Hollywood Zenith

Hannah on the other hand was trapped in her house. She had to accept the obligation to entertain Moore family's distant and close relatives while acting cute and submissive completely different from her real personality.

Even when some of them would suggest and ask her about her future, she had to appease them. A restaurant owner's daughter applying for MIT? They didn't take her seriously. She wasn't talented as Kiko but it's not like it was crime to try.

These relatives began acting like this right when they found out Hannah was sworn sister of Samuel, heir of the Rothschild family. No matter what the status of them right now, could he let them ever suffer in the future? They constantly tried to bridge connection and even asked Aaron and Carol, her father and mother whenever their business would encounter difficulties.

In their eyes, if Samuel made one phone call all their problems would be resolved.

Her parents could only make up excuses. How could they ever take advantage of someone that they considered as their own child? Hannah was cursing her big sister Adele for not rescuing her! It was all her fault that she was trapped in this mess!

Penny, Adele mother, was much more relaxed at this time. She found that her daughter would be spending sometime with Samuel and he would help her with her music. She was aware about how talented he was in acting as well as singing because she used to drop her daughter to the music academy where they studied together.

After her daughter was signed to the label, she received monetary support to move out of their dilapidated flat and move to a well adjusted apartment complex. It was easier for her mother who was getting old to live in peaceful place.

All those years ago, she never expected the little boy that rescued her daughter from tragedy would keep his promise and not treat her daughter any differently. She still couldn't fathom him turning into a playboy but as long as her daughter was happy she decided not to do anything. She already tried and seperate the two but it only led to her child being depressed.

Now she could only hope that nothing bad happens in future.

Iblis was in the similar situation. With the rise of Hanson family to the top again under the leadership of Oscar, she had to mingle with a lot of people from foreign delegates to influential businessmans, many of them had close relationship with the family business.

There were also few asking about her suitor but when they learned she was involved with Rothschild family heir everyone shut their mouths. No matter how ambitious they were, they could never touch a tiger's tail!

Thomas Brown, the publishing director had his own worries. He still hadn't received a word from Samuel about the adaption of his books. Countless studios and producers would visit him for corporation throwing all shorts of appealing contracts at him.

They couldn't pressure him knowing that the publishing house had some relationship with the Rothschild family but that didn't mean they were willing to back down. They searched far and beyond to find the identity of the author but up until now they found nothing!

It was simply outrageous to think with how much power they held, they couldn't solve puny matter regarding some novice writer that cropped up overnight! Thomas had no choice but to entertain them before politely decline their offers.

Morgan family also had a get together for new year celebration. Nathaniel invited powerful politician and his close business allies to strengthen their relationship. The oldest son Mila and younger son Huldah became the main protagonist of the party.

Unfortunately, Eleanor had other plans. Every guest she interacted with, she would first talk politely before exploding in anger thinking that his grandson didn't even contacted her when he visited the States.

Any tiny mention of him would trigger her. She knew he had to suffer some hardship during his visit few months ago. Was he so proud that he couldn't even ask for Morgan family's help? She would regularly get updates from her daughter and it would progressively got more and more outrageous!

She really wished to drag him back to the house and listen to his worries. Why was he trying so hard to do business when the family had such a large fortune? Wouldn't hard work only diminish his cuteness?

On the other part of the States, Liliana, Sybilla and Rosaline got together to celebrate their recent success. They never expected Samuel's little trick would work and they would start getting offers from companies to endorse their product.

Afterall, Liliana wasn't aligning herself as a model anymore and leaning more toward a media personality delving into content creation on different social media sites. Rosaline as the backbone of their little company, they were starting to get more and more famous.

It was fairly new phenomenon but those that perceived the future of social media, knew how attractive it was, especially when even a common person could get famous if he had the ability!

Sybilla asked about if they heard from him or not which made the conversation tense. She especially warned Samuel to visit the Estate and resolve the issue. Isabella, Liliana's sister, condition was getting worse day by day as she kept throwing herself in work.

The medical industry was already a tiring job with crazy work hours. If she kept pushing herself, it wouldn't be long before she collapses! They tried to warn her but that girl was not listening to anyone!

By now, Liliana and Rosaline already knew what actually happened back then. They wanted to contact him but their fragile egos couldn't take it especially when he pleaded with them to hear him out for days! Sybilla was aware of it and knew that these girl's heart would melt as soon as they see him in person.

Paige and Maia on the other hand didn't attend their small gathering. It was safe to say with how distinguish their families were, they were in similar situation like Iblis. Unlike Liliana and Rosaline, they would never accept his lousy explanation.

They had their own reservation about this matter. It didn't exactly helped when they learned several more rival joined forces in times when they were away.

Darren and Emma on the other hand were enjoying meeting each other's family. Samuel didn't know but he would surely be surprise learning that his so called rascal brother actually took the initiative to introduce Emma to his family.

It was simply unheard of him doing that in the past. Normally it was playful 'fights' before moving on to his next adventure!

Meanwhile in Japan, the Imperial family was a mess. Kiko returned to find out that few of her uncles were moving behind the scenes to disrupt Samuel's business. It was something one of her contacts reported to her after which she went straight to her father, Naruhito.

He didn't know anything about it so as her mother Masado. Fortunately, it looked like other party was unaware that members of imperial family made a move. Benjiro was only able to solve the problem because Kiko's father made countermoves behind the scenes. His prestige was obviously higher than her so called uncles!

Due to this strange occurance, it was normal for the banquet to turn into a verbal battle. Naruhito and Masado inquire about their intentions but other party was adamant that former made a mistake. It was hard to prove anything because the traces left were faint and undetectable. Their intentions would only be revealed much later.

On the other hand, Kiyama Clan was having much pleasant time. It wasn't until Aika made another request to visit Samuel to exchange some blows when the head of the family's mood exploded! He could never understand what so important about their strange little duel.

The only thing he knew was her daughter would swifty complete her mission before going back to training. There was some sort of promise between the two parties if she was able to defeat him, he would grant her a wish.

It's absurd to see her working so hard when the family already had everything! At some point the money becomes meaningless, no matter how much you earn more the luxuries is the same. What could the son of Rothschild could give her that she desired so much?

On undisclosed location around Paris, Merikh and Huxley were hiding restlessly. Each new morning for them seemed like the last time they would see sunrise. With their life hanging the balance and constant threat of the six families they could only hole and pray that everyone forgot about them.

It's been months and they didn't see any movements from both the Rothschild and the six families. But they knew that it was only a calm before the storm, how could either party let go of them? That was impossible!

They were only vying for more time before making any move. Each day they would encounter spies, some they would evade others they could only dispose off. Fortunately they still hadn't encounters Elite forces of the family, which made them secretly rejoice because the six families were not paying special attention to them.

They still didn't know Samuel's subordinates were recording their every move. It had been a fruitful mission of learning enemies movement and patterns!