Chapter 4: The award ceremony
That was the last time ariel cried for the time she suffered under that beast, for the unborn baby she lost and for all the mistakes she made.
Xander's pink modeling and production became famous in these days. It is the same agency that introduced more number of models into the entertainment industry.
On top of that, this year, they have nominated for the fastest growing agency's award in the entertainment industry. Rachel has selected as the best actress for her latest film, "Mr. Billionaire's love."
This year's awards are special for everyone as the awards for all the fields are going to be conducted in a single platform. This platform will be an excellent opportunity to expand one's territory.
The official representative of the phoenix group of industries announced there would be a banquet as they were also nominated for this year as they have ventured newly in multiple fields this year.
The phoenix group of industries is a conglomerate established by the Evans family and now under Christian Evans. Even though it has founded long back, Christian single-handedly made it famous locally and overseas.
Rumors were circling in the business circle that the banquet is to introduce their official heir to the business world. Everyone in his friend's circle is curious to know who the heir is as Christian never married after his wife died.
He never married and was not interested in anyone. He dedicated his life to expanding his business and never thought of having a family. His son is not known to many of his friend circle.
His guilt of not supporting his one and only sister and losing her for an accident never allowed him to thought about himself.
Xander and Rachel got the invitations as well for this banquet. Being invited to this banquet made them more important in other's eyes. In the business circle, it is all about expanding connections.
The more you have connections, the more you will have benefits and advantages in this circle. It doesn't matter what underhanded matters you can use as long as it brings benefits.
If you are in the limelight, whether positively or negatively, then only people will recognize you and appreciate you.
In this one year, many disappeared from the limelight without any trace of being existing. It was the same case with ariel.
Xander and Rachel didn't give a single thought about how she might be or where she might be. All they thought is how luxurious their life after she left. They looted her and left on the streets to fend herself.
Rachel never left a single chance to degrade her personality even after she left the film industry. Ariel was once a famous model and actress who acted in art and social message films.
At a tender age of sixteen, she became a runway model that too the youngest one for a decade. At a mere teenage of 18 years, she became a director's actress with great professional ethics.
All this disappeared into thin air along with her. After she moved out with Xander, she never tasted this limelight again.
All the prominent figures in the business circle, along with political and entertainment fields, got the invitations two days before the banquet.
The banquet is going to hold in one of the high-end banquet halls of the city. The phoenix group welcomed all the big shots to participate in the feast.
Apart from the rumors, the banquet is to encourage the conglomerate's employees for their hard work in the growth. They never failed to appreciate their employees.
In a blink of an eye, the moon disappeared into the clouds, and the sun came with dazzling brightness giving a new fresh day.
Today is the day of the award ceremony. All the press and social media representatives gathered at one of the tallest and broadest buildings in city B of N country.
City B is one of the most glamorous cities in country N and is the land for the main branches of conglomerates of the country.
The green entertainment mall is situated in the center of city B, attracting citizens for its grandeur. The green entertainment hall on the upper floor with an open-top is the venue for the award ceremony.
Even though the award ceremony is going to start at half-past 11, there were already people gathered from all industries.
After all, this year, Phoenix is going to attend this event.
Today was the first time that someone from the phoenix group is going to attend the award ceremony.
In the past, whether it is entertainment awards or business awards, this phoenix group standing to their name never attended. Their chairman never made an appearance in public. He was explicitly a deficient key person.
There were rumors of him loathing the entertainment industry even though Phoenix was involved in it due to personal reasons.
People started entering into the banquet hall from early morning 9'o clock. There were people with their most glamorous looks adorning themselves for the event.
The business circle people were attending along with their partners, so naturally, the event is going to be more glamorous than ever, including the beautiful actress of their country.
Xander and Rachel were in their best attire, along with both of their families for the event. In this one year, they both have changed a lot and the love between increased more than before.
Xander, Rachel, and ariel attended the same college for their graduation, so some people recognized this shameless couple in their glory.
Xander dressed in a crisp white shirt with dark black trousers paired with a sky blue color tie matching to Rachel's dress.
Rachel wore a sky blue color gown adorned with gems on the hem of the dress. At the top of the dress, it is a half shoulder covering with light pink roses.
She looked like an enchantress with a dark mascara adorning her eyes. Her hair is plated into a french plate, completing her look.
Even though ariel's close friends know about this scum bag, they were unable to help her as they were not in the position to intervene with rich people.
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The red carpet rolled towards the stage to welcome the guests—the guests filled with astonishment with the arrangements of the banquet hall.
The banquet hall decorated in an ancient royal castle theme displayed all the famous personalities who contributed to the country's development in the past 20 years.
At 12'o clock, all the guests reached and were seated in their respective places. Business personalities were sitting on the second floor of the hall, whereas political characters in the first hall and lastly, the entertainment circle on the ground floor.
The entertainment awards are more compared to other circles, so the seating is arranged accordingly.
It's time to start the ceremony, so the host addressed all the fields and started with a beautiful traditional performance.
The performance is going to be Rachel's even though she is not a great traditional performer, and she can manage the execution.
Rachel wore a beautiful princess gown of baby pick color. The performance started with her smooth hand gestures and ended in 10 minutes, and everyone erupted into loud applause.
Her appearance made every male in the guests enchanted by the magical spell. Her seductive looks sent shivers down their spines.
After her performance, the award ceremony started with the political field. The best political personality of the year award went to one of Christian's best friend and the current mayor of the city.
After this, the host announced the best doctor of the year with more number of cases being successfully handling by him is Mr. Eric Pattinson.
He is the current head of the Pattinson Hospitals and Research institutions. Someone from his hospital took the award and thanked the jury members who nominated them.
The technology awards went to the phoenix group as they are involved in this industry for a long time. Like this, all the business awards presented to different famous personalities.
Businessman award and the businesswoman of the year awards are pending as they had arranged to present before the finishing ceremony.
The awards being presented from 3 hours, so a sweet performance has been announced with child actors and actresses. The concert took ten more minutes, and then a short break is announced.
In between this, a slim tender looking woman in her early twenties, accompanied by an energetic man in his early 40's arrived at the entrance.
The woman looked so powerful, enigmatic, and gorgeous in her light yellow knee-length dress. Her slender arm encircled the man's elbow.
A sweet smile plastered on her face giving a pleasant look to her. Even though the woman looked significantly younger, she carried herself gracefully along with the older man.
Her eyes sparkled whenever a camera flashed on her face. Her beautiful figure made many guests skip their heartbeat for a second.
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