Chapter 107: Who Are You?
Jeffrey immediately came over and pulled William aside.
"William, let me tell you something. Even though I'm just one of the heirs to the Adams family, my people aren't for you to push around!"
Jeffrey said, then gave Sable a look.
Sable immediately helped Amelia get into the car.
As Amelia stepped onto the stairs, she heard William's words.
"Who exactly are you?" William asked, his eyes narrowing slightly.
Jeffrey was startled and didn't dare speak, only looking toward Amelia.
"Mr. Brown, please be more specific," Amelia said without turning around. "Otherwise I don't know how to answer."
"With your musical talent and professional skills, it's impossible for you to be unknown," William said, looking at her back seriously.
"So what's your purpose in doing all this?"
Before Amelia could answer, Jeffrey had already started cursing.
"None of your business!" Jeffrey was furious. "Purpose? What do you think a singer's purpose is for joining a music show?"
Jeffrey almost said William must be out of his mind.
William gave Jeffrey a cold glance, as if looking at an idiot.
Amelia knew what William meant - if she wasn't mistaken, he was referring to Isabella's situation.
But Jeffrey's response worked just fine.
It saved her from having to answer.
With that thought, Amelia prepared to continue getting into the car.
"Questioning you isn't my purpose," William's voice came from behind.
"I want to tell you that Isabella's situation is my responsibility. I'll handle her affairs. I don't care what your purpose or plan is - please consider what I just said first."
Amelia paused slightly.
Then slowly turned around.
William stood there, with endless night behind him. The breeze blew past, gently sweeping the hair on his forehead.
Was this a warning?
Or perhaps, a notification?
This time he didn't even try to persuade her to understand Isabella's illness or Isabella's kindness like he did at first.
No reasons given.
He directly told her that whatever she did, he would back Isabella up.
Telling her to weigh whether she was qualified to go up against him, William, before making any decisions.
Amelia laughed.
Was this his love?
If what he had for Isabella was love, then what did all those moments between them count as?
She had already tried so hard to draw clear boundaries with them.
It was them, again and again, again and again, pushing her!
Emotions surged.
Amelia's hands clenched tightly.
Just then—
Both Amelia and Jeffrey's phones vibrated.
Amelia took out her phone and saw it was a message from Soren in the group chat.
It was the latest development in Isabella's counterattack.
Several links.
They were—
[Lika's messy private life - had an abortion just 10 days before The Sound of Heaven's first live broadcast.]
[Sexual favors between Lika and Jeffrey - The Sound of Heaven suspected to be a resource Jeffrey gave Lika to compensate for her abortion.]
And—
[Lika faked donation at charity gala - Lika's name not on donation list, yet she appeared at the event and participated in donors' group photo, breaking moral boundaries!]
Jeffrey saw it too, of course.
He waved the screenshot in front of William.
"I know what you want to say," Jeffrey actually wasn't an idiot. "Is this the kind Isabella you think she is?"
William's lips pressed tightly together as he looked up toward the car door.
But Lika's figure had already disappeared.
After yelling at William, Jeffrey didn't bother with him anymore and hurried into the car.
The car started and drove past William. William looked up but only saw Lika's masked profile.
The car got on the road smoothly. There was a makeup artist in the car to help remove makeup.
There was no makeup under the mask - only the lower half of the face was made up.
Sable looked at those messages online and was absolutely furious.
"How can there be such shameless people!"
"Before, I thought she was kind, that even though she was sick and dying, she wanted to use her experience to encourage other sick people, but she's making all this up..."
"Mr. Adams, Lika, what should we do?"
"And that Mr. Brown just now, he's protecting Isabella, what should we do?"
Jeffrey actually wanted to discuss with Amelia, but with Sable here, he was vague, saying they would handle it.
Halfway through the drive, Amelia and Jeffrey got out and switched to a Bentley.
Only after getting into the Bentley did Amelia remove her mask.
"What do you think?" Jeffrey asked.
He scrolled through the messages.
Normally, with Lika's abilities, she wouldn't need to address small rumors.
Even if Lika was dating or married, it would be fine.
But what was being exposed now had the key words [sexual favors] and [fake donation].
Sexual favors could be explained as dating or baseless accusations, but the fake donation thing...
"There really wasn't Lika's name that day, and you had me hide the real seller of that tanzanite."
Later, although she bought Briar's painting, she used Jeffrey's paddle number to avoid trouble since her paddle competing with William was too eye-catching, so naturally there was no name "Lika."
Everything done to hide her identity at the time had now made them passive.
Fake donation wasn't a small matter.
This meant being a flawed artist. Basically, anyone tainted with fake donation would be blacklisted by default in the industry.
Even if the Adams Group wanted to struggle, all other investors wouldn't use an artist with such a bad image as fake donation.
Amelia scrolled through the online comments.
If before people recognized her abilities, now it was completely one-sided the other way.
"That was a charity gala for sick children. I remember Lika did a good marketing campaign then, competing with William on stage."
"Right, if she had bid on even one item it wouldn't count as fake donation. Those sick children's paintings weren't expensive either. She wouldn't even pay that much but still wanted to ride on sick children's popularity for hype. That's disgusting!"
"And she dared to participate in the donors' group photo. Is she a donor? Too shameless!"
"Ability is one thing, but this person is rotten at the core. No matter how strong her abilities, so what? Fake donation, sexual favors - she doesn't deserve to be a celebrity!"
"If someone like Lika can win the show, then the entertainment industry is done for."
Online discussions were everywhere, and for a moment, Lika's support rate plummeted.
Watching all this wasn't just Amelia and Jeffrey, but also William.