“Yep, born from the same womb.” Isabel proceeded to introduce Flint to Carla and Amanda, “This is my agent, Amanda, and this is my assistant, Carla.” Flint greeted them amicably, “Nice to meet you, Amanda and Carla.” “Nice… nice to meet you.” Carla was immediately starstruck. Amanda greeted Flint with a polite smile, “Nice to meet you.” She could not help herself from gawking at him. Seeing that it was about time to commence their shoot for the day, Isabel promptly turned to Flint. “Why don’t you go home first?” “Alright, I’ll pick you up tomorrow at noon.” “Sure.” Flint made sure to bid farewell to Amanda and Carla before heading into his ostentatious car. Vroom!The engine roared and the sports car spun around the corner, vanishing out of sight in no time. Amanda and Carla were still standing motionlessly and staring in the direction Flint drove off in. Isabel had to reel them back to the present. “Amanda? Carla?" The two were quickly brought back
Amanda sighed in frustration. "That's a pity."She thought that if she could get Flint into the entertainment industry, it would not be difficult at all for her to help him burst into mainstream popularity. After all, from what she had seen of Flint, he had an extremely rare combination of the perfect looks and physique to go with it. He was the definition of male eye candy. They arrived on the set by this point of their conversation. The director, film crew, and the other guests on the show had arrived as well. Amanda dropped the subject and went to greet the director. Isabel went to greet the other guest stars on the show as well. Carla tailed after her silently. Meanwhile, Isabella's assistant had arrived at the set as well, and she entered from the same corridor that Isabel and the others entered from. She glanced at Isabel, then quickly walked past the other guest stars and stopped right behind Isabella. Isabella asked her curiously, “What did they ta
Before Isabel could respond, Isabella asked with a sly smirk, "That BJD sure looks nice. From who did your brother borrow it? Do you happen to know?” As soon as she spat these words out, everyone who was gawking at the car made a face, and the envy in their eyes soon faded. The ones who were closer friends with Isabel opted for silence while some of the others did not attempt to conceal the mocking look in their eyes. ‘If you could not afford it, then so be it. Why borrow something so expensive to prove a point? How embarrassing.’ Isabel grimaced. She figured that someone must have overheard her dialogue with Amanda and Carla yesterday after Flint left. Isabella must be intentionally bringing this up when she knew the others were listening so that she could humiliate her. Isabel barely acknowledged Isabella. She took her luggage and continued heading towards the car. Flint had stepped out of the car as well and was approaching her. As soon as he revealed himself,
Isabel made a face, and her enthusiasm immediately drooped. Southboro. That was where she had her first adult relationship, which ended rather disastrously. Her second partner Roland, who ended up dumping her, was now in Southboro as well. The sheer mention of the city jogged sour memories for her. She was silent. Amanda noticed how she had suddenly turned quiet as well. After a momentary pause, she said in a low voice, "The jewelry exhibition is scheduled for half a month later. It’s organized by one of the largest jewelry manufacturers in Southboro. They seemed very interested in having you attend and offered pretty good compensation for your time. Why don’t you think about it?” This jewelry exhibition was the first endorsement offer she had received since what had happened with Clarice. Then again, the Southboro was the base camp of the Houstons and the Rockwells, so what was the likelihood that this organization hadn’t heard about her involvement with Claric
A certain fan was very sharp-witted and left behind a comment: “If I’m not mistaken, hasn’t the shooting for “Legend of the Goddess” wrapped around a month ago? You couldn’t have been resting at home for more than a month, have you?” Isabel tensed up. The other fans had gone quiet as well. They were all staring at their screens waiting for her to respond to this. The only saving grace was that they were having a digital conversation instead of face-to-face dialogue, so this gave her some time to consider her response. She typed out her response with some resemblance of guilt. “Of course not. I just happened to have time to text these past few days.” The same fan continued interrogating her, “How long are you going to be on break for?” Isabel told the fan, “Till next week. I’ll have to get back to it next week.” “Alright then, hope to see you again next week.” The other fans chimed in. “Yeah, we haven't seen you on the big screen for a while and were wondering i
Amanda was delighted. “Great, I’ll call them right now.” After a moment, she sent another text to Isabel. “What made you decide to go anyway?” Isabel’s answer was convincing. “It’s the only offer we’ve got recently. If I turn it down, even my fans are going to start complaining.” Amanda replied, “Heh, alright then.” Isabel smiled wryly and set aside her phone. Her fans were a part of it, but there was another reason—she wanted to witness Roland getting booted out of Rockwell Corporation with her own eyes! It would be ideal if she could be there to see it the very moment it happened. She wanted to see him scrambling out of Rockwell Corporation in a state of disgrace, and she would be the first one to run up to him and laugh in his face! This was the precise reason she chose to go to Southboro! … Southboro was right along the coastline, which meant that the city was known for its wonderful weather and scenery. During her half-year stay in Coastrock five year
His entourage did not make any unnecessary comments and followed after him. … Isabel led Carla across the road outside the hotel in one quick sprint. They finally stopped when they arrived at the spot on the beach where people crowded around. She took a deep breath and checked behind them. Carla was out of breath from running by this point. “I’ve been keeping an eye on them. They’re not following us.” "Yeah." Isabel smiled, still not over the high of getting to stomp on Roland’s foot just now. How exhilarating! His foot must be throbbing in pain. Such a shame she could not find the space to give him a good punch as well. She would have gladly punched him until he was completely unrecognizable! "I wasn’t expecting to see him here. What a coincidence," Carla caught her breath at last and commented. Isabel did a double-take. It was certainly a strange coincidence. Perhaps the forces above had decided to make things right for her at last. This was a chan
She was confident Roland could not have recognized her since she had concealed her appearance. Unfortunately, Carla was right next to her, and she was instantly recognizable. Roland must have recognized Carla at first sight. Even a fool could figure out who the identity of the masked stranger Carla was with. He was only pretending to not recognize her! Isabel felt so furious that she could explode into a ball of fire right then and there. Without warning, she punched the elevator button to take them back to the ground floor. Carla was confused by this. “What’s wrong? Why are we going down again?" Isabel gnashed her teeth back and forth angrily. She was going to confront Roland and punch his face! The elevator quickly brought them to the first floor. Before the elevator door fully opened, she sprang outside. She ran to the parking lot outside the hotel just in time to spot Roland getting into a car. One of his assistants was just entering the passenger seat.