Chapter 189: Chapter 189

At this gathering, Penelope joined her father.

She heard a group of girls discussing Paige Sterling, stood nearby for a long while before stepping in smugly to say, "Of course, our God Sterling lives to make men love her while women envy her!"

The girls immediately asked, "Miss Thatcher, are you very familiar with God Sterling?"

Penelope said, "Of course we’re familiar, I even invested in God Sterling’s first successful endeavor."

Although it was a happy accident back then, she couldn’t deny that she was now a shareholder in Penson.

"Could you get her to come over? We’d love to take pictures and get an autograph..."

"No problem, leave it to me."

With that, Penelope walked toward Paige.

Skylar Hughes happened to also meet a girl, and it was not easy for her to attend such a gathering today.

She had heard rumors about Skylar, but at such an event, no matter how much she disliked Skylar, she couldn’t show it.

At this moment, she saw Penelope and said to Skylar, "Look, that’s Penelope Thatcher. Her dad used to be in the underworld, but he’s cleaned his act now. She’s very peculiar and not easy to get along with..."

As she was speaking, she saw Penelope walking toward them.

She was startled, spacing this far apart, Penelope couldn’t possibly have heard her talking about her, right?

"Why do you think she’s walking our way? Is she coming over for us?"

Skylar said, "Don’t overthink, maybe she just wants to be friends with us."

Penelope had already come over. Skylar smiled and said, "Miss Thatcher, you..."

Before she completed the word, Penelope dashed past her—in quite a cheerful manner.

Skylar’s expression stiffened; she turned her head to see Penelope hanging on Paige’s arm like a little girl and acting coyly, appearing very familiar with Paige as if they had known each other for a long time.

"Paige, everyone really wants to get to know you, let’s go over and chat with them..."

"Sure," Paige glanced at Julian Hawthorne, "I’ll go over for a bit, okay?"

Julian looked at Penelope.

Penelope glared at him, having monopolized Paige all day, yet he was dissatisfied?

Paige and Penelope walked over to the group of girls.

The girls, like fans seeing their idol, excitedly introduced themselves to Paige, their faces flushed with excitement.

Paige’s usually cold face melted in the presence of the girls, adorned with a faint smile, seeming easy to get along with.

As the conversation continued, more and more girls gathered around Paige for photos and autographs; Paige was practically adored by all.

Skylar pulled at her mouth, truly adept at winning hearts.

At this point, Angus Langdon was being watched by Mrs. Langdon, who only realized today Angus had been getting close to Skylar recently.

She was almost suspecting her son’s brain was clouded, so she was now watching him, forbidding him from seeking Skylar again.

This left Skylar alone and isolated.

She had to figure it out herself.

Thinking it over, she also joined the girls, smiling at Paige and said, "Paige, aren’t you going to introduce me to everyone?"

"Do I still need to introduce?" Paige asked the crowd, "Do you know her?"

Their expressions varied, but they unanimously showed a little anger.

"Of course, we know her, Skylar Hughes, we’ve heard of her reputation."

The tone was clear to Skylar.

"There seems to be some misunderstanding about our relationship, making them not very welcoming to me. Paige, aren’t you going to explain?"

Skylar said, "No matter what, we’ve lived under the same roof for over a decade as sisters..."

Everyone was looking at Paige, who lazily replied, "If it makes you happy."

Skylar seemed oblivious to Paige’s bad attitude, and smiled at everyone, "Paige has always been so carefree, people familiar with her know that’s just her personality, never hold a grudge against her. If she says anything wrong in front of you all, I’ll apologize on her behalf, please don’t take it to heart."

Everyone felt puzzled, they were having a good conversation, why did Skylar come out and say these things?

One had to admit Skylar might have watched too much palace intrigue drama, speaking everywhere with maneuvered tactics.

However, most people are straightforward and simple, especially the girls here, mostly high schoolers not yet familiar with society; they didn’t understand Skylar’s profundities, finding her words strange.

At this moment, Penelope glanced at Skylar, "You really understand our God Sterling?"

Skylar said, "Of course, we’ve lived together for many years."

Penelope raised an eyebrow, "Oh, that explains it."

Skylar asked, "Miss Thatcher, what does it explain?"

Penelope said, "Explains how you can handle her, making her suffer so many silent losses in the entertainment industry, given you’ve understood her so well."

Skylar’s face stiffened, "Miss Thatcher, those are just rumors, you have a misunderstanding about me, I’m not like that."

Penelope simply said "Oh, it’s all a misunderstanding, ha."

But the words sounded somewhat off.

Skylar didn’t continue the topic, she smiled, trying to shift the focus from Paige to making herself the center of the topic, and started looking for subjects to discuss.

What she talked about were business matters, spewing out lots of technical terminologies.

While speaking Chinese, she mixed in quite a few foreign terms.

It gave the impression of depth, although most couldn’t understand or engage in her topics.

But seeing her talk so fluently, it was hard to interrupt.

Eventually, the crowd around slowly dispersed.

Skylar seeing this situation, felt she had successfully showcased her ability before everyone.

She looked at Paige and then deliberately threw the topic back to Paige.

"Paige, why don’t you explain to everyone what a movement plan means?"

Paige didn’t speak. Fresh chapters posted on 𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹✦𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖✦𝓷𝓮𝓽

Skylar asked smilingly, "Paige, why are you quiet?"

After speaking, she laughed slightly, "Sorry, I forgot you might not understand this."

Paige suddenly spoke, "You made mistakes in a few points earlier."

She calmly pointed out a few terms Skylar had just shown off with, highlighting the errors.

Skylar’s face changed slightly, but Paige correctly identified them, and she couldn’t say Paige was wrong or pretending.

Skylar secretly ground her teeth, she simply had been careless usually, leading to mistakes; what was Paige boasting about?

However, once Paige spoke, the atmosphere perked up again, everyone joining in the conversation.

"Wow, God Sterling you’re amazing, knowing all this, I cannot comprehend any of it!"

Paige said calmly, "These are the basics of university finance, once you study finance, you’ll understand."

Penelope chuckled and glanced at Skylar, "Oh, I thought they were profound topics, turns out they’re just basics..."

The girls spoke, leading the conversation astray.

"God Sterling, God Sterling, continue telling us about the universe and outer space!"

Just now Paige was telling them about the universe and outer space, everyone was absorbed until Skylar interrupted them.

Paige smiled, "Alright."

She always managed to make dry physics knowledge incredibly vivid, captivating everyone’s attention.

Thus, more people gathered around.

Skylar felt somewhat embarrassed.

The things she talked about no one listened to, when Paige spoke people listened; were these people doing it on purpose?

And what was the point of what Paige talked about? She might not even understand, probably just rambling.

Unfortunately for her, not being professional herself, she didn’t know if what Paige said was correct or not, unable to expose Paige.