Once again, the audience went into an uproar when they saw Janet remain onstage. The music played and she started moving gracefully, her dress accentuating her slender waist and swaying along with her movements.
She successfully made every single movement of hers look perfect and elegant while she glided on the stage nimbly. At the same time, she would move her eyes gracefully, looking mischievous at one moment and elegant the next, perfectly complementing her dance moves.
Everyone was transfixed by her performance, their eyes brimming with admiration. The judges and the audience were stuck in a trance even after her performance ended. By the time everyone recovered, Janet had already retreated backstage.
“Please play ‘Sorrow’ again with the lute!”
“Please dance again!”
“My idol, please come out to the stage now!”
The audience were crazy about her but the young girl who had successfully charmed them within five minutes never reappeared on stage despite their keen requests.
Meanwhile, Mason was watching Janet’s breathtaking performance on his computer at the Lowry Residence. As it turned out, Janet had left hurriedly just now because she needed to attend her school anniversary celebration. At that exact moment, someone knocked on the door of the study.
“Come in.”
Sean cautiously walked in and placed a file on Mason’s desk. He inadvertently glanced at Mason’s computer and was immediately enamored by Janet’s performance. Taking a closer look at Janet’s face, Sean asked in astonishment, “Isn’t she that superb doctor?”
Mason took a sip of wine, his movements exuding a noble and distinguished aura as he responded, “Yes.”
“Young Master Mason, did you hack into the CCTV cameras installed at her school?”
Mason stared at the screen with his long and slanted eyes, much like a predator staring at its prey. Sean was first shocked to see the woman who appeared on the screen and then was flabbergasted to see how smitten Young Master Mason was with her. Since when did he make so much effort for a woman? For her sake, the young man was even willing to go to the extent of hacking the CCTV cameras installed at her school…
“Sean, help me check what happened along her journey to the hospital earlier today,” Mason instructed.
“Yes, sir.”
He almost forgot about the tiny abrasion at the corner of her eye when she reached the hospital. It seemed like she got it not too long ago and it didn’t seem to be caused by a fall. In that case, what had she experienced that could have left the injury on her face? He had to get to the bottom of it—he would never allow anybody to touch her!
…
With such a scintillating performance, it didn’t come as a surprise that Janet was crowned as the winner of tonight. Regretfully, she left right after her performance and didn’t stay for the award ceremony.
The runner-up was Emily and Gordon. Gordon accepted his defeat very readily because Janet’s performance was absolutely better than his. As for Emily, she congratulated Janet for her win but deep down inside, she felt overwhelming resentment. If she had known that Janet would steal the limelight of the event from her, she wouldn’t have registered Janet for the contest.
That night, some boys from the school immediately posted the performance video and photos of Janet to a campus belle forum on Reddit. The rest of the boys frantically added their comments in the forum to show their support for Janet. One of them even posted a video comparing Emily to Janet. It was said that Emily had done well that night and managed to impress the audience but as soon as Janet appeared, her performance was immediately forgotten.
When Emily logged into her Reddit account and saw most of the comments were about Janet, she freaked out and nearly smashed her laptop to pieces. Janet’s performance rose swiftly to fame and even the campus belle, Jennifer Lewis, almost paled in her presence. Noticing that her performance had become a hit, Gordon quickly called Janet to inform her. “You’re a celebrity now, Janet! Your performance video is all over Reddit and Twitter!”
Janet quickly hung up on him to check out her Twitter account. Goodness gracious!
Never had she thought that her performance would go viral on the Internet. By hook or by crook, she had to do something to quell the public enthusiasm on her performance. Shortly later, she called Lee and told him, “Hey, I accidentally went viral on the internet. Can you help me tone down the discussion? I want everything related to my performance to vanish.”
“Janet, why don’t you just delete your Twitter account?” Lee provided her with an even better solution without having to spend a single cent.
