“Oh…” Cordelia was rather disappointed.“Mr. Irwin said next time.” Zephyr decided for his father-in-law. “He’ll definitely come and share his thoughts about keeping cats as pets with mom when he’s ready.”“Alright.” Cordelia pouted and pulled out her phone, talking to herself in puzzlement, “Even if Uncle Irwin’s not coming, he should’ve texted me…”“Maybe he forgot it when he got busy, with old age and all.”Zephyr suddenly pulled Cordelia into his arms and rubbed her head.Cordelia could feel the man’s passion, but this was a public space, so she punched him in embarrassment.“Let go of me…”“Cordelia.”“What?”Zephyr felt a squeeze in his heart.He thought of how she walked on the muddy road in the white wedding dress despite the storm, how she was timid and cautious back when they were in the rundown house, how she agreed to marry in place of Yelena to gather enough money for her mother’s medical fees, how she wanted to sell his heirloom jewelry when she failed to ask fo
Cordelia immediately related it to a name list that Janine had passed to her not too long ago. It was a list of Imperial Media’s artists who had potential but had yet to get famous. They were hopeful, though.Cordelia smiled. This celebrity talent show was most probably prepared for these artists.“Alright, I understand.” Cordelia looked at Mr. Smith. “But I have something to ask.”“Go on, Ms. Cordelia!”“Why would Madam Baker work with someone like this?” Cordelia frowned.Mr. Smith explained with a chuckle, “It’s not that Madam Baker wants to work with him. It’s the market’s choice. We’re investing in a big production this time and hope to win internationally. We’re bound to use a director who’s globally recognized.“Chad’s films are pretty low-class, but same thing… He got lucky somehow and won the award. It’s been a smooth sail for him from then on.“And he is sort of talented in filming angles. Even Ms. Trinity Lulham has openly praised him before.”“Oh…” Cordelia nodded,
The meeting came to an end very soon.Cordelia took a deep breath and suddenly felt a strange gaze following her. She looked around and met Chad’s smirking gaze.She was instantly unnerved.Chad smiled at her. Out of courtesy, she forced a smile back and left hurriedly with her documents.“Cordelia Jenner…” Chad sat on the chair as he watched her leave, looking like he did not have enough of it.As expected of Imperial Media, it was really a place of talented individuals. The female celebrities were gorgeous in their own way, but none was as captivating as Cordelia was to Chad.He had been shooting for so many years, so he had seen plenty of beautiful women, but he had never come across someone like Cordelia, who had delicate features and a faint distant sense to her.She was cold and elegant when she did not smile, yet she felt like the gentle winter sun when she did.Chad also found her name incredibly familiar.After asking around, he discovered that she was also from Janga
Chad sent William the photo he had secretly taken of Cordelia in the meeting.It was unclear, but William could still tell it was her. He did not expect Cordelia to have risen from her lowly status and grown into the elegant beauty she was now.Blood rushed up to his head in a fit of rage as he shakily swiped the photo away.“It’s your daughter, right? Hah, I told you I wouldn’t recognize her wrong!”“Oh.” William’s tone was indifferent. “Why are you asking about her?”“Nothing, just asking out of concern!”“Hah!” William knew well how loaded the word “concern” was.“She’s married already. I have no idea how she’s been doing recently!”“What?” Chad frowned. “So young… and married already? To whom?”William gnashed his teeth. “An ex-inmate!”Chad was even more shocked at the revelation that he went speechless, only snapping out of it when the call was hung up on him.He carefully recalled the times he spent socializing with William and thought he seemed to have heard the latt
Chad suddenly felt chills on his back. When he looked around, there was nothing. The spacious recording studio was orderly and functioning as usual.He took a deep breath. He was most probably frightened by Zephyr’s gaze just now.In a room nearby, however…“This low-life?” Nicholas crossed his leg, resting against the lambskin couch. He had drunk half of the whisky in his hand, and there was a smirk on his lips.Zephyr looked at him. “You know him?”“Chad Green, right?” Nicholas smiled. “I heard the others mention him before back in Jangasas.”Zephyr asked, “What kind of person is he?”“What saint could someone who shoots those kinds of films be?” Nicholas cracked a grin. “It’s said that he often tricks university girls with his identity as a director. Many art students got tricked and were cheated financially and sexually.“After what happened, those girls dared not report to the police due to societal pressure and could only swallow their grievances.”“F*ck!” Josiah yelled,
Cordelia had just taken her shower, and her hair was still wet. When she came out of the bathroom, she smelled nice.Cordelia smiled at Zephyr, and the latter felt that his world had turned so much more radiant.“Why are you back so late?” Cordelia went to him and circled her arms around his hips. “I’ll make some supper for you!”“No need, I’m not hungry.” Zephyr’s gaze was deep, while his voice was deep, husky, and captivating.Cordelia’s clothes draped over her softly, and the fabric looked velvety under the light.Zephyr was slightly dazed, feeling like a small beast was awakening within him.“What’s wrong?” asked Cordelia.He smiled without a word. Seeing that her hair was still dripping water, he went to the bathroom for the hair dryer and asked Cordelia to sit down comfortably on the couch before he stood behind her to blow her hair.The pair of hands that was powerful and strong in fights was always endlessly gentle when it came to her.Cordelia was slowly lulled to sle
“I was afraid that he’d shoot some indecent scenes again this time and affect the whole production!”Cordelia’s bright eyes were on Zephyr as she said seriously, “We invested a lot of money in this film! Can’t let someone like him spoil Imperial Media’s reputation!“So, I wanted to check him up, and I actually found something! He’s unscrupulous, as expected, and even his award was a con!”Zephyr nodded. Frederic sent the information to his phone as well at the same time. He took a look and found that it was the same as what Cordelia had gotten—just that there was more. It was the reason those young directors’ complaints went in vain.It was because Chad had already won. The media did not want more issues, so they held the news back in tacit understanding. Only a rare few media companies with a conscience had exposed it, yet they were small businesses and could barely get any attention due to their insignificance.Actually, it was secondary to Zephyr if the guy stole something. It
“Mom,” Zephyr answered helplessly and grumbled about Janine in his mind over a thousand times.How could his own mother do him dirty like this!?“Mom, what’s the matter?”“You took care of it?”“Of what?” Zephyr was perplexed.“What are you talking about? Chad Green, duh!”Janine opened fire on the line like a machine gun.“Goodness, Zephyr, well done! This production we invested in costs so much. It’s a collaboration, yes, but we need to make sure everyone from the director to the actors is clean! No scandal! That Chad won an international award out of nowhere. Don’t you think it’s strange? Are you not looking him up?”“I—”Zephyr was going to say that he had, but Janine interrupted him.“I knew that you hadn’t!”“Mom!” Zephyr slapped a hand over his face.“Hah, are you not doing anything if I don’t ask you to?”Zephyr was at a loss for words.“Zephyr Hamerton, you have shares in Imperial Media too! Look at how you’re acting as the big shareholder! Cordelia’s so much bet