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Chapter 167
Skyler’s expression darkened. He must be a fool to try to test out Jocelyn’s reaction. She even
mentioned Abel. How annoying! He spoke to her coldly with a stony expression on his face. It was as if
Jocelyn owed him a fortune. “I got it!” Jocelyn nodded and repeated, “If there’s nothing else, I’ll return to
the room first!” Skyler ignored her. Jocelyn pursed her lips, turned around, and left. As soon as Jocelyn
entered the room, Skyler kicked the wall angrily. A grey footprint appeared on the wall, which was
embossed with white patterns. Just then, a waitress passed by. When she saw Skyler kicking the wall,
she could not help but say, “Sir, you’re vandalizing the hotel!” There was a terribly unpleasant expression
on his face. Even a mere waitress was trying to go against him!
His face darkened as he shouted, “So what if I vandalize it!”
The waitress frowned. Skyler seemed to be a reputable man. He was well-dressed as well. Why was he
asking such a foolish question? She spoke in an unhappy tone, “You’ll have to pay compensation if you
vandalize the hotel. Regardless of anyone, Quintus Hotel treats all its guests fairly!” Skyler laughed in
rage. “You’ll treat all your guests fairly, huh? Call your manager over. I’d like to see how he treats
everyone fairly!” The waitress was extremely straightforward. “Stay here and don’t move!” Skyler was
beyond infuriated. He immediately said, “Alright, alright! I won’t leave. I’ll wait for you to call him over!”
The waitress had a direct personality. She informed the manager of the situation over here through her
pager. After a while, the hotel manager and lobby manager rushed toward them. Skyler lowered his head
as he held his phone in his hands. He was assigning Yale some work The hotel manager frowned as
soon as he saw the waitress. “What’s going on?” The waitress looked at the footprint on the wall and
said, “This guest dirtied our wall. I told him off, but he isn’t being reasonable!” The manager then looked
at Skyler. Skyler’s head was lowered, so he could not see his face clearly. However, he made sure to
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtkeep up his stance. “Sir, were you the one who put those footprints on the wall?”
Skyler’s rage had mostly dissipated by now. He knew that he had been acting rather childish just now
after Jocelyn made him angry. However, this problem still had to be resolved. He raised his head to cast
a languid glance at the manager. “I did it, so what?” The manager thought that Skyler looked rather
familiar. His mind raced. Suddenly, he thought of someone that looked exactly like the man before him
right now. He called out tentatively, “Sir!”
Skyler huffed coldly and said, “At least you still remember me!”
The manager chuckled. “Sir, this waitress was unaware. She didn’t recognize you. I’ve seen you once
when you came here on vacation with the chairman previously. We caused trouble with our own people!”
Skyler did not want to continue talking nonsense with him. “There wasn’t anything wrong with the
waitress’ behavior. I’m not in a good mood today. Take care of the wall. That’s it!”
As soon as Skyler finished speaking, he turned around and left. The waitress was stunned. “Manager,
this…”
The manager turned around and glanced at her in irritation. “This is the second young master of our
company. Pay more attention in the future!” The waitress’ face flushed red at once when she thought
about what she had said just now. Skyler was vandalizing the wall of his own hotel. They truly could not
treat him as they would an ordinary guest!
Skyler returned to the room. He did not even bother to cast a single glance at Jocelyn.
However, the dinner did not continue for very long. Everyone left after eating.
Nobody drank too much during the dinner since the competition would be held on the next day. Everyone
took turns making toasts to the judges and left after eating.
The few judges would all be staying in Hotel Quintus.
All the designers returned to their respective hotels as well.
The next morning, Jocelyn woke up early to have breakfast.
She had just arrived at the restaurant when she saw Davis and Yuni walking over. Three of them chose a
table near the window.
Breakfast was provided in the form of a buffet. Jocelyn went to take some breakfast.
Jocelyn did not intend to eat much since the competition would be held in the morning.
She placed some tidbits on her plate. She then saw Davis and Yuni heading over.
Yuni was carrying a tray. There were three small bowls of congee on the tray.
Davis smiled as he handed a bowl over to Jocelyn. “This is pork congee. Yuni took three bowls for us. Do
you want one?”
Jocelyn knew that Yuni was trying to get back on good terms with her. After Skyler shouted at her
yesterday night, Yuni had an ashen look on her face when she saw Jocelyn. Jocelyn was not an
unforgiving person. She nodded and said, “I’ll have one!” Jocelyn ate the tidbits on her plate and had
some of the congee. She felt that the pork congee in the bowl was exceptionally salty today. It tasted
rather weird as well. She did not know what was going on. After all, the congee had been prepared by
the hotel. She did not think much about it. She simply felt that the saltiness of the congee was so
overpowering that she could not taste any of the pork in it. She stopped eating after having half of the
bowl of congee. She then drank some mineral water to quench her thirst. After eating, Jocelyn and Yuni
headed to the competition venue.
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The competition was held at the hall located on the top floor of the Art and Technology Museum in the
city center. Each of the seats was far apart from the other. There were dividers on the tables to prevent
everyone from looking at each other’s designs as well.
The competition started at 9 a.m. and ended at 5 p.m. The judges would bring lunch in for the
participants.
The competition began. The mode of the competition resembled that of the national arts examination.
However, it would last much longer than the examination.
The theme of today’s competition was identical to the competition’s name. The designers had to design a
set of jewelry with the theme of the “heart of the ocean”.
Jocelyn started to think and seek inspiration after getting the topic. The five judges sat down in the front
row. They looked at the designers from time to time as they drew their design drafts. The competition
began. Skyler sat down on the seat nearest to the window and looked outside the window. It was unclear
what he was thinking of.
Initially, he was extremely busy with work, so he would not accept invitations to act as a judge in
activities. After all, it was a huge waste of time.
However, he had second thoughts after Jocelyn participated in the competition. Finally, he decided to
become one of the judges for the competition.
His gaze landed on Jocelyn. Ever since he got a marriage certificate with this woman, a lot of things had
unknowingly changed!
Time gradually passed by.
Jocelyn got inspired around forty minutes into the competition. She planned out how to draw her design
draft.
However, she suddenly felt her heart race after drawing a few strokes on paper. She felt extremely
uncomfortable all over.
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