Defying Fate: The Unstoppable Eileen

Chapter 58

After the news was sent out, two minutes passed before someone responded. Property of Nô)(velDr(a)ma.Org.

Phyllis: “What?”

Eileen: “I won’t be on the next issue.”

Bblythe: “No way!”

Josiah: “WTF?”

Bblythe: “Was it that bitch’s doing?”

Phyllis: “Wow, Bblythe’s swearing now?!”

Eileen: “@Bblythe, The production team didn’t say why. I guess maybe they didn’t want to give me a raise, so they replaced

me.”

Josiah: “Yeah, Eileen’s popularity has increased, she should get a raise. By how much? Usually, it’s around 30%.”

Eileen: “Maybe they thought my raise was too high, so they didn’t want to.”

Josiah: “How much were you asking for?”

Eileen: “My agent said at least five times more.”

Josiah, Bblythe, and Phyllis were all a bit speechless.

Josiah: “Half a million dollars? Yeah, that’s a bit steep…”

Eileen: “It’s ten thousand dollars.”

Josiah: “What?”

Bblythe: “You are joking, right?”

Phyllis: “Really?”

Eileen: “My previous salary was two thousand dollars per episode, now I want to

episode, and the production team disagreed.”

Bblythe: “How the hell did you accept two thousand dollars before?”

Eileen: “I was short of money at that time.”

increase it to ten thousand dollars per

Bblythe: “Even if you were desperate, you shouldn’t have accepted that price… But I won’t be on the next episode either, my agent is discussing the termination of the contract.”

Bblythe: “@Josiah, only you and Egbert are left. Good luck.”

At the other end of the city, in a luxurious, spacious apartment, Egbert, bare-chested with a towel wrapped around his waist. He had just come out of the bathroom when he heard his phone ringing on the bed.

He walked over, picked up the phone, and glanced at the group chat. As he read, his expression gradually turned cold. After a while, he made a call.

Eileen wasn’t upset about not being able to participate in the variety show. If the production team thought she wasn’t worth ten thousand dollars and wanted to replace her, there was nothing she could do.

She mentioned it in the group chat because they had all been getting along very well, like friends. Since she wasn’t going to be on the next issue, she thought she should let her friends know.

After notifying everyone in the group chat, Eileen put the matter aside.

Several days of shooting had passed, and Eileen had also forgotten about this matter until Lenwood suddenly asked her about it, “Eileen, aren’t you supposed to be recording the variety show tomorrow?”

“I’m not going anymore.” Eileen was sitting on a small stool reading a script, she looked up and said, “I won’t be on the show starting from this episode.”

Lenwood was surprised: “Why aren’t you going? I saw your show, it’s quite popular.”

Eileen shrugged: “The contract renewal didn’t go well, so I’m not going.”

Lenwood didn’t know the specifics and said, “Then if you’re not going, shall I schedule you for filming tomorrow?”

Eileen gave an “ok” hand gesture.

Bartley was sitting next to her. After hearing this, he hesitated for a moment, then took out his phone and sent a message to his brother. This was Sawyer’s request. He wanted Bartley to immediately inform him about any news regarding Eileen.

Even though Bartley didn’t think Sawyer had a chance with Eileen, but after all, he was his brother, so he temporarily agreed to his request.

The next day, Eileen’s scenes were scheduled for noon.

She slept in late. When she got up, it was already past ten in the morning, and she went downstairs for breakfast. The buffet restaurant was empty at this hour. She got some milk and sandwiches and found a quiet spot to sit down.

Not long after she sat down, a man and a woman sat behind her.

Eileen was initially indifferent, but suddenly heard the man angrily say, “What’s going on, why isn’t Eileen here?!”

Eileen was startled and looked back.

The man and woman were looking at their phones and didn’t notice her.

The woman also frowned and said, “Why isn’t Eileen here? And why isn’t Bblythe here either? Oh my god, even Egbert isn’t here?!”

Eileen was stunned. She knew that Bblythe wasn’t there, but Egbert wasn’t there either?

The seats weren’t far away. Eileen could hear the sound of the director’s muffled voice from the couple’s phone: “Welcome back, Kaleb…”

“So it’s true. Someone said before that Egbert was only filling in for Kaleb who was hospitalized. I didn’t believe it, but it turns out it’s true. Now that Kaleb is better, Egbert probably won’t appear anymore.” The woman said with a disappointed

face.

“No Egbert, no Eileen, and neither Phyllis nor Bblythe are coming. What’s interesting about this boring show? I’m not watching it anymore.” The man turned off his phone in frustration and actually stopped

watching.

Eileen turned back around and continued eating her breakfast.

After a while, the man and woman behind her left. Eileen thought for a moment, took out her phone, and opened Twitter.

Twitter stayed on the login screen for a long time, finally indicating that the password was wrong. Sure enough, her password had been changed again. Eileen cracked the password in twenty seconds.

After logging in, she was about to search for the official account of the production team, but saw the trending topic #Traveller 5+1 Major Changes #, ranking first in real-time trends.

She clicked in and saw that the top post, posted ten minutes ago, was from a variety show news account saying that from this episode onwards, the fixed guest lineup of Traveller 5+1 had undergone major changes. Kaleb returned, Egbert, Bblythe, and Eileen all exited at the same time.

Eileen clicked to view the comments.

The top comment was – “I’m not watching this show anymore.”

This comment had received over twenty thousand likes.

Eileen kept scrolling down and the comments were basically all like, “I’m ditching this show, man.”

Someone even posted the latest stats saying that when the previous three episodes of Traveller 5+1 were aired, the minimum live audience was still a whopping fourteen million. Today, as soon as the show started, the viewer count did skyrocket to thirty million alright. But then, the moment they announced the guest change, the audience just bailed.

Right now, the live viewer count had hit an all-time low, only five million left and it was still dropping.

After browsing for a bit and getting the general gist, Eileen logged off Twitter.

She clicked back into the group chat and saw a message Phyllis had sent five minutes ago: “@Egbert, you’re ditching the show too?”

It took Egbert a while to reply: “Yep.”

Phyllis: “LOL, I’m watching the live now, I swear Josiah looks like he’s about to cry.”

Bblythe sent a few pictures. Eileen clicked on the images Bblythe had sent, all screenshots from the live stream. In them, Aurora’s face darkened instantly when she heard Egbert wasn’t coming on this episode.

Bblythe: “LOL, this is just too funny.”

Looking at the photo of Aurora’s sour face, Eileen couldn’t help but start laughing too.