What a stroke of luck.
“Aunt. If it wasn’t for his kind heart and generosity, you wouldn’t have been able to live in such a nice house.”
Raina Tang attributed it all to Gary Shen. She felt that if it weren’t for Gary, Lareina Lin would be living in the house where someone had died instead of here.
“Yes, I am supposed to thank Mr. Shen,” Lareina said, but she didn’t care. She understood that these two were saying that because they were jealous of her.
Looking at Lareina’s smug demeanor, Gloria Lin felt bad about it. She couldn’t accept that the poor relatives she wouldn’t pay attention to in the past would be living in a mansion.
Although she was unbalanced, Gloria didn’t say anything more. Even though Lareina lived in the mansion, it didn’t change the fact that she was poor.
A rich person had not only a house but also connections.
Lareina might have a house, but she didn’t have any connections at all.
From Lareina’s words, it was easy to know that Gary, the richest man in City C, gave Lareina the house because he wanted to keep her mouth shut.
So his friendship with Lareina was not that deep.
Gloria’s mood was cheerful again.
“Lareina. You have a nice house. Do you mind if I stay here for a few days.” Gloria had planned to stay in a hotel with Raina for a few days while City C talked business. But now, they’d be out of their minds to stay in a hotel when there was a ready-made mansion.
“I don’t mind, you can stay as long as you want.”
Lareina didn’t think much of it and agreed.
“Okay, give me the keys.” Gloria held out her hand.
Lareina handed her the key.
“I’ll take another key as well.” Gloria pointed to the remaining key in Lareina’s hand again.
Lareina puzzled, “I only have a total of two keys, and I can’t get in if I give them both to you.”
“What are you getting in for? Isn’t the house for me to stay in these days?” Gloria was dissatisfied, she looked at Lareina.
“Huh?” Lareina looked confused.
“You mean the house is only for you and Raina for the next few days?”
“Or else?” Gloria looked at Lareina like she was looking at an idiot and said, “You know what Raina and I are like.”
“We both like to be quiet. Living with outsiders is torture for us. So for the next few days, you and your family will stay at the hotel.”
“Let me and Raina stay in this house for a while. We’ll give you the key when we get back to City Z.” Gloria snatched the key from Lareina’s hand, whether Lareina agreed or not.
This annoyed Lareina a lot, but she pushed down her anger, “This house has four bedrooms, one each for you and Raina will be enough. The remaining two are for June and us. June has been injured and has trouble moving…”
“Enough!” Before Lareina could finish her sentence, she interrupted by Gloria disgruntled, “I’m only staying for a few days, it’s not to take over your house. So why are you being so pushy?”
“You look down on Raina and me? If that’s the case, we’ll go back to City Z now and forget you’re a relative ever again!”
Lareina’s tone softened when Gloria got angry, “That’s not what I meant.”
“I don’t care what you meant, get out of here. Raina and I need to take a break.” Gloria lost her patience and pushed Lareina right out the door.
“Bang,”
It was only after closing the door that Gloria felt much clearer.
Raina stunned, she didn’t think Gloria would do such a thing.
“Mom, it’s not a good idea for us to…” she said after a long moment. And her tone had been aware, what Gloria had done was way too much.
They came to visit their relatives, but they took over their relatives’ house and kicked them out.
It was unheard of.
“What’s wrong with that.” Gloria didn’t think she was overdoing it.
“Such a nice house is only worthy of people of status and prestige like you and me. It’s a waste to let that poor family live there.”
Gloria’s words put Raina’s mind at ease.
“Raina. To call your classmate and ask him to let Cheney Lin out. It’s our work with The Group of Pinnacle. That’s the most important thing.” Gloria said again. If she could get a deal with The Group of Pinnacle and get back to City Z, she could easily get a promotion and a raise.
“I’ll make the call.” Raina nodded. Although reluctant, she understood that this was Gloria’s only chance.
The call soon came through.
“Raina. Why did you remember to call me?” The voice on the other end of the phone was surprised.
But Raina’s response was cold. Instead of responding to the question on the other end of the phone, she cut to the chase, “Hunter Geng. Are you still working at The Group of Pinnacle?”
“Yes. I’m the HR manager now.” Hunter spoke with a lot of bullying in his tone.
“And do you recognize Cheney Lin?”
“Mr. Lin? “Hunter shocked, “What do you want with him?”
“Don’t ask what for, tell me if you recognize him.” Raina was a little impatient.
“I know. Mr. Lin is the general manager of our company, I promoted him.” Hunter said hastily. The chairman of The Group of Pinnacle hadn’t been around since its start, so everything in the company was Cheney’s responsibility.
At The Group of Pinnacle, Cheney had absolute authority.
“Since you know Cheney, it wouldn’t be hard to get you to ask him out to dinner with us, would it?” Raina stated the purpose.
“That’s not hard, but Mr. Lin… “Hunter tried to say that Cheney was busy these days, but Raina cut him off right before he finished. “Tomorrow night at seven, I’ll be at the White Swan see you and Cheney.”