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.

expression made Rufus's

have hit two birds with one stone. His decision, not only calmed Lyndsy

in Victor's investigations, once again,

evidence currently pointed to the action director. He was the one responsible for the safety of the wires and the one who tested the equipment the day before.

his gut, though, Rufus felt that it was not that

was

Lyndsy to continue shooting

watched the press conference held by Lyndsy's Studio and TY Entertainment

Rufus is the chairman of TY Entertainment and he did everything he could to protect Lyndsy after her accident. People are saying

She let Amanda see the news

think she

refusing to accept what the news was saying. There was so much hatred in

woman with a lot of tricks up her sleeve. You

but in

satisfaction. She hated how Amanda played her and pretended to be sincere in helping her when, in reality, she

knew who Amanda really was. She was not at all the innocent and caring

use Amanda as a pawn in her plans to prove that she was not

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

screamed hatefully as she pounded

again. Allowing the disfigured Lyndsy to continue

you ever talked to

curiously, masterfully hiding her ill

to her? She's a nobody and she's

talked of Cassandra with venomous, contemptuous

is a very, very bad woman. I'm pretty sure she's obsessed with Rufus. And since you

them to fight in order to carry out her own plan. The victor would not

meet her. She doesn't deserve

hide her true feelings. The reason why she did not want to confront Cassandra was because she was afraid that if Rufus found out, he would

it will only look like you ran 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 way, you'll get to feel good about yourself and humiliate

continued to persuade Amanda. She used every possible reason she could think of in hopes

did it on purpose? How would you do

skeptically, considering

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

worry about that. I'll

assured her,

that Ivy already knew what she did to her, and this was her way of regaining the