This Time, I'll Be the Villain's Favorite Daughter novel Chapter 366

Chapter 366 Two Faces

Annie had known Maya for several years.-

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Every time she brought Maya out to socialize, the way these people’s expressions shifted after learning the family name was as entertaining as a pantomime.

Over time, Annie had learned to make the introduction afterward.

It spared the originally pleasant atmosphere from turning tense and uneasy the moment the introduction was made.

Maya found it baffling too.

It wasn’t as if her family churned out serial killers.

Every time she announced where she was from, things got weird. People practically wanted to keep 10 feet away from her, and their forced smiles made her whole spirit wilt.

The banquet hall grew more and more crowded.

The crisp clink of champagne glasses mingled with the string quartet’s playing, and the scene was noisy.

Maya’s gaze roamed across the crowd, and soon she snuck a peek at another familiar face.

“Phoebe.” She immediately called out.

Phoebe was standing beside a middle–aged man, forcing a smile through some awkward small talk.

Her father had one hand resting on her shoulder and the other holding a wine glass, warmly introducing her to a gentleman across from them in a dark gray suit.

Phoebe’s back was held ramrod straight, her two hands clasped in front of her.

Hearing her own name, she instinctively looked toward the sound.

Maya didn’t care about social niceties in the slightest.

She cut through the crowd, walked straight over, gave Phoebe’s father a nod as a greeting, then grabbed Phoebe’s wrist and left.

Phoebe was tugged into a small stumbling step, but she followed her friend without any hesitation–even a beat faster than Maya.

Her father’s expression stiffened for a moment, and the hand that had been resting on his daughter’s shoulder hung in midair before he lowered it awkwardly.

Maya pulled her all the way to the buffet area.

Iris was drinking juice alone, the plate in front of her piled with the wreckage of several different kinds of

dessert.

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Seeing Maya come back, the girl lifted her head, her expression carrying a certain reproach. “You betrayed our peasant class!! Maya.”

Maya immediately grabbed her hand, blinked, and smiled. “I betrayed the class, but I never said I betrayed

you.”

Iris said, “Huh, you’ve got a real death wish with that smooth talk!”

She pinched Maya’s cheek and pressed on. “Who was that pretty woman just now? You two looked really close! Tell me, have you been secretly making rich friends behind my back?”

Maya was speechless.

She poked Iris’s cheek. “She’s a friend from Harmony. We’ve known each other for ages.”

Seeing two familiar faces, Phoebe relaxed somewhat.

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She sat down beside Iris, accepted the juice Maya handed her, and cupped the glass in both hands, drawing what little cool reassurance she could from it.

“You two are here as well? Did you come with Somalie?”

Somalie, at this moment, was surrounded by a cluster of people, the corners of her lips pursed as she laughed with those few foreigners about who–knew–what, looking utterly at ease navigating the social

arena.

Phoebe couldn’t help but marvel. “So everyone really does have two faces.”

The three of them huddled furtively in the corner.

Maya dutifully glanced over at her employer’s situation from time to time.

Soon, she noticed something.

She grabbed both her friends‘ arms and shook them hard.

“Look, why is Somalie hanging out with Jonathan?”

“Maybe the foreign young lady has never met a guy this pure and unpretentious before?” Phoebe said with a wry look, mimicking Somalie’s tone, even adding a soft, lilting upturn to the last syllable.

“Oh, man, you’re the first person who’s ever dared to talk to me like that!”

Iris nearly spat out a mouthful of juice. “Then, I was the first woman who ever dared to talk to Somalie like that. Why doesn’t she go the dual–heroine route with me? What’s so great about Jonathan, that pretentious poser?”

Phoebe was a little speechless. She gently gestured. “Just keep eating your food.”

Maya didn’t join in on this topic.

She lowered her head and opened her phone, which had been buzzing nonstop.

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Her message inbox was full of people urging her to come up to the second floor and join the gathering.

On occasions like this, the host’s family was always expected to arrive early.

Maya had wanted to keep hiding in this corner with her friends until the banquet ended, but now that looked unlikely.

“I’m going to step out for a bit.”

Maya said goodbye to the two of them, then gathered up her skirt and ducked out from behind the pillar.

When she reached the second floor by the spiral staircase and arrived at the banquet hall, her steps faltered.

A short distance ahead, Toby stood in the middle of a group of guests, a wine glass in his hand, his head tilted slightly as he spoke, his smile polite and his bearing flawlessly elegant.

A few middle–aged men in suits surrounded him, their expressions carrying varying degrees of flattery

and caution.

Maya didn’t want to get pulled into this kind of social scene by him. She simply pretended she hadn’t seen, gathered up her skirt, took a detour around the other side, and quickened her pace to go find someone familiar.

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