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Chapter 55 – How Much Is Considered Enough?
The banquet was currently ongoing, and the event was reaching its climax. Taking advantage of the timing, Wen Ya took the opportunity to make a grand announcement. During tonight’s celebration, Honored Guest VIP cards would be available. This VIP card was invaluable, because with it, one could become one of Lord Suo Jia’s seven esteemed clients.
The reason that this item was considered priceless, was because Lord Suo Jia would only personally provide long-term service for seven members. As for others, although they could enjoy service in the White Villa, they would not receive personal service from Lord Suo Jia himself!
What kind of person was Suo Jia? Among all of the people sitting here currently, his reputation was like ‘thunder piercing the ears’. Wasn’t he that mysterious mage who miraculously helped Wen Ya lose weight? To become one of his esteemed clients, wasn’t that something that any woman would dream of?
Seeing the distinguished households’ spouses, Wen Ya could not help but laugh. These invitations were not randomly distributed. Wen Ya had a decent understanding of aristocracy, and she only invited those with power and authority. Also, the distinguished guests who desperately needed Suo Jia’s help were pretty enough as they were. As for the ones that did not desperately need Suo Jia’s help, even if they wanted invitations, they would not get any.
Looking around, Wen Ya smiled, “Right now, would everyone kindly draw a card from the boxes that the maids are currently holding? The lady who ends up pulling a golden card will become one of Suo Jia’s esteemed clients. Of course… if you do not require the services of Lord Suo Jia, then we will offer you one hundred million gold to buy back the card as a consolation prize.”
“Woo!” Hearing Wen Ya’s words, although the people within the courtyard were distinguished and venerable guests, they still cried out in shock. After all… the figure that Wen Ya listed, although it wasn’t astronomical, it was definitely an amount that could not be looked down upon.
Looking at everyone’s startled expressions, Wen Ya secretly sneered. Although on the surface, this seemed like a fair lottery, in reality, the results had already been predetermined. The person who would ultimately draw the golden card had already been planned out. No matter what, others wouldn’t be able to draw the golden card. And those who were destined to draw this golden card wouldn’t sell it even if they were to die, because they didn’t care about money, but were very concerned about their appearance.
Very quickly, Wen Ya threw the golden cards with the pile of other cards into ten boxes and jumbled it under the gazes of the public. Everyone was looking forward to it. The maids carried the boxes with both hands and walked towards the direction of the guests. On the surface, those golden cards were obviously in the ten boxes. Everyone had seen Wen Ya put the cards into the boxes with their own eyes. How could they be mistaken?
But in reality, although those golden cards that were thrown into the boxes were not fakes, there was a transparent string on the cards. When Wen Ya had jumbled up the cards, she had lightly pulled the other end of the string. Those golden cards were thus secretly hidden in Wen Ya’s sleeves. So in these ten boxes, there were only white cards and no golden cards at all.
Very soon, the lottery began. Ten maids were carrying the boxes filled with cards and continuously went from one guest to another. Everyone went beside the maids in succession and reached their hands into the box to pick out a card. But no matter who, all they drew were the white cards.
Around this time, a tall maid carrying a box with both hands walked towards a woman, who was not only fat, but also had wrinkles from head to toes. Looking at this woman whose skin were drooping, the maid almost laughed out loud.
This maid wasn’t just anyone, it was Eldest Sister. Seeing the woman in front of her, Eldest Sister secretly thought, “This woman is just as Miss Wen Ya had said; at first glance, nobody can resist thinking of a Shar Pei (TL note: a species of dog). It would be a different story if her whole body was just fat, but what is so frightening is that her fat droops over itself, layer by layer. With one quick glance, it’s obvious that she looks remarkably like a Shar Pei.”
What struck out even more vividly were her fat and lax cheeks. Fat was fat, but was it really necessary to have cheeks that drooped over itself like a Shar Pei? It really made it difficult to differentiate between human and dog.
However, even though Eldest Sister really wanted to laugh, she definitely could not really do so aloud. Although this woman looked like a Shar Pei, just like her father did, her father was Holy Light Empire’s famous Economic Master, the minister responsible for the Holy Light City’s financial affairs. He had high power and influence,