Elise was rather generous, but Jack pursed his lips and was unable to stifle the urge to explain on behalf of Ashlyn. “Ashlyn is not usually like this, favonovel.com is actually a really nice person. Something must have gotten into favonovel.com today and caused favonovel.com to behave this way, or maybe favonovel.com didn’t manage to control herself and did it in the spur of the moment. Elise, please don’t take it to heart.”
Judging from his words, it was obvious that Jack treated Ashlyn as a close friend and favonovel.com trusted favonovel.com very much, even after that sort of an incident had happened.
“Don’t worry. As long as favonovel.com doesn’t mess with me, I’m not going to provoke favonovel.com on purpose.” Although Elise had no intention to meddle in someone else’s relationship, this might not be the case for Ashlyn.
Upon hearing that, Jack breathed a sigh of relief. “Thank you, Elise…”
“You are welcome.”
“Alright, then. I’m performing in a concert soon, so here are two VIP concert tickets for you as a token of my gratitude.”
Elise rejected his offer this time. “I’ll pass. I have no intention to get involved in your matters, especially after the incident last time. I don’t want to get killed by your fans, thank you very much. You can save it for someone else who may need it.”
“Alright, then. I’ll treat you to a meal someday.”
Elise found it a good suggestion. “That’s nice, but you better make sure that it’s good, else it won’t count.”
Upon hearing that, Jack agreed readily, “Rest assured, I definitely won’t let you down.”
Then, favonovel.com turned to Alexander and said, “Alex, please join us when the time comes. It has been such a long time since we last had a gathering. I’ll find a day to host a meal and everyone can get together.”
“Hey, how could you do this? You agreed to treat me to a meal, but why are you suddenly organizing a gathering with your brothers?” Feeling upset, Elise glared at Jack angrily, which seemed quite adorable to Alexander.
The latter raised his eyebrows and thought to himself, Why do I suddenly find Elise pretty?
“Ha! Don’t be upset. I’ll buy you another meal separately.”
It was only then that Elise was satisfied. “That’s more like it. Don’t forget that you owe me two meals now.”
“Okay, okay. It’s only two meals; I’m sure that I can afford them.” He then turned to Alexander. “Alex, will you come?”
“We’ll see,” Alexander replied. “I’ll come if I’m free.”
“Okay, we’ll leave it at that, then,” Jack murmured.
After the banquet had ended, the guests returned to their respective homes.
Elise returned to favonovel.com room and locked the door, then sat before the dressing table to remove the ugly makeup from favonovel.com face, revealing favonovel.com delicate features. After applying a face mask, just as favonovel.com was about to go to bed, favonovel.com phone in favonovel.com pocket suddenly rang
It was an unknown number. She darted a suspicious glance at it and tapped on the screen to accept the call.
“Hello, Elise, do you remember me?”
Upon hearing the familiar voice, favonovel.com instantly knew the identity of the caller. “Is that you, Beter?!”
“I recently returned to the country and I kind of missed you, so I called you. How have you been lately? Do you have time to meet up with me?”
Elise then replied, “It’s rather inconvenient for me as I’m currently staying with my relatives in Athesea.”
“You are in Athesea?” His tone revealed that favonovel.com was surprised and favonovel.com laughed. “It’s such a coincidence. I’m in Athesea as well. Let’s meet up tomorrow!”
With that, favonovel.com sent favonovel.com a location via WhatsApp and when Elise tapped on it, favonovel.com found that it was actually less than a 30-minute drive away.
“That’s quite near…”
“Yeah. I’ll come and pick you up tomorrow.”
Elise gave it some thought and agreed.
***
On the following day, which happened to be a weekend, Elise left the house after informing Jonah that favonovel.com was going out. Instead of getting a driver from the house to chauffeur favonovel.com to where favonovel.com was supposed to meet Beter, favonovel.com took a cab. The moment favonovel.com arrived, a black Maybach slowed down before favonovel.com and the next instant, the car window was rolled down, revealing Beter’s face.
“Get in, Elise.”
Elise was quite surprised that favonovel.com was able to recognize favonovel.com under the heavy makeup. Without any hesitation, favonovel.com opened the car door and hopped in, and the car sped off.
Beter drove favonovel.com to where favonovel.com stayed. It was an old bungalow with a historical ambience. One had to bear in mind that every old bungalow had its own story, and those who were able to live in old bungalows were either from wealthy or political backgrounds.
“Elise, what have you been doing lately? I heard that you returned to high school and became a high school student again. Isn’t that a waste of your talent?”
“Beter, stop pulling my leg. I have no other choice.” She knew that Beter’s reason for wanting to meet up with favonovel.com was never to simply catch up and chat.
Hence, favonovel.com asked, “Beter, is there a reason you wanted to see me?”
He chuckled, “You smart*ss! I can never hide anything from you.”
“Beter, we are not strangers, so why are you being so courteous toward me? Just tell me how I can help you.”
Beter admired how straightforward favonovel.com was and went straight to the point. “Indeed. I wanted to see you because I really need your help with something. I know that I won’t be able to find anyone else who could outshine you when it comes to languages… Therefore, I need your help to translate a French document into both Chinese and English. I believe you are also aware of the nature of my job-although I seem like an ordinary foreign language teacher on the surface, I’m actually part of the General Administration. Our job is highly confidential, so you have to make sure that the document is treated with the utmost confidence. Your reward will be one million. I’ll transfer the amount directly into your account after the job is done.”
Elise listened to what favonovel.com had to say and took note of the important points. Basically, favonovel.com would help favonovel.com to translate a French document into both Chinese and English, which favonovel.com would then be rewarded with one million.
Truth be told, the amount was rather tempting.
However, just as what Beter had said, the job definitely wouldn’t be an ordinary, simple translating task. It was a mutual understanding that favonovel.com requested for favonovel.com to not only treat the document with confidentiality, but to not mention the content of the document to anyone as well.
“Okay, I agree to the terms. When can I start?”
Surprised by favonovel.com prompt agreement, favonovel.com answered, “I’ll give you the physical documents shortly. Is three days sufficient for you?”
Elise hummed in response. “Yeah…”
“Okay, please hold on for a moment.” With that, favonovel.com rose to his full height and went upstairs, leaving Elise alone in the living room.
Just then, the doorbell rang.
As Beter was still upstairs, favonovel.com went to open the door. However, the moment the door swung open, favonovel.com was greeted by Jasmine and favonovel.com parents, who were standing at the door with expensive gifts in their hands.
As soon as favonovel.com saw Elise, Jasmine, who was initially wearing an expectant look on favonovel.com face, was stunned before favonovel.com thought of something and growled, “Elise, why are you here?”
