A Film Queen

Chapter 107 Shadow Palace.

A drunken Milly was clingier than George had imagined.

She was like a child without a sense of security, only able to fall asleep when she held onto his sleeve while he stood by the bed.

Even in her sleep, she curled up in protective posture, and her brows were slightly furrowed. Her delicate face was filled with vulnerability and distance, like mermaid foam that would shatter with a touch.

George experienced a sharp pain in his heart, similar to a tight squeeze.

What had she been through?

If not for this drunken state, he might never have seen through the sunny, carefree façade she usually wore. It was now clear that she wasn’t the real her.

Regardless of which side was real, she was the woman he had chosen as the future mistress of the Tates and his future wife.

Knock, knock, knock, came a light tapping on the door.

George straightened up, regaining his usual calm and noble demeanour.

He opened the door to find a man with a deep scar on his face standing there. The man nodded slightly upon seeing him and reported, “Master, I’ve found out everything.”

George’s eyes turned cold, signalling for him to be quiet.

He looked back at the sleeping girl in the room to make sure he hadn’t disturbed her. Then, he quietly closed the door behind him.

“Speak. What’s going on?”

Scarface reported respectfully, “Master, just as you suspected, they’re planning a secret auction. They’re auctioning off an experimental subject from Maldonia. This is the only subject left in the world since the closure of that perverse lab.

Hearing this, George’s eyes flashed with a fierce, icy light.

He knew something was off when an obscure small family business’s event attracted so many high–profile guests. There had to be something more.

But he hadn’t expected they’d be bold enough to auction off an experimental subject.

Scarface hesitated. He looked at George and began, “Master…”

George wore a blank face and urged, “Speak your mind.”

the Ghost Sect will also attend the auction. They are determined to acquire the experimental subject. If we compete openly, we might not have the advantage. Should we use underhanded tactics to gain

eyes darkened.

107 Shadow Palace

The Ghost Sect?

always

coldly spat out, “Whatever

all of them that

in acknowledgment and said,

by the window on the 21st

busy with work when he was a child. His grandmother raised him

of his childhood memories were filled with

he was a child, he believed there were eleven great unsolved mysteries in the world, the eleventh being: how did his gentle, beautiful grandmother end up with his irritable

studies, with the ultimate dream of creating an elixir

fate was cruel. Before he had the chance to showcase his talents, Rosa died in Maldonia at the hands of

grandmother, raised in a household of privilege, become involved with such a

Sect was elusive and filled with highly skilled members, making

give up just

Ghost Sect, and then used most of his fortune to establish the Shadow Palace in Nlirone. George vowed to make the Ghost

matter. The elimination

Would it?

it wasn’t her own,

this what

was the first time that she had experienced it

awake? Have

deep, magnetic voice

been about to drift back to sleep, snapped

Who’s speaking!

Why

my

house?

up from the bed and looked towards the source of

couch in a suit. He crossed his legs and held a document in one hand. The ordinary gray pen in his grip appeared considerably more elegant due to his presence. He gazed at her, his expression concealed by the fall of

“You

you doing in my house? How dare you break into my place? I’ll call the

glanced at her clothes, relieved to see she was

clothes are still the same. This isn’t