“You’re blatantly disrupting the competition’s proceedings! I can get her kicked out of the game, you know?” SweetTea managed to speak eventually.Margot sneered and said, “Let’s see who ends up getting kicked out later. You, or her? Cutie-pie, let’s go!”Margot pulled Tamara back to her seat.
Margot left the club in a fit of rage. The air inside the establishment felt disgusting to her.“Margot!” Benjamin’s anxious voice rang out from behind her.Margot walked in the direction of her car without looking back.“Margot Zimmerman!”Benjamin got even more anxious as he watched her walk away from him without giving him the chance to explain himself.He did not expect Margot to stumble upon his moment of playfulness, causing such a big misunderstanding.“Mr. Inkling, what are you doing? Why aren’t you spending your time with that new sweetheart of yours?” Margot could not hold it in any longer. She turned to glare at Benjamin.There was a hint of a smile on her exquisite face. However, the smile was tinted with sarcasm.Benjamin explained, “There’s nothing going on between me and her. She pounced on me on purpose! I was just about to push her away when you walked in.”“My, what a huge coincidence! I wonder what made her pounce on you just as I came in.” Margot crossed bo
”Gosh, I didn’t think Cutie-pie and Benjamin Inkling would be involved like that…”“Come on, are you new? There’s a lot of dirty laundry to air in this industry, after all.”“I’ve always looked up to Cutie-pie! Who knew that she could be so shameless?”“Does this mean that someone else played on Cutie-pie’s behalf behind the scenes so that she could gain a fanbase?”Upon hearing that, SweetTea nodded firmly. “That’s right! Someone else from her marketing team had to be controlling her character in the game! There’s no way a girl would be so great at the game! At least, I’m not gullible enough to believe that it could be true!”The three guys on Tamara’s team did not know what to do. One of them eventually spoke up and said, “But Cutie-pie clearly led us to victory just now. The way she played Eowyn was fantastic…”“She just got lucky!”SweetTea followed up quickly, “Luck seems to be on her side. That’s probably how she got to know Mr. Inkling in the first place! If not for that,
”You…”SweetTea glared furiously at Margot. However, after stuttering for a short while, she found that she could not get any words out.Margot crossed her arms, face filled with condescension. “Young Mr. Lynch’s right. If you’re this upset over it, you might as well compete. If you emerge victorious, it’ll mean that everything you’ve said was true. If you end up losing, it’ll prove that you’ve been spreading lies to set her up, which can be classified as slander!”“That’s right! Whether you’ve been telling the truth this whole time will be revealed once you guys compete.”“Yeah! You keep saying that Cutie-pie’s streams were fake, that she was just taking credit for someone else’s skills. Why not compete with her to prove your point? It’s not like it’ll cost you anything.”“I agree. If you refuse to compete, it’ll just prove that everything you said were lies.”Loud booing rang out. Still covering most of her face with both hands, SweetTea looked over the crowd of people and bark
The crowd watched on with hearts in their throats.Just as Adira was about to deal a killing blow to Yvette with a set of skills, Yvette unleashed the weakening skill.The skill managed to decrease the damage Adira dealt by half!However, as Adira was too focused on dealing Yvette a blow, the former went straight into the latter’s tower attack range.Eventually, Tamara managed to deal a fatal blow to SweetTea’s character with a normal attack, getting the first kill.SweetTea pursed her lips and said, “You just got lucky!” Her expression had darkened significantly.Tamara had a small smirk on her face. Her eyes were filled with condescension.When the crowd saw what Tamara managed to do, they let out quiet sighs of relief.SweetTea had been too eager to deal damage to Tamara’s character. The calm way Tamara managed to avoid her opponent’s attacks was awe-inspiring.To everyone, Yvette was the weakest character in the game. Anyone who played as her in a one-to-one battle was des
SweetTea’s face filled with horror as she stared at Sebastian. “No way! You don’t have the power to ban me! You simply can’t!”However, no one cared what she had to say.Everyone at the scene was horrified by Sebastian’s cruelty.Since SweetTea was a famed streamer in the gaming community, she earned a living by streaming.Suddenly banning her from the community meant that SweetTea’s income would come to a sudden halt.The crowd stared at Sebastian in awe.Even though they had heard of the man, they had never seen him in real life.After meeting him, everyone thought it would be best if they never encountered him ever again.Sebastian was too terrifying.This man could control life and death with a single command.At the end of the first knockout round, Tamara managed to advance to the next stage without incident.Margot linked her arms with Tamara as they walked out of the club. Margot looked back to find that Sebastian was following closely behind them.Looking a little a
Tamara did not know how to respond. She eyed Sebastian strangely before wiping her makeup away with the wet wipes.A few minutes later, her face was clear of makeup. Upon taking one look at her, the knit between Sebastian’s eyebrows loosened.Sebastian drove them back to Skarrowlilt Grove.A bodyguard came over to open their car doors. Upon getting out of the car, Sebastian walked into the villa without looking back, disregarding Tamara’s existence entirely.Tamara watched his retreating back, unable to hold back a long sigh.She could not believe how short the man’s temper was.She recalled that before having interacted with Sebastian, whenever the news would talk about the man, they would paint him as a cold, unfeeling person. He was known to never show much emotion.Tamara could not understand why the Sebastian she knew was worlds away from the one that was shown on TV.She much preferred the TV version of Sebastian. The TV version of him was cold, unfeeling, and would not g