Late at night, in the hotel room, Melanie had just hung up the phone when someone knocked on her door. Frowning, she stood up and answered the door. Frank was leaning against the door with a bottle in one hand. He curled his lips into a malicious smile and looked at her."Why are you here?" Melanie was very impatient and did not intend to let him in, "It's very late. I was about to sleep.""Stop pretending!" Frank pushed the door open with some force.Melanie could not match his strength, so she could only take two steps back and watched as he entered her room drunk, then turned and closed the door."Frank, don't forget why we’re. Look what you’re doing now!" She deliberately distanced herself and looked at him and said coldly."What do you think we're here for?" Frank sneered, "You wanted to come here, and I brought you here. You haven’t given me what I wanted yet. Perhaps you should pay me some interest first?" He opened his arms and rushed toward Melanie as he spoke.Melanie w
When Melanie came out of the bathroom, she put on a smile.Frank had also woken up. He turned over to look at her. His eyes were clear, utterly different from last night."Are you awake?" Melanie smiled coquettishly, then sat on the sofa beside the bed wrapped in a bath towel, "Then can we talk about business?""What's the matter?" Frank rested his head on one of his hands and calmly asked as he turned to face Melanie."The competition is going to start today. What are you going to do?" Melanie crossed her legs while waiting for his answer."Um?" Frank did not understand. Melanie just had to spell it out for him. She leaned forward and said, "I want to get the first prize in the perfumery competition."Only by winning the top spot would she be recognized by Wesley Parker, and only in this way would she be known internationally. It was an opportunity she could not afford to miss.Frank’s eyes had a marvelous light as if he was looking at some monster. After staring at her for a
"You had me investigated?" Frank got a cigarette from his pocket, lighted it, and stood there with his eyes flashing. "Yes, but don't worry, I won't do anything to you. After all, we’re in the same boat. Your interests and mine are aligned, right?" She was still smiling as she said that, looking gentle as ever."What do you want?" Frank knew she must have had other intentions by telling him all this. "I’ll see what I can do. Anything but the first prize in the perfumery competition, I don't have that kind of power.""Who says you don’t?" Melanie stood up and leaned against him, saying softly, "I heard that during last year’s competition, everyone was sure that another perfumer would win, but you won in the end. Although they suspected you of cheating, there was no evidence."Frank took another puff of the cigarette with a sullen face and did not say a word."That’s why I believe you have that kind of power. I don't know what you can do, but as you said, this is Woodland, your ter
Frank skeptically asked, ”What do you mean?” Melanie smiled, but indifference was evident in her eyes, “Don’t you have something that makes you happy? You can share that something with her. Once she’s happy, she’d be addicted to it and can’t leave you anymore, right?”Frank immediately understood her implicit meaning. He patted her shoulder and nodded.“Woman’s heart is truly the most poisonous thing in the world! Why don’t I give you a taste and let you feel happy with me?” He asked her with a smile and lowered his head to kiss her lips.Melanie hurriedly avoided him and said, “I’m being serious, but you’re joking! That something is very precious. You’d better save it for Lily to enjoy.”Frank raised his eyebrows but did not insist on forcing her. However, she did give him a new idea. He sat down, put away his teasing look, and asked seriously, “If so, what shall we do?”…Alexander was woken up by the phone ringing early in the morning. He frowned at it, fumbled for the phone
Alexander glanced at her car parked on the side of the road. “I’m going to the office. Why don’t you come with me?” He knew she would use her own vehicle and that they would not ride together. Unexpectedly, she went to the passenger side of the car, opened the door, and sat down after hearing his words, overcome with joy. “Okay, okay!”“...What about your car?” Alexander asked.“Who cares? Just leave it there! I’ll come back with you in the evening and drive it back.”‘Oh my God!’ She clapped her hands happily, thinking about being in the same car as Alexander.“It is likely to be towed before we return at night,” Alexander said helplessly.“Let it be. Even if it's towed away, I can just let someone drive it back. What do you like to eat, Alex? I don’t know if your taste has changed, so I brought several kinds. You can see for yourself what you want to eat.” After finishing her sentence, she handed the bag to him as if offering a treasure.Alexander subconsciously drew back the
Things were not going according to Brittany’s plans. Alexander quickly finished his breakfast, which was not what Brittany thought would happen—the duo sat opposite each other, chatting away as they ate their breakfast. He ate only a sandwich and had one cup of coffee before returning to his desk and turning on his computer.Alexander had fixed his gaze on the monitor immediately after eating his breakfast. After taking a few bites of the food, which tasted bland because he was not focused, Brittany could no longer sit still and put away her breakfast before walking over to him. “Alex, can’t you see that I’m here?”Alexander looked up at her before his gaze averted back to his monitor. “What is it?”“Do you hate me?” Brittany asked again, pouting.“No.”“Then why are you ignoring me?”“I’m working.”“You’re lying! You just don’t want to talk to me. Are you so busy that you don’t even have time to eat breakfast with me?” Brittany was so angry that she reached for his monitor and
“I’m busy. Also, I’m going on a business trip soon,” Alexander said.“Are you saying you won’t care about my sister’s safety just because you’re busy?!” Brandon yelled over the phone.“Hmph. You said it yourself—Brittany’s your sister!”After a moment, Alexander continued, “She’s not a little girl anymore. It would help if you told her not to visit my place so often. It wouldn’t be good for her reputation if people were to gossip. By the way, how does she have so much free time on her hands? Isn’t she supposed to be shooting a drama?”Upon hearing that, Brandon finally realized something. “You don’t want to spend time with my sister, do you? You know how she feels about you! My parents would be happy if you guys got together. What’s bad about it? Tell me honestly. Are you seeing someone?”Alexander stayed silent for a moment. “She’s your younger sister, and I regard her as my younger sister too. I’m hanging up now. Talk to you soon. You should go look for her.”After saying all t
In fact, this perfumery competition was not considered the most significant event for perfumers. It was more of a competition to discover new talents, so the organizers only invited young blood, like solo participants or perfumery company representatives, to participate in the event.The junior perfumers who registered as solo participants received special treatment because they could be exempted from the competition's first round. Due to that, fewer participants would take part in said round.As a representative of Rebirth, Lily had no choice but to join the competition’s first round. The task was pretty simple. Each participant had five perfume bottles and had to identify the ingredients used by smelling them. On top of that, they would need to identify the perfumes’ base notes.It was a piece of cake for Lily. Back then, Jenny gave her a similar task to make things difficult for her. The only difference was that Jenny’s task was much more challenging than in the competition’s fir