Rey’s pov ;
I couldn’t believe my luck. Of all the things I had planned, of all the precautions I had taken, this was what I ended up walking into.
Amanda had assured me everything was in place, that Sophie would be eliminated in the first round, and I couldn’t afford any slip-ups. With connections from both the Gu family and the Carpenter family among the judges, Sophie’s defeat was practically guaranteed.
It was supposed to be foolproof. Sophie was nothing. A nobody. But if she managed to sneak through—if that b***h somehow advanced—everything I had worked for would crumble. The Carpenter family’s precious daughter, the one they had been obsessing over for years, would be found. And then, Sophie would be everywhere. In the media, on the news, in public—and I couldn’t let that
