Chapter 71

“There’s no reason!”

Nathan scoffed, unwilling to explain himself to her.

Isabella nearly dug her nails into her skin. “Is it because Victoria is going with you to the banquet?”

The remark hit the mark, and for a moment, Nathan’s face showed a flash of embarrassment.

But he quickly regained his composure. “Isabella, your Sis is more suited for that kind of occasion than you.”

Isabella’s fingers curled into fists

In Nathan’s eyes, it seemed she would forever carry the mark of being shallow, with no background or education.

Even now, as the globally renowned fashion designer Miss Thea, Nathan’s prejudice still made her feel the weight of her own inferiority.

A stubborn defiance seized her heart, and she comforted herself: *It’s fine, Isabella, it’s not that you’re not good enough, it’s that his vision is poor.*.

She loosened her fist and gracefully walked toward Nathan.

With a disdainful look, she asked, “Is it really because Victoria is more suitable than I am?”

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eyes shift, unsure of where

reason could there

Victoria accompany you to the banquet, then why go through all this trouble with me today? What’s your

froze, like a

in Isabella’s eyes, he realized

sorry about what happened with your

wanted to make it up to you by letting you attend the banquet tonight… but your Sis wants to go as well. You know she’s a

more important for her, so in

but it was a smile filled with

run down his spine from

give you some money, and you

waved her

been her attending that

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the guests were powerful figures from prestigious families. Nathan, as a junior, was inevitably forced to drink wine when toasts were made by the elders.

low tolerance for alcohol and

on.

on Isabella to take the brunt of the drinking. She had shielded him from one glass after another, only to end up with a bleeding stomach afterward and nearly died. She spent a long time recovering,

a moment, his mind distracted. He always felt that Isabella’s gaze was too profound, too difficult to

off her dress

“Nathan, you’re disgusting.”

companions for a banquet… What you think is making up for things, to

you spent all the money

at him with disdain. “There’s only a few tens of thousands

wife, if I spend a few thousand,

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