Ch. 496..500: My Wife Is A Hacker Chapter 496-500

Chapter 496

"I know that the Riddle family is in decline now the moment I see you.Do you really think that you can get this land by hard work alone like before? I tell you what —you don't get a chance."

Luke had just finished speaking triumphantly when the door of the conference room suddenly opened, with Sebastian and Merwin slowly walking in.

Seeing Sebastian, Luke hurriedly greeted him, his eyes smiling servilely into slits.

Sebastian felt like frowning at the extremely ingratiating Luke.

But he did not show his emotion, just perfunctorily acknowledging him.

In Luke's eyes, it was an endorsement.

Luke's face glowed, and he almost walked on air, looking at Sean and Steve with contempt in his eyes.

‘These two idiots are waiting to lose!' Sean and Steve also nodded at Sebastian with just the right amount of humbleness, which scored them a lot of points in Sebastian's eyes.

‘Looking closely, these two young men seem to look a little like Nicole.Especially those slightly upturned eyes that looked a little frosty and haughty.How could I not have found out earlier?’

Sebastian's gaze was considered by many people around him as a sign of his unhappiness toward the Riddles.

They all looked at the two with disdain.

‘Look, even the gentle Mr.Wyance does not like them"

Sebastian and Merwin sat in the first row in the middle, and Sebastian glanced faintly at the two families on both sides and said casually, "Let's get started."

Luke preemptively started his performance, praising Sebastian for ten minutes in his tender documents, and finally mentioned a few words about his planning for the land.

Not only Sebastian but even Merwin frowned.

‘What is going on with the McCarthy family? They seemed to have shown some good ideas in the first round, but during the second round when Luke, who was the person in charge of the McCarthy family, took over.His performance was not as good as the assistant"

Taylor, who was next to Sebastian, said, "Mr.McCarthy is very dedicated, and his presentation is awesome."

Sebastian glanced at Taylor and said nothing.Taylor was here just as an observer who had no right t o speak.

‘I didn't expect to see Taylor put in a good word for Luke here.It looks like the McCarthy family has spent a lot of money on him"

Merwin looked at Taylor with a smirk.

"Oh, really? It looks like you have a sharp eye."

Taylor chortled, but he could not tell if Sebastian was happy.

Sebastian had always shown little feeling, so no one knew what he was thinking.

But since Sebastian did not refute what he said, Taylor thought Sebastian was quite satisfied.

 

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Taylor felt smug as Luke occupied the stage for another few more minutes, repeating his determination for the land, and then took a defiant look at Sean before he finally got off the stage.

Sean was not bothered by Luke.He picked up his presentation document and gave Sebastian and everyone else a copy.

Then he and Steve stood in the center of the stage with confidence.

"Here's the content of Riddle Corporation's tender document."

Subsequently, Sean went all out to present his plan for the land and analyzed the project.

Looking at the Riddle brothers on stage, Sebastian finally understood why Nicole asked him to be fair.

Because the Riddle brothers were slightly better from a purely fair point of view.He supported the Riddle family, not just because of Nicole.

An hour had passed, and the dust had settled.

Coming out of the conference room dumbfounded, Luke could not believe that he had lost.

He looked at Taylor and then caught up with him, asking, "What was going on? Didn't you say that you would help me? How could the brats win?"

Taylor had a dilemmatic look on his face.

Mervin had just been warned; he could have lost his job if Sebastian had told the higher-ups in the government about his relationship with the McCarthy family.

He risked that for Luke, yet Luke was blaming him.He looked not too happy.

"How can you still have the nerve to say this? What the hell have you presented? You've only spent a few seconds on the tender yet complain that I haven't helped you.This is ridiculous! I have been warned by Mervin for helping you.I'm not going to help you again, and we shall have nothing to do with each other from now on," he said indignantly.

With that, he left at once, not sparing a look at Luke again.

Not expecting Taylor to turn his back on him so quickly, Luke rolled his eyes.

‘You're not the only person I could find.I can get a thousand people to help me.He is all sizzle and no steak"

Luke turned and walked over to those people in the offices he had rubbed shoulders with earlier.

But as soon as they saw him, they dispersed at once, as if afraid of being associated with him.

Not giving up, he tried to approach a few more, but they all reacted just like those people earlier—all avoided him like the plague.

‘I can't believe it!' Luke stood where he was, looking with resentment at Sean and Steve, who were talking t o Sebastian.

'Why did things turn out to be not what I expected?’ Not daring to show his anger at Sebastian, he had no choice but to glare at Sean and Steve.

‘It must be the Riddle family's fault.They must have struck a deal with Sebastian secretly.Otherwise, I wouldn't have lost with my perfect preparation"

Luke took out his mobile phone and made a call, shouting angrily into the phone, "What the hell is going on? Didn't you say you made a deal with Mr.Wyance? Why did we still lose?"

Meanwhile, in a beauty center, Joyce McCarthy, Luke's daughter, sat up and asked the beautician to step aside with the wave of a hand, then said in disbelief, "I have talked to Martin several times; he promised me that and no way we would have lost."

Joyce and Martin were colleagues and sort of the best partners in the hospital.

She had inadvertently mentioned the family land with him before, and Martin had said that he would talk to his father.

“Could it be that Martin lied to me? Or did you actually forget about it, and he did not talk to his father at all?"

 

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Joyce hung up after having a few words with Luke.She took off the mask on her face and angrily called Martin to question him.

"What the hell is going on with you, Martin? Haven't you promised me we would let our family win?"

She was pissed with a take-for-granted attitude, completely having no self-awareness that she was asking Martin for a favor.

Martin was tired as he had just finished performing surgery in the hospital.So he had no patience for this and scolded her angrily.

"What's the matter with you? You'd better not call me again if this is why you called! Joyce had never been yelled at by him like this.She was stunned in belief for a moment and then sobbed.

"Martin, how could you yell at me? You yelled at me! Have you forgotten you promised me in the first place?" Martin kneaded his temples as Joyce's shrill gave him a headache.

"I remember I've talked to my dad.Let me check with him."

Then he hung up, wanting to call his father.

Just then, his mobile phone rang, and the caller ID on the screen showed it was a race club.He answered the call impatiently, but what the other side told him pleasantly surprised him.

"You've found the owner of Car Number Six? Who is i t?"

As the person at the other end read out the name i n the register, Martin was surprised again.

"Nicole Riddle?"

Not only the person's family name was Riddle, but it also was a woman.

Something suddenly dawned on him, and he quickly called his father.

Sebastian had just finished discussing with Sean and Steve and was happy with the idea of these two young people.

Had he known the ideas of these two people in the first round, he would not have dismissed Damien and Dillon.

Looking at the vibrating phone in his hand, he patted the two on the shoulders and gently excused himself.

Martin heard his father's voice and could not control his emotion.

"Dad, I remember mentioning to you that the daughter of the McCarthy family is my colleague.Why did you let the Riddle family win the tender? But this aside, I wonder if you know a person called Nicole Riddle? I think I've heard you mention her before."

Sebastian heard the name and frowned.

"I told you before; she is the top gemologist from Hustuaburg who has helped me before.Have you forgotten?"

"I can't believe that it's her.I even didn't expect that she was into racing.She was the owner of Car Number Six that we watched together the other day."

Martin was surprised when he heard this.He had a feeling that she was the person who had helped him fix Marie and Solomon.He did not wait for Sebastian to continue.

"Since you know her, do you know if she isi nl any way related to the Riddle family?" Sebastian looked at Sean and Steve and smiled.

"You're right; she is indeed from the Riddle family."

Martin froze, and after a long moment, he muttered with chagrin, "Damn it, Joyce."

Then he continued in a feeble voice.

"Dad, you are right.Let those who deserve to win.Forget about what I said earlier."

The line went dead, and Sebastian frowned gently with the phone still in his hand.

He turned to look at the two handsome young men across from him and smiled.

"Shall we move on to the handover procedure?" he asked.

 

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Nicole returned to the Royal Creek Institute, and as she was just about to turn around and walk toward the café, she heard an extraordinarily emotional voice coming from behind her.

"Boss!"

She looked back and saw Austin running quickly toward her with a few people.

People who thought of coming up to Nicole to ask something quickly ducked aside when they saw Austin.

They wondered why Austin always appeared around Nicole.

They were even curious about the relationship between Nicole and Sebastian, wanting to come over and ask Nicole about it.

But because of Austin's presence, they did not get a chance to do so.

Austin did not care what was going on in the minds of those people.He came up to Nicole excitedly.

"Boss, how was your exam?"

Nicole raised an eyebrow, not knowing which exam h e was talking about, but it did not make a difference t o her.

"It was ok."

Austin knew his boss had always been low-key.

Even i f she was the first in the entire school, she would not get carried away, so he did not ask her much about it.

"Boss, I could answer all the questions in the monthly exam I took today," he said excitedly.

Sammey and others behind him were beaming, looking at Nicole with gratitude in their eyes.

Had it not been for Nicole giving them high-intensity, special training for over half a month, they would not have performed so well on the exam.

They never imagined the exams that they had always struggled with could one day become a place where they were in their element.

Many of the people around, who had not gone far, heard what Austin said and also stumbled.

‘Is that a joke, or are we hallucinating? Austin said he did well in the test?! They cast a questioning and mocking eye over Nicole, but she ignored them.

She looked at the boys in front of her and smiled gently.

"Well done," she said.

Her smile was as beautiful as the first sunbeam glistening on the dew.

Everyone was awestruck.

Austin looked at his boss, scratching his head with a simper.

'By the time I reach the top twenty, Nicole would be my boss, ' he thought to himself.

The weather grew colder in October.

They chuckled, wanting to find a place to eat.

Nicole thought for a moment and thought of asking June, Lulu, and Bradley out.

'The more the people, the merrier" she thought.

Besides, she had promised to treat them to dinner.

Since the monthly exam was over, Lulu and others quickly came out.

Among them was Jimmy, whom Nicole had not seen for a long time.

He let out ashy smile when he saw Nicole.

Nicole gave him a friendly nod.

As they all walked out happily, Lulu suggested going t o the fondue restaurant where Nicole had brought them to last time.

Everyone agreed.

It was the best weather for steaming fondue.

Everyone enjoyed it, and many of them even proposed to drink.

Nicole did not want to kill their buzz, so she agreed.

After all, the youngest one here was also an adult; drinking was completely legal.

Lulu took a sip of the beer as Jimmy looked on.

Her face flushed, and she stood up wobbly and said slowly, 'Do you know it will be our school's centennial celebration soon? I heard that every college is going to give a performance.The student union has put up a notice; that the Royal Creek Institute's major performance is actually a drama.It is said that auditions will be held throughout the school, and it is open for all, regardless of grades."

 

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Nicole was not interested in such a thing.She pressed down Lulu's hand, which was holding a drink to her mouth.

"That's enough for today."

Lulu grinned and put down the wineglass in her hand when she saw it was Nicole.

Jimmy looked at his sister in amazement, not expecting her to listen to Nicole even though she had drunk so much.

June covered her mouth and smiled as if she also thought Lulu was cute.

"Do you know why they want to have stage plays?"

Lulu might have put down her wineglass, but she never stopped talking.She looked around mysteriously for a while before finally speaking.

"Because Lukewarm crew is already preparing to restart filming.They are planning to search for a female lead in colleges and universities.It is said that Lloyd will come to the Royal Creek Institute's anniversary and watch the stage play."

“What?"

Bradley was the first to stand up.

He had drunk a lot.He looked at Lulu with glowing eyes and asked in some disbelief, "Did you just say Lloyd would come?"

Lulu nodded.She had heard it from the student union and thought it must be true.

Probably the news would spread throughout the Royal Creek Institute the day after tomorrow.

Austin was dizzy, as he also had one too many.

"Who i s Lloyd? Wait a minute, did you say Lloyd Holder?" he said in a confused manner.

He had not only seen Lloyd on the screen but, more importantly, had heard his father mention him.

'He is more than just a movie star"

Everyone looked at Austin, not sure why he was so excited to hear Lloyd's name.

They wondered if Austin was also Lloyd's fan, not expecting that from a stout guy like Austin.So they all laughed at him.

‘Lloyd's charisma is indeed unstoppable"

Austin heard the ridicule and flushed with anger.

He immediately banged on the table and stood up, shouting angrily, 'What the hell are you all talking about? My dad asked me to leave Lloyd alone, just as h e had asked me to come over and apologize to the boss!"

The Woods family might be like a fearless scoundrel i n Northon, but the fact that they could survive till this day meant that they most probably had access to the most reliable intel.

That was why everyone looked at each other and was dumbfounded upon hearing what Austin had said.

‘Is Lloyd really someone with a background?! Bradley was the first to give a reaction.

He looked at Austin and dismissed it by waving his hand casually.

"I don't care what background Lloyd has; I just like him as a person."

Lulu was also attracted to Lloyd's personality and charm and did not care who he really was.

So she nodded and said, "To be honest, we probably never get a chance to get up close and personal with Lloyd."

Austin scratched his head and sat back down with embarrassment.

''Yeah, I agreed."

He had lost control of himself for a moment when they all laughed at him for being a fan of Lloyd just now.

"Lloyd is still a distance from us.I wonder who he will select during the school anniversary this time,"

June said softly, turning her head to look at Nicole and smiling.

"I think Nicole stands a good chance."

What she said drew attention, and people were looking at Nicole, who was sitting casually on the side.

‘Exactly.Nicole is the prettiest girl at the Royal Creek Institute; the role of the heroine suits her"

Sammey could not help but whisper to Nicole, "Boss, will you go to the audition for this play?"

Seeing all eyes on her, Nicole looked at Sammey.

"I'm not going."

Everyone sighed, and a few of them, who did not know Nicole well, did not find her reply surprising though regrettable.