Chapter 978
“I’m sure you also know, Master Levine, that I’m not about to give mypetitor a chance to defeat me.”
Alice went straight to her point. This was a huge financial opportunity for anyone who would seed in
bing the sole agent—why would Alice hand it over to someone who was her potential enemy?
She’d make a fool out of herself if she identally nurtured someone who wouldter turn into a strong
competitor of hers. “Furthermore, there’re more than 10 teams who arepeting for this. There are
loads of other teams who are stronger than her, so why would I pick her?”
Daniel was left speechless after what Alice said. He realized how his methods of tricking and convincing
Cooper would never work with Alice. Thest time he tried his methods of deception on Alice, she ended
up with her virginity lost and her heart broken. She woke up that morning to find that the other side of the
bed had gone cold, that the man who had pledged his love and loyalty for her the night before had ended
up running away. Daniel no longer had the nerve to deceive Alice once again. The words he had
intended to use were at the tip of his tongue, but he swallowed them before he could say it.
However, since he had promised Sophia to help her, he still tried his best to fulfil his promise. “You’re
being unreasonable, Alice. Sophia was the one who helped you when your request for Taylor to be your
spokesperson got rejected in the past,” he said.
With her golden-framed sses perched on her nose, Alice looked both wise and heartless as she
spoke. “That endorsement job benefited both parties. We came to a fair and square agreement. But this
time, I’m the one who gets to decide who I want as the agent for Dragon Eye. If I see a team that
outshines her, it will only make sense that I pick them as they would provide me with the greatest
benefit.”
Daniel fell silent once again. He knew that there was no point in him talking anymore; he might even
make things worse if he continued. He therefore kept quiet until Alice got off work. The three of them
stayed in the office without disrupting each other, with Casper absorbed in his book, Daniel seated on
the couch, and Alice focused on her work. That night, Alice brought Casper out for a meal while DanielMaterial ? of N?velDrama.Org.
went along with them. At the restaurant, Daniel brought up the topic of the agency selection again, and
Alice revealed a little more information this time.
“The selection process isn’t just based on my personal preference. We’re also looking at a variety of
other factors. I’ve shortlisted both the Mitchells and the Edwards as I need someone who can boost the
sales of the product. I’ll give the exclusive rights to the team that does a better job. I’m a
businesswoman, Master Levine. There’s a saying in Cethos that goes, ‘the only thing that
businesswomen chase are profits’! It’s all about who can benefit me the most,” Alice exined.
In the end, Daniel headed home dejectedly as he had failed to be of any help to Sophia. He didn’t feel
any burden or guilt after deceiving Cooper—if anything, he only felt the fear of being chopped into pieces
if he was exposed. However, he simply couldn’t bring himself to deceive Alice. He was tongue-tied
whenever he was in front of that woman.
Sophiater heard about the news of Daniel’s failure. Although it was surprising to hear that the all-
powerful, brilliant master of deception, Daniel, had finally met with failure, Sophia somehow felt like she
had expected this to be the oue. Fortunately, Daniel managed to give her some information. She
now knew more about thepetitors that she had.
In the Mitchell Family, both Sandra and Vincent were fighting to be the agent. Although they were from
the same family, they each ran their own businesses, and they approached Alice as two separate teams
that represented their ownpanies instead of the Mitchell Family. Despite Sandra, Alex, and Vincent
being on different sides as Cooper, Cooper had always perceived the Michel and Mitchell Families as
two separate things. If Alice really wanted to pick the Mitchells as their agent, Cooper probably wouldn’t
object to it.
Next, both Ian and Lucy from the Edwards Family had also been split into two separate groups that were
competing to be the agent. Apart from them, there was another team led by the Winston Family. There
were also a few otherpanies who were about as qualified as Plum Technology was, while Sophia
simply ignored the rest of the teams andpanies as they didn’t seem to pose much of a threat to her.
After the conversation with Daniel, Sophia hurriedly drew a table with all the information that she had
retained with perfect precision. She then analyzed each of her opponent’s strengths and the current
situation.
As Sophia ran through the information, she realized how it made sense for Alice to dismiss her team as
an option. Both Linus and Cooper told Sophia the same thing after they spoke to Alice about it. Although
Alice trusted Sophia enough to leave her son with her, she was a whole different person when it came to
work. Even when Linus and Cooper went over to advocate for Sophia’s team, Alice immediately stated
that she would never choose Sophia.
But Sophia wasn’t ready to give up just yet. She did her research on Alice, and she knew that Alice was
someone who made choices based on the amount of benefit she could obtain from anyone. If I manage
to defeat all of the other teams and prove that I’m the most capable one, she will definitely pick my team.
However, it was hard to defeat all the teams as the Edwards, Mitchell, and Winston Families were all in
the picture. Sophia was familiar with the Edwards and the Mitchells, but she found the Winstons to be the
most challenging one to deal with. The inner structure of the Winston Family wasn’t very stable and
established, and all the members of the family were extremely devilish and vicious individuals. In the
past, after Harry killed his father and siblings to overtake the Winston Family at the young age of 19,
there were many family members who expressed dissatisfaction toward the situation. They would step
forward to create trouble every now and then, and Sophia’s opponent was precisely the group of people
who were always going against Harry.
Regardless, they didn’t have much time yet. Sophia decided that she would defeat as many of the teams
as she could. If she were to start off from the weakest team, it’d be Sandra’s team. Sophia had been
wanting to defeat Sandra for a long while now, and her desire only grew strongertely, after Sandra
spent a fortune to hire ghostwriters to create gossip and rumors about Taylor. They were the ones that
kept posting about Taylor using a ‘fake’ phone after he failed to be the spokesperson for Dragon
Eye. Sophia couldn’t be bothered to confront Sandra since it was just some negative rumors and
comments on the Inte. Sandra’s just wasting her own money, after all, Sophia thought.
Taylor wasn’t using an imitation model of the phone—in fact, it couldn’t be any more original. It was an
unreleased model of Dragon Eye, so all of these rumors would end up as a joke once the model was
released. When that happened, all of Sandra’s money would go to waste. Now, Sandra is stepping on
Taylor’s reputation in order to build Nichs’ fame, but when her n backfires, she wouldn’t only be
losing money; Nichs’ reputation might also be tarnished! I can’t wait for that to happen. Sophia hadn’t
bothered to make a move on Sandra in the past, but now that Sandra was blocking her way to sess,
Sophia decided to deal with her first!
Meanwhile, Sandra had been feeling really good about herself recently. She felt like she was at the peak
of her job since everything was going as she nned. Nichs, the artist under her wing, won two
awards at the ‘Light of Cethos’ award ceremony. Although this was outshined by that final ‘Light of
Cethos’ award, Sandra had made sure to destroy Taylor’s reputation and public image after that. Now, he
was nothing more than a poor old man who used a fake phone. The news of him being an outworn, old-
time celebrity spread like wildfire.
Most of the male artists under Sandra were trained ording to the example that Taylor and Harry had
set. She was patiently waiting for Taylor and Harry to fade out in the industry; the artists that she trained
would then take over their spot and im all the opportunities that had once belonged to them. Recently,
Sandra even signed a Hollywood agreement that had Nichs as one of the key figures. He would
appear for a total of 2 minutes! 2 minutes! The entire movie was 120 minutes, and her artist would get 2
minutes of screen-time! Tons of celebrities would never even dream of achieving this! He definitely isn’t
far from getting an Oscar!