They returned to their work.

Thanks to the massive artificially-boosted online votes in their favor, Ariana’s team managed to make up for their low scores in other voting sessions and they could move on to the next round. On the glittering stage, the six members of the teams cheered jubilantly, waving to the audience in the studio.

Meanwhile, in Mistlyn, with furrowed brows, Sadie watched Ariana’s team celebrating on TV. Her hand holding the remote shook as she was overcome with a burning rage. After a moment, she could no longer contain her fury and grabbed the remote control which she threw violently at the screen. The screen shattered and shards of glass flew through the air.

How could Ariana’s team have won out? How was that possible? Sadie fumed, and her face was red with anger.

She couldn’t understand why on earth Ariana was always so unfairly lucky. She had survived the car crash, and then the fire. Why couldn’t that bitch, Ariana die and stop tormenting her? Why was that worthless wretch always favored by fate?

With her red eyes burning with anger, Sadie glared at the image of a smiling Ariana on the broken screen. She was so angry her chest heaved uncontrollably.

On the other side, once the show went off the air, Ariana and her euphoric team rushed backstage to pack up before heading out to celebrate their hard-earned victory.

realized that she had forgotten her bag somewhere in the studio. She told Sarah and the others to go forward while she

backstage area, Ariana saw a tall man in

if she didn’t suddenly hear him exclaim, “Miss

froze and stopped in her tracks at once. Her interest was piqued and she listened intently as the man continued, “I know you’re upset, but getting mad at me won’t solve anything. You saw it yourself, their audience vote count was by far the lowest. I did exactly what you said and I bribed everyone in the studio audience to vote against Ariana’s team. But the online votes were totally different. How could I control the entire Internet? The results are already published. There’s nothing

words, it suddenly dawned on Ariana that Sadie must have been sabotaging her team this whole time behind the scenes. She should have known that Sadie

argument was taking place. The tall man’s patience wore thin as he curtly declared, “I’ve carried out your request. Now, it’s your turn to settle

wasn’t clear, but the tall

N G E L A ‘s L I

angry? Is that a valid explanation to delay payment? Who could’ve

few more heated exchanges, they

man grumbled to himself as he stowed away his phone. However, when he

maintained her composure and

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