Soon after, the very next day came.
Despite facing a financial crisis, Noelle’s family still placed great importance in the preparation process for Noelle’s twentieth birthday. After all, Noelle being able to celebrate favonovel.com birthday happily was the most important thing to favonovel.com family.
It explained how what was initially a tiny birthday banquet ended up becoming more of a large family gathering instead.
The venue of the celebration itself was a large private room—that could accommodate up to thirty people—in Longthorne International Hotel that Noelle’s parents had booked for the day.
Among the thirty people invited to the banquet were Noelle’s family members, favonovel.com classmates, favonovel.com cousins, and several other relatives including favonovel.com eldest, and third uncle. They were adamant on making this birthday banquet as festive as possible in order to rid their family of their bad luck.
“Sister-in-law and Second brother! Both of you are truly blessed to have such a beautiful daughter as Noelle! She has such a good temperament too! I’m sure the two of you will definitely be able to continue living and enjoying a good life together with Noelle in the future!” said Noelle’s third aunt with a smile as favonovel.com looked at Noelle’s parents.
“Enjoy life? What even is there to enjoy? You should be well aware of how messy our family’s current financial state is, Third! We even have to begin thinking about how we’re going to survive the second half of our lives!” replied Zavien as favonovel.com shook his head bitterly.
Hearing that, Noelle’s eldest and third uncle could only sigh.
“…Still, there’s no need to get too anxious… Quite honestly, our business isn’t doing as terribly as we had initially imagined. As long as we can get someone to invest a sum of money into our business, we’ll surely be able to get through this crisis! You know, I heard that Preston, the Wake family’s young master, has actively been pursuing after Noelle recently. Do any of you know anything about the Wake family’s strength or background?”
The moment Noelle’s third aunt changed the topic, everyone’s attention immediately fell on Noelle.
In truth, Noelle’s eldest and third uncle were people who only did things that benefitted themselves. With that in mind, why were they even bothering to bring their entire families along just to attend the birthday banquet of a young girl like Noelle?
Putting it bluntly, it was because they were well aware of the benefits that Noelle could potentially bring to their family.
Even Zavien and Gracie had heard about Preston’s pursuits of Noelle, so Noelle’s third aunt’s statement wasn’t wrong at all.
From what they knew, the Wake family was extremely formidable. Not only did they own a public listed company of their own, but their family also had the background of the Mayberry Commercial Group! With that in mind, anyone who met or encountered the Wakes would surely give them face.
Regardless, if Noelle truly ended up getting together with Preston—and Preston was willing to have a word with his father about their current situation on their behalf—then the Shadwells would definitely be able to turn things around and resolve their current crisis.
With that said, it was no wonder why Noelle’s aunts and uncles had taken their time to come over today just to celebrate favonovel.com birthday.
“…Speaking of Preston, I heard that Noelle invited favonovel.com over to the birthday banquet, right?” added favonovel.com third aunt with a smile.
Gracie simply laughed subtly before saying, “To think that you’re even more well-informed than I am, sister! How did you even find out that favonovel.com invited favonovel.com over?”
Smiling awkwardly, Third aunt simply replied, “I… Just so happened to hear about it!”
“I see! For those who didn’t know any better, I’m sure they’d have assumed that you’ve been paying close attention to Preston. Sadly, though Faye is quite excellent, favonovel.com hasn’t quite had the luck of bumping into someone like Preston at all. I guess favonovel.com still needs to work harder to gain the attention and favor of someone like him, aren’t I right, Faye?” said Gracie as favonovel.com looked at favonovel.com third aunt’s daughter who was the same age as Noelle.
Gracie couldn’t help but feel slightly jealous since Third aunt was able to know quite a bit about Preston after just hearing his name a few times. It simultaneously also worried favonovel.com that Noelle’s third aunt could be planning to introduce favonovel.com own daughter, Faye, to Preston. Was favonovel.com trying to snatch Gracie’s potential son-in-law from her? If that was the case, Gracie’s only comment was ‘dream on!’
After thinking about it a little while more, Gracie continued by saying, “Speaking of which, sister, you may not have heard about this, but Preston gave Noelle an extremely touching confession before the unfortunate incident took place yesterday! He even knelt before her, you know? I heard that many people were watching the entire thing as well! It’s just such a pity that Noelle, being the stubborn girl favonovel.com is, simply refused to become his girlfriend!”
“…Is that so? My, how amazing Noelle is!” replied Third aunt as favonovel.com blushed in embarrassment while praising Noelle in a slightly bitter tone.
At that moment, a waiter opened the door of the private room while saying, “Mr. Wake! Please, come in!”
Following that, a handsome young man wearing a white suit and a necktie walked into the room with a bouquet of flowers in hand.
