Ch. 731..735: My Wife Is A Hacker Chapter 731-735

Chapter 731

“Lloyd!” Bradley was overjoyed, clapping his hands as he finally met his idol.

Lloyd stepped up to the stage and greeted the audience. “Hello everyone, I’m Lloyd Holder, a graduate of the Royal Creek Institute in acting.”

Thunderous applause rose from the audience to the school’s previous senior, who had become a famous artist in showbiz.

But Lloyd’s eyes were busy searching for Nicole in the crowd. Eventually, he found her and could not help but smile gently at her.

Lulu was stunned. “Wow! Isn’t Lloyd looking over here? He is smiling at me!”

Nicole said nothing, knowing that Lloyd was saying hello to her. But she only responded with a slight nod of her head. But that was enough for Lloyd.

Retracting his gaze, Lloyd continued to speak. Afterward, he handed the microphone back to Preston and left the stage.

Preston was excited, too. Nicole looked at her cousin from behind and pursed her lips helplessly. He looks as cool as a cucumber on normal days, but it turns out that he can get excited, too, when he sees Lloyd.

Nicole smiled at the thought of this. She sat back down and watched the show with her arms crossed as Preston continued to preside.

Sitting in the back row, Gary suddenly said, “Was Lloyd looking at you?”

Nicole raised an eyebrow, not expecting Gary to have observed so closely. She groused, saying, “None of your business.”

Gary’s face darkened, and he muttered to himself. ‘While there is something going on between Nicole and Harvey, here comes another guy. She and Lloyd know each other?’

“Who the hell is this brat?”

Jack heard it and asked, “What did you say, Gary?”

Gary did not bother to answer him. “Just watch your show.”

Jack looked away and shifted his attention back to the stage.

Not far away, Vivian stomped her feet and glared at Gary and Nicole.

The opening speech had finally ended, and a series of performances began. Besides musicals, there were also song and dance performances from the university department. They all were awesome, and the performances of the performance art faculty were even more amazing.

Snow, who was from the performance art faculty, was at the center of the performance.

She stole the limelight in an instant, and many cheered along. People who admired Snow were screaming at the top of their lungs that Snow was the most popular girl in the school as if they had long forgotten that Snow had fallen off that altar.

Snow was doing her best dancing on stage while her eyes involuntarily looked at Harvey, trying to get his attention.

But Harvey had a nonchalant expression, cold to the extreme.

The longer Snow danced, the more diffident she was, and she nearly made mistakes during her last dance movement. Fortunately, she managed to recover and stabilize her posture in time.

No one but Nicole had noticed that Snow’s dance movements were not as neat as expected.

But because there were fewer song and dance programs, Snow’s show appeared very exciting. At the time of voting, she got the highest score in the university department.

“It will be our turn soon,” Lulu said with excitement. “Snow has performed well, but you are still the best looking.”

Nicole did not care what others thought. After all, she did not intend to compete for the heroine’s role.

Vivian came up to them. “It’s almost our turn. Ms. Emerson told us to go backstage and get ready.”

Only then did they get up and go backstage.

Most of the people at the lounge backstage were mostly high-school students. Each class changed into their costumes in the order of appearance.

Lulu and June had got changed. When they saw Nicole had not, they became anxious. “Why haven’t you got changed, Nicole?”

Nicole glanced at the order of appearance. “There’s still time. No hurry.” Her gorgeous dress was too heavy to wear.

Lulu was anxious. “But you still need to be ready. We will help you.”

With that, the two helped Nicole change into the costume.

Just as they picked up Nicole’s costume, Lulu noticed that the sleeve of the clothing was torn.

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“Oh my God, what’s going on?” Lulu exclaimed in shock.

June and the others immediately came up and found that Nicole’s costume had been cut with scissors.

“Who did this?” Bradley could tell at a glance that this was a deliberate action.

He subconsciously scanned around and found that Vivian, who helped with organizational discipline, was not there.

“It was definitely Vivian.” June also noticed it.

“How could she do this? The show is going to start right away. How could she sabotage our class?” Jack was furious.

Gary’s face looked grave, just like everyone who was taking part in the show.

“What should we do, Nicole?” Lulu looked at her dejectedly.

Nicole pondered for a moment. “It doesn’t matter.”

She picked up a pair of scissors at once and cut off the sleeves of the costume. Without the fancy puffy sleeves, the costume dress now looked more fashionable,

Nicole put the dress on with no hesitation, with her beautiful arms exposed. Before this, the dress looked gorgeous but cumbersome. Now it was much simpler yet classier.

“Oh my God, it looks better than before,” Jack muttered, besotted.

Gary saw this and gave Jack a push. Jack came to his senses and quickly pulled Wayne to look elsewhere.

Lulu and June also exclaimed, “Nicole really looks good in anything.”

“Yeah, it mainly depends on who wears them.”

They all were relieved as the crisis was diffused.

Just then, Vivian suddenly appeared. “Why are you all still here? Hurry up and wait backstage.”

They all stared over at her.

Vivian was startled and looked at Nicole. She thought she would see a helpless Nicole, not expecting that Nicole had fixed the costume, and what was even more surprising was that it looked even better than before.

There was a jealous look in Vivian’s eyes, “Why did you damage the prop costumes? Do you know these costumes were borrowed from the university department and have to be returned?”

Seeing that Vivian was still pretending, Nicole looked at her and hissed. “You know the costume was borrowed. Why did you sabotage it?”

Vivian was stupefied, not expecting that Nicole would find out. But she looked at them and still pleaded ignorance. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“You don’t know? How about taking a look at the surveillance footage?” Nicole looked frosty, and she glanced at the surveillance camera overhead.

Vivian was frightened, her face pale. She then looked sideways and found a surveillance camera in the waiting area.

She glanced at Nicole in fright. “I-I -”

Nicole hissed. “Still want to make excuses? You had better figure out how you are going to explain to Ms. Emerson.”

Jack and Wayne heard this and looked at Vivian with disdain.

“How could you do something like this?”

“Absolutely. That’s the honor of the class. How could you joke about it?” Wayne reprimanded Vivian.

“I’m going to tell the teacher. People like you don’t deserve to be the class monitor,” Lulu said impulsively. Vivian’s face suddenly crashed. “Don’t! I-I really didn’t mean to target you all.”

“I was supposed to be the target, right?” Nicole hissed.

Vivian could not help but bite her lip and admit it. “Yes, I was targeting you, okay?”

Gary could not hold back his anger upon seeing this. “You’ve gone too far this time, Vivian. For the sake of your private grudges, you dragged the entire class into this? I don’t need anyone else to intervene; I’ll talk to Ms. Emerson myself.”

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Vivian was dumbfounded. “Gary, how could you say that?”

Gary looked at her with disappointment. “What else do you expect me to say? People like you don’t deserve to be the class monitor.”

“You,” Vivian’s eyes immediately reddened as Gary had never said such a harsh word to her before.

But today, he said such a raucous thing to her just because of Nicole. Feeling wronged and fearful, Vivian could no longer stay at the scene.

“Gary, I hate you.” With that, she turned and ran away. But no one gave a damn to her.

June gritted her teeth. “She is horrible.”

“Absolutely. We can’t let such a person be the class monitor again.” Bradley echoed.

“Come on. Let’s go.” Nicole wasted no time leading everyone straight away from backstage, leaving the other students gossiping among themselves.

As they arrived backstage, they found Raine had just come off the stage.

Raine saw Nicole and Gary, her eyes filled with jealousy. She decided to shoulder-check Nicole.

But Nicole saw it coming and avoided her in time.

Raine was wearing high heels. She missed her target and lost her balance, ending up throwing herself straight forward. Raine screamed and then fell straight down to the ground, completely stunning everyone else.

“Oh, my God. Raine, are you alright?” Several of Raine’s classmates gathered around her and helped her up.

Raine’s jaw was dirty. After she was lifted, she stared at Nicole with hatred. “You did this on purpose.”

Nicole sneered. “What have I done? Shouldn’t I dodge when you shoulder-checked me?”

Everyone instantly understood what was going on.

Lulu could not help but echo. “You were trying to shoulder-check Nicole. Now you deserve it.”

“Hoist by your own petard. That’s a shame. Leave now, and don’t embarrass yourself here.” Bradley taunted her.

Raine felt humiliated and could only grit her teeth and stare at Nicole. “I’m done with you yet. You’d better watch out.”

Since the battle lines were drawn, Nicole was ready to face her threat head-on. She smiled. “Good, I will be waiting.”

Nicole then went toward the waiting area backstage while Raine was helped off the stage.

Jack and the others were euphoric, watching Raine flee with her tail between her legs.

“You’re awesome, Nicole,” They praised.

‘Nicole is neither afraid of Vivian nor Raine!

Nicole glanced at Jack. “It doesn’t matter. You better butter your boss up instead.”

Cold-shouldered, but Jack did not resent it. Instead, it was Gary who tugged at his collar. He somehow thought it glaring to see Jack and Nicole together.

Soon, the twelfth-grade classes had finished their performance, and ahead of them was Norah’s class.

Norah and her partner seemed to have reconciled, and the two were making the most of the time to do a read through

As Norah saw Nicole coming, her face darkened again. She felt that had Nicole not stolen her place in the Riddle family, she would not have to grovel before someone to apologize.

But Nicole ignored her hatred, and there was nothing Norah could do about her.

But she quickly calmed herself down, to Nicole’s surprise. But Nicole knew Norah had always been good at controlling her emotion, so she did not care.

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Soon, the host announced the name of Norah and her classmates’ stage play, and Norah and her classmates took the stage.

Meanwhile, Nicole stood behind the scenes, watching them perform.

Norah seemed to have been preparing for a long time, her performance deft, and she did not forget to wink at Lloyd.

Nicole could not help but snort. Lloyd was a member of their organization, and he nearly died during the mission last time. Since then, the Holder family recalled him and never let him take part in missions again. So this little trick of seduction would not work on him.

As Lloyd in the audience gave no response, Norah could not help but feel frustrated.

The show was over at last. Norah bit her lip and stepped off the stage, feeling upset.

While Norah walked past Nicole, Lulu said in a whisper, “Nicole, it’s our turn. You’re the most beautiful today, and Lloyd will definitely pick you.”

Nicole frowned. She did not want to get involved in the entertainment industry at all.

As much as she did not care, Norah did. Before this, Norah had not noticed how stunning Nicole was dressed. But now she did, and she bit her lips with jealousy.

“I’m not going to let her steal all the limelight today. Otherwise, I will have a place at school.’

She glanced around. Seeing the light stand on the stage, Norah suddenly thought of something. She left calmly, and no one cared.

Preston played the announcer for Nicole this time.

The curtain opened, and Nicole and the others made their appearance. Nicole smiled as she walked past Preston, and Preston made an all-the-best hand gesture to her. Nicole returned a thank-you smile.

The big red curtain slowly rose, and the stage drama of Class B officially began.

Offstage, Lloyd’s eyes lit up as soon as he saw Nicole.

The music rose, and Nicole slowly recited her lines. She had put little effort into rehearsing before, but she was extremely talented. As soon as she got serious about it, her eye expression and emotions were engaged.

Lloyd had never seen Nicole like this. Before this, she was cold and calm in front of him, but looking at the expressive girl on the stage, he was enchanted.

Anna, who was next to Lloyd, smiled involuntarily. “Is she the one you’re recommending?”

Lloyd came out of his daze. “Uh-huh.”

“Not bad. Her beauty is one of a kind. Besides, she has practiced the lines well and is emotionally engaged. The stage play becomes very vivid with her participation.”

“Yeah, I didn’t expect her to be so talented.”

As Lloyd watched with ecstasy, Anna started to consider Nicole seriously. She subconsciously said a few words to the assistant director beside her, and the assistant director nodded, paying a little more attention to Nicole.

Edwin and Harvey, who were sitting together, were dumbfounded when they saw Nicole appear in a gorgeous costume.

“Is this the poker-faced Nicole that we know? She is a gorgeous princess in this dress.”

Harvey’s eyes were filled with a fiery sense of possessiveness. He had never seen Nicole dress so beautifully. He was captivated by just looking at her.

The audience was also exclaiming with surprise.

“That is the girl from the high school; she is stunning.”

“Yeah, she recites the lines well, so natural.”

As everyone praised Nicole, Raine and Snow’s faces turned grave.

Norah, who was still backstage, could not be more jealous at seeing Nicole’s brilliant performance. ‘Wait and see. I swear I will not let her steal the limelight anymore.

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On stage, the stage play of Nicole and Gary had reached the climax. The prince died because of the princess, and the princess walked to the center of the stage with a sad recitation of the line and said the line of imminent martyrdom with a sad face.

It was only a stage play, but it tugged at the audience’s heartstrings, some girls even welling up because of the plot. Nicole’s sad appearance made those girls feel pity, and those boys felt sad and wanted to protect her.

One of them was Edwin. “Nicole’s acting skills are also too incredible; it makes me want to go on stage to protect her.”

Harvey could not help but glance back at him. Edwin shut up at once, not daring to speak anymore.

Samuel and Spencer were sitting together, and Samuel’s eyes had already reddened. “Nicole’s performance is awesome.”

Spencer looked at him with disdain. “You big man. Stop crying already.”

As excellent as Nicole’s performance is, you’ve got to control yourself.’

Samuel nodded and looked at Stanley, who was sitting not far away. Stanley was also full of admiration and pride, as her sister was stealing all the limelight.

Just as everyone was admiring Nicole, a loud mechanical noise came from above the stage.

Everyone subconsciously looked up, only to find that the stage lighting fixture was falling.

“Oh, my God!” The lighting fixture was just above Nicole; the consequences of it falling was unimaginable.

“Watch out, Nicole.” Samuel, Spencer, and Stanley all shouted a warning.

Lloyd, who was closest to Nicole, stood up anxiously. “Nicole, get out of the way.”

Nicole had sensed danger and was subconsciously about to run, but she looked back and saw Gary still lying on the ground playing dead.

“Watch out, Gary.” With no time to think, Nicole ran toward Gary and pulled him away at once.

Bang!

A stage light fixture with a diameter of over a meter fell, smashing down and leaving behind a massive hole in the floor, with debris strewn everywhere.

Had Nicole not reacted fast enough, one of Gary’s legs would have been smashed.

Gary was struck dumb, not knowing what had just happened. Only when he looked back did he see a humongous hole in the stage floor and looked back at Nicole involuntarily.

Nicole’s face was pale, and Gary said with a stunned face, “Nicole, did you just save my life?”

Nicole did not bother to answer his question. She let go of him and stood up. Now, only did Gary see what appeared to be fragments of a lighting fixture leave a cut wound on Nicole’s arm, her bare arm covered in blood.

“You’re hurt?” Gary stood up nervously and looked at her with concern.

Nicole avoided his outstretched hand and said warily, “I’m fine. It’s just a minor cut.”

Her eyes were looking at the lighting fixture overhead, above which was a metal maintenance passageway. It was narrow, but it was passable.

It might look like an accident, but it was strange that only the lighting fixture above Nicole and Gary had fallen off.

But she had no time to think because people were scrambling up the stage by now.

Preston nervously leaned over and looked at Nicole’s arm with a nervous face. “Are you hurt, Nicole?”

Nicole could only nod and say, “I’m fine.”

“How can you be fine when you are bleeding? Let’s go to the infirmary.” Lulu and the others had also come up to her.

Gary was ashamed of himself, not knowing what to say at this moment.

Suddenly someone jumped on the stage. Before everyone knew it, someone carried Nicole with both arms.

Nicole was stunned. She looked up and found that it was Lloyd.