Chapter 271: Tina’s Banquet
Seeing her turn back, the young man immediately smiled. “Miss Ward, your medical skills are incredible. I was beaten so badly that I thought I’d be bedridden for at least half a month. But after your treatment, I can walk today.”
“No matter how good my medical skills are, your body can’t take repeated abuse. Don’t do such dangerous things again,” Lily Ward said calmly to the young man. “You dared to get involved in their family matters and even broadcast it live. Look at the state you’re in now.”
“But I became really popular because of it!” The young man stuck out his tongue at Lily Ward and took out his phone, showing her his live stream account. “Look, I have a million followers now! It was worth getting beaten up!”
Lily Ward shook her head as the young man walked away with a grin.
“That guy…” Liliosa asked in surprise, “Isn’t he the one who broadcasted Mr. Johnson’s wife’s scandal?”
“Yes,” Lily Ward said nonchalantly. “His online name is Cactus; he’s really fearless.
“These internet celebrities will do anything to get famous. Last time, Mr. Johnson’s mistress couldn’t stand being lonely and was set up by his other mistresses. When she was having a group activity with several men, Cactus sneaked in to broadcast it live.
“When things blew up, Mr. Johnson’s mistress didn’t protect him, and he was beaten severely and sent to the hospital.”
“He dares to broadcast anything?” Liliosa’s eyes flickered.
“Yes, anything,” Lily Ward replied calmly. “He mentioned that once a female celebrity tried to drug her rival to create a scandal. He got wind of it and wanted to broadcast it live but was beaten to it by a colleague.”
“I see.” Liliosa ate a slice of apple and didn’t ask further.
Lily Ward and Willow exchanged a knowing glance.
Two hours later.
Vivienne weakly strolled through the hospital garden, thinking about how she had been trapped for three days in the Spring Hall of Dragonspring Club by a woman wearing a golden mask.
When the staff finally entered to clean after three days, she was severely dehydrated, starved to exhaustion, and had lost control of her bowels, making a mess of the Spring Hall with her excrement. She was humiliated in front of so many staff members.
If it weren’t for her mask and her firm refusal to let them remove it, she would have wished to die from embarrassment.
Eventually, her subordinates got word and secretly took her to the hospital. She still couldn’t forget their barely contained laughter as they looked at her.
She realized that someone in her team knew she went to Dragonspring Club before she disappeared for three days but didn’t find her there, indicating Flame Ice’s involvement.
She understood deeply that she should never again try to outsmart or offend people she shouldn’t mess with.
Having learned her lesson once, she wouldn’t dare think of revenge against Flame Ice again.
But at least she had obtained Crimson Silk.
Last time Sophia had taken the fall for Jared Farrell; this time he wouldn’t be so lucky.
However, before that, she had someone else to deal with-Tina!
She had found out that Tina had resolved Sophia’s Crimson Silk issue, so Jared’s fiancee couldn’t be left alone.
Suddenly, two furtive figures behind the holly bushes caught Vivienne’s attention as their conversation reached her ears.Material © of NôvelDrama.Org.
“Will Reed family’s newly recognized daughter really do such a thing at the banquet?”
“Yes, she’s just a girl from the countryside-crude and with quite an indecent private life.”
Vivienne recognized one of them as Liliosa and another young man she didn’t know.
She frowned slightly and listened quietly.
“You don’t need to do anything,” Liliosa told Cactus. “I’ll have someone install pinhole cameras in advance. You just need to broadcast what they capture on your live stream. It’s that simple.”
“Alright,” Cactus nodded. Although he had just been hospitalized for broadcasting Mr. Johnson’s mistress’s scandal, exposing something about the well-established Reed family could skyrocket his followers beyond a million.
After listening to their entire conversation, Vivienne turned off her phone’s recording function and left quietly. It seemed that Reed family wasn’t peaceful either; Jared’s fiancee wasn’t having an easy time.
She hoped Liliosa would succeed this time so that Tina would be ruined without Vivienne having to lift a finger.
Two days later.
Tina’s banquet was held in the top-floor ballroom of Ashbury’s most luxurious palace hotel.
Given Amber’s previous scandal as a fake daughter, Reed family took Tina’s banquet very seriously this time.
The hospitality alone was vastly different from Amber’s banquet in Ensford back then.
At that time, Reed family members all held themselves aloof while Amber greeted guests alone. This time it was reversed.
Annabelle and Muff hosted guests in the ballroom while Tina waited alone in the lounge until Reed family formally introduced her later.
By the time Farrell family arrived, the ballroom was already crowded with guests. Logan glanced at the banquet arrangements and snorted with satisfaction. “At least they didn’t disgrace Tina.”
Then he turned to Jared Farrell behind him and said, “Your engagement banquet must be even grander than this one! You must not lose!”
“Logan Farrell, are you insane!” Muff fumed upon hearing this. “Why do you always have to compete with me? Did I steal your wife or dig up your ancestors’ graves?”
“Steal my wife? You don’t have what it takes! You couldn’t beat me when we were young; now you’d have to go underground if you want to try! But even underground, you wouldn’t win!” Logan snorted arrogantly. “As for digging my ancestors’ graves? Do you dare?”
“You!” Muff was so choked with anger he couldn’t speak.
“Tina?” Jared Farrell ignored the old men’s bickering and asked Jasper.
“She’s still getting ready in the lounge,” Jasper replied.
“I’ll go find her.” Jared Farrell had found it difficult to see Tina these past few days due to Muff’s constant interference whenever he visited Reed family under various pretexts.
Sure enough, just as he was about to step forward, Muff darted over like an arrow and blocked him. “No way! A man and woman alone together-what would people think!”