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201 Five Years Later

Author: Nyx Rai
last update Last Updated: 2024-11-25 23:15:05

Gossip is like flies in summer, they spread, but they die fast, too.

The news about Scarlett going to prison died out faster than usual, and even the launching of her movie a year after stirred little fuss up. She was infamous for a while with all the talks about her miscarriage, about the attempt murder case, about her divorce with Sebastian Knight. But those stories soon touched the edge of myth such as how she already died in the prison, and died soon after that.

People has short memories. They only remember what they see, and these days, it’s Ava Knight.

Yes, the famous actress who won a bunch of awards, married her first love from childhood, the famous CEO of the Knight Empire, and became the hostess of Z-house.

Officially listed no less.

But those are not the reasons why people talk about her.

People talk about her because she ran the Z-house into the ground, and her billionaire husband doesn’t seem to even care about that. How indulging, people say about him, to give your
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Rose
ThatsCRAPP You can’t marry anyone who isn’t present
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Neema Renji
Scar might not have agreed to go to prison had she known she had a daughter waiting for her !!!
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Desiree Fatima Santiago
what happened to the kids, after so many days and 1 chapter only, just read the comments and you could get what the reader wants
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