The Million-Dollar Heart by Rebecca Ryan

Chapter 127

There was a substantial media presence at the event, arranged by Elijah himself to boost his profile. Some were even live-streaming the event online.

The previous incident had quickly spread online, sparking an internet backlash.

Arabella watched with satisfaction as the topic on Twitter began to trend. She was delighted

to see the barrage of unsightly insults directed at Vivienne in the comments section.

On stage.

“Vivienne, don’t get too cocky!” Elijah laughed bitterly in his rage.

“Enough.” Vivienne looked impatient.

“I’ll make sure you lose dignity!” Elijah coldly threatened her before signaling for the competition to start.

Given that perfume blending required inspiration, even though the contestants had a week to prepare, the competition was set for one hour.

The time quietly passed, and the audience watched as Elijah theatrically sniffed various ingredients. Once in a while, he would spray the blended perfume on a tester strip and then pretend to contemplate something as he scribbled on a piece of paper. He seemed to be trying to impress the audience with his creativity.

On the other hand, Vivienne swiftly picked out a few ingredients she needed as soon as she arrived at the perfume blending station. She then began to blend the perfume according to specific proportions, and in less than ten minutes, she had completed a bottle of perfume.

Afterwards, she sat down at the perfume blending station and started to doze off.

To ensure fair competition and prevent cheating, everything on the two perfume blending stations was projected onto a large screen behind the stage.

Thus, the audience got a close-up view of Vivienne’s face. It was magnified several times and occupied half of the large screen.

Percival rubbed his temples. He was somewhat exasperated. He had to admit that his darling girl looked rather cute when she was sleeping.

But he didn’t like the idea of so many people watching her sleep.

Elijah, who was still gently fanning the scent from the tester strip, caught sight of this and sneered. He thought to himself that, as anticipated, Vivienne was using the formula left by her mother for the competition.

naive. She was not

Friday had been uploaded online, so

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knew about the perfume formula left by Vivienne’s mother. Now,

Vivienne with disdain. They figured that even if she did outperform Elijah, it would be thanks to her mother’s skills,

dare she challenge the ‘Perfume Prince’ in this

Class Eighteen, Percival, and his mother looked at

honest, even Leopold and Thomas, who had

about Vivienne.

“Mrs. Ellington.”

around, Cecilia saw Stella, who had previously

girl had left abruptly earlier, and now

see Vivienne make a fool of herself in front of everyone,

Hawthorn’s behavior is really unbecoming.” Stella frowned, feigning concern. “We all know she doesn’t have the talent for perfume blending and is using her mother’s formula for the competition.

mother’s formula. She’s got a natural talent for perfume blending. Elijah isn’t

the same thought as

Cecilia?

just a week ago, become

pestering Vivienne, Cecilia had seen for herself how Vivienne casually blended several exquisite perfumes, all of which were

of being close, she

particularly loved one of the chypre perfumes and had asked Vivienne to make it exclusively for her and not to sell

perfume became

a considerate future daughter-in-law. Who said

had forgotten her past

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air and making it hard for me to

loud. So Percival got his

higher status than Vivienne in Cecilia’s eyes. But now that she had made

was focused on the stage and ignored

a woman, she could see that while Stella was talking to her, her eyes were

she hardly saw Stella

that Percival was well, Stella was so eager to be around. Did

better. Despite her incredible talent, she remained low-key, and she didn’t mind that her son was disabled at the

and