33 Tonight she will act as an indifferent wallflower

A week quickly passed by and tonight is Yeri's family dinner with Shin Keir and Tristan Felan.

Since she's not incredibly optimistic about tonight, she asked Jj to join the family dinner.

[Jj: Princess, I'll try to catch up! still working on my group project.]

[Yeri: But you don't have a car, should I ask the chauffeur to pick you up later?]

[Jj: Idiot don't remind me! It's okay, I'll take a cab.]

Yeri sighed, as she made her way towards the school's locker area.

She badly needed money to help Jj buy a new car, after all, it was her fault that his car is beyond repairable.

"Should I just join Tartarus e-sports gaming event?" Yeri mumbled to herself, she opened her locker and heaps of papers and envelopes fell.

Yeri once again sighed, is this a locker or a mailbox?

The last time she checked her locker was over a month ago, now the number of love letters and confessions piled up, not to mention the ones left under her desk.

Regardless, Yeri has no interest in high school boys, they are like puppies who only know how to cry out their parent's names and status whenever they're at a disadvantage.

Yeri took a textbook that Nina asked to borrow and stacked the letters back, too lazy to take them to her dorm.

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Zenia Zhi looked extremely busy as she walked in and out of the kitchen giving instructions to the servants.

"There's only an hour left, prepare the dishes and start with the plating." Zenia glanced at her wristwatch, her husband and daughter should be there anytime soon.

"Madam, should we take out the mango mousse pudding now?" an old woman asked, she's Yeri's previous Nanny and is now the head maid.

"No, it's too early just prepare some cut fruits for my husband and princess to snack on, they might be feeling hungry once they arrive."

Nanny Pham heeded but her amiable demeanour froze seeing an uninvited person's head poking at the kitchen door.

"Auntie, do you need any of my help? how about preparing the desserts?" Venice asked.

Zenia Zhi didn't hide her disdain and crossed her arms. "Venice, it's just us so you don't have to keep up with your pretence, I know very well why you are here so I suggest you stay in the corner and save your acting for later."

"I don't know why Auntie is being spiteful, like I said earlier, there's no one at home and I'm alone. I thought it would be better for me to come over and help with the preparation." Venice unnaturally smiled, she had to drug her mother to sleep and stop her from being a nuisance to her plan.

Zenia Zhi looked at Venice from head to toe, help? with full make-up and vogue clothing?

She couldn't care less if Venice dreams to turn into a Phoenix but this family dinner is to pay a debt of gratitude, not some matchmaking.

If possible, Zenia would likely prefer to exclude her precious daughter from this dinner to avoid further interactions with these dangerous men but of course, it would be rude to do that.

"Keep your lies to yourself Venice and you are not needed here, leave." Zenia Zhi held her chin up and continued giving instructions to the servants.

Venice pursed her lips and strutted out, there will come a time that everyone in that house won't be able to look down on her!

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Time passed and a black rolls royce phantom slowly came to a halt at the Zhi Manor.

"How do I look?" Shin asked Secretary Yun who just opened the backseat door.

"Boss, you look strikingly majestic! Miss Zhi will surely get head over heels on you." Secretary Yun raved his praises.

This tyrant emperor who never bothered giving anyone presents and rarely mind his appearance, took a day off today and went for a skin consultation, bought skincare products, personally chose complimentary presents and spent hours trying out new suits!

Secretary Yun was quite astonished by all these mind-blowing changes and how the tyrant emperor quickly progressed despite his zero experience in dating, is this also an underlying talent of a born prodigy?

In the living room, Yeri is playing a mobile game while helping herself with some fruits and wine, she could hear her parents and Shin Keir conversing at the doorsteps.

Though she decided to delay her greetings so as not to give her parents the impression that she's looking forward to meeting Shin Keir, tonight she will act as an indifferent wallflower.

Shin introduced Secretary Yun while his gaze wandered as he talked to the couple, impressed.

The Zhi residence is a modern manor style with a lot of classical design elements including dark woods, marbles and vintage art decorations.

"By the way, Tristan would like to apologise for being unable to come here tonight, he needed to meet a client." Shin casually said and put forward two bottles of wine. "I hope you don't mind, I just thought it would be perfect for tonight's dinner."

He made sure it's not too expensive that would make the couple feel awkward and not cheap either.

Klaus Zhi laughed and accepted the gift. "Thank you, Young Master Keir, these will be suitable for the dishes that my wife prepared."

Venice also warmly expressed her greetings but wasn't expecting Secretary Yun to reply to her instead as he blocked her view.

Yeri nonchalantly glanced in their direction but was enthralled to see Shin Keir looking incredibly hot and imposing, she can picture those hard muscles and tight abs underneath his light blue, slim fit suits.

"Princess?" Zenia Zhi called out.

Yeri scrambled to stand up from the sofa that the wine glass she's holding dropped on the carpet, her face turned bright red realizing that she stared too much and made a blunder.

"Oh, sorry! hehe...it's the wine, yes the wine, it's very sweet...ahem! good evening Young Master Keir." Yeri awkwardly smiled, wishing to give herself a hard slap.

"Miss Zhi, how have you been?" Shin asked with an unfathomable expression, his eyes had a mixture of happiness and concern.

His little drunkard is so gorgeous and lovely in her short-sleeve pastel pink dress and plain white headband, but did she forgot that he forbid her not to drink any liquor?

"I'm fine, thank you." Yeri instinctively replied.

Why is Shin Keir oozing out too many pheromones tonight?!

The succubus within her is screaming to pounce on him that she couldn't focus on the conversation.