Ch. 391..400
Chapter 391
If Mary Sullivan didn't offend her, she would not try to out bid her for the flower vase and leave her in such a situation.
Xyla Quest, that b*tch!
**
The next morning, Xyla woke up early.
Because there was not much activity in the morning, she lazily got into the bathroom. She turned on the warm water for the bathtub, added a bath bomb and some rose petals.
She comfortably sat in the bathtub, surrounded by rose petals with a face mask on her face.
Her body was mostly covered in bubble foam, only her two white as snow long arms were visible. It made her look very seductive.
Even though her injury on her left shoulder has been healed, it still left an ugly and disgusting looking giant red scar.
Ring, ring, ring... The phone beside the bathtub rang. Xyla noticed that it was Rebecca Robin who was calling. She immediately picked up the phone, put it on speaker mode and continued to enjoy her bubble bath. "Hello Aunt Rebecca, how are you?"
"Xyla, remember at yesterday's auction I bought a sapphire necklace? I think that I'm too old for it, it doesn't suit me at all. So, I plan to give it to you." Rebecca said.
Xyla was confused, "Aunt Rebecca... I do not lack any jewelry, thank you for your kindness."
That necklace cost Rebecca eight hundred million, it's too expensive. How could she accept it?
She never thought that Rebecca is such a generous person. They only met twice, but she's already willing to give her an eight hundred million sapphire necklace.
"I already sent someone to send it over to your house... I estimate it would arrive at your doorstep soon. Remember to open the door." Rebecca said.
Xyla felt troubled, "Aunt Rebecca... That necklace is too expensive, I really can't accept it."
"If you don't accept, it means you look down on me... I will get mad. Xyla, it's yours." Rebecca said firmly.
"Aunty... Don't put me in a spot, the necklace is too expensive. How can I accept it?
"Then it's settled... If you refuse to accept the gift, you'll be offending me." Rebecca did not let Xyla refute, she immediately hung up the phone. At that moment, Xyla did not know what to do.
If she accepts the gift, she will feel guilty. It is too expensive, she only met her twice. There was no reason for her to accept such an expensive gift. However, if she does not accept the gift, it would be disrespectful. It would make her seem ignorant and could anger the other party...
She frowned and sighed.
In the end, she made her decision.
She will accept the gift.
She would find a suitable jewelry in her collection that matched the price of this jewelry and gift it to Rebecca.
Then it would be even between the both of them.
Ding dong... Ding dong...
The doorbell rang.
Xyla knew it was the people Rebecca sent. She quickly got up from the bathtub.
She didn't even have time to wipe off the bubbles from her body and immediately wore her robe. She then put on a pink hair cap, took off her face mask and threw it into the bin. She ran out of the bathroom quickly.
As she opened her room door, she hit someone.
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The next second, Xyla Quest could smell a familiar cologne smell flow through her nose.
She lifted her head. She noticed she was in a man's embrace.
His hands on her forehead, protecting it so she did not feel any pain.
The guy said with a deep voice from the top of her head, "You came to get a hug from me early in the morning?"
Xyla got embarrassed, her face went red. She stepped back and looked into his deep eyes. "What are you saying?"
Her bathrobe was a bit revealing. From the angle he was looked at, he could see her alluring lines on her body. It made him stiff.
He frowned, "I'll go open the door... you wait here."
"There's no need, I can get it..."
"No, you're not allowed..." He said as he opened her room door and pushed her back into her room.
Stanley Batton did not let her say another word and quickly walked towards the front door.
Since someone is going to open the door for her, Xyla decided to go back to the bathroom and start washing up.
After quickly showering, she wore a blue silk blouse and a drying cap and went downstairs.
In the living room, there was a strong and rich aroma of omelettes.
This smell in such a big and luxurious house made her feel at peace.
She did not need to go into the kitchen to imagine Stanley standing in front of the stove, wearing a black apron and frying eggs seriously. Thinking about it, the corner of her lips could not help but raise.
She saw a dark blue necklace box sitting on top of the coffee table, Xyla instantly knew it was the sapphire necklace that Rebecca sent.
She quickly went towards the coffee table and sat on the sofa, she grabbed the box and immediately opened the box.
A shining sapphire necklace shone onto her eyes, it blinded her eyes.
It was different from the necklace Sharon Lindt wanted. This necklace's design was simple, it had a thin platinum chain and at the bottom of the chain there's a sapphire in the shape of a heart. The sapphire is like a deep blue sea, with countless diamond pieces in it. It looked dazzling and beautiful.
She liked it very much.
She took the necklace and put down the box on the coffee table, she placed the necklace on her chest and put the chain around her neck.
Because there was no mirror, she could not find the hook.
Suddenly, a pair of warm hands touched her hands and took over the necklace hook.
"Let me do it..." His voice rang behind her, sounding like a grand cello playing beautiful music.
He carefully brushed her hair aside.
The moment her hair moved past her neck, collarbone, and ears, she felt an electric shock.
Her face and ears went red.
He hooked on the necklace with full concentration and went in front of her.
The dark blue sapphire necklace gave a radiating shine on her neck, it made her look very classy.
The combination of her reddish face and ears with her flawless face would make any guy go crazy for her. "Beautiful..." He said.
"Thank you." Xyla said shyly.
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Chapter 393
Buzz..... Buzz..... Buzz... At this moment, Xyla Quest's phone vibrated. She looked towards it.
She saw that it was her dad who was calling, she quickly picked it up, "Tomorrow is your aunt's birthday, there would be a celebration tomorrow noon at the house. There would be a lot of people attending... You and Stan must attend."
"We will, Dad."
"Remember to dress formally, there will be important guests attending." Jeremy Quest said.
"OK."
After hanging up the phone, Xyla looked up at the man standing in front of her. "Tomorrow is May Conner's birthday, Dad wants us to attend. You have to accompany me, is that alright?"
"OK." His words were like gold. He walked towards the dining room, "Let's eat breakfast..."
Xyla stood up and followed him to the dining room.
After sitting down, she drank a sip of orange juice and picked up her phone. She called Sharon Lindt. In order to eat, she set her phone on hands-free mode and put it beside her.
When the call got through, she asked Sharon when she would be available to collect the item she helped her bid during the auction.
Sharon said she was overseas so she could not collect the item and told Xyla to help her keep it first.
Xyla agreed.
After hanging up the phone, Xyla scratched her head and said to Stanley Batton, "Doesn't she trust me too much?" "Yeah..." Stanley said.
"Such a weird Aunty." Xyla could not understand Sharon's actions.
"It's not weird, she should trust you." Stanley said as he took a fork and stabbed a piece of apple and put it in his mouth.
"What do you mean she should trust me? Isn't this abnormal?" Xyla was confused.
He said nothing and just stared at her for a while. He then lowered his head and concentrated on cutting his omelette. "Are you free after this?" Xyla asked.
"Yes..."
"Then follow me to the mall later, I'll get you a suit for tomorrow's birthday party."
"Ok..."
**
After eating breakfast, Xyla and Stanley went out shopping.
They went to Goldfield Plaza and chose a few western suits for Stanley. By the time they were done, it was already afternoon. So, they went to Goldfield Plaza's highest floor to a western cuisine restaurant and ate a meal.
Because there were no private rooms available, they decided to sit near the windows.
A beautiful girl with a handsome guy would catch others' attention.
In such a big restaurant, with a huge crowd, no one was as good looking as them.
After ordering their food, Xyla took out her makeup mirror to check if her makeup was fine.
Noticing her makeup was a bit smudged, she elegantly stood up and said to Stanley, "I'm going to the washroom..."
He nodded. "Alright..."
Xyla then grabbed her bag and went to the washroom.
Stanley then took out his phone and started scrolling through his newsfeed.
After a while, a young looking girl who looked like she did plastic surgery walked into the restaurant. She saw Stanley sitting alone and went towards him and sat in front of him. She unbuttoned the top button of her shirt, looked at Stanley and said, "Hey handsome, are you alone? I'm alone as well, let's eat together?"
A strong pungent smell of perfume went up his nose, he frowned. "Go away."
The girl refused to leave, laughed and said. "I like guys like you who act cool... What's your name?"
She intentionally let her black long hair loose.
When Xyla returned from the washroom, she saw the girl trying to seduce Stanley.
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Chapter 394
An unknown flame surged through Xyla Quest's heart immediately. Her face which initially had a smile on it froze at that moment.
She quickened her footsteps at that instant and stared at that woman with cold eyes.
"I have no interest in plastic girls and easy girls..." Stanley Batton coldly replied. He had never even laid his eyes on the girl. His dashing eyebrows were squeezed together and he was not even trying to hide his disgust towards her.
"What? Easy girl?" The girl got so angry, even her face turned green.
"Who else could it be? Miss easy girl, you took my seat." Xyla stood in front of her and squinted at her from above. Her eyes were filled with indifference.
Stanley's calm gaze laid onto Xyla's countenance. The corners of his lips curved into an arc which looked like a smile yet it wasn't.
The girl frowned unhappily and stood up right away. She looked at Stanley angrily before looking at Xyla and said, "You... you two went too far."
"If you have the nerve to seduce someone else's husband, don't ever complain to others for being too undue while talking to you..." Xyla snorted coldly.
"What? Your husband?" The girl was shocked and her aura decreased by a few degrees.
"Yes, do you have any opinions?" Xyla asked her back.
The girl grabbed her bag immediately and prepared to leave.
Xyla blocked her path straightaway. She reached out her hand and tapped on her shoulder gently. "Little girl, if you really want to successfully hit on a man, change to a better perfume. Don't use something tha smells so much like a prostitute."
"Smells... Smells like a prostitute?" The girl got so angry that the corners of her lips were twitching.
Xyla did not talk to her anymore and directly pushed her away. She sat right in front of the man in a poised manner and once again took out her little mirror to check on her lipstick that she just fixed.
However, the girl had no intention to leave as she was totally enraged by Xyla. She straightaway reached out her hand and was about to grab her hair.
Through the reflection on the mirror, Xyla coincidentally saw this scene.
Immediately, she grabbed the girl's hand and shook it off straightaway. She gave the girl a cold side-eye. "If you don't want to die, just leave now."
At this time, all eyes in the restaurant were looking at their table.
Many people, who saw the situation clearly, started whispering, and they were accusing the girl.
Stanley looked at Xyla deeply in her eyes and the corners of his lips curved up even more.
The girl stomped her foot angrily and ran off right away with a tail between her legs.
Xyla frowned again and put the mirror back into her handbag unhappily. She could not help but complain about the incident, "Weird people are everywhere now."
Her good mood was totally destroyed by the unpleasant event that happened just now.
He once again locked his eyes on her countenance. There was a playful curve on the corners of his lips, "Relax, my wife..."
The two simple words were like a strong surge of electricity flowing through her heart. Her whole heart went numb and started to tremble as if her heart just skipped a beat. She tried her best to remain calm while looking at him with a serious face, "Who's your wife..."
"Just now, didn't you say that I'm your husband?"
"That's because..." She could not come up with a logically acceptable answer at that split moment.
As a matter of fact, everything that she did just now was under her subconscious mind. Even she did not know why she would say that herself.
"Because of what?" He asked. The emotions in his pair of eyes were unclear.
"I was helping you to get out of the situation..." Xyla said.
"Oh?" He raised his dashing brows and continued to look into her eyes.
At that particular moment, she felt that his stare was like a CT scanner and it was as if he could see through her mind.
Immediately, she turned away and looked out of the window while feeling guilty, "Yes, that's why..."
As of why she felt this guilty, she could not clearly tell either.
"Oh..." He was a man of few words. The curve on the corner of his lips was getting deeper and deeper.
Ring, ring, ring... At that moment, the man's phone started vibrating.
He lowered his head and glanced at the screen. As soon as he saw the words 'Little Darling' shown on the screen, he answered the phone immediately. His eyes and brows turned gentle all of a sudden, "What's up?"
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Chapter 395
"Hey, come pick me up at the airport, I have arrived at the Atlantis Airport..." A sweet feminine voice was heard from the other side of the phone. "Didn't you say that you will be arriving at night?" His voice was starting to become gentle.
It was rare to see him being this gentle.
She could not clearly hear whose call was that, but she guessed that she might be a very important person to him.
"I'll send someone to fetch you... By that time, wait for me obediently at the hotel, alright?" He said.
"Can't you fetch me by yourself? I miss you..."
"I can't, good girl..." He said.
At this moment, Xyla Quest only felt that her heart was tugged by something.
Wait for him at the hotel...
Could it be that this was his new girlfriend?
He was originally single, she knew that very well. However, that did not mean that he would be single forever.
Judging by his tone, both of them should be passionately in love.
Even if they were not, they should be in an ambiguous relationship, right?
When she thought of that, she started to feel a dull pain in her chest.
She did not understand why she had this kind of reaction. Could it be that... she fell in love with him?
Ever since the time when Cecilia Conner flirted with him until today, the 'plastic girl' hit on him and he received such a call, her reaction was getting more and more unusual each time. It totally went out of bounds.
When this idea popped into her mind, Xyla was a little frightened by her own thoughts. Her brain was blasted with a 'boom'.
Since when did everything start to lose control?
She had always known that they were on different paths, why would her heart still go this far?
She could not figure it out.
However, it was figured out that she was currently jealous.
He was still talking to the person on the other side of the phone. He only ended the call after chatting for a long while.
After he put down his phone, he looked up and stared at Xyla. "Why didn't you eat?"
Only then, Xyla came back to her senses and gave him an awkward smile, "I was thinking about something just now." "Thinking about what?" He asked.
"Nothing..." She shook her head and hid all her emotions. She drank a few gulps of water.
At that time, the waiter served them the food.
He pushed the orange juice which she ordered to her side. "I need to go somewhere else later so you need to drive yourself back home after dinner."
Xyla felt extremely flustered at the bottom of the heart but she did not say anything. She only nodded her head.
***
After they had their lunch, both of them got out of the restaurant. The man took a cab and left while Xyla got into her own car gloomily.
After she got into her car, her heart got even more flustered as if she had just lost something extremely important to her.
She only came back to her senses after she had been sitting in the car for a very long time. She then started her car and left.
Meanwhile at Hilton Hotel, a cab stopped steadily in front of its entrance.
Stanley got out of the car elegantly and slowly strode his way into the hotel under the eyes of the astonished passersby.
He then got in the lift and went straight to the presidential suite, number 8809 which was located at the top floor. He raised his hand and knocked on the door.
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Chapter 396
Soon, a gap opened at the door.
A girl with blonde hair tied into two ponytails and bangs of uniform length popped her head out through the door.
The girl looked at him with her head slanted and a gorgeous smile. Her almond-shaped eyes filled with innocence were pure and the dimples around the corner of her mouth made her look extra cute. "Why are you here this late?" She complained. Her voice was sweet and clear.
"I had something to do, why did you dye your hair? It looks horrible..." He frowned slightly with a look of disgust.
Although his eyes were filled with disgust, his movements and eye contact were very gentle.
The girl opened the door fully and rolled her eyes at him straightaway. "This colour is trendy this year, alright? Don't you have any taste?"
"Alright, alright... I have no taste, happy with that?" After he said that, he gently caressed her hair and walked into her room.
The girl closely followed him from behind and sat onto the couch together with him.
She then crossed her legs naturally and grabbed a lollipop from the coffee table. She unwrapped one and passed it to him. "Want one?"
"I don't want it," Stanley Batton replied.
"You didn't tell mom that I'm back, right?" She blinked her pair of big watery eyes and asked.
"If I had told her already, are you still able to breathe this freely?"
"That's true, I would be packed up and sent straight back to J Nation," She said pitifully with curled lips.
"My fifth brother is still the best, even when I told you that I wanted to skip classes and come back, you didn't even scold me..." She said that while eating her lollipop.
"Would you stop skipping classes if I scolded you, Catherine Batton?" Stanley was helpless.
"That's true as well..." Catherine Batton giggled. Her gorgeous pair of dimples appeared perfectly once again. They were so sweet and intoxicating as if they came with bottles of perfectly brewed red wine.
"I just gave my sixth brother a call and I told him that I'm back. He said that he will pay me a visit tonight. Join us for disco-dancing at night..."
"Got it," Stanley replied without even thinking.
"Fifth brother, I will be going to play some games at the cybercafe later, are you coming with me?"
"No..." Stanley frowned. "If you want to play games, I will just buy you the best laptop."
He did not like to go to places like cybercafes as they are crowded and noisy.
"Damn, I wanted to go to the cybercafe today," Catherine gently poked on his arm and said coquettishly.
"I still have work in the afternoon. Just go alone if you really want to. I will send some men to protect you secretly." Stanley was determined.
"You can work in the afternoon, but you need to accompany me at night."
"Alright." Stanley caressed her hair once again. He sighed in his heart, 'Time flies.'
He still had some memories of her when she first came to the Battons' mansion. She was only seven years old, just a little kid.
In a blink of an eye, she was now a grown up and an elegant young lady.
"But don't you send your men to follow me," Catherine said, "I don't like to have a group of people following me, it's uncomfortable."
"Alright... give me a call if anything happens."
"Hmm... I heard about the stories between you and my sister-in-law from Mom... Fifth brother, how's the progress between both of you?" Catherine seemed very interested. "Don't ask so much about the adult stuff, kiddo."
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Chapter 397
"Hmph... I'm not a kiddo anymore, I'm eighteen."
"Kiddo..." Stanley gently caressed her hair once again.
He stayed in the room and talked to Catherine for a while longer. After that, he got a call from the company and left straightaway.
Catherine Batton went to take a quick bath. She changed into a pastel pink floral dress, matched with a white knitted jacket and a pair of little white shoes. She then grabbed her ID card and went straight to a cybercafe nearby.
There were no private rooms left and she did not like to have too many people around her. Therefore, she booked a row of computers and sat randomly in front of one.
After she switched on the computer, she clicked into League of Legends and got into a team.
At that moment, a group of youngsters came in. They placed their IDs accordingly onto the counter. They were led by a youngster with blonde hair. He leaned against the counter slovenly while looking at the beautiful manager and said, "Get us six computers..."
"I'm sorry but we're full." The manager said.
The blonde youngster immediately saw the seats around Catherine immediately and then pointed at her who was staring at the game screen with full concentration. "Aren't those seats? Are you blind?"
"That row of computers was all booked by the girl. She booked them for four hours," The manager replied.
The boys kept their IDs immediately.
Then, the blonde youngster exchanged looks with his gang and quickly approached Catherine from her back.
Catherine was picking her role at that time while wearing headphones. She totally did not notice that someone was behind her.
The blonde youngster rudely tapped on her shoulder.
Only then, Catherine turned around and looked at the boys.
She then took off her headphones and asked, "Anything?"
"Little girl, we want to play some games... Why don't you share some of your computers with us?" The blonde youngster started to order Catherine around.
"Sorry, no," Catherine rejected without a second thought.
These youngsters were clearly gangsters and she did not want to care about them at all.
The blonde youngster got mad all of a sudden. She pointed at Catherine and said, "I warn you, don't act all bossy when I asked politely... You can ask around and find out who we are... In this café, no one dares to mess with us."
"If you know your place, give us the computers or else, I will teach you a lesson," The blonde youngster said again.
"How are you going to teach me a lesson?" Catherine twitched her lips in disdain and then stood up. Her face got stone cold immediately. She kicked backwards casually and caused the chair to fly far away from her.
"Hey... You're interesting, want to fight? Alright, today we are going to let you have a taste of our fists... Ah..."
Before the blonde youngster was able to say anything, Catherine raised her leg and ruthlessly kicked his weakest spot.
At that split second, the blonde youngster's face turned pale due to the pain and sat straight onto the ground. He covered his weakest spot while moaning in pain. He pointed at Catherine. "You... How dare you! Guys, get her..."
Catherine rolled her eyes straightaway. She then casually crossed her fingers together and warmed up her wrist.
It did not take long for the youngsters to rush to her...
However, Catherine was quicker and she kicked them all down one by one.
Her movements were nimble and she handled each of them with only one single kick. Each of her kicks landed precisely on their weakest parts.
Soon, the few youngsters were down on the ground. They were all covering their weakest parts while moaning in pain.
That scene made everyone who was around her stupefied.
Catherine stretched her neck nonchalantly and squinted at them with discrimination from above. "A bunch of weaklings, none of you were able to fight."
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Chapter 398
After she said that, Catherine Batton stretched her neck once again and continued to squint at the boys while frowning.
"You... You... Look at how bad you had beaten me up! I'm going to make you pay!" The blonde youngster pointed at Catherine's face while panting. Meanwhile, his other hand was still covering his weakest spot. He panted in pain while stuttering.
"Do you know what the right of self-defence is? And you still want money for that? Who do you think you are?" Catherine snorted coldly and started to warm up her fists.
The group of boys who were led by the blonde youngster were frightened to death when they witnessed that scene. Strong flashes of timidity appeared in each of their eyes and their bodies started to tremble subconsciously.
"You... What are you trying to do?" The blonde youngster was pointing at her while trembling uncontrollably.
"To beat y'all up once again, of course," Catherine spoke casually. Her sentence ended with a smile like a blooming flower.
Although she was smiling, her eyes seemed very sinister and cold.
The youngsters suddenly did not dare to breathe. After they looked at each other for a second, all of them yelled at the same time, "Run!"
Then, all of them endured the pain and stumbled their way out of the cybercafe. They left with an outcry.
Catherine slowly kept her smile away and pouted when she saw the scene. She frowned and mumbled to herself, "Boring."
Then, she gently clapped both of her hands. She went back to her seat and put on her headphones.
The people who witnessed the incident only came back to their senses and started to whisper. Their eyes were filled with admiration.
After a game, Catherine casually stretched herself. She stood up and was about to buy herself a bottle of water.
Her eyes accidently fell onto one of the computers and Catherine was shocked at that split second.
A girl was Photoshopping a photo.
The photo that she was working on was actually a photo of Josh Batton and Morty Wayne holding hands.
Catherine stood still behind her immediately. She frowned slightly while tapping on her peach blossom-like lips and shook her head with a gloomy face.
The girl could sense that someone was standing behind her for quite some while. Immediately, she turned around and saw Catherine.
As soon as she saw her face, the girl felt a sudden chill. Carefully, she asked, "You... What do you want from me? I didn't mess with you, right?"
Catherine smiled. "I didn't say you messed with me... Just that, what's going on with the photo that you're editing? Are you a fan of the 'Morty and Josh' couple?"
Immediately, the girl nodded her head vigorously. "Yes... Are you a fan too?"
Catherine shook her head at once. "Nope, I'm a fan of the 'Morty and Jay' couple."
The girl made a face of disgust instantly. "Morty Wayne and Jay Corben?"
Catherine's smile deepened. "Yeah... The 'Morty and Jay' couple is the One True Pair."
Ever since the first episode of Teenage Idol broadcasted, Josh had taken really good care of Morty whereas the way Jay treated Morty was completely different from the way he treated others, therefore a lot of people started to ship Josh Batton and Jay Corben with Morty Wayne.
Some supported the 'Morty and Josh' couple while some stanned for the 'Morty and Jay' couple. The number of people who supported the 'Morty and Jay' couple was twice the supporters of 'Morty and Josh' couple.
Although she agreed that Josh and Morty suited as a couple too, she knew Josh way too well. She knew everything about Josh Batton so she knew that everything he did was nothing out of the blue. However, the girl had a very different feeling for the 'Morty and Jay' couple.
The girl spoke with dissatisfaction, "Morty and Jay' is fake, 'Morty and Josh' is real"
Catherine helplessly shook her head. "Josh Batton and Morty Wayne felt nothing like a couple, alright? The interactions he had with Morty in Teenage Idol were just some ordinary interactions between a mentor and a mentee, alright? I just can't understand why there's a bunch of people who can interpret that wrongly."
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Chapter 399
"On the other hand, Jay Corben and Morty Wayne were totally different, alright? Didn't you notice? Jay Corben treated everyone else coldly, he didn't even care much about the others but he would play pranks on Morty and make him laugh frequently... That's what you call a couple, alright? The 'Morty and Jay' couple is real." Catherine Batton got more excited as she spoke and her face was getting even more delighted.
"Yours is fake and mine is real." The girl insisted.
Catherine persisted as well. "Yours is fake and only mine is real. The couple that I supported must be true."
Due to Catherine's aura, the girl did not continue to refute. She turned around quietly and continued to Photoshop the photo.
Catherine did not care about her anymore as well, she turned around straightaway and went to get water for herself. She mumbled while she was walking, "Hmph, the couple that I like is the real one, 'Morty and Jay' are real, they're real!"
***
Throughout the whole afternoon, Xyla Quest could not focus at all when she was working.
Whenever she looked at the documents, the scene where Five Batton was sitting in front of her while speaking gently to a girl would automatically appear in front of her eyes.
The girl must be his girlfriend. This matter was a solid fact.
If that was the case, she should keep herself away from him and end her feelings before it was too late.
She picked up her phone and opened his feed before taking a quick look.
It would take months for him to post something on his feed. Nothing special had happened recently therefore it was empty.
She stared at the blank screen for a while, only then she put her focus back onto her work.
In the evening, Georgie Clementine gave her a call.
She had just finished her work and she was exhausted.
Casually, she stretched her body. She then walked to the French windows with the phone in her hand and answered the call.
The sun was setting and its golden radiance showered the land. The huge city was bathed in gold.
The rays of the setting sun landed on her face, making her features look extra gentle.
She was standing at high altitudes. By standing there, she felt that the whole world was beneath her and she could have a clear look of the breathtaking views of the city at a glance. "Georgie... Anything?" Xyla looked serious.
"There's something that I would like to discuss with you, it's very important." Georgie sounded very serious on the other side of the phone.
"Hmm, you may proceed..." Xyla gently pinched the part between her eyebrows and waited for Georgie to talk.
"Things are like this, ever since Teenage Idol broadcasted, the way Jay Corben treated Morty Wayne was totally different from the way he treated others. Also, they looked so comfortable together, therefore a lot of the audience had started to ship them together..." Georgie said.
"And then?" Xyla asked.
"I thought of another way to increase their popularity. I'm planning to let them both go popular by selling homosexuality. Ever since people started to ship them together, their popularity had skyrocketed. Initially, they were only the top five in the participants' leaderboards, now Morty Wayne takes the first place while Jay Corben takes the second."
"They don't need to do anything on purpose. They only need to do something sweet once in a while unintentionally... Nowadays, the audience are big thinkers, they could come up with hundreds of assumptions even if they only did one single thing," Georgie said one word at a time with a serious tone.
Xyla analysed Georgie's words seriously. In the end, she made her stand and supported her decision. "Alright."
In order to stay competitive in the entertainment circle while being surrounded by an overwhelming bunch of cute guys, they certainly needed a special solution to attract the audience's attention. As for Georgie's idea, it was undoubtedly the best solution.
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Chapter 400
"That should be it. Nowadays, there are a lot of girls who prefer gay couples. If we do that, we could attract this bunch of girls to become their fans. By that time, their popularity would be unstoppable... Georgie Clementine said.
"Hmm... We will discuss more about the disengagement afterwards. As for now, you should go and talk to Morty and Jay about this matter."
After that, Xyla ended the call. She put on her sky-blue jacket and walked out.
Firstly, Xyla went to the supermarket and bought some vegetables.
She then got back home and made five dishes together with a soup.
After she served all the dishes, she subconsciously picked up her phone and was about to text him.
Right after she sent out the sentence 'When will you be back for dinner?', she deleted it immediately.
Not knowing since when, they had formed this tacit understanding between them where no matter who reached home first and made dinner, he or she would send a message through WeChat and ask when the other one would be back home for dinner.
If the other one replied that he or she would be home soon, they would wait for each other to return and eat together.
As for now, she knew that she needed to drop the habit of doing that as he was already a man with a girlfriend. It would be very inappropriate for her to keep on sending messages like those.
She took in a deep breath and gently caressed her stuffy chest. She then grabbed the chopsticks and ate alone.
The dishes were all clearly her favourites but all of them were tasteless at that moment.
She forced herself to eat half a bowl of rice. She then took her phone and went upstairs to take a shower. After the shower, she grabbed her laptop and got back to work while sitting on her bed. In a blink of an eye, it was half past eight.
After she had settled all her work, she switched off her laptop and pinched the area between her eyebrows. Subconsciously, she walked to the balcony and looked towards the yard. He was not back home yet.
She guessed that he might still be accompanying his girlfriend for now. She must have been the luckiest girl at the moment.
Her chest started to ache once again.
She got back to her bed and laid down. She tossed and turned but still could not fall asleep.
***
Meanwhile in the crowd at the largest pub of Atlantis, Catherine Batton, who was wearing a white crop top and tight-fitting sky-blue jeans, was disco-dancing intensely.
In the vast space, people were everywhere and neon lights were shining here and there. The DJ's music was packed with great momentum and it brought the atmosphere here to the peak.
The girl's body was soft and her movements were all very energetic. Each gesture of her was filled with youthful spirit.
There was a white diamond stuck to her belly button. Under the blazing neon lights, it shone brightly with rays of colourful lights and it was extremely dazzling.
She let her hair down completely. The occasional flicking of her hair was extremely charming.
Catherine was surrounded by crowds of people but no one was better looking than her.
Her face was rich in collagen. Although she did not put any makeup on, she could easily defeat those girls with heavy makeup around her.
There would be people coming by to hit on her from time to time but Catherine did not care about them at all.
At the railings of the second floor, the Batton brothers, Stanley and Josh were leaning against it quietly. They both had a drink while staring at the dance pool below. Occasionally, they would exchange a word
or two.
Stanley was wearing a black shirt and a pair of black joggers while Josh was wearing a white T-shirt paired with black overalls. He was wearing a cap and a pair of big shades as well.
No matter how bright the neon lights were, it still could not outshine them.