Chapter 36
Chapter 36
Eliza finally got the starfruits Braint wanted when she got to the tenth market On the taxi ride back home,
she was just about to give Braint a call when she received a call from Graciana instead. “Eliza, that was
amazing!” “I just finished watching the battle of the trending list Madeleine lost so badly!” Graciana
sighed with mixed feelings. “Mr. Valentine is just too cool!” Eliza had no idea what Graciana was going on
about, “What’s that? Battle of the trending list?” “You don’t know what happened?”
Graciana was so shocked that her voice raised an octave. “As one of the protagonists, you had no idea
about the intense battle that took ce just now?” Confusion was evident on Eliza’s face. “I’ve just gone
to ten markets to buy starfruits for my son…” Graciana was at a loss for words. “Are your son’s starfruits
more important than your career?” She roared on the other end of the line. “Madeleine almost used you
as a stepping stone to get to the top of the trending list!” “Fortunately for you, Mr. Valentine helped you
out! Otherwise. you would have be Madeleine’s stepping stone!”
Eliza’s ear hurt from Graciana’s shouting. She held the phone a distance away from her ear. “What
exactly happened?” “Go see for yourself!” “I heard that Madeleine spent 1.3 million dors just to put
herself at the top of the trending list.” “Well, she did end up achieving what she started out for, that is,
she dide out top of the trending list and had sitewide publicity, but not exactly for the news she had
hoped for.” Eliza frowned and quickly logged onto her online ount. The first trending post was an
article by an ount that named “Moon Among the Stars”. She yed the video attached with the article
and found that it contained the voice recording of her phone call with Madeleine today. She pursed her
lips. She had saved a copy of the recording on herputer. Her initial n was to use it when
confronting Madeleine in the future. But now this recording has been published online with her voice
masked over? Eliza had no doubt that “Moon Among the Stars” was a stunt by her two naughty sons,
Braint
and Demarion. Thus, she had the driver make a U-turn and go back to the market again. She was going
to reward them with a good meal tonight. When she walked past the fishmonger, she inexplicably
thought of Beau.
She was reminded that she owed him a meal. While waiting for the fishmonger to clean the fish, she took
her phone out and continued to read the articles online. There had been aplete reversal of the
comments online. While the onlinemunity had once denounced her, they now showered her with
sympathy. Someone had even made aption of her videos when she used to work as a stunt
double. “This youngdy is Eliza Lawson. She is beautiful, dedicated, and most importantly, she isn’t
scheming!” Everyone sang praises of Eliza in thements of that post. Some even said that they
hoped to see Eliza bing an actress. An actress? Eliza smiled faintly and reached over to receive the
fish handed to her by the fishmonger. She then strode out of the market. Ever since she decided to be a
surrogate mother five years ago, she had given up on all hopes of bing an actress. She was
contented with just being a stunt double. “Mommy!” Back at the vi, Eliza had just opened the door
when Demarion rushed out. He stretched his arms out and hugged Eliza, reaching only her thighs. He
looked at her with a pair of big, shining eyes. “I heard that your wound had been torn open. I was
worried!” Eliza smiled. She crouched down and ruffled his hair gently. “I’m fine now. Don’t worry.”
Demarion nodded with his eyes fixed to the bag of shrimps Eliza held in her hand. “I’ve been worried
about you for the entire afternoon. You need topensate me for it.” Noticing Demarion’s gaze, Eliza
couldn’t help but smile. “Shall we have boiled shrimps?” “No!”
Demarion huffed. “I want braised shrimps!”
Eliza ruffled his hair again. “Okay, I’ll prepare it for you right now.” With that, Eliza brought a big bag of
ingredients into the kitchen and began to cook. Demarion ced a small stool in front of the kitchen and
sat down there in order to be able to taste the shrimps the moment they were ready. Upstairs, Braint had
alreadypiled a video of all relevant information of Eliza working as a stunt double and posted it
online while discussion about her was still raging. IExclusive content from N?velDrama.Org.
Roseane shared the post at once. “She is no less than some actress who has to rely on her boyfriend to
land a role.”
That evoked another round of discussion. The online criticism against Madeleine reached its pinnacle.
Madeleine’s agency was spammed byizens, and they had no choice but to close down thements
section.
That left theizens with nowhere to vent their anger, so they started to attack Jay’s ount instead.
Just before Braint turned off theputer to head downstairs to have a taste of the shrimps, a piece of
breaking news appeared: Jay Carr breaks up with Madeleine Robinson and draws a clear line between
them. Over with Eliza, as soon as she served the dishes, Graciana’s call came through.
“Eliza, it’s true that evil deeds bring retribution!”
“Madeleine and Jay’s rtionship has only been brought to light recently, but they’re now forced to break
up! Isn’t that amazing?” Eliza went to check out the news. The information was posted by Jay’s
management team. The gist of it was that everything was single-handedly concocted by Madeleine and
that she was an immoral and contemptible person. Jay was portrayed as being deceived, and after he
got to know about the news, he too was in great agony. As a result, he saw no other option but to break
up with Madeleine and was ready to apologize to Eliza. That was a great way of handling the issue. All
the me was put on Madeleine, and Jay came out of it all scot-free. O Upon seeing the news, Eliza
scoffed. “They deserve it!” “Madeleine wanted to make you her stepping stone, but who knew that it
would lead to her own demise!” Graciana sighed. “Mr. Valentine sure is powerful!” “He is handsome, rich,
and most importantly, he holds you dear to his heart.” “Esme would have kicked herself for refusing to
marry Mr. Valentine if she learned the truth about him!” “By the way, Mr. Valentine has done so much for
you. How are you going to repay him?” Eliza nced at the dishesid out on the table. “… made him a
fish.” Graciana was stumped. “Eliza, are you kidding me?” “Jay nearly spent 2 million dors in order to
put up against Mr. Valentine. For Mr. Valentine to be able to put Jay in his ce so easily, he must have
paid much more than that!”
“He has spent so much money for you, and all you made him was… fish?” Eliza’s hand trembled ever so
slightly. “He… he spent so much money?” Eliza hadn’t followed the proceedings of Graciana’s so-called
“Battle of the trending list”, so she had no inkling that Beau had done so much for her. “Of course! Do
you think that it’s easy to control what happens online? That data can be so easily tampered with?
You’ve got to spend big bucks on it!” Eliza bit her lip. “Well…” Indeed, it seems that the fish she made
was far from enough to repay his deeds. However, she didn’t have that much money… “Think it over!”
Graciana let out a deep sigh. She had the urge to rush over and give Eliza’s head a good sharp rap.
“Has Mr. Valentine ever asked of anything from you after marriage?” “People like him have nock of
money. What he’s after is your heart!” Eliza thought about it long and hard while making her way
upstairs. In the end, she frowned. “He wanted me to take good care of Braint and Demarion.” “Is that
all?” “There’s another thing…” “He had Braint sign an agreement with me. To conceive his child within a
year.” I Graciana was dumbfounded. “Well, why aren’t you getting ready yet? Show him your sincerity!
Get to work this very night!” .