Chapter 30: Psychological manipulation

As expected, Regina's reputation quickly increased rapidly, a series of cooperation contracts on music, advertising ... were sent to Lightning company. Mr. Otis was overjoyed, he realized that Regina had a lot more potential for fame compared to Roxana. Not to mention Regina's outstanding vocal ability, her attitude also attracts a huge number of fans. Just a month after Regina's album was released, she surpassed Roxana to become the most popular female singer at the company, earning hundreds of millions of dollars in sales.

Regina's albums and products that Regina represents are selling well and sold out within minutes of opening. The brands and directors who once despised and bullied Regina have changed their attitude and humbled themselves to invite Regina to sign them.

There are many people who celebrate Regina's success and feel that she deserves it, but there are also many who envy and hate Regina.

The most exasperated one is definitely Roxana. She threw the phone against the wall and it broke. This is the fifth phone that Roxana has broken, but she hasn't calmed down in days.

"Roxana, what's the use of throwing your phone away?" Anne went into her daughter's room dejectedly and sat down by the bed.

"But mom, I can't stand it. You don't understand, people on the internet are mocking me."

Roxana picked up the broken phone and gave it to Anne. There are many articles and comments about Regina's success. When Regina became famous, her private life was quickly explored by the online community, and of course, the fact that Roxana was Regina's sister was also revealed.

Roxana had never mentioned this to anyone before, and neither had Regina. So everyone is curious about the relationship between Regina and Roxana, whether the two Lynne sisters are close to each other. Besides, because the two sisters nahf Lynne are both singers, it is inevitable that they will be compared.

If before, when Regina was not famous, Roxana was completely confident that she had an advantage over Regina. But now, people mocked her for being less popular than her sister, which annoyed Roxana.

Anne skimmed through some of the comments and sighed.

"I'll talk to your father about this, we'll definitely have a solution."

"Father is no longer the biggest investor in Lightning company. What's more, the mysterious new investor who invested trillions in my management company is biased towards Regina." Roxana said indignantly.

“This… ah yes, I know someone who can help you.” Anne slapped her forehead and cried out. "I heard that Hubert Roger has returned home, hasn't he contacted you?"

"Hubert Roger has returned?" Roxana was startled by surprise, hearing the name of the person she loved, she forgot the anger she had felt for the past few days.

That same afternoon, Roxana went looking for Hubert Roger. She couldn't reach Hubert, so she contacted his secretary. Through Hubert's secretary, Roxana learned that as soon as he returned home, Hubert had taken over the family business, so he was very busy. Roxana could have sympathized with Hubert because he hadn't contacted her for a month, but the secretary's last words made Roxan hesitate.

"As soon as he got off the airport, he only had a short free time to go to Lightning Company. It seems he went there to visit an acquaintance."

At Lightning Company, except for Roxana, the only person who knows Hubert is Regina. This proves that when Hubert returned home, he immediately went to find Regina instead of her. With anger, she struggled to find Hubert's office. At this time, Hubert had just finished the meeting, his face seemed a little tired, he loosened his tie, but even so, his appearance was still brilliant.

Seeing Roxana waiting outside his office, Hubert let out a sneaky sigh and then approached her.

"When did you come here, why didn't you tell me first?"

"Are you blaming me? Obviously you came home without telling me anything. Have you forgotten me?" Roxana said in a pitiful voice, her eyes glittering with tears.

"Okay, I'm sorry. Did I buy you a lot of presents, is that enough to make you happier?" Hubert patted her head like a brother indulges his sister, then he led her into the office.

Hubert is a romantic and sophisticated man, he knows how to choose gifts to please women. Sure enough, when Roxana saw the exquisitely sparkling gift boxes that Hubert's secretary had brought in, she couldn't contain her joy. Although the Lynne family is rich and Joshua also pampers Roxana, Hubert's generosity still makes Roxana happy. Not to mention, the gifts that Hubert bought were very expensive and rare.

"Pearl necklace... quartz earrings... ah there's also the latest model phone... Only you can understand me. I just broke my phones." Roxana happily threw herself into Hubert's lap.

"Why do you break so many phones? Has your temper still not changed?" Hubert spoke in a tone of pretense of reproach lightly.

"Ahh... it's annoying to mention it again." Roxana blurted out a sentence.

She threw all her things on the table and sat down on the sofa, crossing her legs and grabbing her new phone.

"What's wrong?" Hubert got her a glass of water.

"...Did you immediately go to see Regina after returning home?" Roxana did not answer Hubert's question, but asked another question.

"Right." Hubert replied casually.

"You favor her!"

Roxana was jealous and brushed away the glass of water that Hubert was holding in his hand. Fortunately, the glass of water did not break, but the floor was wet. Hubert's gaze darkened slightly, but soon he regained his usual gentle gaze, sat down beside Roxana and reassured her. He explained that he went to Lightning Company to meet both Lynne sisters, but apparently Roxana was not at the company that day. After that, because he was too busy with work, he could not contact any friends or relatives.

"Really?" Roxana seemed to have calmed down, she asked softly.

"Um, don't think too much."

"It's true that I was worrying too much. I'm sorry, my feelings were a bit negative earlier, and it was all because of Regina." Roxana felt bad about her actions just now. Although her personality is arbitrary, she always tries to create the best image in front of the person she loves. Therefore, she hurriedly took a paper towel to wipe the water on the floor.

Hubert looked at her, let her clumsily clean the floor, and then asked.

"You and Regina quarreled?"

"It's not just an argument."

Roxana sat down beside Hubert and told the whole story. Hubert by the way also asked about Regina's marriage. Of course, for someone as immersed in blind love as Roxana, she didn't hesitate to tell Hubert everything.

"That's it. I've been doubting these days if that scary mafia boss is the biggest shareholder in the company who's been doing his best to support Regina's career." Roxana lamented, but when she turned to look at Hubert, she saw a thoughtful expression on his face. She grabbed his hand and shook it gently. "Are you listening to me?"

"Hmm? Ah, I heard."

"So... can you help me? Can you bear to see me being mocked by the online community all the time?" Roxana snuggled into Hubert's lap, she was sure this would make Hubert relent and obey her.

However, contrary to her thoughts, Hubert the sister hummed and did not answer clearly, then he used the excuse of unresolved work to ask Roxana to return home. After Roxana left, Hubert's expression was no longer gentle, he sighed with a frown and picked up a stack of documents, reading intently.

Some time ago, when he learned that Regina was married to Darryl Rider, he immediately hired a good detective to investigate all information related to that infamous mafia boss. Information regarding Darryl is really limited, there are only a few basic information such as age, business and few simple relationships.

Hubert threw the file on the table, leaned back in his chair, and rubbed the middle part of his forehead with his hand.

Hubert was puzzled why Darryl suddenly wanted to marry Regina. In fact, Darryl can completely pay a large amount of money to the Lynne family to make Regina become his mistress, when he gets bored, he can kick her. But Darryl made the decision to marry Regina, not even hesitate to announce it to the whole world.

Is it for love?

But the detective told Hubert that Regina met Darryl and they got married in less than two weeks. Hubert felt it was impossible to develop feelings between them in such a short amount of time. In addition, Roxana also expressed her suspicions about a mysterious 'shareholder' of the Lightning company and assumed it was Darryl Rider. To be honest, Hubert had the same thoughts as her.

This was the first time Hubert had clearly felt a threat from a man beside Regina. To Hubert, Regina was like a woman he knew early on that she was bound to be his. So when he went to study abroad, he had absolutely no worries. Unexpectedly, someone dared to rob Hubert's woman, this is really a provocation for a man with an eagerness like Hubert.