"Flaunting?" Lily snorts, "I think Mr. Smith likes her very much."
David senses the jealousy in Lily's words and feels that she must have misunderstood something. He says in a delicate way, "Ms. Lily, you are thinking too much. She isn't Mr. Smith's type."
"HS borrowed people from the Smith Group and signed the contract, right? The starlet is a member of the Smith Group. Since we've signed the contract, we definitely won't make it free. We will pay attention to her."
After a pause, David slows down and adds, "Ms. Lily, you should know why Mr. Smith is doing this."
Lily is not stupid. She understands what David says and is astounded.
She thinks that Louis has changed his taste and likes the starlet, so he secretly introduced her to so many of his connections. But actually, he did this for her.
That's right. How can she be so stupid?
Think about it, three million is not enough to contract with a celebrity like the starlet, so there must be somebody manipulating all of this behind the scene.
Lily feels relieved and mutters, "So he has no other woman?"
"Ms. Lily, what did you say?" Lily's voice was too low and David doesn't hear her clearly, so he leans over.
"Nothing." Lily is suddenly in a good mood and gives the insulation buckets on the table to David. "These are pork rib soup and braised pig trotter. Take them..."
After thinking for a while, she changes what she is going to say, "There are quite a lot of them. Let Mr. Smith share them with Chandler."
David drools, "Ms. Lily, can I have a share?"
"Yeah."
Just as David is delighted and is going to leave with the buckets, he hears Lily say, "It depends on Mr. Smith."
David is speechless.
Then the answer is clear. The only thing he will receive from Mr. Smith is his disdainful look.
"Ms. Lily, isn't the new CEO of the branch John? Why isn't he here?" David asks Lily cautiously.
Lily thinks that he knows the reason, so she casually replies, "He is occupied. He will come back to Yorkshire later."
Sure enough!
David doesn't ask any more questions. After bidding farewell, he leaves with insulation buckets in his hand.
On the way back to Smith Group, David is still wondering about how the information gets leaked. He has handled it well! So he thinks about everyone involved in this.
Apart from the star and her agent, only Mr. Smith, he and Catherine know about this.
The starlet will not be so stupid as to both take so many resources and ride a wave of popularity from Mr. Smith's identity. Catherine is an old employee of the Secretary Department, and she is so trusted by Mr. Smith. She won't do such a thing to ruin her career.
It occurs to David that he told Sofia about this matter.
Can she be the one who leaked the news?
David thinks it impossible because he has been her classmate for more than a decade. He feels that Sofia does not need to do this, and also, she just returns and doesn't have extensive networks.
In the end, David does not come to Sofia, but goes back to the president's office with the insulation buckets.
"Ms. Lily asked me to bring these back." David hands the food over to Louis. "Ms. Lily told you to share it with Chandler, and she says..."
Noticing his hesitance, Louis opens the buckets and asks, "What else?"
David tries his best to hold back laughter and he is shaking violently. "Ms. Lily said that Chandler is growing up and you shouldn't make any wicked cuisines to make him suffer. Just hire a chef. Ms. Lily also said that if Chandler doesn't grow up healthily after eating the food you cook, Mr. Daniel will kill you when he returns!"
Louis' cold glance sweeps over, "Is it funny?"
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