My Beloved Has Risen from Death’s Embrace

Chapter 166

Xanthea immediately pulled out her phone and dialed Oliver’s number.

“Hello? Xan, about the shoot today with Director Smith, he-”

“Uncle!” Xanthea cut him off with an urgent voice. “Was the rights to ‘Realm of Illusions‘ transferred to you by Orion for free?”

Oliver paused for a few seconds before slowly responding. “You found it out?”

Xanthea’s pupils constricted momentarily.

It was true, then. The contract was real.

“Why, Uncle?”

your performance. The mishap during the audition was just a misunderstanding, but you were too upset to listen or forgive him. So Mr. Lockwood proposed using the guise of a ‘high–value transfer to give

you, sweetie. I knew that deep down you still wanted that script. And honestly, if Mr. Lockwood had just handed ‘Realm of Illusions‘ over to you right then, would you

No, she wouldn’t have.

anger. If one second he had told her she was out, and the next he

than I do, and I think he’s been good to you, especially since that time on The Masked Singer. Maybe

cleared up, I feel

feel

on, but Xanthea couldn’t focus on his words; she fixed her gaze on Cedric with confusion, “If he

you forget what happened

malfunctioned and veered off the track, crashing into a barrier and causing an explosion. It was such a commotion that everyone thought you were gone, that you had died.” His voice grew intense,

At that moment.

“His world collapsed.”

an expression on his

finished, Xanthea’s mind quickly flashed back to the day she surfaced from the water, and saw Orion at