Chapter 1059 - 1062: On-the-Spot Deal

"Your plan is quite clever," Melody Thorne remarked with a hint of praise.

"As for your mother, don’t worry. In the next two days, I will send someone to take good care of her, ensuring she’s well-fed. You just need to hold a press conference to clarify everything once The Hawthorne Family is cleared. She will return safely!" Gordon Grant hung up the phone.

"Despicable scoundrel!" Melody Thorne scoffed.

"Should we have Jenson Ona’s people stage some kind of ambush to rescue Mrs. Sila?" Leon Rivers suggested.

Jenson Ona is The Gambling King and also the head of the mafia; causing trouble is quite typical for them.

"No need. I have some ideas about how we can finally deal with Gordon Grant, and then Jared Quinn and I need to start preparing for the wedding," Melody Thorne said. "I have a lot to prepare!"

She wanted to make the wedding venue truly unique, incredibly beautiful, so that women around the world would envy her!

"Then let’s proceed as he says for now!"

...

Two days later, Gordon Grant explained The Hawthorne Family incident as an accident, and released the fact that Melody Thorne was the last person to see Commander Hawthorne, along with the military command transfer she was given.

Major newspapers and news outlets were dominated by Melody Thorne’s story, with everyone in Ardenia calling her a remarkable woman. Despite leaving the entertainment industry, she managed to attach herself to a military family, once again dominating the headlines.

No matter what she did, she seemed to always be in the spotlight.

Under Melody Thorne’s long-unused social media posts on Weibo, many began tagging her, suggesting she return to the entertainment industry someday.

With only two film works, audiences couldn’t get enough and fervently demanded her comeback to continue making movies.

In one night, she became the actress everyone wanted to see return!

At the press conference Melody Thorne held, just the amount of reporters filled the entire venue, all very curious about what Melody Thorne intended to do!

"How is the preparation coming along?" Melody Thorne asked, looking at the crowded venue below.

"Don’t worry, sister-in-law, everything is ready," Leon Rivers replied.

"Good."

Melody Thorne saw that Gordon Grant had already arrived downstairs with his entourage, while Sika calmly followed him.

"Looks like he wants to conduct a live transaction!"

"Let’s see how things unfold first!"

Melody Thorne walked to the center stage in the hall. "Everyone, quiet please. The reason I invited you all here today is to explain the events from two days ago! The news reports were accurate—when Weston Hawthorne passed, I was indeed the last person he saw, and it was me who personally received the transfer orders."

"Miss Thorne, does that mean you now possess a military force? Do you know what that army is used for? Why would Commander Hawthorne give it to a woman?"

"Miss Thorne, are you planning to hand over The Hawthorne Family’s army to Jared Quinn to manage? Wouldn’t that mean Ardenia essentially becomes yours?"

"Miss Thorne, how do you intend to use it?"

"Quiet!" Melody Thorne gestured for the reporters to continue listening to her, but her gaze shifted towards Gordon Grant.

"It’s true the command is in my hands, but I won’t keep it. The purpose of this press conference today is to announce that I will relinquish it, handing it over to Gordon Grant the councilman."

With a loud uproar, the crowd began to buzz.

Gordon Grant’s face instantly turned gloomy. He wanted Melody Thorne to announce publicly in front of so many people, but not a transfer; it was actually meant for him originally, determined to be his at the time of Commander Hawthorne’s death, with Melody Thorne merely acting as a go-between!