The Billionaire Who Stole My Heart

[The Lynette family was so loaded, could they really not afford a few hundred hangers-on? Were they about to hit skid row?]

[If you had ten grand in your pocket, would you hand it all over to some panhandler on the street?]

[The prize money's in the hundreds of millions - talk about deep pockets!]

No sooner had the announcement for the competition been made than it went viral, raking in hundreds of thousands of shares in less than thirty minutes.

In just three days, it drew hundreds of thousands of eager applicants.

Yuri hadn't expected such a groundswell of interest and encouraged Brittany to go all in.

Meanwhile, in Craneville, at a research institute.

"His condition has stabilized."

Elijah, who was tuning in to the latest on Brittany's grand preparations for the Crown Jewel Design Challenge, let a shadow flicker across his eyes. "Okay."

of the Crown Jewel Design Challenge commenced. The Lynette Conglomerate, with Brittany at the helm, had eyes on every application. Organizing the competition wasn't just a publicity stunt for YULI; it

discerning eye, sifted through hundreds of thousands of resumes,

Now, as the organizer with a vested interest, she ensured the event stayed in the limelight, quickly climbing the ranks to become Craneville's trending topic within a

rivaling the esteemed Judge Meyer, catapulting her to

her fuming with envy and resentment. She had tried

seemed to be rolling out the red

Saskia not be green

heated up as it progressed, with several impressive

the eve of the finale, Brittany wrapped up her work

inadvertently drove near the villa Brittany

her heart as she gazed at the

stepped out of the car, walked up to the villa's gate, and stood

to go," The chauffeur finally figured out the

Brittany's mind was haunted by the image of that villa; it felt all

nightmare - a pipe as thick as an arm crashing down,