Ryleigh gobbled all the food and left a lot of crumbs and sauces around her mouth, completely disregarding her image. Her mouth kept moving as she let off loud chewing noises as if she was a small hamster.Louis squinted slightly.She mowed down all the food and beverages and then gave off a burp. “I’ve finally resurrected.”Louis took out a tissue and wiped the oil stains off the corner of her lips for her. “Tsk, can’t you eat like an adult? You have stains all over your mouth.”He was obviously disgusted, but what he did contradicted what he said.Ryleigh snatched the tissue from his hand. “Are you disgusted by my table manners? But there’s nothing you can do. If you don’t like it, you can always go back to Ms. Mayweather, that elegant ex-girlfriend of yours.”Louis raised his eyebrows. “You’re always mentioning her, are you jealous of her?”Ryleigh stood up and smiled. “I don’t like being jealous of others.”She walked to the door.Louis raised his voice and stopped her.R
“Everything’s going to be fine with Helios there. You don’t have to do anything as one of the shareholders. Only when an issue that he can’t solve emerges, such as customers creating a scene, that’s when you come forward and solve it however you deem appropriate.”Saydie thought for a while. “I know only how to beat people up.”Maisie rubbed her temples. “You can beat someone up only when they’re the one who started it first. Otherwise, you’ll get yourself in trouble.”Saydie nodded.Maisie waved her hand. “But try not to let any troublesome guests through into the premises, and...”She looked at Saydie seriously. “You need to make more friends. Don’t always be by yourself. You’re no longer in the Metropolis, so you have the right to get associated with others.”Saydie was stunned. Her lips were tightly closed, and she did not speak.Maisie walked up to her and patted her shoulder. “Strix asked you to stay away from that dark life for your own good. You’re still young, and you s
Richard put down his cup heavily and said earnestly, “Nathaniel Hannigan is asking us for an explanation. If this is true, and the child Maizie Hannigan is pregnant with indeed belongs to the Bouchers, we can only make Francisco marry her.”Francisco happened to overhear his grandfather telling his father that he wanted him to marry Maizie from upstairs and rushed downstairs immediately to object. “You want me to marry Maizie Hannigan? Why should I? I won’t marry her!”Richard pointed at him furiously. “Isn’t this because of the mess that you made out there? That girl is now pregnant with your baby!”Francisco was astonished. “What baby?”“You! How dare you play dumb in front of me? Francisco Boucher, what have you learned throughout all those years when I left you in the training camp? One of you is the father, while the other is the son. You two are indeed cast in the same mold. Both of you have a thing for sleeping with random women, don’t you?“And you don’t even know how to c
Seeing that Kennedy did not seem to want to talk about it, Maisie did not force it but handed him a proposal that was lying on her desk. “Xyla Mayweather and Nathan Hayes previously came together as an on-screen couple for an advertising endorsement. Its effect was quite good, so I thought about it. We can hire a more popular on-screen couple to shoot commercials for Soul’s couple jewelry series.”Kennedy took the proposal from her and skimmed through it. “A popular on-screen couple?”Maisie smiled. “Celebrity pairing is a commercial marketing method too. If we hire an on-screen couple that is currently on fire on the Internet to help endorse Soul’s couple jewelry series, it will not only satisfy the wishes of their fans but will also boost Soul’s marketing by folds.““This is a good idea.” Kennedy nodded, then thought of something and said, “But there are not many on-screen couples on the Internet recently.”“Didn’t we have one some time ago?”“Some time ago?” Kennedy was slightl
Nolan raised his hand and held her wrist, then fed her food, looking at her face. “Do you need something?”Maisie pouted. “Why do you think of me like that?” Even though she really did. Nolan scoffed. “Why are you being courteous with me?”Maisie leaned in, her red lips inches away from his, her beautiful face looking innocent. “Dear, I want a couple to work together and be spokespeople for my jewelry. What do you think about that?”Nolan stared at her. “Why are you asking me?”She pressed her lips together and then put her arms around his neck. “I want to discuss this with you because I don’t want you to be upset about it.”Nolan pinched her chin, still keeping his eyes on her. “Why would I be upset?”She gave him puppy eyes, “Because the couple is two men.”Nollan squinted and realized that something was off, but he didn’t understand. Maisie turned around and sat on his lap, then pushed her long hair behind her. “Dear, you wouldn’t want your dear wife’s dream to shatter, w
The bartender stared at him curiously but didn’t dare speak. Barbara laughed. “I know. It’s probably not great to suddenly become a father.”The bartender placed the bottle on the bar, and Francisco immediately drank from the bottle, gulp after gulp.Even people who had high alcohol tolerance wouldn’t be able to handle drinking that much whisky.Seeing that he was drinking too much, Barbara said, “Mr. Boucher, you should slow down with that. If you get picked up by some chick, it would be hard for me to explain to Maisie. This is her place.”Francisco was already drunk, but he was surprised. “Whose place?”She was hesitant. “Don’t you know that Maisie is the owner of Glitz?”Francisco asked her, “Isn’t my cousin the owner?”Barbara was rendered speechless.Francisco suddenly laughed. “You didn’t know?”Barbara didn’t say anything. She had been under the impression that Maisie had taken over the club. Why did it suddenly belong to Helios?’After half an hour…Francisco slum
Barbara wasn’t a skinny woman but quite a voluptuous one, so the towel didn’t cover up much.She noticed something, turned around, and stared straight into his eyes.Barbara was so shocked she grabbed onto the loose towel that was about to slip. “Ah!”Helios immediately turned around. “I”m sorry! I didn’t know that you…” He gulped but was glad he had his back toward her. It wasn’t that he had never seen female actresses in shower scenes during his filming career, and he had to interact with actresses when they were in their bikinis, but he never had unclean thoughts about them. But this ‘incident’ made him feel something!Barbara wrapped the towel around herself. Her face flushed, and she felt awkward. “Do you need help, Mr. Boucher?”He didn’t turn around but instead handed the bag to her. “I apologize on behalf of Francisco. We only have uniforms here. This is new. You can wear it for now.”Barbara walked over and took the bag. She was happy that she had something to wear.
When the case was retried, she just wanted the Salvadores to be convinced of her innocence and didn’t care if they were going to retaliate. Helios sent her home. She got out and walked into her apartment building without looking back.After getting into her apartment building and walking into the elevator, she turned around. The car was still there. She felt warm, thinking that he wanted to see her safely home. When the elevator got to her floor, she walked out and saw a woman standing in the hallway. It was Katrina, so Barbara was stunned. “Why are you here?”Katrina was leaning against the wall with heavy makeup and holding a lit cigarette. “Why can’t I come and see you?”Barbara was quiet. Katrina blew smoke out and looked at her. “I’m your half-sister. I just have worse luck because my father will never admit that I’m his. You forced me into this situation. Can’t you share my problems?”Barbara frowned. “I forced you?”She smiled. “Why didn’t you think about this when yo