Revenge is Best Served… After Reborn

Listening to Julian's speech, Adler gave him a big thumbs up. "Awesome! I'll be the first to nominate you for the Top Ten Progressive Youths award next year!" "Yeah, right! Who made you the award giver?" Jenna smacked the back of Adler's head.

Rubbing his head, Adler grumbled, "Jenna! Can you stop taking it out on me all the time?"

From behind Julian, Booker chimed in, "Ms. Sophie, Mr. Julian needs to get back to Bloomsbury to handle the Yun Corporation. We're here to say goodbye."

Sophie nodded. "Of course, you should go back and take care of things at Yun Corporation. Devonport's been pretty chaotic lately. It might actually be better without you guys here."

Julian added, "Reece wanted me to tell you that the entertainment industry's been seeing a lot of new talent recently. These newcomers seem to have been groomed for years, and though we don't know who's backing them, they're making waves. If they all become top stars, it could mean huge profits for whoever's behind them. He said you'd understand the gravity of the situation."

Julian had seen too much chaos in the industry over the past few months.

It wasn't as clean as he'd imagined, nor was it fair. Hard work didn't always pay off here.

a moment. When she first decided to debut, it was

Aldridge Global as a trainee or everything that followed, it all felt like Gordon had orchestrated it from the beginning. Meeting Julian

celebrity, meeting Odie for the first time, the island variety show, her and James' brush with danger, Odie taking her away-everything seemed interconnected. And Gordon, like a chess master, had positioned her as

industry's influence on the capital behind it. He had her take all the carefully trained trainees from Aldridge Global, laying the groundwork for

or idol could have millions of fans. Just

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such powerful influence be found anywhere else in the global

were just tools for capitalists, they were

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everyone looking at her.