Chapter 878 - 877: Scheming

Chapter 878: Chapter 877: Scheming

Seeing the little girl’s face all scrunched up like a bun from struggling with something, Damian Sinclair chuckled.

"Alright, Daddy won’t ask you anymore. When you feel like telling Daddy, then you can, okay?"

"Mm, Daddy’s the best." The little girl nodded immediately and gave him a sweet smile.

Damian rubbed the top of her head and said, "Go practice your violin, Daddy’s going to deal with some work."

"Okay, okay."

In the spacious CEO office, the little girl spread out her sheet music and set up her violin to practice, while Damian focused on handling work at his desk, occasionally looking up to check on her.

Bella Acker had already arrived at the teahouse they’d agreed on. Judy Zimmerman parked the car by the roadside diagonally across from the teahouse, frowned, and said, "Why are there reporters and fans staking out in front of the teahouse? Don’t tell me the news that you’re meeting Director Ford here got leaked?"

Bella shook her head. "With Ms. Young’s skills, that shouldn’t happen. I’ll call her and ask first."

With so many fans and reporters staking out at the entrance of the teahouse, there was no way she could just stroll over and let herself get photographed.

She dialed the number, and it was quickly picked up. Bella said, "Ms. Young, we’re already at the entrance of the teahouse, but there are fans and reporters staking out outside."

"Mm, I already know. This teahouse has an underground parking garage. Have Judy Zimmerman drive into the garage and come up from there. I’ll wait for you at the elevator." Cynthia Young’s voice on the other end was perfectly calm.

"Got it." After hanging up, Bella said, "Judy, drive into the underground garage, we’ll go up from there."

"Okay." Judy turned the car around, looped once, and drove into the underground garage behind the teahouse, then took the elevator there up to the third floor.

As soon as the two of them stepped out of the elevator, they saw Cynthia Young waiting. Judy said, "Ms. Young, is there some kind of fan meeting going on here?"

"Fan meeting my ass, it’s just some people playing little tricks." Cynthia, still in her professional suit, let out a cold, businesslike sneer. "All those staking out at the entrance are Rhonda’s fans. Her agent somehow got wind that Director Ford would be here today and had people pull this stunt. Just wait and see, as soon as Rhonda shows up at the entrance and gets a few photos taken, the internet will be flooded with rumors that she’s already locked in as the female lead in Director Ford’s new project. Please, do they not know what kind of temper Director Ford has? Using online buzz and public opinion like this and thinking he’ll buy it? Naive."

"But Director Ford clearly arranged to meet Bella here today. How did Rhonda’s agent find out?" Judy frowned.

Indeed, not many people knew about this so far. Even if word had spread a bit, only people from their studio would know.

So whether someone from the studio let it slip casually in conversation, or someone deliberately sold the information to Rhonda’s side, that was worth thinking about.

Bella also looked at Cynthia Young. Cynthia asked her, "Bella, what do you think?"

"Aside from how they got the information, there’s another point. Rhonda and I have had some bad blood from the start. If she wants to use this chance to smear me, that’s very possible too," Bella said.

"Exactly." Judy nodded. "Rhonda is way more famous than Bella right now. Once the news that Rhonda came here gets posted online, if Bella ends up getting the female lead and Rhonda doesn’t, her fans will definitely say Bella stole the role."