Chapter 5- Lucky Number 68

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Winnie woke up at four in the morning and managed to drag Elena out of bed too. They had to leave early to go to the Transcendence Plaza. The interviews were being held in a large local photo studio. Outside the door, there were already many employees trying to arrange the interviews in an orderly manner. "Do I need to participate?" Elena frowned, thinking of her vulnerability. "Hey Elena, come on, you don’t quit anything!" Winnie persuaded her, "With you here, I feel more assured." "I can still be on your side even if I don't participate!" Elena was struggling. "Stop that already!" Winnie pulled her body and said, "Alone I will have an odd of one in 100,000. With you, our chance is two in 100,000!" "Is there a difference?" Elena almost collapsed. "Of course!" Winnie said confidently, "We just doubled our chances in winning!" "..." Elena finally gave up. Elena and Winnie received two forms from the staff at the reception desk. The items required on the form were simple, just some common information like name, age, place of origin, etc., which was meant to screen out some unwelcome participants. This so-called surrogate mother's preliminary selection only had particular demand on the age. It was only open to participants between the ages of 20 to 21. Just when she saw this form, the resistance in Elena's heart rose again. "I'll do just fine without filling this in." Elena put down the paper form. "Don't be stupid!" Winnie quickly grabbed her form and said, "Come on, think of it! You have come all this way anyway! Think of the thousand dollars. Let me fill it in for you." "I am not short on money..." Elena argued. "I am short and a thousand dollars would help, OK?" Winnie was quickly filling in the form for Elena, "You can just give it to me if you don't want it!" "Why should I?" Elena stared at Winnie. "Oh, I thought you weren’t short on it." Winnie said confidently. Elena really wanted to kill Winnie. But Winnie was only talking tough. After completing the form, the person in charge gave them each a number plate. The whole process was brief. Winnie did some research about it, which mainly included the measurement of their height, weight and bust. Then according to the sizes of participants, their appropriate dresses would be sent to the locker room. After they changed to their dresses they would have their photo taken in the order of their number plates, then their photos were shot and they could leave. When the process was done, the Luke Family Group staff would review the information of participants to make sure there was no falsification, and then they would wire the payment to the accounts of participants. However, just after measuring her height and weight, Winnie took Elena to the washroom. "Elena, what's your number?" Winnie grabbed the number plate from Elena, looked at it and sighed, "68, what a lucky number." "Give it back to me!" Elena said. While Winnie was holding the number plates and giggling, a woman came around the corner. She wasn’t paying attention to where she was going and collided with Winnie. "Ouch!" The two exclaimed at the same time, both fell to the ground, and the number plates in Winnie's hands also landed on the ground. "Winnie!" Elena ran toward Winnie to help her up. "Where did you learn to walk?" The other woman yelled. She got up and glanced at the number plates on the ground, and shouted angrily, "Are you blind? Oh, look at who it is! I didn’t expect it to be you guys!" Elena looked up and sensed some trouble ahead. The girl was Maggie Lee. Elena disliked her and the guy, Kevin. "I was so blind indeed." Winnie sneered, "Otherwise, how could Elena and I got to know a pair of genius such as you and Kevin?" "You..." Maggie's face turned blue. She coldly looked at Elena and smirked, "Hey Elena, I thought you were way out of our league. But you also come here to compete for the surrogate mother selection!" "Elena is still single. You got a problem with that?" Winnie yelled, "And you are Kevin's girlfriend. Does he know his girl is about to cuckold him? Look at you, low-cut evening dress, do you worry people will see your slutty nature? I need to take a picture of you and send it to Kevin. He should enjoy my message." "How dare you!" Seeing Winnie take out her phone, Maggie stretched out a fist to try and punch Winnie! Elena got a serious look on her face. She caught Maggie's wrist in a flash and warned her, "Don't even think about it!" As the pain started in her wrist, Maggie began to recall something terrible. Her face turned white. "Let go of me!" Maggie hurriedly said. Elena suddenly let go. Maggie stumbled for a few steps before she finally stopped against a wall. Maggie looked at Elena and Winnie and said, "Just you wait!" After saying that, Maggie ran away. "Ha ha ha!" Winnie laughed out loud behind Maggie's back, "Not so tough now, huh?" "You need to watch your mouth too!" Elena was less than pleased. Maggie turned her head at a distance and saw Winnie picked up a number plate from the ground and gave it to Elena. So, that was Elena’s number plate? Maggie suddenly snickered in her head, "Elena, it's about time to make you real ugly!" "I fear nothing with you on my side! Here is your plate, Elena." Winnie looked at her with adoration, "Elena, you were so striking just now! If there is no Prince Charming around, I will definitely marry you!" Seeing Winnie was about to embrace her, Elena hurriedly pushed her away, "Cool down!" "It’s a coincidence seeing her, don’t worry about that." Winnie explained. "What's that you had?" Elena looked at her with a grin, "You must have an idea about what is going on with these guys, right?" "Yeah." Winnie relaxed and said, "It was that pair of genius who always got you in their business." Speaking like this, made Elena feel like she was powerless.
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