Chapter 23: I Don’t Care What Others Say
Gwenda was struck speechless.
"I don't care what others say, I know what kind of person you are, and that's enough."
Olivier gazed intently at her, the tenderness in his eyes seemingly engulfing her within them. Gwenda felt like as if there was something stuck in her heart and was about to leak out of it. She took a deep breath and turned around. "I'll be heading back to my room for now."
Then, she hurried into her bedroom and locked the door.
Olivier stared at her and smiled.
"Is she trying to get me to bail in the face of difficulty?
Not a chance!" He thought to himself with a grin.
At this time, on the other side of town, Cecilia's manager finally showed up after vanishing for many years as Cecilia had not been working as usual. She aggressively knocked on the door of her house, attracting many onlookers.
"Cecilia Kelly! Cecilia! You get out here right now!"
Cecilia, who was writing a song, heard the noise outside her door. She then hurriedly got up from her computer and went to open the door.
The moment the door opened, her manager Cindy Lee barged in impatiently and demanded, "What's wrong with you? Where have you been? Didn't I arrange for you to sing at the bridge? Why didn't you go?" "I don't want to go anymore."
Cecilia replied nonchalantly.
"Are you going against me? How dare you tell me that you don't want to go!"
Cindy glared at her as if she had heard the most inconceivable thing. "Do you know that disobeying company orders would result in a ban?"
"What's the difference between my current situation and being banned?"
Hearing what Cindy said, Cecilia became emotional. Thinking of the grievances she suffered all these years, she snapped. "Ever since I signed with KG Entertainment, all you ever did was let me sing at the bridge. My monthly salary isn't even enough to pay my rent, and I never got the chance to be on stage during release seasons nor usual times. There's no news of the album you promised to release back then either. It's been five years, Cindy, and I got nothing. How is this different from being banned?"
"You're bringing this up to me now?"
Cindy did not expect her to bring up old matters. She frowned and said, "The company is doing this for your own good, you know. We're training you."
"Training? You needed to use five years to train me?" Cecilia sneered. "If so, I'd like to know why those newcomers who debuted didn't get trained like this. How is it that they're already allowed on stage after training for merely two to three months? Why did the company not let them sing on the bridge and train them that way?"
"Are you trying to rebel against me now, Cecilia Kelly? What, you think you're very talented? I'm telling you, there are more talented folks out there compared to you. Why aren't you famous? Is it because we didn't give you any chances? No, you're the one who's useless!"
Cindy's words were unpleasant.
In the past, Cecilia had constantly heard of such mockery directed at her. She would then deeply reflect on herself and thought that her prowess was truly lacking.
But today, her emotions have reached their boiling point and she refused to tolerate this any longer. "If that's the case, the company can just give up on me! Let me fend for myself. I don't need your so-called training anymore!"
Cindy did not expect her to have such a temper today. Fuming, she nodded to everything that Cecilia said and snarled. "Very well, you want to rebel? Fine. Since you've got the guts, I don't see the need to renew your contract further. I'll report to Mr. Evans tomorrow, and I'd like to see if there's any company out there that would take in an artist like you without the aid of KG Entertainment!"
With that, she stormed away angrily and slammed the door shut with an angry bang.
Cecilia stood there for a while before she returned to her senses.
She actually yelled at someone!
All these years, she had always been the one who got yelled at and she never dared to talk back.
Who knew that yelling back would feel so good!
However, she had certainly fallen out with KG Entertainment after what happened today.
"I just hope that Gwenda won't disappoint me." Cecilia thought grimly.
"Otherwise, I'll be completely doomed..."☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐