Tobias glanced at the caller and said to Natalie, "I have a business call to take. You may have to wait a while."
Natalie thought for a moment and asked, "How about I go in with Yvonne first?"
Tobias nodded. "That's fine too."
Natalie walked into the banquet hall with Yvonne's hand in hers.
She had the VIP card Tobias gave her, so there was nothing to worry about.
After entering, Natalie was used to the scene. After all, she had seen such a scene before on the Princess Cruise.
However, this was Yvonne's first time in a place like this.
She was holding onto Natalie's hand and her palm was starting to sweat.
Natalie immediately comforted her, "Yvonne, don't be nervous. Just think about it. No matter how rich or how powerful the people here are, they're still human. They all have two eyes, a nose and a mouth. We are all the same. What's the point of being nervous?"
That was the first time Yvonne had heard such an explanation, and it caused her to snicker.
"Natalie, your brain is full of preposterous statements," Yvonne said while laughing.
However, after hearing her words, Yvonne felt that she wasn't as nervous anymore.
A lot of people attended the banquet to expand their network so most attendees were talking and drinking wine.
Natalie and Yvonne simply decided to eat in the buffet area.
"Natalie, this really is a high-end place. Even the food is so delicious," Yvonne praised while her mouth was stuffed with cheesecake.
When Natalie was about to drink the beverage she took, she suddenly saw a few women nearing them from a distance.
Those women were all dressed in expensive clothes and had exquisite and faultless makeup on.
When they got closer, they saw them and a look of shock flashed across their faces.
They had originally seen Yvonne and Natalie from afar.
However, these women thought that they might've mistaken the pair of friends for somebody else.
How could two paupers like Yvonne and Natalie come to such a place?
Nonetheless, when they got closer, they got to have a proper look, and it was indeed Natalie and Yvonne.
Kimberly and the other women looked as if they had just seen ghosts.
Natalie and Yvonne, who were in front of them, were wearing gowns made by DIOR. They were incredibly beautiful and they didn't look like two paupers. Instead, they were the epitome of proper debutantes.
The pairs could almost hold a candle to them.
"Why, why are you two also here!?" Kimberly pointed at Natalie and asked incredulously.
The corner of Natalie's lips curled up gently.
Yvonne said with a relieved look, "Oh, Kimberly, didn't you say that Natalie and I are not qualified to come to such an occasion?"
Kimberly was speechless.
Natalie looked at her and said, "Kimberly, didn't you say that only debutantes can come to a place like this? However, two peasants such as Yvonne and I were still able to come here, isn't this a slap to the face? Your so-called grand banquet is not as grand as you think in the end, huh? Your so-called identity as a debutante isn't as noble as you think too."
Kimberly's face turned pale with anger.
"Pfft."
Yvonne couldn't help laughing out loud.
She finally knew why Natalie had brought her here that day; it was so that they could see Kimberly's reaction to them being there.
Kimberly was even more enraged after seeing Yvonne laughing at her.
"You guys are not qualified to come to a place like this!" She shouted.
"Yes, both Natalie and Yvonne are the paupers of Agaphen City. How were they able to come to such a place? They really don't deserve to be here!" Muttered the girls next to Kimberly. They were all from the same class.
"Kimberly, can you tell me why Yvonne and I aren't qualified?" In stark contrast to Kimberly's look of rage, Natalie had been calm the whole time.
"Peasants like you just aren't qualified to," she retorted.
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