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."

Conglomerate, with Brittany at the helm, had eyes on every application. Organizing the competition wasn't just a publicity stunt for YULI; it was also a magnet for top-tier

her discerning eye, sifted through hundreds of thousands

to the process. 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

critiques were sharp, even rivaling the esteemed

only to see Brittany basking in glory, which left her fuming with envy and resentment. She had tried to land a job with the Lynette Conglomerate years ago, only to be turned down by Yuri, who claimed she wasn't cut out

entire Lynette Conglomerate seemed to be

not

up as it progressed, with

the eve of the finale, Brittany wrapped up her work and headed

the route, inadvertently drove near

heart as she gazed at the

fumbled with the GPS, and Brittany stepped out of the car, walked up to the villa's gate, and stood there,

to go," The chauffeur finally figured out the directions and called Brittany

Brittany's mind was haunted by the image of

- a pipe as thick as an arm crashing down, mixing with the rain, the cold,