Chapter 332 Alice Murphy
Sarah’s company had put in a great deal of effort to contain the news of her plagiarized song. Nicole, however, didn’t allow for this to happen. She ordered Gardner Corporation to announce Sarah as an ambassador for Ann—this started a huge trend as all the focus was on Sarah once more.
This time, the netizens managed to hunt down a lot more of Sarah’s dark history. This was possibly the most popular she had ever been since her debut. The information that Whitney had gathered was complete, and the way things were posted made it extremely clear. Whitney didn’t allow anyone to refute the statements she had made.
Initially, the company thought that the hype was dying down and that they could get away without making a statement. However, the situation only became increasingly severe as the media sites started making reports about it. The company couldn’t handle it at all. In the end, they had to get Sarah to make an official apology.
Sarah had no choice but to step forward and apologize. First, she uploaded a tweet to explain that an old friend of hers had written the song and that she had only sung it after getting her friend’s permission. Back then, she claimed that she had written the song because she had been an immature child. There were a bunch of other things that Sarah wrote after the initial explanation, but it gave others a headache just looking at all the words.
After Sarah made the statement, Gardner Corporation’s finance department gave Sarah’s manager a call to ask for the compensation fees. Once they received the money, Nicole got Alice to come in and sign the agreement. Alice was one of the most popular and talented actresses in the current generation. She was still in her early twenties, but she had already won all sorts of prizes.
“I’d like to thank you for working with us, Alice!” Nicole uttered with a beam. She made sure that Alice had settled down in her seat before handing her a cup of tea.
Alice was dressed in casual sweatpants, and she had a cap, face mask, and sunglasses that concealed her face. Despite this, she had a strong aura that seemed to fill the room the moment she walked in.
She took off her cap, sunglasses, and face mask to reveal her bare face. She had sharp features and a sweet smile. “This weather is terribly hot,” she said after taking a deep breath. “I nearly got a heat stroke when I wore a full costume for one of my movie scenes,” she said.
The smile on Nicole’s face widened when she saw how at ease the other girl seemed. “Drink some of this warm water. It should quench your thirst,” Nicole offered.
Alice finished the whole cup and brushed the beads of sweat off her forehead before she started speaking. “You don’t have to thank me, Nicole. You can just tell me if you need anything. You saved my whole family, after all.”
Nicole shook her head. “I was just doing my job. I really appreciate that you agreed to take this job as Ann’s ambassador.”
In the past, Alice’s father had suffered from a tumor in the brain, and he couldn’t find any doctor who could help him. Alice was just a rookie actress back then—she couldn’t afford to pay for the huge sum of medical fees for her father.
Coincidentally, Nicole had returned to the country by then. When she saw Alice kneeling at the front entrance of the hospital and begging for the doctor to perform surgery on her father, the bitter look on Alice’s face reminded her of herself when her mother had been ill.
This scene touched a part of Nicole’s heart, and Nicole decided to bring Alice and her father to one of Julia’s local hospitals, where Nicole personally completed the surgery.
The surgery was a huge success, and Nicole didn’t take a single penny from then. Since then, Alice had always treated Nicole as the savior of their family. Even though Alice was famous now, she would never forget the kind deeds that Nicole did for her family.
When Nicole called to ask if Alice could be the ambassador, Alice instantly rearranged all her recent schedules to ensure that she would have time to take up this ambassadorship role for Ann.
