Phoenix Rising: From Heartache to Heroism

Chapter 398 Best Newcomer Award

Zelena was consumed by jealousy.

The awards ceremony began soon after, similar to the previous film festival. The main event was, of course, the awards presentation.

After the host gave a few polite opening remarks, they dove right into the awards.

They started with the smaller awards and worked their way up to the big ones. First, they handed out prizes for Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, and Best Editing. Then, they finally got to the highly anticipated Best Newcomer Award.

"Who's going to win the Best Newcomer Award?"

The room went quiet.

Everyone was watching the two presenters up on stage.

The presenter opened the envelope, peeked at the name inside, and gave a playful smile to the crowd.

They then looked over at the row of newcomers, including Violeta.

The camera followed, catching each person's face as it moved down the line.

Everyone wore a calm smile, and the camera finally settled on Violeta, who gave a little smile back to the camera.

Then, the presenter's voice rang out.

"And the winner of the Best Newcomer Award is...

"Tracy!"

camera instantly switched to Tracy's

looked stunned. Then, her eyes widened, and she covered their

looked at Tracy as she stood up

radiated joy from winning the

and Zelena were unhappy, they still kept their best faces

showing any

dress, and walked to the stage, with everyone

her dress was so big, some staff members helped her hold it as she made her

front row, turned and gave Tracy a faint smile. Her gaze then subtly moved over to Violeta's

expression remained unchanged, so it was hard to tell anything from her

knew that Violeta must have been feeling awful

enjoying Violeta's discomfort, Lydia

walked by, Lydia said,

"Thanks, Lydia!"

confused when he saw Tracy win the Best Newcomer Award. Aster rushed in from

"Yeah, I saw it just

said, "How did this happen? How did Tracy win? Her godfather

down so hard

believe that the Best Newcomer Award had actually gone

up from the couch, leaving his iPad behind, and

did she end up with

acquaintance pulled Eugene to a quieter spot and said, "Why are you so worked up? There's a reason she got the