Phoenix Rising: From Heartache to Heroism

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Jenny hummed in response, neither agreeing nor disagreeing.

The tension in the room lightened a bit.

Evelina said, "Go talk to those employees who moved the water dispenser earlier. Spread the word that Violeta and I had an argument in the lounge today. Let's start a rumor that she's bullying newcomers-consider it my little welcome gift to her." Shania nodded and said, "I understand."

Evelina despised Violeta.

Though Violeta had never wronged her directly, Evelina had long harbored a grudge against her.

The reason was simple. When the popularity of 'The Lies in Winter' was at its peak, Evelina, as the lead actress, was supposed to be the star of the show. Surprisingly, Violeta swooping in and stealing the spotlight by promoting Kaylee. As a result, Evelina was overshadowed by the third female lead, Kaylee.

That incident marked the beginning of Evelina's grudge.

She believed that if it weren't for Violeta's interference, she wouldn't have faded into obscurity after that movie. Evelina had blamed it all on Violeta.

Evelina's goals at Apex Entertainment were clear-anyone in her way had to go.

Not only was Violeta her enemy, but Tracy was also her enemy.

Whether it was the top or the second-best, they all had to move aside for her.

one must be ruthless-something Evelina

rare opportunity, stepping on Alaric to do so, and she wasn't about to let it slip

she latched onto someone powerful. The rumor is it was a deputy head of channel." Shania added, "Many people in the industry have benefactors-not

what they

a benefactor

some connections. But a reliable, long-term backer wasn't straightforward to find. These days, trustworthy ones were difficult to come by. Aster and Violeta left the company together. They got into a car and headed to a dubbing

month was almost over, and the script was

month, Violeta needed to start her skincare routine

they were in the car, Eugene called Violeta, asking about the incident

wronged. Back when she first started working with Violeta, Tracy's assistant bullied her, and she immediately told Eugene,

kind of

knew to

Eugene. Yeah, are we really giving that lounge to Evelina? Okay, I got

moving to the larger lounge upstairs, leaving Evelina's team to take over the downstairs lounge. Evelina's team had likely known about this in advance, but Eugene hadn't expected them to boldly come in today and start

on

so it's no big

flight's

I got

time for Hyena TV's film festival at the beginning of next month. I'll introduce you two-he's quite

Junior boss.

Jasper.