Revenge Of The Jilted Bride

Jilted Bride 35

Chapter 35

When Ophelia saw Kenneth's nickname, she was stunned for a moment. Yet he quickly changed it to "Ken", set his profile picture to solid black, and left the background blank.

Ophelia sent him a message: [Did you just create this account?] Mark, who was showing Kenneth how to use WhatsApp, read the message out loud.

"Tell her it's not. Forget it, give it to me. Shall press this button to reply?" Kenneth asked, clearly ready to handle it himself.

Mark nodded and thought to himself, 'Even my dad is better at WhatsApp than you, Boss.

But Kenneth quickly mastered all the features. Adding Kenneth on WhatsApp turned out to be a bit of a trap for Ophelia. Once he figured out how to use video calls, he made sure to supervise her move into his apartment.

She thought his idea of a "small" apartment would be ridiculously oversized, but to her surprise, it was actually pretty modest-only about 1,600 square feet, with simple and understated decor. There was just one bedroom and a study; the rest. of the space was open- concept, with massive floor-to-ceiling windows offering views of the city's iconic skyline.

"This is developed by Sinclair Group," Kenneth explained over the video call. "I have got three units on this floor. If you don't like it. I've got more in another building, and I can have one decorated to your taste.

Ophelia stared at his charming face on the screen and sighed, "That's sheer extravagance. She then replied, "No need to go to all that trouble. Something simple is fine."

As my wife, 'simple' is never an option," he teased.

Ophelia rolled her eyes but didn't argue. She muttered in her mind, Fine, you've got a point. They continued chatting. going back and forth with playful banter, and it took a good while before they finally hung up. some of

of her things in. The next day, the Later that evening, Liam and his team came by to tidy up the apartment and move director and the camera crew arrived for the shoot. Ophelia didn't have much time to prepare-it was already dark by the time they came.

He knew the area well, and this property, being Sinclair's development, had a sky-high price tag. Plus, the units were only for sale, not rent. There

glanced at her suspiciously while the camera crew set

it," Ophelia

her. "Don't be so vain. I get it, designers like you want to get noticed and land more jobs through this show,

absolutely right,

quite pleased with himself, and he thought, 'Good, now she knows better than to offend the

the first episode was so minimal. Ophelia didn't care too much about

over briefly and said, "That's enough. We've got what we need." Out of those twenty minutes, he'd probably only cut no more than

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guessing which teams would come out on top. By the time the third episode started filming, the tension between the teams was palpable-just the kind of drama

in peacock green, with bellflower patterns embroidered in purple thread along the shoulders and waist. The dress had a mandarin collar with a purple gemstone at the clasp, and the three-quarter sleeves left little skin

stylist couldn't help but exclaim. "Gosh, I don't know if I should praise the dress or your amazing

vintage twist-arched brows framing her fox-like eyes, which were long and upward, giving her a sultry

me promote the movie, right?" Though phrased as a question, she already knew the answer. The look was strikingly similar to her character's style in the movie, only

Sharon's chest. Even her own company wasn't willing to spend money to promote the

to thank me," Ophelia said with a smile. "We're helping each other. Honestly, no

though Ophelia brushed it off, Sharon couldn't

"Actually, the day you mentioned it, I got a notice about back taxes, but I thought it was a scam. Thanks to your warning. I checked

kiss of death. Once it got exposed, no one cared about explanations. Even for someone as low-profile as Sharon, it wasn't worth the

sighed in relief and said, "Good to