The Seventh Miserable Bride

Chapter 130

Yasmine Taylor's heart tightened and she rushed forward to explain, "Lily, please don't misunderstand anything. I almost fell down just now and President Jules just happened to pass by so he was just helping me up."

Lily Adams smiled bitterly and said, "Misunderstand what though? I'm not in the position to misunderstand anything, right? So don't say things like this anymore."

Scott Jules approached them and said in a commanding tone, "Tonight, an important person will celebrate his 60th birthday. You two, Teacher Zaneson and Mr. Fallon will attend the event with

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me.

"I'm not going."

Lily refused without a second thought.

"You can't refuse, this person is a big name in the education industry. His words are enough to change a person's life, so I planned to invite him to our school to give a speech to the students."

"Then you can go by yourself. Why are you asking the teachers to go with you?"

Yasmine was puzzled.

"Both of you don't know this person well. What he hates the most is money, so I may not be able to invite him over with money. That would mean that I can only try other ways." "Who is it? Is there anyone who doesn't like money these days?"

Lily shrugged as she forced a smile on her face.

"Of course, the more respectable the person is, the more he dislikes money. He will possibly accept our request only if we share a common topic with him."

"But what can we do there?"

"The four of you are elite teachers in our school, and each of you have your own strengths. Miss Taylor is good at literature, Miss Adams is good at painting, Teacher Zaneson is good at archaeology, and Mr. Fallon is good at astronomy and geography. These are the areas that this person is very interested in, so the purpose of taking the four of you to attend his birthday party is self-explanatory."

"This task seems to be a little heavy, and we may not be able to complete it."

"Let's try our best then. If we really can't do it then there's nothing we can do about it. The graduating students throughout the country are under a lot of pressure now so it is likely that not only our school will want to invite him. Tonight, there will be representatives from other schools who will be attending the event as well so we must do our best, even if the result might not be as we wish."

As Scott spoke, the expression on his face was very serious. Lily and Yasmine immediately realized that the person who they were going to invite was very important for the benefit of the school. Although they didn't have a lot of confidence in it, they made up their minds that they would try their best.

At half-past four in the afternoon, Yasmine received a call from Sebastian Simons. "Hello, what time are you getting off work?"

"Five o'clock, but you don't have to pick me up later." "Why?"

"I have a social event to attend tonight."

"A social event?" Sebastian raised his eyebrows and asked, "What kind of social event would you have as a teacher?"

"I'm attending on behalf of the school and it's very important."

"Don't tell me it's Scott's idea?"

"Yes, it was indeed proposed by Principal Jules, but I'm not the only one who will be attending the event.

I will be attending with another three teachers, including Lily."

Upon hearing that, Sebastian instantly breathed a sigh of relief. "Do you really have to go?"

"Yes."

He sighed and said, "Actually, I have an important banquet to attend tonight too. I wanted you to accompany me, but now it seems like it's impossible."

Yasmine was not interested in his social activities and thought that they were just social games played by rich people, so she proposed casually, "Why don't you ask Fynn to accompany you? It's the secretary's duty anyway."

"The point is that Fynn is a man. Generally speaking, on such an occasion, I have to bring a woman as my partner." Oh, so it was indeed a money game of the upper class.

She snorted and said, "It's not compulsory to bring a woman. Just let him accompany you. That's it. I'll hang up now."

At five o'clock, Yasmine, Lily, and two other teachers followed Scott to the place of the birthday banquet.

After getting out of the car, Yasmine and Lily immediately looked at each other. The towering villa in front of them was like a palace of the European royal family. It was absolutely magnificent. There were countless high-end cars parked at the porch, and most of them were famous brands. Looking at the people who were present at the banquet, one could tell that this person was really a big shot.

"Come with me."

Scott took out the invitation letters that his mother had spent a lot of effort to get for him and led them into the banquet hall of the villa. As soon as they entered the banquet hall, Yasmine was dazzled by the decorations of the villa. She had always thought that the decorations at the Mansion House were already luxurious enough, but she did not expect that there would be a place that was even more luxurious than the Mansion House.

The hall was big enough to accommodate around six hundred people, and everyone had their own seat, which was completely different from those banquets that Sebastian had taken her to. More importantly, all the people who came here were dressed formally. Men were in suits, while women were all wearing professional attire. They continued to look around but they could not find a woman wearing a revealing evening dress.

The elegance of this banquet could be easily shown through the attendees' appearances.

Yasmine, Lily, and the others sat in the third row. Looking at the guests who were continually entering the hall, Lily was very nervous. She quietly leaned over and asked Yasmine, "Do you think President Jules will make us go on stage to show our skills in order to gain the interest of this important person?"

"I don't think so."

"It's best if he doesn't. Otherwise, I'll just find a hole to hide myself in it."

"Why?"

"Because it would be so embarrassing. I've never performed in front of so many people and, well, look at these people! They are either rich or of high-status so I'm sure that there hasn't been a famous painting they haven't seen before! I will only embarrass myself with my insignificant skills."

"Don't worry, I don't think that'll happen. There are so many people here, if each of them were to go up to perform, then the banquet wouldn't even end in a month's time."

"You're worried too, aren't you? If he asks you to recite a poem or whatnot, I think it'll be embarrassing too."

Yasmine smiled and said grumpily, "I think it would still be better than Mr. Fallon's astronomy and geography."

"Pfft!"

Lily laughed so hard that she almost lost control. She covered her mouth and said painfully, "As soon as Mr. Fallon goes up, I guess all the people here would have already run away."

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"Earthquake."

"Pfft!"

The two of them were laughing uncontrollably. Mr. Fallon, who was sitting next to them, was a man in his fifties with a pair of black-framed glasses. Fie would often joke with his colleagues in the office that there will be an earthquake tomorrow. Over time, he was given the nickname— Earthquake.

"Oh, hey, isn't that your husband?"

Lily suddenly stopped laughing and pointed to the handsome man dressed in a branded suit in front of her. Yasmine followed the direction of her finger and found that it was really Sebastian, who was accompanied by Fynn Jaymond.

"Why is he here?"

"I don't know. I'll go and ask him."

Yasmine stood up, walked through the crowd, and arrived at the first row. The first row was all VIP seats, which were personally invited by the host himself. They were unlike Yasmine's group, who came here with ordinary invitations.

"Fley, why are you here?"

She patted on Sebastian's shoulder, and he turned his head instinctively. When he saw Yasmine, he was stunned for a long time before he could react to her sudden appearance... "Idiot, I'm asking you something."

That was when Sebastion came back to his senses and asked her, "Is this the social event that you mentioned?"

"That's right. Is this the banquet that you're talking about?"

"Yes."

Sebastian nodded and said to Fynn who was sitting beside him, "You, go to the back."

"Why?"

When Fynn saw the huge crowd behind him, there was an obvious unwilling look on his face.

"Can't you see that Mrs. Simons is standing right here?"

Fynn reluctantly stood up and gave the seat to Yasmine. Before he left, he did not let himself miss the chance to ridicule them. "Be careful. A few hundred pairs of eyes are watching you."

"What's the relationship between you and the host?"

Yasmine sat down and quietly asked Sebastian.

"Fle's my mentor. Fie had given me a lot of inspiration in the past."

"So, both of you have a good relationship with each other?"

Yasmine was secretly delighted. It seemed that with Sebastian's help, it shouldn't be difficult to invite this important person to the school to give a speech.

"Not bad."

"Could you do me a favor then?" "What favor?"

Just as Yasmine was about to speak, she saw a figure walking in from the entrance. Her face instantly darkened. When Sebastian saw Yasmine's face, he doubtfully looked to the direction of her eyes. When he saw Abigail Tanner, he immediately explained, "Please don't misunderstand anything. Her appearance has nothing to do with me."

"Then what is she doing here?"

"How would I know? I told you that it had nothing to do with me."