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CHAPTER 43

Author: Olivia GW
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-04-15 13:15:14

Celeste’s POV

Isadora’s smugness faltered, her face draining of color.

The women around her started. A few even stepped away from her.

"You—you’re lying," she sputtered, trying to regain control. "Madam Diane would never wear such trash. She has better taste than this cheap mess you’ve draped on these hangers."

But the words had barely left her mouth when a voice, cool and unmistakably elegant, cut through the tension like silk over glass.

"Oh? And here I thought I’d arrived early."

Everyone turned.

There, standing in the boutique’s entrance, was Madam Diane herself.

Everyone in the business world knew better than to offend Madam Diane lightly. She was no mere socialite with a vanity title, but the wife of a senior Ministry of Finance official.

She and her family have the power to make or break reputations with a few pointed words. Connections like hers didn’t just open doors—they decided who was invited in, and who was left out in the cold.

Isadora turned, all pretense draining fro
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