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

And honestly, if Mr. Lockwood

No, she wouldn’t have.

out, and the next

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

cleared up, I feel a weight has been lifted

feel indebted

his words; she fixed her gaze on Cedric with confusion, “If he intended to give me the script from the beginning,

you forget

final part of your obstacle course performance, your motorcycle suddenly 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, “Only Mr. Lockwood didn’t think twice before

At that moment.

“His world collapsed.”

an expression on his

flashed back to the day she surfaced from the water, and