A Graduation Gift

Cassandra bit her lip to hold back her tears. The sadness of Lyndsy and her family filled the whole room.

She never really cried for herself, but she tended to cry a lot for others. Rufus clenched his fists as he watched Cassandra suffer quietly.

"Please get well, Lyndsy. Take care of yourself, because you still have a film to shoot. We've only done half the scenes. I will instruct the crew to finish other people's parts first. We can shoot your parts when you recover,"

Rufus spoke suddenly. Lyndsy and her mother stopped crying abruptly upon hearing his words.

She looked at Rufus incredulously with tears in her eyes. Cassandra turned her head too, confused about what Rufus just said.

Keep shooting? How could she shoot a movie with a face like that?

Rufus, fully aware of everyone's confusion, remained calm.

"We'll ask the director to modify the angles. We just have to avoid shooting from the front. We can also edit the shots later. Don't worry, everything can be fixed digitally. All you have to do is focus on your recovery," he explained.

His words seemed to reassure Lyndsy's mother as she turned to her daughter happily.

"Did you hear that, honey?! You can keep shooting movies!" she beamed.

Stunned, Lyndsy kept looking at Rufus wordlessly. She could not believe that Rufus, a prime investor, would be willing to hire a disfigured actress to star in his movie. That would be so risky!

"Your scars can be treated. Stem cell therapy abroad is very good now. I know a doctor who specializes in such field and I would be happy to introduce you to him later,"

Rufus continued to say. Every sentence that came out of his mouth left everyone more and more surprised.

Eventually, Lyndsy calmed down. Rufus seemed to have succeeded in reassuring her.

She wiped away her tears and focused on comforting her mother instead.

"I'll be fine, Mom. I promise I will take good care of myself,"

she said, sounding calm and strong. The helplessness and panic she displayed just a minute ago were now totally gone.

"Cassandra, the business of the studio is going to depend on you for a while,"

Lyndsy said to Cassandra with full trust.

"Don't worry, Stella and I will take care of it for you,"

Cassandra replied, very glad to see Lyndsy calmer than before. She then looked at Rufus gratefully.

thankful expression made Rufus's

one stone. His decision, not only calmed Lyndsy down, but

lack of progress in Victor's investigations, once again, made

and the one who

though, Rufus felt that it

he was

Lyndsy to continue shooting

in shock as she watched the press conference held by Lyndsy's Studio and TY Entertainment on the entertainment channel. She could not believe what she

did everything he could to protect

the news on purpose to make her

who does she think she is?

what the news was saying. There was so much hatred in

a lot of tricks up her sleeve. You have to be careful when dealing

concern. She pretended to empathize but in reality,

like Amanda and seeing how she reacted when things didn't go her way gave Ivy satisfaction. She hated how Amanda played her and pretended to be sincere in helping her when, in reality, she

all the innocent and caring girl she

determined to use Amanda as a pawn in her plans to

care what tricks she has up

hatefully as she pounded her desk with her

to fall in love again. Allowing the disfigured Lyndsy to continue

you ever talked to

masterfully hiding her ill

waste my time talking to her? She's a nobody

Cassandra with venomous, contemptuous

Rufus. And since you have never shown

needed was for them to fight in order to carry out her own plan. The victor

don't want to meet her. She doesn't deserve

why she did not want to confront Cassandra was because she was afraid that if

into her by chance! Look, all you have to do is to scare her a little so she knows that you're not the one that she wants to cross. This

she could think of in hopes that

it on purpose? How would you do

skeptically, considering her idea.

do dirty jobs for her. This was so that if something went wrong, she could immediately remove herself from the situation. But with Ivy's plan, it would look like a coincidence. This might be okay for her to handle on her own.

to worry about that. I'll

assured her, smiling.

to realize was that Ivy already knew what she did