Chapter 1322


    Christine looked at Tawny in disbelief. “Tawny, what are you babbling about? I was at an event and it


    was reported on the news. After that, I was ying games at an inte cafe all night long.”


    But, no one really cared where she had gone.


    “Christine stayed out all night long ying games? Who would even believe such a lie? I think she


    must have found herself a sugar daddy! Nobody from our line of work would stay out all night merely to


    y games. She must be lying!”


    Christine found it hard to defend herself with everyone gossiping about her.


    In their industry, if one stayed out all night, it was akin to having a sugar daddy.


    She felt so much rage that she started to pant heavily as she did not expect her cousins to be


    ungrateful after she had been treating them well enough all the while.


    Bethany snorted arrogantly and added, “Since you have found yourself a sugar daddy, be sure to repair


    my ne.”


    She rose to her feet and swayed her hips as she walked about in her high heels. In no time, a bunch of


    her followers rushed after her.


    Christine cluelessly looked in the direction that Bethany was heading toward. She had to hold back her


    tears the moment she saw the set of pearl ne that Bethany held in her hand. Three


    million! Where am I going to get three million? I’m barely scraping by to feed myself as it is.


    Both her cousins were also kicked out.


    It was not long until her family learned about it. “Christine, what have you done? You couldn’t even


    handle such a small matter, could you? How am I supposed to deal with this when it blows up in our


    family? Word has been spreading like wildfire from other families. I am so embarrassed,” her father


    said.


    Christine burst into angry tears as she replied, “Was it my fault that Tawny stole things and Jay peeped


    on the artist who was changing clothes in thepany? He was the one who did all of that, yet the


    fault is being pinned on me!”


    Her father boiled in anger. “Well, if you had introduced a girl to be his girlfriend, he wouldn’t be


    bothering others now, would he? He merely stole a few trivial items. Could you just settle this


    somehow? Do you even realize how much embarrassment you have brought upon me? Now, everyone


    says that you and I are ipetent,” he stated in a fit of rage.


    She felt sad and whimpered, “So, it’s my fault again? Everything is my fault, huh! All of you have never


    thought about me and how I struggled alone in a strange ce. They treated me like a bank card,


    expecting me to cover their expenses and sought after me for employment. Why can’t they get a job by


    themselves?”


    Mr. Bishop grunted. “I don’t care. You have to resolve this. You have to take care of them! I am going to


    hang up now.”


    Christine was in the midst of sorting out the paperwork of departure for the siblings at thepany’s


    entrance. Unexpectedly, her cousin had overheard Christine’s conversation with her dad and decided


    to start an argument with her at the entrance.


    “We came to Bayside City to make money—and just look at the kind of job you have arranged for me.


    Not to mention, you even gave a ce with horrible living conditions!” her cousin said usibly. “While


    you are enjoying your good life, we are working hard in thepany and staying in a dormitory!”


    Tawny felt aggrieved. “I stayed in your closet and had to settle with your hand-me-downs. I didn’t make


    any money in thepany. In fact, I was abused everyday. All the dirty jobs were done by me. I


    shouldn’t have listened to you and let myself be influenced by you toe to Bayside City in the


    beginning. Back in my hometown, I was doing just fine.”


    Christine finally knew their true colors and replied angrily, “Was I the one who pestered the two of you


    toe here? If it wasn’t for your family who sent you both to me, I wouldn’t have taken you both in! If


    the jobs I’ve gotten for you are not enough, why don’t you find yourself a job instead? You both did not


    even graduate from junior high school. What type of job did you both expect to get? Even the cleaners


    in ourpany are high school graduates.”


    Tawny felt insulted and snarled on the spot, “You made us do dirty, lowly jobs just because we don’t


    have any qualifications!”


    Christine found that it was impossible to reason with them anymore. She realized that she, an artist,


    was quarreling with someone in front of the agency and had caused quite a scene. A crowd of


    onlookers had gathered and started to take out their mobile phones to snap pictures of the gaffes she


    had made.


    She then rushed to take out a mask to cover herself in hopes of avoiding any scandals. However, her


    cousin ripped off her mask unexpectedly then shouted, “Well, exin yourself then, Christine Bishop!


    Say it as you mean it! Just because you are richer than us, you are looking down on us! You look down


    on my family! How did your parents raise you to be cunning?”


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    Christine felt the sh of the camera shine on her face as she looked at the camera. She quickly


    covered her face with her hands and yelled, “Let me go!”


    Her cousin clearly wanted to humiliate her as he deliberately grabbed her to reveal her face in an


    attempt to give the chance for others to intimidate her.


    At that point, she felt extremely helpless.


    A car suddenly pulled up in front of the office—it was Maddie Evans. She barged her way through the


    crowd towards Christine. Maddie then removed her coat right away to cover Christine’s head before the


    both of them immediately left.


    Both siblings chased after them with the clear intention of wanting to say something. Maddie, who was


    ahead of them, yelled, “Get the f*ck out of the way! You both broke thew, stole things, and on top of


    that, peeped on an actress who was bathing. I will call the police if you both dare to challenge me any


    further.”


    The both of them knew better than to push Maddie’s buttons any further. Maddie immediately took


    Christine to the car and they left in a haste.


    In the car, Christine wept uncontrobly to the point where Maddie felt sorry for her. She had to drive


    carefully while concurrentlyforting Christine.


    Soon afterward, word had spread amongst Christine’s rtives and cousins in her hometown and


    caused them to mock her while they gloated about the incident. The Bishop family has been showing


    off all this time! Now that things have gone south, there is absolutely no way they can get out of


    this! Instead of feeling embarrassed by the actions of the two offenders, the Bishop family is


    embarrassed with Christine’s ipetence to cover up the matter. Christine, who is always praised so


    extravagantly by her father, can’t even handle such a small issue. She has failed to live up to her status


    as a superstar!


    Maddie knew her family well enough and how society worked. Hence, she continuously pretended that


    she was poor.


    She painted a picture that exemplified that she did not have any money—a simple working-ss


    pauper with a grass-root paratrooper husband whose house that was allocated by the unit was nothing


    more than just a basement. They did not have a house of their own and they also had a son to raise on


    a $10,000 sry per month that she received from her work as an editor at a press.


    If someone from her hometown asked her to arrange for a job, she would make it clear to them that


    they had to attend the interviews themselves. As for the amodation and money, they needed to


    find their own ways to source and manage them.


    Maddie was terrified at the thought of family membersing to her like how Christine’s family,


    including some rtives, had done countless times in the past. Now if it was just a favor to help them


    find jobs, I’d be okay with that. If it is to cover up the troubles that they have caused? That’s a big


    no no. What a mess to deal with! They didn’t even think of Christine, who is merely a youngdy in her


    twenties!


    Yet, Christine’s avaricious brothers back at her hometown still greedily demanded money from her from


    time to time to buy houses. They truly were the epitome of the saying, ‘give them an inch and they will


    take a mile’.


    Maddie was also aware of what her own circle of rtives in her hometown said about her and Her dad


    would scold both her and her husband for being losers, unlike Christine, who was sessful. She said


    nothing because she was happy to be poor.