Chapter 141 Amelia Says: I Will Always Be Proud
The next day, the weather was clear.
After getting up, Amelia looked at the azure sky outside the window and nodded.
It was a good day.
Today was the finals.
It was busy from early morning.
This time's performance outfit was very complicated, so Amelia went to the designer's place very early.
After getting everything ready, she took a car to The Sound of Heaven finals venue.
However, this time was different from usual.
Before Amelia even got out of the car, she saw a large crowd of people surrounding the venue.
They were making a fuss about something.
It was quite loud, but they couldn't hear clearly from their side.
"Lika, wait a moment, I'll go check it out," said her assistant Sable, asking the driver to stop the car at a distance while she went around to look.
In just a moment, Sable ran back, her face looking troubled.
"Driver, can we drive straight in?" Sable asked.
Amelia sensed something was wrong and looked at Sable.
Unable to avoid it, Sable said, "Over there are all people protesting against you, holding up a bunch of signs..."
Sable didn't continue, but Amelia already understood.
"That won't work, think of another way," Amelia said. "Since they're surrounding this place, they must have found out about our car. If we go in, the car will get surrounded too, and if there's an accident..."
Amelia continued, but everyone present understood.
If there was an accident, forget about competing.
Just then, a car drove by from the side, and Isabella's face appeared from the car window.
"Why aren't you going over?" That face was full of gloating. "Scared?"
Sable was already angry, rolled her eyes at Isabella, then closed the car door.
Amelia told the driver to leave immediately.
Sure enough, after a while, a bunch of people rushed to where they had just parked.
"Damn it!" Seeing this, Sable immediately knew Isabella had told those people.
Good thing they left quickly, otherwise they would have been blocked right there.
"But actually, this helped us," Sable smiled and immediately urged the driver to go.
Because of the commotion here, most of the protesters were drawn to this side, so their car took the opportunity to drive in.
By the time they realized it, the car had already entered the venue and stopped next to Isabella's car.
Then, Sable helped Amelia out of the car.
Isabella hadn't reacted yet and looked at their car in confusion.
Sable turned around and gave Isabella a big smile.
And rolled her eyes dramatically at the end of the smile.
This really pissed Isabella off.
"Enjoy it while you can, Lika. This is your last moment of pride," Isabella said coldly.
Amelia hadn't planned to pay attention to her, but thinking this was the last round, she turned around.
Through her mask, she looked at Isabella's face, slightly twisted with anger.
She flashed a carefree smile.
"I will enjoy it," Amelia said. "And I'll keep enjoying it."
"You!" Isabella was about to rush over.
"What, want to fight?" Sable and the makeup artist immediately stood in front of Amelia.
Many people were already sneaking glances their way, so Isabella had to restrain herself.
"All you can do is talk tough," Isabella said in a low voice, then left angrily.
All the remaining eyes focused on Amelia.
Eloise also huffed and walked past at this moment.
Amelia paid no attention to all this and walked straight to the backstage.
In just a moment, this small conflict inside the venue immediately shot up the trending topics.
The finals hadn't even started yet, and the tension was already this thick.
Besides a bunch of people boycotting Lika, the number of people watching the drama was also skyrocketing.
Everyone couldn't wait to watch this live broadcast.
...
Backstage, although Amelia had been blocked, she still arrived relatively early. Eloise didn't want to be in the same space as Amelia, so she went to the private lounge area.
So now backstage there were only some staff members.
The contestants, judges, guests, and hosts weren't there yet.
Some staff members also acted based on people's status or prospects.
So, around where Amelia was sitting, the area was empty - no one sat near her.
When Sable asked people questions, they were also indifferent.
Amelia knew that Isabella must have given them hints.
That little verbal sparring earlier - it seemed Isabella really took it to heart.
When Otis and the others arrived, this was the situation they saw.
Otis, being the passionate person he was, angrily rushed over.
"Lika, go for it! I believe in you!" Otis said loudly.
Xyla, who had walked two steps slower, immediately reached out to pinch Otis's head.
"Don't scare people!" Xyla was really speechless at this fool.
York followed behind them, and meeting Amelia's gaze, he smiled and nodded.
"We actually considered whether to come backstage to see you," Xyla said gently. "We were afraid of gossip, but then we thought, the fact that Otis kept pestering us to come see you has already spread everywhere, so we're not afraid of a little more."
Otis nodded vigorously.
York, as usual, didn't make big gestures, but his eyes were smiling.
Amelia looked at this family - their family atmosphere had always been enviable.
Even Sable standing to the side was envious. She knew very well about the internal conflicts in the Adams family.
Amelia really wasn't afraid of this bit of gossip. She didn't lack for boycotts either.
Instead, at this time, the people who still stood by her side were more precious.
Although... the Jenkins family all knew what was really going on...
But it was still very touching.
"Thank you," Amelia stood up and bowed deeply.
Xyla immediately supported her.
The two exchanged glances - no words were needed, they already understood.
"Looking forward to your performance later," York spoke up.
Amelia thought for a moment and nodded politely.
Xyla glanced at York with schadenfreude, then said to Amelia, "We'll go to the audience seats first."
"Okay," Amelia nodded with a smile.
After the Jenkins family left, the backstage became slightly more lively, and the staff were a bit better too. At least when asking questions, they were more proactive than before, without that indifferent attitude.
The Jenkins family's appearance represented a stance.
But these people still didn't think highly of Lika.
In their view, if there really was some injustice, it would have been cleared up days ago.
The Jenkins family coming over was just because Otis was a fan, and they wanted to gamble on whether people would overlook Lika's charity fraud because of her talent.
As the Jenkins family left, other contestants, judges, and others gradually arrived.
However, everyone still tacitly tried to avoid talking to Amelia.
But Amelia didn't care anyway.
On the other side, in the audience seats.
William looked at the seat next to him.
On the day they processed the divorce certificate, he had asked Amelia if she would come, and she said she would. So yesterday he sent her a message, told her the time and place, and saved her a seat.
But until now, she still hadn't arrived.
Would she come?