Chapter 212 Can I Say It?
Time slowly passed by.
The next day, Amelia launched the Jenkins Group's yellow gemstone collection.
This time, she created an entire street of sunflowers that looked absolutely beautiful in the sunlight.
And along the path through these sunflowers, there was a constantly flowing golden river.
There was a clever design element here.
Amelia appeared before everyone's cameras, smiling at the crowd and saying, "This river is called Time."
"There's a famous saying—you can never step into the same river twice."
"But in this golden river, it's different."
Amelia left everyone with a riddle.
"Now we'll select some audience members to come with us inside, and you'll understand what I mean."
As Amelia spoke, she had staff members start selecting people.
And right during this selection process, someone cried out—"Isabella's started her livestream!"
"Where is she?"
"That villa is amazing!"
Amelia looked toward those people, frowning slightly.
Isabella had seemed pretty quiet lately. According to Isabella's side, she'd been recovering from illness and preparing for her first livestream.
But according to what Jeffrey told her, the information he'd gathered indicated that Isabella's first livestream would take place at Harold's villa—Harold being William's good friend.
She knew something about Harold, especially since she'd been spending more time at the Jenkins Group recently. There was a woman named Thora who was supposedly Harold's girlfriend.
No, should be ex-girlfriend.
That day she'd personally witnessed this woman named Thora give Harold a thorough humiliation.
She still wanted to say "well done" about that.
"Wait, didn't they say it would be at Harold's villa? Where is this? This looks like William's villa."
As Amelia was thinking, another voice came through, catching her attention.
"Wait, this looks like Amelia and William's wedding house!"
"What?"
Everyone's eyes turned to focus on Amelia, who was hosting and directing this new product launch as the chief designer.
Not just at the venue.
Online, intense discussions immediately began.
The location appearing in Isabella's livestream wasn't the previously announced place, but Emerald Haven.
This villa was extremely luxurious, with a large courtyard, situated halfway up a hill in Shadow City. From here you could overlook the entire Shadow City nightscape—the view was unbeatable.
Among the online viewers were some capable people, so they immediately dug up where this was.
Especially when Isabella's livestream camera entered through the front door, there was a wedding photo of Amelia and William hanging on the opposite wall.
"Incredible!"
"How did Isabella get into this place!"
"On the day of Amelia's second Jenkins Group product launch, Isabella starts her first livestream in Amelia and William's former wedding house!"
"Who let her in? Was it William?"
"William really doesn't respect Amelia at all—the wedding photos are still up and he's already letting Isabella livestream there!"
"This is so entertaining, I'm going to Amelia's side to watch the drama unfold!"
...
Rhys got this news immediately.
Finn and Cleo also called the next moment.
"Rhys, what's going on?!" Finn's voice was furious.
Rhys hunched his shoulders and said, "Mr. Finn Brown, it's not clear yet, but according to Mr. William Brown, this livestream was supposed to be at Harold's villa. I don't know how it ended up at... Emerald Haven."
"Go find out now! And immediately take people to kick Isabella out!" Finn was absolutely livid, his face flushed red with anger.
He immediately called William, but William's phone said it was out of service area.
Rhys saw this and said, "Something came up in Harmony City. Early this morning Mr. Brown rushed over there urgently. He's probably dealing with it now, so..."
The place where he was handling things might have blocked signals, leaving William unreachable.
"Call Harold immediately!" Finn roared.
"Yes!"
Harold answered the phone after a while.
He was still hung over from last night. The past few days he'd been furious about Thora and had been drinking for several days straight. Right now he had no idea what was happening.
"What?" He staggered toward the bathroom.
"Yes, William said before that Isabella would use my place for this livestream."
"She didn't go? Then where did she go?"
"What? She went to William and Amelia's wedding house?! We're screwed!"
Harold sobered up instantly. Without worrying about anything else, he grabbed some mouthwash, threw on clothes, and ran out the door.
While running, he called his household staff.
"What happened!" Harold roared.
"Mr. Rogers, something went wrong with the villa—a water pipe burst, water everywhere. The team came to look and said they couldn't livestream here, so they left."
The staff at Harold's villa immediately reported.
"Fuck!"
Harold hung up and without another thought, drove straight toward Emerald Haven.
...
Online discussions were everywhere. At the Jenkins Group's offline venue, the crowd surged and intense discussions began.
Everyone surrounded Amelia standing in the center, the huge volume of discussion and pointing drowning out all other sounds.
Countless people were taking photos and livestreaming Amelia.
Countless people were waiting to see Amelia humiliated!
Amelia was surrounded in the center of the crowd, and more and more people who'd heard the news kept arriving.
Jenkins Group staff immediately came over, and York's voice came through Amelia's walkie-talkie.
"Amelia..."
Before York could finish, Amelia spoke up: "Let me speak first."
"I already know about Isabella's situation."
"I'll handle what comes next. But York, about that thing—can I talk about it?"
Amelia quietly said a few words, asking York's opinion.
"Of course you can." York immediately answered.
"Good." Amelia put down the walkie-talkie.
She looked at the massive crowd, and not only was there no panic on her face—she actually wanted to smile.
To understand something, you need to see both sides.
Isabella thought she was bringing her attacks, siege, and mockery.
But she didn't see it that way.
These were all people, customers, and excellent publicity guests that Isabella had delivered right to her door.
"Everyone, since there are so many people here, I'm going to livestream this entire experience." Amelia's voice transmitted clearly everywhere through the microphone.
A huge screen nearby lit up, and someone handed Amelia livestreaming equipment.
She'd always been good at using an opponent's force against them.
Since Isabella had delivered people to her, she'd accept them.
"Everyone, follow me as we step into the river of time." Amelia smiled, leading everyone into the golden river.
On the other side, Isabella watched all this and sneered inwardly.
"Playing tricks, Amelia—just wait to lose face completely!"
The next moment, her smiling face appeared on camera.
"Everyone, our first livestream officially begins."
Immediately, some troublemakers put both livestream feeds side by side, streaming them simultaneously.