With the recent success of her novel, Song of Phoenix, Vivian was already on the verge of making it big.

Maria was bound to lose. That Vivian firmly believed.

As much as Vivian initially denied it, she eventually believed that Maria was indeed Vincent's disciple.

Nevertheless, she believed she was far superior to Maria.

She decided that she would have to inform her father and Aunt Patricia immediately.

As she was in no mood to stay in the chrysanthemum garden, she bid goodbye to the others and left hastily.

In Mathias' bedroom.

Julie walked towards her father slowly with a cup of tea.

Julie and Mathias had not spoken to one another in any capacity in the twenty years since the daughter ran away from her family.

Therefore, as Mathias was going senile, Julie eventually decided to make peace with him.

"Dad, have some tea," Julie quietly said.

"Okay."

Mathias accepted the cup of tea and took a sip.

They fell into silence while Cory, who was standing next to them with a red nose, appeared to have just cried.

“Wow, this is really great came out of his nose.

" Cory cried so much that snot bubbles

Knowing his son could be sentimental at times, Mathias still couldn't help but sigh.

“Get out!"

Naturally, he said this to Cory.

“ALL right! You guys keep talking, and I‘1l go for a walk."