Break free and wow the dinner party
1555 Words
In the hall.
Ann Winters' phone rang.
Ann Winters glanced at the caller ID, then answered it and said, "Martin."
"By the way, there's a charity dinner tomorrow. Are you going?" Xia Martin had forgotten to ask her about it when they parted earlier today, and it seemed that she just remembered it now.
Ann Winters paused for a moment, memories of the past timeline flashing through her mind.
Tonight, there was an annual charity dinner in Qingcheng. Most of the city's dignitaries and the wealthy would attend it. However, in the past, she usually wouldn't participate in such banquets and would basically turn them down. And Alex Spencer also seemed very considerate, never asking her to accompany him to socialize.
In the past, she really thought that Alex Spencer was being nice to her. Now she understood that he just wanted to confine her, preventing her from socializing with the outside world. When she had nothing left, he could make sure she had no chance to turn things around!
"I'll go," Ann Winters replied.
"I can't believe my ears. I was just asking casually," Xia Martin was extremely enthusiastic about participating in all kinds of activities and couldn't wait for someone to accompany her.
But actually, she hadn't expected much at first.
"Let's go pick out dresses together tomorrow," Ann Winters suggested.
"You're not kidding me, are you?" Xia Martin still couldn't believe it. No matter how much she had tried to persuade Ann Winters in the past, Ann Winters had refused to attend these banquets.
"See you tomorrow." Ann Winters didn't give any more explanations and hung up the phone directly.
Hearing his daughter's words, James was also quite surprised. "Ann, you're going to attend tomorrow's charity dinner? Don't you dislike this kind of socializing?"
Ann Winters couldn't help feeling that she had been so unfilial in her previous life.
She had focused all her attention on one man, never done anything for her family, and finally caused her family to end up in ruins.
Suddenly, she made a solemn promise, "Dad, from now on, I will protect our Ann family. I will assist you in managing the Ann Group together. I will definitely keep our Ann family glorious, and no one will be able to take it away from me, including the people in Uncle's family!"
James was once again impressed by his daughter.
In the past, Ann hadn't had such big ambitions.
He had thought about letting his daughter take over the family business, but he had never forced her, because he knew that she was wholeheartedly devoted to Alex Spencer. And at that time, he had thought that after the two families got married, he would let Alex Spencer manage the Ann Group.
Of course, if his daughter could take over in person, that would be even better. James couldn't help but be filled with joy. "Okay, Dad believes in you!"
A smile curved Ann Winters' lips.
In this life, she must firmly control the Ann Group in her own hands and would never be so stupid as to give it to Alex Spencer as a gift again!
...
The next day.
In the afternoon.
Ann Winters and Xia Martin went to the luxury dress area to choose high-end custom evening dresses together.
They each picked out their favorite dresses, changed into them, and then sat in the dressing room to carefully do their makeup and dress up.
"Have you gotten back to normal?" Xia Martin asked Ann Winters.
Ann Winters was startled. "What?"
"Yesterday with Jack Harrison..."
"Martin." Ann Winters' face changed slightly, and she quickly stopped her.
Xia Martin bit her lip and muttered in a low voice, "I really don't know what you see in him?!"
The "him" she mentioned naturally referred to Jack Harrison.
"I heard that Shaw Nathen is coming back," Ann Winters changed the topic. She was really afraid that the outspoken Xia Martin would say more.
This was the high-end dress area, and the people they came into contact with were all top figures in high society. Maybe there were eavesdroppers. If the news got out, all her carefully planned arrangements would be in vain.
"What does his coming back have to do with me?" Xia Martin looked completely unconcerned. "Besides, how come I haven't heard that he's coming back? He's doing well abroad. Why is he coming back?!"
The tone of her speech clearly showed a bit of displeasure.
"I thought he should come back after graduating from university," Ann Winters replied perfunctorily.
"Better not come back," Xia Martin said with a look of disgust on her face.
Ann Winters swallowed some of the words that were on the tip of her tongue.
The two talked about some other unimportant topics.
In this way, it took them the whole afternoon to finally get dressed up properly.
Just as Ann Winters stood up from in front of the dressing mirror, she heard Xia Martin suddenly let out a scream.
The sound was so loud that it almost deafened her ears!
"Ann Winters!" Whenever Xia Martin got excited, she would add a reduplicated word after Ann Winters' name. "Can you stop being so beautiful? You're deliberately making me feel inferior!"
Ann Winters was really speechless at Xia Martin.
"Every time you're so good-looking that I can't stand it!" Xia Martin complained.
"Let's go," Ann Winters didn't bother to pay attention to her.
Actually, Xia Martin wasn't ugly. She was a girl with delicate features and a stylish appearance. It was just that compared to Ann Winters, who she was always with, she seemed a bit ordinary.
As for Ann Winters, she was truly beautiful.
It was hard to describe her facial features in words. In short, every part of her face was just right, and when combined together, it was perfect.
The men in Qingcheng all longed to marry Ann Winters, and this wasn't just baseless talk.
And the reason they wanted to marry her wasn't that she was so talented, but simply because she was so good-looking.
She was so good-looking that men couldn't resist her at all.
All the way, Xia Martin kept "complaining" about Ann Winters' beauty, and the two of them arrived at the destination together like this.
The attendants at the door respectfully opened the car door for them.
Ann Winters took a deep breath.
She hadn't participated in this kind of activity for a long time, so she couldn't help feeling a bit nervous.
She adjusted her state, then stretched out her slender calves and stepped out of the car slowly. At that instant, countless flashlights went off, and the reporters and media waiting outside were all stunned.
The eldest daughter of the Ann family, who had never attended banquets before, was now walking out looking breathtakingly beautiful. Moreover, she didn't leave any time for the media to interview her, only leaving them with her gorgeous figure. Everyone could only watch as she and Xia Martin walked into the banquet hall.
In an instant, everyone's eyes in the banquet hall were focused on Ann Winters.
She was wearing a silver long-tailed tight dress that fully showed off her graceful figure. At this moment, under the illumination of the lights, the dress was shimmering with a faint light like stars. Coupled with her flawless face and fair and delicate skin, she looked like an elf who had accidentally fallen into the mortal world, breathtakingly beautiful!
"Ann."
Alex Spencer quickly walked up to her.
There was clearly a bit of displeasure on his face, but he was trying hard to hide it.
"Why are you here? Don't you dislike this kind of socializing?" Alex Spencer asked her.
"I just suddenly feel that I can't always be a caged canary," Ann Winters replied calmly. While saying this, the scene of him stabbing her with a knife in the past inevitably flashed through her mind.
She forced herself to suppress her inner emotions.
Just then, her eyes flickered, and she saw Xu Zixi, Alex Spencer's regular female companion, on his arm. She was one of Alex Spencer's bedmates.
How on earth did she think they were just in a simple superior-subordinate relationship in the past?
"Miss Ann." Sensing Ann Winters' gaze, Xu Zixi greeted her politely.
"I've heard that Assistant Xu has always been outstanding in ability and very discreet in handling things. Mr. Alex often praises you in my ear and has a high opinion of you," Ann Winters said with a smile.
"I'm deeply honored to be appreciated by Mr. Alex," Xu Zixi behaved gracefully, and her words also seemed humble and appropriate.
But in her heart, she was full of contempt for Ann Winters.
If Ann Winters knew that what Mr. Alex praised was her skills in bed, this woman would surely be furious!
In the eyes of outsiders, Ann Winters was a model of a noble and virtuous, well-educated upper-class lady. But in her heart, Ann Winters was a good-for-nothing. She had never taken Ann Winters seriously, and she was just putting on a show at the moment.
"However, I'm not sure if it's for work needs or for some other motives that you're holding my fiancé's arm so improperly like this, Assistant Xu?" Ann Winters' tone turned cold.
At that moment, Xu Zixi's face suddenly turned pale.
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