Chapter 108 – Returning to Her Not-So-Poor Family

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“Mr. and Mrs. Melton, what happened?”

“Yoli lacked herself in her room. Why are you two looking like this?”

“Wasn’t Yoli supposed to be receiving an award? I didn’t see any trophy.”

“Mrs. Melton, are you okay?”

Seeing Olga almost collapsing, the maids hurriedly rushed to support her.

Olga felt weak and had a headache so intense she could barely stand, “Stop mentioning the award.”

“Yes, it’s my fault, Mrs. Melton. Let me help you to the couch to sit for a while.” The maid quickly helped Olga to the couch and poured two glasses of water, “Mr. Melton, have a sip too!”

Demetrius had never been so embarrassed before!

He didn’t understand why Yoli had to plagiarize someone else’s work, and that person happened to be Mirabella. Now they had become the laughingstock of everyone!

“Mirabella, that…” Olga couldn’t even curse anymore.

The maids thought they had another conflict with Mirabella, so they started blaming her.

“So, it was that darn girl who upset Mr. and Mrs. Melton again? I knew something was up when Yoli came back crying, it turns out it was all that girl’s fault!”

“She should think, if it wasn’t for Mr. and Mrs. Melton, would she even be alive today?”

“She is so ungrateful! Even crows feed their parents, she is worse than a crow!”

“Enough!” Demetrius was frustrated, “If Yoli hadn’t stole someone else’s work in the first place, would she have made her embarrassed on stage? The problem is that Yoli didn’t tell us beforehand.”

If she had, they would not have appeared at the award ceremony today, and they certainly would not have been such a big joke.

The maids were stunned. Yoli stole Mirabella’s work? And got caught, which was very embarrassing?

This was awkward. No wonder they came back looking like that.

Olga’s phone rang at this time. Seeing that the caller ID was Fiona, she became nervous, but still forced a smile, “Hello, Fiona.”

“Mrs. Melton, the award ceremony ended at eleven this morning, and at eleven–o–one, we announced on our official Twitter that Yolanda was our spokesperson. But not long after, someone told me that Yolanda’s entry plagiarized Maestro Melody’s work? And she was even exposed on the spot?” Fiona said.

Olga knew she had called about this issue, and hurriedly replied, “Fiona, please let me explain.”

Fiona cut her off, “Because the news was blocked, I had to wait half an hour to hear about it from someone who knew! Now many people are boycotting my piano brand! Out of desperation, we had to delete the tweet! Things have come to this point, but you guys haven’t said a word, not even an explanation?”

Olga felt as if she had been slapped in the face, “Fiona, please let me speak.”

“Mrs. Melton!” Fiona Bishop had had enough, “We clearly signed a contract stating that there can’t be any bad press during the contract period, or else you’ll need to cough up ten times the penalty. According to the contract, you have to pay five million within ten days, or we’ll have to settle this in court!” “Fiona!” Olga tried to say something more, but the other party had already hung up. When she tried to call back, the call was blocked.

Olga was in despair. Five million, where on earth was she going to get five million?

Although Demetrius was the richest man in Tranquil City, with personal assets exceeding one hundred million. Most of it was tied up in fixed assets like houses, shops, stocks, cars, etc.

Before, due to big companies like Allbara Investment suddenly halting their cooperation, their cash flow was in a tight spot. Coupled with business losses, they had already sold quite a number of shops and houses. Now they had to compensate five million? They probably had to sell off shares.

But once the shares were sold, they would become minority shareholders, and the decision–making power would fall into the hands of Grace and other shareholders.

No, that was absolutely unacceptable. They couldn’t sell the shares.

“You guys can leave.” Olga dismissed the maid, then asked Demetrius in a low and desperate voice, “What should we do? Yoli breached the contract. We have to compensate five million, and we only have ten days.”

Just as Demetrius was about to say something, his phone started to vibrate, an incoming call from an unknown number.

“Hello.” Demetrius said.

Is this Demetrius? I’m Melody’s lawyer.” The caller said something, and Demetrius seemed very shocked, “Compensate six million?”

“Yes, Yolanda plagiarized Melody’s work and participated in the competition without permission. It’s a serious infringement and she must bear the legal consequences.” The lawyer said, “According to the relevant laws, you must stop the infringement, mitigate its impact, make a public apology, and then compensate for Melody’s losses. Considering Melody’s reputation, six million in compensation is already very generous. If we don’t receive the money within three days, we will sue Yolanda and make this public on our official account.”

“Please don’t do this.” Demetrius pleaded hastily, “We can talk it out.”

If the official account went public with this, then everyone would know about Yoli’s plagiarism. It would seriously damage her reputation, as well as the Melton family’s.

Seeing Demetrius hang up the phone, Olga hurriedly asked, “What happened? Mirabella wants us to pay six million? On what grounds?”

“Because Yoli stole her song!” Demetrius was angry at the thought, “Can you stop targeting her? If it wasn’t for your insistence on kicking her out of the Melton family, how much benefit would her status as Maestro Melody bring us? How impressive are our two daughters? How much glory would she give us when she gets married? How many connections would she bring us?”

Such shortsightedness! And regretting it now was too late.

“Who could have known that girl was Maestro Melody? She never mentioned it before.” Olga was a bit angry, “This just proves she’s very scheming! Grace loves her the most, but she even hid it from Grace!”

Olga was certain that if Grace knew, she would definitely tell them.

Demetrius sat on the couch in despair. Now with the five million in penalty, and the six million in copyright infringement, adding up to over ten million! He didn’t have that much cash on hand!

“Demetrius, can we try to talk to that girl again? She’s a kind–hearted girl.” Olga said.

Before Olga could finish, Demetrius couldn’t help but reproach, “You know she’s kind–hearted? If you were a little more tolerant in the first place, even if we had to part ways, we could have done so peacefully. When we ran into each other outside, we could have greeted each other with a smile, instead of our relationship being so tense now!”

Ever since Mirabella left the Melton family, nothing had gone right for them.

Yoli finally bagged second place, but before she could pop the champagne, the tables turned. Demetrius was a cocktail of emotions – regret, heartache, anger, and frustration all in one.

He thought of Allbara Investment and the penny dropped.

“So, she’s been dining with Dylan and his gang, no wonder Mario is treating her like a queen” Demetrius said.

It was probably because she was Maestro Melody, so she had got a bunch of big shots in her corner.

Demetrius was kicking himself, “We should have called Yoli in. All we can do now is apologize to her sincerely, fingers crossed she’ll forgive us.”

Why? Olga protested loudly. “Yoli already apologized on stage.”

Were they supposed to apologize in private too? Wasn’t that just lowering themselves and letting Mirabella walk all over them?

if we could avoid a six million loss just by saying sorry, you’d be laughing your ass off!” Demetrius sensed that this was more than meets the eye, “What I’m worried about is, we’ve hurt that kid too many times. She might not let us off the hook so easily.”

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