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.

Rufus's heart skip

decision, not only calmed Lyndsy down, but also managed to lift a huge burden

the lack of progress in Victor's investigations, once

director. He was the one responsible for the safety of the wires and the one who tested the equipment

gut, though, Rufus felt that it was

he was only

Rufus allowed Lyndsy to

conference held by Lyndsy's Studio and TY Entertainment on the

Entertainment and he did everything he could to

news on purpose to make her feel

who does she think she

yelled, refusing to accept what the news was saying. There was so much hatred in her face.

a lot of tricks up her sleeve.

pretended to empathize but in reality, she

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,

innocent and caring

determined to use Amanda as a pawn

I don't care what tricks she has up her sleeve. I

hatefully as she pounded

again. Allowing the disfigured Lyndsy

you ever talked to

hiding

time talking to her? She's a

talked of Cassandra with venomous, contemptuous

me tell you: Cassandra is a very, very bad woman. I'm pretty sure she's obsessed with Rufus. And since you have never shown yourself, she must think that what you have with Rufus

Cassandra in person. All she needed was for them to fight in

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

disdainful tone to hide her true feelings. The reason why she did not want to

will only look like you ran into her by chance! Look, all you have to do is to scare her

every possible reason she

she won't know that I did it on purpose?

considering her

immediately remove herself from the situation. But with Ivy's plan, it would look like a coincidence. This might be okay for her to

worry about that.

assured her,

that Ivy already knew what she did to her,