Chapter 22

A woman stood close to the door as she watched closely. When she saw that the doorknob stopped

jiggling after a while, she smiled proudly and made a phone call to report on the matter. “Miss Amelia,

everything is going as planned. Charmine can’t get out.”

“Good work. Keep watching, and make sure she doesn’t come out,” came Amelia’s sly reply.

Once the call ended, the woman sat on her chair, cross-legged.

‘So Charmine thinks she would build her reputation through Chanel’s show and steal Tiffany’s fame?

Well, she’s locked in her house now,’ Amelia mused to herself, self-assured that Charmine would

never gain the fame she craved.

Charmine was so bold to place such a bet against Julian. If she failed to even get out of her house,

Charmine would lose terribly.

Amelia laughed boisterously, though only to herself. The thought of Charmine being mocked and

laughed by the netizens was both entertaining and relieving.

Her internal celebration was cut short when someone added Amelia on WhatsApp from the Jordan

family group chat. The person had a black image as the profile picture, nicknamed ‘Boss Jordan’.

be? Which relative? Amelia accepted the request warily and before she could

a voice message from

is going as planned.

and make sure she doesn’t

was the recording of her call with

Her phone then vibrated.

a text from ‘Boss Jordan’. [Amelia Jordan, ask your secretary to unlock my

post this online, and you’ll

this ‘Boss Jordan’ was Charmine

[Charmine, how did you get the recording of my call? Are

know that this is

reply came not

her house. In serious circumstances, this can be

According to the provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 238 in Criminal

illegal detention shall

than 3 years, criminal detention, surveillance or deprivation of political

pale from reading the text. Unbelievable! Charmine was threatening her

recording went public, everyone would know that she was

surefire way

her anymore, and Grandpa hated to see the siblings falling out.

he would deal with them using the family law,

thorns kneeling at the ancestral

Another message came through:

don’t open the door

leave the house. And when I don’t show up to the show later and it goes on the

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