"I’ll go with you," Jared Quinn hooked his large hand over his suit jacket.

"Alright."

Leaving the company, Melody Thorne and Jared Quinn headed straight to Harold Chapman’s place. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

"This is his drug test. It’s not completely clean; there’s still a trace," Harold Chapman spoke up.

"I know, that woman made Howie take something at the bar, probably drugs. Let Leon Rivers come over and see if he has something to suppress it. Ideally, the test result shouldn’t show any mention of drug use," Melody Thorne suggested.

The online public response is too intense right now, so it has to be suppressed a bit.

"Alright."

"Ding," Melody Thorne’s phone received a message from Caleb: "This matter is related to Dynasty Entertainment. They’re manipulating things from behind the scenes."

"It’s Dynasty Entertainment!" Melody Thorne was a bit puzzled. Why would Dynasty Entertainment oppose her so openly? Even if companies compete, they wouldn’t go this far, involving matters of life and death.

"Dynasty Entertainment?" Nina King was also shocked. "I thought it would be some big shot we offended who would go to such lengths, involving murder and all."

"I don’t know," Melody Thorne replied.

Online, the Golden Eagle program group was holding a banquet tomorrow. Artists from major entertainment companies would attend, and they specifically @mentioned Melody Thorne by name, demanding she must show up and explain the recent events.

"This is clearly deliberate," Nina King sneered. "If we go, they’ll surely force you to quit the entertainment circle. They might even shut down the company! Dynasty Entertainment is really playing big!"

"The CEO of Dynasty Entertainment couldn’t be that muddle-headed," Melody Thorne rested her chin on her hand. "Have someone keep an eye on him, see if there’s some internal problem or if someone is using him!"

"Alright."

"Ding," Melody Thorne received another text, this time from Yulia O’Connell.

Although she hadn’t met Yulia O’Connell many times, they were already quite familiar with each other. That bar belonged to Cole O’Connell, so after leaving the bar, she immediately asked Yulia O’Connell to get the bar’s surveillance footage. The missing footage had been retrieved by a hacker!

...

The next day.

Melody Thorne chose a striking black gown, with a slightly exposed shoulder and a fitted skirt underneath. Over it, from the waist down, was a black sheer fabric, her fair and slender legs faintly visible, accentuating her exquisite figure.

The start time of the banquet was extended from half an hour to an hour later. Everyone was watching gleefully, the most obvious ones being a few people from Dynasty Entertainment’s side.

"I bet Melody Thorne won’t show up. She bragged that she’d leave the entertainment circle because of that drug-addicted artist, and now she’s being slapped in the face by her own words. Even if she doesn’t want to leave, we in the circle wouldn’t want her to stay, right?"

"Hah, I wonder if she’s lost her mind or something, dealing with her artist’s issue before her own. What a mystery! Where does she get the confidence to believe her signed artist has no problems? Now it’s blown up and even involves murder!"

"Oh dear, stop saying such scary things. I’m really worried some artist from her company might crash the banquet. Then we’d be in danger," a female star exaggeratedly said, hugging herself and trembling slightly.