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.

she was too naive. She was not even bothering to hide

challenging Elijah last Friday had been uploaded online, so most of

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

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

the ‘Perfume Prince’ in

Percival, and his mother looked at Vivienne

even Leopold and Thomas, who had come to enjoy

about Vivienne.

“Mrs. Ellington.”

around, Cecilia saw Stella, who had previously run

abruptly earlier, and now she had

increasingly frustrated and had returned to see Vivienne make a fool of herself in front of

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. But she could at least pretend to make an effort. Whether she wins or

formula. She’s got a natural talent

was stunned and shared the same thought as Leopold. Had

Cecilia?

could the woman, who had despised Vivienne just a week ago,

the week she had been pestering Vivienne, Cecilia had seen for herself how Vivienne casually blended several exquisite perfumes, all of which were no less impressive than any

of being close, she pilfered every

Vivienne to make it exclusively for her and not to sell it on the

agreed, so the chypre perfume became her

considerate future daughter-in-law. Who said she

she had forgotten

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air and making it hard

So Percival got his sharp tongue from Cecilia,

Ellington…” Stella was taken aback. She thought she still held a higher status than Vivienne in Cecilia’s eyes. But now that she had made some negative comments about Vivienne, Cecilia was driving her

on

while Stella was talking to her, her eyes were constantly

saw Stella trying to get

Stella was so eager to be around. Did she think Cecilia was blind and

thought, Vivienne was much better. Despite her incredible talent, she remained

giving her the cold shoulder, and Percival hadn’t even spared her a