Chapter 214:
Millie’s lips curved into a pleased smile. “That’s exactly what I wanted to hear.” She had already begun laying out her plan the moment she sent Alexia to retrieve the footage. With this latest update, things were falling into place better than she had hoped.
Charles had managed to settle the internal conflicts at Evans Entertainment, and the recent charity gala seemed to have tilted public opinion in their favor.
Adjusting her strategy slightly, Millie turned to those gathered. “Charles, you mentioned before that Vivian’s PR team is sharp. That means we need to be even sharper. There is no room for error.” Charles gave a firm nod in agreement.
Seville, seated quietly nearby, took it all in. There had been a time when he admired Vivian. But now, after everything he had seen, he realized how wrong he’d been.
He recalled an article from not too long ago that had praised Vivian as a noble figure, all while subtly dragging Millie down. It had made him doubt Millie back then.
Millie’s voice broke the silence. “The next Heavenly Melody broadcast is in two days. I’ve got a plan in mind—let me lay it out, and you can tell me what you think. We’ll move in steps. Step one…”
The day before the broadcast, things took an unexpected turn.
An old topic started resurfacing online—the live sound quality of Yesterday, a performance that had barely gotten attention before. But suddenly, people were talking.
A video had appeared, uploaded by Seville. He claimed it was a live recording from that show.
The clip, however, was grainy and poorly recorded from within the crowd. The sound was unclear, and no faces could be seen. It was footage Seville had picked up from a contact in the scalper group chat—one that had previously been dismissed as useless because of the poor sound quality.
Still, curiosity drove people to click. The video spread quickly.
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Vivian’s team saw it too. But Johnny waved off the concern. “Relax,” he said. “If that’s all they’ve managed to dig up after all this time, we’ve got nothing to worry about.”
Vivian let out a cold sneer. “Show them who’s in charge.”
“On it,” Johnny replied, immediately mobilizing an online crowd to flood the internet with criticism aimed at Seville.
But Seville watched their every move calmly, a faint smile playing on his lips. This was exactly what Millie had planned.
It was the first step—one that served two purposes: first, to settle old scores and give Vivian’s team the illusion that everything was under control; and second, to quietly gather proof of their digital smear campaign for a counterattack later.
Meanwhile, Vivian instructed Oakley to slip a few of her people into the live audience.
“Why? What do you want them to do?” Oakley raised an eyebrow. “Honestly, Charles is a nobody. Even without my grandfather pulling strings, he’s not going to shake things up. I’ve got this under control.”
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