During a family dinner, Amy suddenly announced that she was gonna marry Frances in August. Everyone was happy for her and Frances.
Helena was the happiest one. She started to prepare for the wedding immediately. Fritzi and Cristelle also said that they would like to help.
Helena was glad that she was getting more helping hands. There were still a couple of months before August. But they already couldn’t wait.
Amy asked Mia to be her maid of honor. Mia agreed without any hesitation. To fit in the dress, Mia decided to start a diet immediately.
“Cody, Thea, just promise me that you guys will come over, okay?” Amy asked.
Cody nodded, “Definitely.”
Thea also would like to go. Time did fly. So many years had passed and now Amy was also getting married as well.
The shooting of the second movie, Heavenfall, also continued. Thea and Dylan made it to the shooting site on time. They’d finished most of the action before Christmas, and now they only got easy scenes left.
They got scenes with CGI. So they had to finish most of those scenes before the green screens.
The shooting was wrapped up in April. After the wrap party, Thea received a call from Antony. He said Wind & Dust had been edited, and the movie was sent to compete in an international movie award. He asked Thea and Dylan to go to Berlin for the awarding ceremony.
The ceremony was one of the biggest movie events in the whole world. A lot of celebrities would like to go every year for its fame.
This year, Thea was invited by the sponsor of the event. It was a huge honor.
Thea’s dress and jewelry were all sponsored by big brands this year. They sent a lot of samples for Thea to pick.
However, Thea still decided to wear the dress Fritzi and Cristelle designed for her. Fritzi and Cristelle established a brand one year ago. It was still new blood to the market, but it was doing great.
Thea wanted to do advertisements for her family.
The ceremony started in May. Thea and Dylan went to Berlin together.
After getting her styles and makeup done in the hotel, Thea held Antony’s arm and showed up at the end of the red carpet. She looked as beautiful and elegant as a goddess. The snapping of those cameras almost blinded her. But she still managed to keep her eyes open.
The golden dress she wore made her look almost divine.
When she walked down the carpet with the crew members, Cody got jealous again.
He stood at the other end of the carpet, and he looked like he wanted to kill someone.
Why did Dylan have to stand so close to her?
However, Dylan was completely unaware of how Cody looked at him.
At this time, a small stir of chaos made
Thea looked over her shoulder.
Stella showed up behind them as well, wearing a long black dress. She followed the Wind & Dust crew so closely, making people think that she was also one of the cast. She looked like she was prepared to step on Dylan’s tail if he had one.
“Oh my god… She does know how to steal other people’s spotlight, doesn’t she?” Zara instantly called the PR, “Yeah. I’d like you to write some articles about Stella and post them online. That woman is shameless.”
Stella knew how the business worked in showbiz. Her photos on the red carpet started to trend on the internet overnight.
Wind & Dust won a lot of prizes. Due to its female perspective, Thea also won the prize of Best Actress.
Antony didn’t expect that to be happy at all. He was so glad for Thea. Those judges did have some taste. Thea’s performance in that movie was impeccable.
All her fans went crazy after hearing the news. Thea felt she could finally end her acting career without any regrets after finishing the shooting of Heavenfall.
Stella took the chance and tried to market herself. Her team sent out a lot of beautiful photos of hers when she walked the red carpet, saying that she was the next Thea Todd.
Stella tried to take photos with Thea on the red carpet. Thea didn’t mind taking photos with rookies. So she hooked an arm around Stella’s shoulder and took some photos with her.
Stella’s fans were so happy. They said Thea spotted the raw talent in Stella, and Stella was the most expected star in the next generation.
Some rumors even said that Thea was intent on asking Stella to sign up for her company.
Anyway, those articles were basically saying that Stella had gotten Thea’s recognition and she was gonna replace Thea Todd one day, becoming the new national treasure.
Zara was so pissed. She had never seen anyone this shameless before.
Thea, however, didn’t seem to care about minor issues like this after winning the award she wanted the most in her life.
No matter how hard Stella tries, she can never surpass Thea. Just let Stella’s team do whatever they wanted. It was not like Thea would lose anything from that.
Zara only said that Thea was being unrealistically naive.
Stella got her fame by stealing other people’s thunder. She hired countless internet bots to boost her pretty face. Now, she decided to use Thea as a stepping stone. The next step of her team would be making Thea look ugly so she could step on Thea’s head.
Thea shrugged. She didn’t like to make too many guesses before anything happened for real.
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After the ceremony, they went back to their country, taking Cody’s private jet. Thea rested her head on Cody’s shoulder on their flight back, drifting into a deep sleep.
Cody didn’t mind that because Thea had been quite busy recently.
When they went back to their house, Grace made a big meal to celebrate Thea’s winning during the award ceremony.
On the table, Thea’s favorite dishes were everywhere. However, when Thea smelt the fragrance, she suddenly covered her mouth and retched, running toward the bathroom afterward.