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.”

acquire the experimental subject. If we compete openly, we might not have the advantage. Should we use underhanded tactics

eyes darkened.

107 Shadow Palace

The Ghost Sect?

enemies always cross

coldly spat out, “Whatever it takes, get

them

nodded in acknowledgment and

on the 21st floor and took in the entire cityscape

was a child. His grandmother raised him while his

childhood memories were filled with Rosa’s lullabies

in her youth; her every smile and frown was captivating. When he was a child, he believed there were eleven great unsolved mysteries in the world, the eleventh being: how

hard at his studies, with the ultimate dream

Rosa died in Maldonia at the hands of an underground organisation called the

his gentle, refined grandmother, raised in a household of privilege, become

the Ghost Sect was elusive and

think he’d give

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

matter. The elimination of

Would it?

like it

what

she had experienced it in

awake? Have some

magnetic voice broke

about to drift back

Who’s speaking!

Why is there a man’s voice

my

house?

the bed and looked towards the source of

ordinary gray pen

“You

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

to see she was still wearing what

are still the