Filed To Story: My Accidental Bride Is a Fashion Circle Queen Novel
Perhaps, Emma was simply being paranoid.
More importantly, with the condition that Jordyn was in, he simply wanted to stay by her side.
He couldn’t blame anyone. He could only blame himself for not protecting her properly…
Afterwards, Fletcher passed the result of his investigation onto Emma. After listening to Fletcher, Emma fell silent for a while. Although she didn’t want to give up, Fletcher had already investigated the matter in detail. If she continued to persist, what was the point?
However, deep down, she still felt the incident had something to do with a particular person…
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A few days passed since Jordyn’s incident. During these few days, the media s**ked dry the last bit of Jordyn’s fame before they’re attention was quickly drawn away by another hot news story. From that moment on, there was no longer any news about Jordyn.
Within the industry, it was hard to stand out. But, being forgotten was much too easy.
Seeing Jordyn’s runway shows and endorsements being given away to other people, Emma’s heart felt like it had been set on fire as it burned into ash inch by inch. Yet, there was nothing she could do.
To keep as many options open for Jordyn as possible, Emma made phone calls to multiple companies: TQs George Benedict, the famous French designer Fearles, and many others. However, even though they agreed verbally without hesitation, Fearles told her, “No one is born to be another person’s savior. No matter how much you worry about her, she needs to stand back up on her own. No one can do anything about it.”
Emma had always understood this reasoning, so she simply gave a bitter smile, “I’m just being stubborn.”
Perhaps it was the p**ssures that she felt from Song Xin that made it hard for her not to worry about Jordyn and herself.
Meanwhile, after Song Xin received her screenwriter award, she also received an award for songwriting. As a result, her popularity skyrocketed.
Hearing this, Emma clenched her script-holding hands. Once a woman reached her age, did they really lose their sense of security?
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A few days had passed since Song Xin suggested her plan to her assistant. However, she had not put it into action yet. Instead, she spent most of her time trying to understand Wren’s daily routine.
She understood that success required the right timing. Because of this, Song Xin’s assistant simply stayed quietly by Wren’s side and waited for the right time.
Ever since Wren had been slapped in the face, it had been a long time since she caused trouble for Emma. Although she didn’t want to accept defeat, the entire nation scolded her and Elder Miller threatened her, so she had no choice but to retreat and temporarily focus on her research.
On that particular day, Wren was having afternoon tea inside a cafe with a few research colleagues. The colleagues nosily started gossiping about Emma just so they could see Wren’s reaction.
Wren’s exp**ssion was cold the entire time. She did not want to take part in the discussion. So, after enduring for quite some time, she used the bathroom as an excuse to temporarily avoid the gossip.
However, as she grabbed her handbag and left the bathroom, she ran into a young woman who was walking in the opposite direction. The woman had a simple short haircut and her figure was relatively tall and skinny.
“Sorry,” after apologizing, Wren continued to walk away. However, the woman seemed to have recognized her as she pointed to her and said, “Aren’t you Emma’s mother-in-law?”
Wren’s exp**ssion turned sour; she expected the woman to ridicule her. So, she quickly sped up her steps to leave. However, not only did the woman not laugh at her, she was exceptionally friendly, “Auntie, hello.”
“Hi, I have something I need to do, I’ll get going first,” Wren said as she continued to leave. The woman did not force her to stay as she nodded her head and smiled as she watched her walk away.
However…before Wren had gotten very far, the woman chased after her and grabbed onto her sleeve. She then said uncomfortably, “Actually auntie…I heard a few rumors in the agency and I’m not sure if they are true.”
“What rumor?” Wren asked.
“I’m not sure if I should tell you,” the woman deliberately went in circles.
“Speak. I won’t blame you,” Wren was already prepared to hear about Emma’s nonsense. After contemplating for a few seconds, the woman leaned over and whispered in Wren’s ear the rumor that she had heard. After she was done, she highly emphasized, “Auntie, I’m sure you know about the rules in Kaleidoscope. No one is allowed to leak any secrets to the public. Originally, I didn’t want to say anything, but since I ran into you coincidentally, my conscience told me to tell you. I hope you can keep this a secret for me.”
In reality, Wren’s face had already gone from slightly red in anger to bright red in fury.
She had never imagined that Emma would be this sinister.
How dare she dream about taking her organs?
“Don’t worry, I won’t tell anyone about this,” Wren guaranteed firmly.
“Good. You should decide what to do as soon as possible…” the woman looked at Wren in pity as she patted the back of her hand comfortingly.
Wren didn’t notice when the woman left. She simply trembled as she supported herself against the wall for quite some time.
Since the b*tch wanted to go to such an extent, she couldn’t just sit around doing nothing. She couldn’t sit around and wait for the child to be born. What if the child was actually born with a defect and they decided to use her body.
She couldn’t tell Father Roberts about this. Otherwise, she wouldn’t be able to do anything because Father Roberts would simply think she was scaring herself.
Out of urgency, she decided to get rid of the child in Emma’s stomach. She needed to think of a flawless plan.
Because of this, Wren began to sneakily stalk Emma, so she could understand her daily routine.
She noticed that Emma went to the hospital for a checkup every Friday. Apart from that, she practically never left the villa. As for the b*tch with the surname Bai, she was in charge of Emma’s daily meals. However, the most important thing to note was that Emma always took the bodyguards with her when she went to do her checkup.
That was Wren’s only window of opportunity. If she could sneak into the villa during that time and place all the blame on the cheap maid, she would be killing two birds with one stone.
In addition, she carefully studied the surrounding surveillance cameras, took note of where each one was located and understood the best blind spots. Apart from this, she also hid in the research lab and studied drug interactions for a few days. She needed to find the most flawless method of attack.
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During the past few days, Emma’s mood was restless. She constantly felt like someone was spying on her in the shadows, monitoring her every move.
Auntie Bai explained that it was because she was getting closer to childbirth, so it was natural to become highly sensitive to her surrounding environment. Emma thought about Auntie Bai’s explanation for a moment and felt it was quite reasonable
“Ever since Jordyn’s incident, your heart hasn’t been stable for even a day. If there’s something wrong, make sure to communicate it to Mr. Roberts, don’t keep it to yourself.”
After listening to Auntie Bai, Emma nodded her head and smiled, “I can talk to him about it, but…when a woman is pregnant, there are some feelings that a man would never understand.”
“That’s true,” Auntie Bai nodded her head, “When I was pregnant with Hadassahng, I often felt that I was unexplainably irritable. Hadassahng’s father couldn’t understand how he had provoked me, so all he could do was stretch his arm in front of me and allow me to release my anger by biting him.”
With the mention of Yadanar’s father, Emma remembered that he had been missing since Yadanar was very young. However, Lithika had never mentioned him until now.
“Yadanar’s father…”
“He went missing when he was an extra. At that time, Hadassahng was only 6-years-old. Since then, he has never returned again. Let’s not talk about him.”
Emma didn’t like to probe into someone’s matters persistently. Plus, she understood that this matter was Lithika’s weakness, so she decided to move away from the topic.
“Are you going to the hospital for a checkup tomorrow? What do you want to eat? I’ll cook it for you.”
“Everything you cook tastes good,” Emma reassured quickly.
However, Emma had no idea that the checkup this time would result in a crisis because the person that had been stalking her was already prepared to strike.
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Afternoon the next day. Eric accompanied Emma to her checkup and brought the bodyguards along as usual. After Bai Li Hua escorted them to the front door, she returned to the villa.
A moment later, the strong smell of smoke suddenly drifted from the garden, triggering the fire alarm and alerting the security. The security immediately searched for the cause and quickly knocked on the door of Emma and Eric’s villa.
It took Auntie Bai a while to open the door. As soon as she saw the security, she looked at them confusedly, “What’s wrong?”
“Madam, your garden is on fire. For your safety, could you please vacate the premises immediately?”
Lithika paused for a moment. She was especially scared of fire, “In that case…wait for me as I lock the doors.”
“Madam, please leave first. We have to assess the security risks of the villa,” one of the members of security said as he pushed Lithika to a colleague behind him.
Lithika did not know how to react as the security dragged her away to a safe location. However, while the security were assessing the villa, a dark figure snuck in through the front door and hid in the grocery closet without making a sound.
Roughly half an hour later, the person hiding in the grocery closet heard the security talking to Lithika, “Madam, sorry for the inconvenience. The fire is under control. Luckily, it did not spread, so you can return home now.”