“Oscar Storm, you only got to become the helmsman of the Storm family merely because your grandfather is old. Do you really think you’re that capable and impressive?“How dare you reprimand me here? Fine. I’m indeed just a junior of the Prestons now, and I don’t have as high a status as you, but this man standing here is Joel Wallace, the scion of the Wallaces. How dare you be so rude to him? You won’t even greet him. Aren’t you being too arrogant and cocky?”Kobe immediately mentioned his backer, Joel Wallace.Oscar then looked at Joel and pretended to be surprised. “Oh, I’m sorry. So, you’re Mr. Wallace. I really didn’t recognize you just now. I’ve been too impolite. I’m sorry! But seriously, Kobe, since you’re so close to Mr. Wallace, why didn’t you introduce us just now?”Oscar’s words were rather perfunctory, and anyone could tell that he did it on purpose.However, his expression was so serious that it made many riled up, but they couldn’t find any fault with him at all.This ma

After criticizing them, Kobe even deferentially complained about them to Joel like a dog, deliberately fanning the flames.Joel’s face was about to turn pale, but the foolish Kobe actually thought that he was mad at William and Oscar because of his instigation.He even smiled smugly.The rest of the guests looked over and thought to themselves that they were in for a good show!At this moment, the piano music in the banquet hall suddenly changed, and a commotion broke out among the crowd.Someone exclaimed, “Look, our birthday girl is coming out!”With the exclamation, everyone turned to look at the spiral staircase on the second floor.They saw Cecilia, the star of today’s party and the princess everyone adored.She finally made her appearance!Cecilia was wearing a silvery-blue starry dress with a tight halter top cinched at the waist.Starting from her waist down, the rest of her dress began to look like stardust flowing down to the hem at the bottom, with the color of the fabric g

Joel initially thought that by confessing to Cecilia in front of everyone at her birthday party, she would definitely be touched and say yes to him immediately.He had assumed that she was a hopeless romantic, like most young girls her age.He thought that even if she disagreed on the spot, she would at least give him some response.He would then find some people to convince her, and they could finally establish their relationship.But Cecilia actually didn’t save him from any embarrassment even though they were in front of so many people.Most of the people in the banquet hall were children from various wealthy families in California.Now that Cecilia had blatantly rejected him in front of everyone, he felt that he would be too embarrassed to speak to them in the future.But Cecilia hadn’t finished saying her piece. “Also, Joel, I seem to remember telling you before that I never want to see you again. I don’t remember inviting you to my birthday party either. Why are you here? You ow

Cecilia’s flabbergasting statement just now and the fact that she was now clearly walking toward someone sparked a huge uproar in the hall as countless people exclaimed in unison.“Could… the person Cecilia likes really be here?”“Wow, this is so exciting! I thought Cecilia just said that casually to reject Joel, but now it seems she really does like someone, and she’s planning to announce it now.”“Look in the direction Cecilia is walking! That’s Oscar Storm and Lucas Clemen! Could the person Cecilia likes be one of these two?”“But didn’t someone just say that Oscar Storm is already married and even has a child? In that case, it seems the only person left is Lucas Clement? Is the person Cecilia likes actually Lucas?”“Ah, right, now that you’ve said it, I remember now. Didn’t Cecilia happen to go to Westbrook with Mr. Lancaster Sr. some time ago? Maybe Cecilia and Lucas fell in love at that time!”“Wow! It’s true! This is definitely huge news!”The gossipy eyes and topics spread thr

Kobe couldn’t afford to offend Cecilia, but he didn’t take a penniless man seriously at all.“Brat, you sounded really impressive when you were speaking to Joel just now. You even said that you’re someone whom even Joel can’t afford to provoke. You sounded really confident, but you should see if you have the grounds to do so!“It happens that everyone here has prepared gifts for Cecilia since it’s her birthday today. In that case, why don’t you show us the gift you brought and let us see if you have what it takes to be Miss Lancaster’s boyfriend.“If you say that you’ve forgotten to bring the gift or try to brush us off with a gift that costs a couple of hundred dollars, you’d better drop the act in front of us now!”For a moment, countless gazes were on William.Indeed, although Kobe was Joel’s loyal lapdog, and what he said was rather unpleasant, his idea wasn’t too bad.If William was unwilling to reveal his identity and was deliberately pretending to be a low-key penniless man, th