Chapter 2. Show

"What?!"

Eva was about to slap her dear friend's pretty face. She couldn't believe it. They were looking for powerful assistants to lure them to their side, not to do indecent things with them.

"Don't worry, dear", Mina knew what her dear friend was thinking, but she was confident in her plan. "He knows we're not that kind of women, but we have to make him believe we're serious about the proposal."

"And how are we going to do that if we're inviting him into a room?"

Eva was still stunned by her friend's impudence, her initial plan was to go up to the second floor of the club and find someone with the image of an assistant. It was a bold move, but at least they'll get some business cards. Then they will talk to her friend's acquaintance. She did not have high expectations of that man. It would be hard to convince him to leave that powerful CEO of LFE.

"It will be the best room in this hotel, dear," she winked at Eva. “We are going to make him look at us as if we are going to propose a serious deal. But we can't do that here with all these people."

"That…" Eva wasn't sure about her friend's plan but if she had a way to meet that Robin Lu, he would at least have to listen to her and maybe help them, or so she thought.

The two girls discussed their little plans while standing by the bar counter. They were so entertained that they didn't realize how much attention they were getting from the high-class people around them. Some men were already planning to approach them.

"So, this is where you were hiding, cousin," a high-pitched voice reached her ears, interrupting their conversation, "shouldn't you be back home to marry that greasy old Mr. Vane?"

Eva turned around after letting out an annoyed sigh. The person she did not wish to meet within that horrible family of her aunt, was this woman in front of her. Not only could she feel jealousy shining in her eyes, but the words in her mouth were always covered in disgust and rudeness. Just like her mother, but with the immaturity of a pampered childish woman.

"Oh cousin", Eva smiled, "I didn't know that just anyone could enter this place. I thought it was for high-class people, or at least with better standards".

There was no way that a woman from a middle-class family, without some big company behind her, could enter this party without an invitation.

Even when she looked so-so, and she was wearing a luxurious black dress that must have cost her father a fortune, she wasn't above the standard to enter that party. Her round face and short figure, compared to the two beauties before her could only elicit scornful glances and laughter from her.

"You!" Rita could clearly feel the mockery in Eva's words. The eyes of the people around her were even starting to show expressions of mockery and laughter. "I'm here because I was invited by someone important from the second floor, but a woman like you can never know."

"And what kind of woman would I be?"

"A humble writer with no future," she smiled, "even your father is about to lose everything and leave you on the street when he dies..."

Rita couldn't finish her words when someone stepped on her foot. The pain was so strong that her eyes began to shed a few tears, but she bit her lip to prevent them from coming out.

"Oh, I'm sorry, but your foot is as big as your mouth, and it was covering the whole floor", Mina stepped forward with her high heels and made the woman gasp with her hands.

Rita didn't want to let out a scream because she didn't want to be seen as a ridiculous person, not when the woman who invited her was on the second floor and maybe watching her. She just wanted the chance to make fun of Eva, the woman who time and time again was better than her at everything.

Not only was she the most beautiful in high school and on campus, but she was also smart. Since she was young, Rita had been compared time and time again to that woman. Her family, her grandparents, and other aunts always made fun of her for her bad looks or her short stature. Even her grades weren't as good as Eva's.

However, now, things have been reversed. The one who fell into the depths was that woman who was once inaccessible.

Rita always hated to see that arrogant face that seemed to tell she was above others. Even her smile was so annoying that it made her want to destroy it.

This was her moment to completely humiliate Eva. To make her understand that she became nothing, just a pretty face that will be sold to the highest bidder.

Although... Rita never thought that someone else would dare to step on her feet immediately.

"You better go, or I'll make you cry another way," Mina whispered in Rita's ear.

She then turned around to look at her friend who was still clenching her hands and trying to control her temper. Mina knew that her father was her dear friend's weakness and she would never allow anyone to make fun of him or curse him.

"This isn't going to stay like this," Rita said again, but Eva's glare scared her more than she wanted to admit.

"Eva", Mina took Eva's hands and guided her to the side to sit down and let her calm down. "Everything will be fine, don't worry, dear."

"I know," Eva whispered and waited.

On the other hand, Rita's foot wound still hurt. However, when she got to the second floor, she was immediately invited to sit near that upper-class friend she talked about earlier.

"Who is she?"

"She's nobody," Rita said with a dangerous glint in her eyes, "she's just a poor woman who uses her body to seduce men, a whore."

"So," the woman smiled, "do you want to play a little?"

The woman smiled and looked at Rita's feet.

"What's on your mind, Miss Rose?" Rita's voice was careful as she spoke to the woman. She wouldn't dare say a word out of place, after all, that woman was not someone she could offend.

"You will see."

She then called a waiter to the side and whispered an order.

"This is going to be a fun show."