Suzanna’s smile froze at Gwendolyn’s question, but she quickly composed herself and smiled even more brightly.

She pulled Gwendolyn aside and whispered, “These directors are influential figures in Grandeur Group. One word from any of them would make or break our artists‘ casting opportunities in the drama. So try not to upset them, Ms. Shalders.”

Gwendolyn nodded expressionlessly in response.

They returned to the table after their whispering.

Tom, Harry, and Peter had not stopped staring at Gwendolyn since she entered the private room. Gwendolyn wanted to throw up under their lustful stares.

Tom was the first to speak up. “Ms. Shalders, you’re really as pretty as the rumors say. You’ve got a great figure too.”

“You’re too generous. The three of you are truly exceptional and successful,” replied Gwendolyn obligingly.

Suzanna quickly invited everyone to take their seats before toasting Gwendolyn, “This is your first business meeting since joining the company, Ms. Shalders. Please allow me to toast to a successful deal.”

As she spoke, she pushed a glass of red wine into Gwendolyn’s hand.

Gwendolyn swirled the liquor around the glass and sniffed the bouquet elegantly. “Hmm, a 1982 Château Lafite Rothschild. What an excellent wine.”

She smiled and clinked glasses with Suzanna before polishing off the wine in a single gulp.

Harry jumped in to flatter Gwendolyn, praising, “Ms. Shalders, I didn’t take you for a wine aficionado. You can hold your drinks well too. How utterly charming. I hope you’ll accept my toast as well.”

“Aren’t we discussing the casting for Grandeur Group’s drama project? Why haven’t any of you brought the subject up?” asked Gwendolyn.

Calmly, one of the directors replied, “Of course, we’ll get to it, but we should have a few glasses and relax before getting down to serious business. I’m sure you understand how this works, don’t you, Ms. Shalders?”

They smiled at Gwendolyn and raised their glasses at her.

Gwendolyn did not put off their requests and downed glass after glass of wine.

Meanwhile, Noah knocked on the door to the CEO’s office at Wright Construction Group.

He entered the room and politely handed a dossier on Gwendolyn’s background to Maverick.

“Boss, our men have investigated her three times. This is the final, organized information we have on

her background for your review,”

and read them

furrowed.

it came to her life before she was fifteen years old.

No other details were available, not even regarding

actually someone in this world that my genius

asked, “Do

Maverick closed the dossier and placed it on a stack of documents in his office, adding, “She’s deliberately hiding her true background from us. We’ll just

and lit a cigarette, his

asked, “Boss, you have a dinner

“Yes.”

directors from Grandeur Group took turns toasting Gwendolyn

drink during their three rounds of

polished off six bottles of

flushed despite the amount of liquor she had drunk, which added to her

struggled to keep a

to be a heavyweight at drinking. Even the directors

to collapse at

her surprise, Gwendolyn refilled her glass with red wine and downed it when the others stopped pouring liquor for

she shot her dinner companions a smile so beatific it bordered on a taunt.

but to

sight which they had to

and asked, “Why did everyone stop drinking? If that’s too much liquor to handle, perhaps

her glass to toast them.

three directors hastily turned to Suzanna, signaling her to fix the

would surely collapse and spend their night in

gritted her teeth in annoyance. Plying Gwendolyn with alcohol was no longer an option.

of odorless, colorless powder to guarantee the success of

glances with Peter, who caught her hint and smiled at

you seen the production plan for our upcoming male protagonist

spoke, he took out some documents and handed them to Gwendolyn, explaining. “This is the latest version. Why don’t you take a look and let

up to receive the documents

glass

wine

sorry! I didn’t mean it, Ms. Shalders. I must be kind of tipsy. Let me get you a fresh

colleague suspiciously but did not stop

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