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 heart skip a

His decision, not only calmed Lyndsy down, but also

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

the one who tested the equipment the day before. Now that there was

felt that it was

that he was only

Rufus allowed Lyndsy to

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

TY Entertainment and he did everything he could to protect Lyndsy after her accident. People

chimed in. She let Amanda see the news

she is? Cassandra

was saying. There was so much

her sleeve. You have to be careful

pretended to empathize but in reality, she was

like Amanda and seeing how she reacted when things didn't go her way gave Ivy satisfaction. She hated how Amanda played

knew who Amanda really was. She was not at all the innocent and caring girl she pretended to

determined to use Amanda as a pawn in her

care what tricks she has

pounded

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

you ever talked to Cassandra

hiding her

to her? She's a nobody and she's not worth my

of Cassandra with venomous, contemptuous words.

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

for them to fight in order to carry out

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

a disdainful tone to 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

her by chance! Look, all you have to do is to scare her a little so she knows that you're not

to persuade Amanda. She used every possible reason she could think of in hopes that she would agree.

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

skeptically, considering her idea.

herself from the situation. But with Ivy's plan, it would look

about that. I'll take

assured her, smiling.

Amanda failed to realize was that Ivy already knew what she did to her,