Chapter 123: The Expert Retorter Chu Luo
After being stunned for a moment, Atlantis quickly raised his glass at everyone. “Let me toast everyone. Thank you for coming to this banquet.”
The others quickly raised their glasses and congratulated him.
After drinking, no one danced. A few people who looked like the CEO of corporations surrounded Li Yan.
The others gathered around Atlantis’ sons and family, eavesdropping on their conversation while chatting and drinking.
Atlantis also had a daughter named Amina.
He deliberately used his gaze to signal Amina to treat Chu Luo with hospitality.
Amina was wearing a silver fishtail dress and a gold fox mask tonight. She walked up to Chu Luo and invited her warmly, “Hello, my name is Amina. It’s too stuffy in here. Let’s go over there and play.”
After saying that, she pointed to a group of women.
Chu Luo felt the gazes coming from several directions and thought about her mission tonight. She nodded.
Other than the main living room, there was also a small living room in the hall of the villa. It was obviously specially used to entertain female guests.
The room was divided into several areas with sofas, food, and even musical instruments and books. The paintings hanging inside were also lively and romantic.
They walked together that way. “May I know your name?” Amina asked as they walked.
“Chu Luo.”
“Chu…” Amina felt that Chu Luo’s name was especially awkward to pronounce, so she said with a smile, “I’ll call you Chu.”
“Sure.”
The two of them walked over as they spoke.
When the other women standing in the living room saw Amina bringing Chu Luo to the small living room, they all quietly followed her.
As soon as she walked in, Amina introduced Chu Luo to everyone.
The first person to speak was probing. “Chu, we are all surprised that Li brought a female companion tonight. How do you and Li know each other?”
Before Chu Luo could answer, another person asked, “I wonder which conglomerate Chu is from? My family also has a branch company in the empire. I know a little about those large corporations in there.”
Then, someone said, “To be brought here by Master Li, she must be very capable in various aspects. I wonder what Chu knows?”
Chu Luo glanced at the three people who were asking questions. A glint flashed across her eyes as she curled her lips and said in a grating tone, “I know everything that you guys know. I also know everything that you don’t. Say, what do you think I know?”
Everyone: “…”
Wasn’t this person too arrogant!
Chu Luo added, “Li Yan must have brought me here to attend a banquet because he adores me. Given his cold personality, other women would be thrown out by him if they tried to get close to him.”
Everyone: “…”
Chu Luo: “I’m not the daughter of any large conglomerate…”
Disdain flashed across everyone’s hearts.
“Even though I’m not a rich second-generation heir, can’t I be a rich first-generation heir?”
Everyone: “…”
Chu Luo’s few words rendered this group of women, who self-proclaimed to be from the upper-class society, speechless.
They had seen arrogant people, but not someone this arrogant.
Chu Luo glanced at everyone before walking to an armchair and sitting down.
Her sitting posture was actually very casual, but once she sat down, that demeanor, even if she sat alone and the others stood, gave the impression that she wasn’t inferior. Instead, she seemed to have become a queen whereas the rest were all servants and could only stand.
How could that do!
All the women subconsciously found a seat and sat down.
A woman with a hot figure sat up straight on purpose and smiled deliberately. “Master Li has difficulty moving. Chu is so thin and frail. In certain aspects, can you serve Master Li well?”
“In what aspects?”
Chu Luo looked at her teasingly. “Li Yan has so many bodyguards and servants, yet he still needs me to serve him?”
A few women looked at each other and felt that Chu Luo was acting clueless.
However, they didn’t continue. Thinking that they didn’t know Chu Luo at all and that this person had admitted that she wasn’t the daughter of a large corporation, they didn’t intend to give her much face.
After all, there were many women sitting here who wanted to be the wife of the CEO of Blazing Glory Corporation.
A woman pretended to ask casually, “Chu, do you know why all the women have to wear masks at tonight’s banquet but the men don’t?”
Chu Luo really didn’t know. She raised her hand to touch the mask on her face and guessed, “Could this be the host’s weird preference?”
When Amina heard this, she quickly clarified, “No! This was Li Yan’s condition for agreeing to attend my family’s banquet.”
“…” Chu Luo was stunned for two seconds. She nodded seriously and deliberately guessed, “Maybe it’s because Li Yan is too good-looking. Some of you are too ugly, so he’d rather not see you! Is that why he simply asked everyone to wear masks?”
“…”
Where did this person come from? Why was she so bad at talking!
Finally, someone couldn’t stand it anymore and retorted, “Since Chu is Li’s female companion, why didn’t you receive any special treatment and not need to wear a mask?”
“Why should I be given special treatment?” Chu Luo gave her a strange look. “I don’t want everyone staring at me like monkeys.”
“…”
They really couldn’t continue this topic. The women looked at each other. One of them asked, “I wonder what Chu usually likes?”
“Reading and gaming.”
“Then what kind of sports does Chu like?”
“A lot.”
“Does Chu know how to play instruments?”
“Yes.”
“Can Chu dance?”
“That’s my forte.”
…
A few women asked different questions, but Chu Luo answered them calmly. Later on, they couldn’t continue asking.
A woman wearing a Queen’s mask, looking extremely hot as she stood outside the small living room, having not followed in, waved the wine glass in her hand and sneered.
The woman wearing a butterfly mask standing beside her sneered and said, “Looks like the woman Li brought tonight has no other talent other than having a sharp tongue.”
As she spoke, she retracted her gaze and looked at the woman beside her. “Miss Adeline, as Prince Arlan’s cousin, you are the person most suited to be Li’s female companion for tonight’s banquet. That woman isn’t worthy at all.”
Adeline smiled at this.
The woman added, “Although he’s a little cold, he’s really charming. Many women discuss him in private.”
“Discussing what about him?”
The woman answered by whispering into her ear.
Adeline’s ears turned slightly red. She turned her gaze to Li Yan and narrowed her eyes at the thought of this person’s business acumen and his business empire that was even greater than his gorgeous appearance.
Seeing her reaction, the woman said even more enthusiastically, “The female companion Li has brought can’t compare to you in terms of figure. Although I can’t see what she looks like, I can tell at a glance that she’s very young. Maybe she hasn’t even done this and that with Li yet. Why don’t we…”
She then whispered into Adeline’s ear, “As long as Miss Adeline can find a way to showcase her beauty in front of Li, Li will definitely be charmed by you.”
Adeline’s smile widened.
She said, “Only other women do this.”
“I know, I know. But Miss Adeline, just wait for the show and find a chance to have an encounter with Li in private. I believe that when the time comes, as long as you remove your mask, Li will definitely be deeply charmed by you.”
Adeline smiled and didn’t reply, but there was a flash of anticipation in her eyes.
…
After Chu Luo had choked the group of women until they couldn’t speak anymore, she also stopped talking.
The women sitting around her had become even more indignant. Someone looked at Chu Luo’s figure and suddenly had an idea.
“If I recall, there’s a nice swimming pool at Amina’s house. Why don’t we go for a swim?”
Chu Luo looked at the woman who spoke. She really wanted to say, “Why are you so eager to go to the host’s swimming pool to swim when you came to attend a banquet?”
Just as she was about to speak, Amina refused. She said, “Everyone who came tonight is an esteemed guest. It’s not convenient for us to go over there. Why don’t we go and admire the paintings? There’s an art room in my home.”
A few women immediately agreed.
“I heard that Amina’s father is an oil painting collector and has a lot of famous oil paintings. I’ve always wanted to see them.”
“Me too. I heard that Amina’s dad even has paintings from famous oil painters from the Middle Ages.”
Most importantly, as daughters from the upper-class society, they were used to flaunting their talents. They wanted to see how capable this woman Li Yan had brought was.
Chu Luo could guess what these women were up to, but she didn’t object. Everyone walked towards the art room.
The art room at Amina’s house was on the other side, a ways away from the living room.
Everyone walked over while chatting.
The art room was huge, and there were many famous oil paintings in it.
The moment the women walked in, they exclaimed:
“Heavens, Amina’s oil painting room is so big!”
“Wow! There are so many paintings by famous painters.”
“And the drawings of the XX painter I like.”
“There’s also something I like.”
As they spoke, they slowly started to admire the paintings.
In the end, Chu Luo was left alone.
Chu Luo scanned the paintings in the art room. She didn’t like them very much. Compared to impressionist oil paintings from other countries, she preferred the landscape paintings of the empire which looked way more imposing.
Just then, a woman in a swan mask walked up to Chu Luo and asked, “Chu, why don’t you go and appreciate Amina’s paintings?”
Many women stopped and looked at her.
The woman in the butterfly mask covered her mouth and laughed deliberately. “Could it be that Chu can’t appreciate these oil paintings?”