Chapter 134 - Recruiting the Army (3)

Scarlet left matters to Jasper's capable hands when the boy had to convince the E.C. Class to help him with his company. He couldn't register a business yet because he wasn't of age but he could start preparing for it. Orita had assured them that she would support her children in whatever they wanted to do. Jasper was no exception. In face, Wilmer was rather pleased when Jasper announced that he wanted to learn how to run a business from Wilmer because he wanted to create a company that could rival the Wilde Empire.

Instead of feeling threatened, Wilmer was touched. The CEO thought that Jasper would be a very worthy rival to have when he grew up and agreed. Instead of interning at the finance department, Wilmer decided to toss books at Jasper and told him to read them. Those were what he called the 'mindset books' that every successful businessman needed to know.

While Wilmer trained Jasper how to be a good businessman, Alex was actually working out seriously to look the part for her very first role in acting. Orita signed her daughter up for some acting classes and they were both often very busy even when they no longer went for the internship. There were only two more weeks before a new year started. School holidays were coming to an end and Scarlet still hadn't managed to convince most of the Special Class to help her out with her war. She had been more busy helping Jenna to coordinate the planning for that barbecue party by the beach in a villa that everyone wanted. It was tough finding a day that everyone in the E.C. Class and Special Class could be available but they managed to find one on Christmas Eve.

Everyone's families were invited and due to the number of confirmed attendees for the overnight party, the Wildes' found it easier to simply rent out an entire resort by the beach instead of booking rooms or a venue for a certain time slot. Thankfully, it was only a two-day-one-night event. Many of the kids would leave by afternoon the next day and Scarlet was still slightly numbed by how the mindset of her rich new parents worked.

In the middle of preparing for Christmas, writing her book and planning for the barbecue gathering, Scarlet had been putting together her secret plan with Jun Le and Elfie. She was finally going to convince the last few people she needed and had even assigned some team leaders for the groups she needed. For example, Jun Le was to coordinate the information network and Elfie was to support the chess grandmaster in order for him to advise Scarlet accordingly. Alex would work together with Si-Han, the Lopez twins, Khalid and Lin Lin who were all working in the entertainment field. The bigger the splash they made, the better it would be for Jasper's team to work behind the scenes. Last but not least, Scarlet had to talk to the most important couple team that she knew. She had to find a way to convince Dragon and Rebecca to help out with training a batch of bodyguards for some reason. However, for that to happen, Scarlet needed to set the stage between Dragon and Claire.

The day arrived sooner than expected. Claire was on standby and Scarlet had already spoken to the martial art enthusiast about a 'worthy opponent' who could defeat him and will be attending the barbecue event with her. Dragon demanded a match as Scarlet expected and Scarlet made him agree to beg Claire to take him as her apprentice if he lost. Naturally, the martial art enthusiast wasn't going to refuse learning from a master who was better than him.

What he didn't know was how Scarlet ran in between Dragon and Claire without either of them knowing, to twist the same story. She told Claire that there would be a classmate who was a martial art fanatic who was looking to become a great fighter and possibly bodyguard when he grew older if he wasn't going to open a dojo. Claire who was the head of the Wildes' security division took interest in that particular kid who would challenge her to a match.

As predicted by Jun Le, Claire convinced Wilmer to let her take the kid named Dragon in if he expressed an interest to learn from her. She was going to train him into her direct successor like how Wilmer was training Jasper to be his successor and how Danny was training Elfie to be his successor. Orita was also training Alex to be the future Wilde heiress and Scarlet was happy that nobody was paying her any attention. The plan was progressing smoothly and while Scarlet worked hard at her craft as a writer, she also had Elfie to help her delete and remove evidence of her pet project.

The Observation Journal was getting taken down even if there was a huge number of readers following it. OIf course, there would be huge chaos if Scarlet deleted it entirely suddenly. Instead of doing that, Elfie helped to schedule a timer to automatically erase the existence of Scarlet's past posts up until a certain point. Slowly, Scarlet started to write differently and alter the content and style of her Observational Journal. It started to sound more like a personal blog that readers can feel free to share their opinions about instead a mere record of Scarlet's observations and opinions.

With every new post, three old posts will be deleted. Scarlet intended to slowly phase out the old style of the Observation Journal by three months and worked hard on maintaining the blog. She knew that of her many readers, Jenna and Orita were regulars of it even if they didn't say it aloud. The last entry to be deleted was the one about the Wolf and the Songbird because Scarlet felt as if that might be too obvious. If Anastasia were to dig into it and read that, he would have a clue about who was targeting him. The final move would be to announce a change of title of her blog from "Observation Journal" to "Love Journal" and reintroduce herself under a new alias as a budding romance writer.

With that in place, it was finally time to execute the last stage of her recruitment plan and enjoy the barbecue.