“You don’t have to worry about us.” After saying that, Shane leaned back into his seat and closed his eyes to rest.


    Charlotte had wanted to discuss the issue with him properly. However, she caught the double meaning in Shane’s words. What did he mean when he said ‘us’? Was he talking about his rtionship with her, or was he talking about his rtionship with Christopher? If he had meant thetter, wouldn’t that mean…


    Charlotte stopped herself from overthinking it. She hoped that it was just her overactive imagination messing with her. Once they got to a restaurant, the couple did not have much of an appetite to enjoy the food properly. They ate in silence.


    Soon enough, night came. Charlotte sent Shane back to the vi, but did not get out of the car with Shane.


    “Are you going somewhere else?” Shane frowned as he looked at her.


    “I’m going to meet a friend.” Charlotte shook the phone in her hand. “Call me if you need anything.”


    Shane watched her leave.


    Charlotte hadn’t been lying to Shane. She had received a phone call from Cassius, the new celebrity in the entertainment circle she had previously worked with. He hadn’t been doing welltely. Although he had proven himself recently, manypanies were still not optimistic about his future prospects. In other words, although he was well-known, his fandom was declining in numbers.


    This was not anything unusual. In the entertainment industry, if a star encountered this kind of situation, they would get people to work on fixing the matter. However, Cassius was not one to ask other people for help, so he had a mental breakdown when he found out he couldn’t fix it himself.


    After he got rejected from several famouspanies in the industry, his heart couldn’t take it anymore…


    Charlotte could only sigh as she thought about his situation. Young people these days were getting more and more erratic. In the past, all great actors had to work their fingers to the bone to get to where they were today. They had borne countless gossip about them and stood tall.


    “Creak!”


    Charlotte pushed a door open.


    “Miss Charlotte!” Cassius raised his head and looked at her with red eyes. “I didn’t know what else to do, so I called you. Can you please help me?”


    “Is this about business?”


    “Not exactly.”


    Charlotte raised her eyebrows. She hoped that Cassius had really called her over for a personal issue. If it was something about business, she would have been disappointed in him.


    After all, Cassius was one of her sesses. As he was now a brand ambassador, and she was his spokesperson, it was necessary for her to help him.


    “What’s the matter?” Charlotte poured a ss of lemon water for herself.


    “I have a friend suffering from a very detrimental disease. He will die if he does not get treated soon. It was supposed to be his turn to receive surgery, but some rich fellow went and bribed him with arge sum of money. He’ll have to wait for ages now, and he doesn’t have long! My friend’s just an amateur singer…”


    Singers were not like actors.


    It was usually very difficult for amateur singers to stand out because they were not given many opportunities to do so. Additionally, although there were some good-looking singers in the entertainment circle, most of them were very nice to look at.


    If one could easily be an idol without any artistic talents, then who would want to invest more money than they had to in a talented singer?


    In recent years, many entertainmentpanies have not acknowledged singers as much as they used to. Even if one did sing really well, they would still need an agency to help promote them.


    If an amateur singer like Cassis’s friend encountered such a costly problem, all he could do was ask the people around him for help.


    “How did that happen?” Charlotte frowned.


    “I don’t know, but I’ve heard that the other person was very domineering. They gave my friend an ultimatum. My friend either had to take the money and give up his ce, or he could not take the money and live in debt for the rest of his life. My friend had no choice but to take the money! And this surgery is very urgent as well. They need to wait for the right organs to be avable in the hospitals. Even though the hospital does not take kindly to such bribery, it doesn’t mean that his family wouldn’t take it. After all, my friend’s parents are from the countryside, so they can’te up here to support him at all.”


    If his friend’s family members were here, Cassius suspected that they would probably take the money anyway.


    When Charlotte noticed that Cassius had not mentioned how much money had been offered, she guessed that the sum must be rminglyrge. “How much was on offer?”


    “1. 2 million dors.”


    Charlotte rubbed her temples and asked, “What surgery does your friend need?”


    “A kidney transnt.”


    Charlotte’s head hurt even more. She took out her phone and asked Avery to look up which rich person had kidney problems. Avery was very efficient. In less than ten minutes, he had already found something. “I’m not sure if it’s the person you’re looking for, but I found an interesting one. He’s a distant rtive of Rick’s. He’s a good person, but after he made big bucks and got rich in recent years, he’s notoriously known to use money to solve all his problems.”


    Alright.


    It was someone rted to Rick.


    “I have a friend here who needs the same surgery. Any thoughts?”


    “The surgery itself is not a problem, but is there a kidney avable?”


    “Can you get a hold of that?”


    “It’s against thew!”


    Charlotte let out a long sigh. Just as she was about to tell Cassius that she might not be able to help him, Avery spoke up again, “However, I do know that there are some people who want to sell their kidneys in the ck market. They’re all in urgent need of money and I might be able to get a hold of them. I could bring Skr to meet up with a willing party and check out theirpatibility.”


    “That would be great.”


    “I’d like to meet your friend’s friend.”


    “Cassius, is your friend free now?”


    Cassius nodded fervently. “Yeah, he is. He’s been waiting to hear from me in the hospital. He’s dying, If it hadn’t been urgent, I wouldn’t havee to you. I know how much you hate trouble…”


    Charlotte stretched out her hand and patted him on the shoulder. “It’s alright. You’ve helped me make a lot of money, so helping you with this is nothing. Send me the address. We’ll get going right away.”


    “Alright.”


    Cassius choked up with sobs as he sent the address to Charlotte. He cried all the way to the hospital. Charlotte couldn’t bear to see him in tears, so she elected to look away.


    Meanwhile, Avery was still on the phone with Charlotte. They had not hung up yet. The man joked from the other side, “Is that your boy toy?”


    “Stop spouting nonsense.”


    “I think it’s a pretty good idea. Developing a rtionship with him must be much better than always hurting whenever you’re with Shane.”


    “Don’t make trouble.”


    “I’m serious! The help you’re offering him is too much. Don’t you think it’s fair for you to ask for something in return?”


    Charlotte simply ignored Avery.


    Seeing that he wasn’t going to get any more interesting reactions from Charlotte, Avery asked for the address and brought Skr with him.Copyright by N?v/elDrama.Org.


    …


    Half an hourter, everyone arrived at the hospital.


    Charlotte didn’t expect that the friend that Cassius talked about was Westin Ferrell.


    She stared at the star who had once stood on stage with pride. Now, he looked devastatingly pale, and could only lie on his sickbed as he waited for death to im him. She felt her heart ache for him.


    “Why didn’t you tell me it was Westin earlier? He’s not an amateur singer at all! He used to hold concerts all the time, and he has a huge fanbase!” Charlotte eximed.


    “Westin told me to lie about that part,” Cassius answered obediently.


    Forget it.


    Charlotte was not willing to scold Cassius, who looked adorable at the moment. She patted him on the shoulder and walked up to Westin.


    Westin had told Cassius that if whoever wanted to help him was willing to do it even though they knew he was a nobody, he would do his best to repay them. On the contrary, if no one ended up helping him, he could only sumb to his fate.


    “You’re pretty lucky.” Avery handed the report to him. “It says here that you have at least two months. I’m sure these two months will be enough for us to find apatible kidney for you. However, you should know that the surgery itself is not the major issue you have to ount for. You have to understand that the surgery aftercare is a huge problem in itself as well.”


    “I can deal with that,” Westin said. “My biggest issue now is that I have no way of leaving the hospital. That’s why I had to bother Cassius to help me.”


    “Don’t worry. As long as you know how to take care of yourself, we’ll do our best to help you. You only need to lie in your ward and rx. As for the ‘rich man’ who gave you the money, it’s unfortunate that he’s someone we know. Just treat this as an apology on our part.” Avery added through gritted teeth, “I have to say, Rick owed me a big one!”


    Charlotte couldn’t help butugh and shake her head.


    He could’ve just straight up called Rick a b*stard if he wanted to.