Chapter 271: Chapter 271 Buying Tickets
The pain came quickly, but it faded slowly, with every breath tasting of a dry, bloody tang.
The man’s face turned pale, his grip on the pen gradually tightening until his knuckles were white.
In his daze, he remembered the handmade teacup he had lost.
He loves tea, but few knew this fact. Only Hannah Winter paid attention, every year her birthday gifts for him were related to tea.
Sometimes it was tea leaves, sometimes it was a teapot, and sometimes...a teacup.
In the past, he never took the time to unwrap the gifts from Hannah, even if she handed it to him in person, he would throw it directly into the storeroom in front of her.
He remembered the heartbreaking tears she shed, her tightly clenched lips, and the lost look in her eyes.
It was only after she left him that he finally opened that storeroom, unwrapped all the gifts, and discovered the girl’s little thoughts.
They were filled with her humblest love.
But, the teacup was nowhere to be found.
He casually asked Tiffany about it. She had a distressed look on her face, lowered her head and tearfully said, "George, you still can’t forget your ex-girlfriend... I know, you haven’t forgotten her."
Tiffany Lynch sighed, wiped the tears from her face, and looked up at the man in front of her. "If you can’t forget her, I can leave, wish you happiness."
After saying this, she stood up and tried to walk away.
George River naturally would not let her go. He tightly held onto her and comforted, "Tiffany, you’re overthinking. There isn’t any ex-girlfriend, and no other woman. The one I love has always and will always be you."
Pampering words that could almost drown out her doubts.
But only George River knew that when he said those words, the image that surfaced in his mind was Hannah’s charming, radiant face.
Holding the woman in his arms, he used to believe that as long as she was in his arms, he possessed the whole world. But now... he only felt an empty void in his heart.
It was as if something was missing.
Something that Tiffany couldn’t give him.
The man sat at the head of the conference table, his head bent in thought, the grip on the pen tightened and then loosened.
The person next to him could not fathom George River’s thoughts, so he cautiously suggested, "Director River, the current online opinion is not targeting Tiffany Lynch’s mistake with the theme song, but rather focusing on criticisms about ’Hannah Winter is from royalty’. Do we need to publish some articles to completely divert the netizens’ attention?"
His idea was simple - use the existing online opinions to concentrate everyone’s attention on "Hannah Winter is from royalty". With just a little more guidance, nobody would notice Tiffany Lynch’s singing mistake.
After all, the earlier hype about Tiffany Lynch being an all-rounded ACE was too high. Once the "off-tune live performance" is out, she’d probably be mocked by the crowd.
However, by doing so Hannah would be thrust into the spotlight once more.
But as she’s not one of their own artists, they didn’t need to consider that.
George River was silent for a while, then asked, "What is the ranking situation so far?"
As soon as he finished speaking, someone immediately provided the latest ranking updates.
The production crew had given some agencies special access to monitor the rankings of all participants in real-time.
Up until the last second, in the third group, Hannah’s hits had exceeded Tiffany Lynch’s by 170,000, ranking her first.
The staff member finished checking and immediately provided a professional analysis, "Director River, according to the current trend, by the end of the theme song performance, Hannah Winter is very likely to get first place, should we buy votes?"
