The Hidden Empress Stripping Her Secrets After Divorce novel Chapter 159

The assistant lowered his head, not daring to meet his boss's eyes. "Yes... the public consensus is entirely one-sided. Everyone is saying that Ms. Langford and Ms. Sullivan simply aren't... in the same league. Ms. Sullivan earned the highest international respect through her undeniable skills, while Ms. Langford..." He fell silent again.

On the screen, Evelyn was delivering her final remarks in fluent, beautiful Swahili. She looked focused and sincere, an untouchable aura radiating around her. The camera then panned back over the VIP section. The director's cut created a subtle, jarring juxtaposition between Sebastian's composed yet intensely dark gaze and Evelyn's serene presence on stage.

Christian's pupils contracted to pinpricks. Sebastian Thorne?! He was there too?! Sitting in the prime VIP seats as an honored guest, witnessing all this glory with his own eyes?!

An unprecedented wave of emotions crushed Christian's chest: a massive sense of absurdity, the furious realization of utter betrayal, and a sharp, suffocating panic and agony.

Evelyn was half a world away in Africa, being worshipped as a living deity, and Sebastian was right there in the audience witnessing her ultimate triumph. Meanwhile, he, Christian Lancaster, was trapped in this concrete cage, throwing a tantrum over cheap, fabricated "evidence," tearing his hair out trying to manage Lyra and her increasingly messy scandals. In fact... in the eyes of the entire world, he had probably just become the ultimate punchline—the blind fool who tossed away a diamond for a rock.

It felt as if a red-hot branding iron had reached straight out of the screen and seared his face and his heart.

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