Your Guise Is Slipping, Miss Pearl

Chapter 23

Richard turned back to her and asked suspiciously, “Why? Did Sean approach you?”

“No, we just happened to bump into each other and chatted for a bit. But your family always speaks fiercely as if they’re trying to poke others with needles.”

This description was inexplicably amusing. Richard looked at her helpless expression and explained, “Sean’s always been like that. Just get used to it and don’t pay it any mind.”

“Okay, I’ll wear this dress. The party’s starting in half an hour. We shouldn’t be late.”

“Okay”

When they got back to the office, the entrance was swarming with journalists. When they saw Richard and Pearl attend the party together, they quickly surrounded them.

the secret love between you

Richard and Pearl’s love

you answer our

an icy stare, and everyone fell silent. During the brief pause, he quickly brought Pearl into

just a small business gathering, but Richard was evidently in the limelight wherever he went and would always be surrounded by people asking

Emily swaggered over. “Why if it isn’t Pearl, our great heroine?

in her eyes. This bumpkin who came out of nowhere

great time recently without your salary, Emily?” Pearl casually

words.

face turned livid when she recalled that incident. Stop acting so smug. Abby, Richard’s sweetheart, is the fiancee acknowledged by the Waldorfs. You’re just an orphan. You have no

head. “I never said I’d marry Richard. Also, do you deserve him

“Why you!”

are you

knew that Pearl had a way with words, so she was bothered to refute Pearl. She simply sneered as she thought of her upcoming

be driven out of the company sooner