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Chapter 248 My Precious
The hall immediately fell into complete darkness. To better ensure that the finale of The Quest would not be interrupted by
unnecessary noise, the organizers had requested that the audience and special guests leave their cell phones outside of the
venue.
Due to the sudden situation, the crowd present had started to speculate what was going on.
“What’s this?”
“Is the power out?”
“How could they allow something like this to happen on The Quest’s finale?”
In the midst of the chaos, the screen on the stage lit up suddenly. Everyone immediately shifted their focus to what was on it.
Maia was surprised to see that it was her wedding video!
“Do you, Maia Burgess, take Cedric Larkin to be your husband? To promise to love him and keep him for better or worse, for
richer or poorer, in sickness and health, and be faithful only to him, for as long as you both shall live?”
Maia looked at Cedric shyly as she could not hide the love in her eyes. “I do.”
“Do you, Cedric Larkin, take Maia Burgess to be your wife? To promise to love her and keep her for better or worse, for richer or
poorer, in sickness and health, and be faithful only to her, for as long as you both shall live?”
Cedric hesitated before agreeing coldly. “I do.”
The people present in the video were smiling, yet their smiles were not entirely sincere. Some were generally happy, others were
just waiting to see how this marriage would turn out.
Maia had not expected her marriage video footage to be broadcast live on The Quest’s finale. This scene reminded her of the
time when she reappeared at Homer and Yvette’s press conference, while playing the video of how Yvette had treated Errol and
Maia did not panic. In fact, she was surprisingly calm through this ordeal. She knew that someone was behind this. The culprit
had the capability of interfering with such a huge event and chose to do this just as they were about to announce the winners.
The culprit did it to ensure that this issue would attract the attention of millions of viewers, and to make Maia the center of
attention so that the internet would be talking about her instead of her survival program and their new girl group.
Who could it be? Who was the mastermind behind this?
The video footage caused a minor disturbance amongst the crowd as they started talking
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“What’s going on? Was this a technical error?”
“This was Ms. Maia and Mr. Cedric’s marriage video footage! Did you see how forceful Mr. Cedric sounded when he said I do?”
“Right? Now I think I can understand why they ended up filing for divorce. Did you see how Ms. Maia looked at him? She must
have loved him deeply!”
“Yet, Mr. Cedric was so cold. I couldn’t help but feel bad for Ms. Maia!”
When the audience were busy discussing the nature of Maia and Cedric’s relationship, the video came to a stop, and an audio
started playing.
“Honey, where are you? Are you coming back for dinner? I’ve learned how to cook, now I can make lots of kinds of dishes for
you.”
“Honey, it’s getting colder now. Make sure you take care of yourself over there. Did they prepare warm clothes for you?”
“Honey, are you busy? Could you please reply to my text, even just for a while.”
Aiken’s face fell as he signaled the backstage crew to handle the situation. However, when they tried to play a different backtrack
that they had prepared, it was all Maia’s voices.
broadcast viewership immediately rose up to a few hundred millions of viewers as everyone wanted to tune in to the gossip!
“It’s no wonder Ms. Maia turned out like this. It was all Mr. Cedric’s fault!”
“Ms. Maia must have been through a lot to change from being a gentle person to an iron lady. It must have been an agonizing
and difficult experience.”
“I’m conflicted now. Should I continue supporting the warring couple?”
“At first, I only felt bad for Mr. Cedric, but now I feel bad for both of them!”
Maia was a hundred percent sure that this was all done intentionally by someone with ill will. Even though she did not know who
was behind this yet, she would make sure to hunt the culprit down and make him or her pay!
How dare the culprit bring up something that she had tried so hard to bury and expose it to the public. Only she knew how much
those audio clips and videos hurt her.
Maia bit her lower lip to remain calm and collected as she signaled the crew to pass her a microphone.
She took the microphone from the staff and forced a smile to make herself seem unfazed by
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Out of the blue, a man appeared on the stage and commented, “I’m surprised that my most prized possessions would be shown
on the screen of The Quest.”
The crowd gasped in surprise as they turned to the voice. They were shocked to see Cedric showing up on stage.
At the same time, the audio was cut as Baz had managed to take control of the situation. Maia looked at Cedric in surprise as
she was still on her way to the stage.
Her grip tightened on the microphone as she wondered when he had arrived at the scene.
Cedric walked toward Aiken and stared at him. Aiken immediately stepped aside and invited Cedric to take over his place with a
smile.
When Aiken turned around, he whispered softly to cheer on himself, “It’s okay, don’t be upset. He is the only one that could help
Maia now. I’m a world famous actor, let’s be generous!”
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