SPOILED GIRL - Season 9 Episode 89

Soon, the report from the verification process was in Jacob’s hands and it was just as Emily had thought—the handwriting on both the postcard and the contract belonged to the same person, Dina.

On top of that, Jacob’s men were also able to make a massive breakthrough in their investigations. The man who had delivered the postcard to Emily had tried to make a quick getaway to another country but Jacob’s men had managed to catch him before he could leave. It wasn’t very hard to get a confession out of him as he ruefully admitted that Dina had paid him money to do that.

“Send a message to Sky Entertainment Group Limited for me. Tell them to cease and desist every affair and cooperative project with Dina, starting now!”

Jacob slammed the report on the table furiously and slumped back in his chair, rubbing his aching temples with his thumb and fore-finger.

Since Dina wanted to play hardball, he was willing to let her know that two could play that game! She had crossed the line this time and he would see to it that she was never allowed back into this circle.

“Yes, sir, I’ll send them the message right away. But there is something else I need to tell you. The second young master of the Xu family has made his move. He was recently seen cozying up to the shareholders of the Xu Group.”

The annual shareholder meeting was just around the corner. The meeting was still ten days away and yet Darren was already rubbing shoulders with the shareholders. His intentions were quite obvious.

Jacob paused to think for a while and then said, “David will know what to do. Tell his secretary to give him this news.”
Meanwhile, Dina was shooting a commercial advertisement in the studio when she was informed that her cooperative project with Sky Entertainment had been rescinded.

“We’re very sorry to inform you, Miss Dina, that today’s shooting is cancelled because the partners have decided to pull the plug on the program.”

Dina, who had already changed her outfit and put on makeup, was blood-red with rage, like a bull pawing the ground before charging. “What are you talking about? Do you know how valuable time is to me? I’ve spent all morning in this stupid studio and now you’re telling me that the shooting has been called off. How do you intend to make up for lost time?”

The staff remained very polite and apologetic. “The person in charge of the project team will take care of this matter and discuss the details with your studio. Sorry for the inconvenience.”

“No, I won’t accept this. You have to give me a reasonable…”

“Dina, I have something to tell you.” Before Dina could even finish, her manager walked in with an anxious expression on her face.

“What’s going on?” Dina asked as she got pulled into the corner by her manager. Dina was scheduled for a movie shoot with Director Zhang next week, which was why everything had to be done before that. However, the sudden cancellation of her project would completely overturn all her plans, leaving her with no time to reschedule or rearrange her timetable.

“Dina, I was just notified by the company that all the projects you’re involved in have been shut down.” The manager gave her the cold, hard truth with a stern look on her face. In all her years of working with celebrities and stars, she had never come across an emergency of this magnitude.

As a matter of fact, even if the star was involved in some sort of scandal, the company would rarely cancel the entire project. But this time, something must have pushed the company to come to this decision.

“Dina, by any chance, did you upset Jacob Gu, the boss of the Bai Group?” the manager asked gingerly.

“What? No! How would someone like me offend such an important person?” Dina immediately denied it without a second thought. But then, suddenly, her pensive eyes drifted off into contemplation. “Are you telling me that what happened today was all because of him?”

The manager nodded. “The order of calling off all your activities came straight from the Bai Group.”

“What? That doesn’t make any sense! Even if the Bai Group doesn’t want to work with me, what about the other companies?”

Shocked and outraged, a flood of incoherencies, spoken in a high-pitched, whining voice, poured from Dina’s lips. “The Bai Group has already taken over the Sky Entertainment Group, and now we are all at the mercy of Mr. Jacob.”

The manager sighed with resignation. Apparently, during Jacob’s last visit to their company when he had advised their senior executives to let Dina’s studio work with SL Jewelry, Sky Entertainment Group had already been involved in the process of acquisition. The manager had only come to learn about this matter a few moments ago.

Dina was smart enough to figure out that if Jacob really had anything to do with this, then he must have acted on behalf of Emily.

“Damn it! I’m sure Emily knows what’s going on. I’ll go find her and ask her about it.”

“Wait, Dina, calm down. What do you mean Director Emily knows what’s going on? What does she have to do with this?” The manager was surprised to know that Emily was also involved, so she ran to catch up with Dina, worried that she might do something stupid.

“You may as well stay out of this. I’ll take care of it on my own.” Boiling with anger, Dina shook the coat off her shoulders and walked straight to the parking lot in her high heels.

Without wasting any time, Dina sped all the way to the office of SL and stormed into the building.

“Miss Dina! Miss Dina, you can’t see Director Emily without an appointment.” The receptionist at the front desk tried to stop her, but Dina wasn’t going to take no for an answer.

“What’s going on?” The moment Joyce saw Dina, she quickly came forward and blocked her way to Emily’s office.

Dina knew that Joyce was Emily’s assistant, so she demanded, “Go and inform Mr. Jacob that I have something really important to discuss with Emily.”

Casting a cold, hard gaze at Joyce with her arms crossed over her chest, Dina stood there like she owned the place. Joyce found Dina’s attitude very irritating and the way she stormed into the company was very disrespectful.

Judging by Dina’s demeanor, it was clear that she was here looking to make trouble.

Joyce cleared her throat and said, “I’m sorry, Miss Dina. Director Emily is not at the office right now. If you’d like to see her, you need to make an appointment.” Dina didn’t know what else to say as she hadn’t expected to find that Emily wasn’t at the company.

“When will she be back?”

Joyce glanced at her watch and replied, “She is scheduled to attend a meeting this morning in the head office, so she might not return to the company until afternoon.”

“Okay, then. I’ll just wait for her here until she comes back.” Dina didn’t mind waiting for a while since it was almost noon.

Having realized that Dina wasn’t going to leave without speaking to Emily, Joyce concocted a plan and said, “All right then. Why don’t you come with me to the conference room while you wait for Miss Emily?”

She kept Dina waiting for almost two hours in there.

The moment Emily stepped into the building and walked past the reception desk, Joyce approached her and told her about Dina.

“What is she doing here?” Emily had just returned from Jacob’s office where she got a copy of the report from Jacob. Since the report said that the handwriting belonged to Dina, Emily was in no mood to converse with her.

‘Why would she come to me?’ Emily wondered.

She didn’t go back to her office. Instead, she went straight to the conference room.

“Emily, you must be really busy. I’ve been waiting to see you for ages!” The sarcasm in Dina’s words was so ripe that anyone would be able to smell it from a mile away.

“How dare you show your face here?” Emily shot a cold glare at Dina and then pulled out a chair to sit down.

Dina’s face displayed an incredulous expression. “What do you mean?”

The corners of Emily’s mouth curved upwards as she opened her bag and pulled out the report. She slammed the piece of paper on the table in front of Dina.

“You know what I mean. Don’t bother playing hide-and-seek with me. I’ve never done anything to cause you harm. I don’t understand why you would send me a postcard threatening me.” Emily decided to get straight to the point.

Dina paused for a while to digest the implication of Emily’s allegations. And the moment she picked up the report, everything became crystal clear to her. ‘So, Emily knows that I was the one who sent her the postcard.

So what?’ Dina thought.