Tyler smiled gently. With exaggerated politeness, he spoke, "Don't trigger me. I won't spend my life with simply any woman. The world is cruel. If I'm not careful about who I marry, then my life would be even more difficult."
Laney laughed at that. Looking at Grace, she said, "This is my name card. Both lunch and the salon service have been provided for the interview today. Let me treat you to dinner together."
"No, that won't do," Grace immediately said. "Let us treat you."
Grace felt that Laney was already doing them a great favour by letting them interview a master painter like her. How could she let Laney treat her for dinner?
"You're very kind, young woman." Laney looked at Grace carefully. The longer she stared, the wider she smiled. Tve made up my mind. I'm treating you."
"But -" She was interrupted by Tyler before she could say anything.
"Grace, forget it. If she is willing to treat you, just let her do so. If you are treating, you would have to claim the money. This old lady earns a lot of money from her royalties. It's better to just let her treat."
Tyler's words made her feel a little awkward. She could tell that Tyler had a good relationship with Laney, perhaps their relationship was even better than that with Professor Charlie Ross.
He didn't look like a stranger to Laney.
"That's right. If I don't spend this money, nobody is going to spend it after I die," Laney smiled very brightly. "That's settled then. All of you should hurry up and go get your work done. We'll have dinner tonight, and then I'll find you a few candidates for the following stages."
"Thank you so much," Grace really didn't know how to express her gratitude to her.
She and Chuck quickly left and followed Tyler to attend the interviews they had previously arranged.
"Tyler, have you known Professor Brooks for a long time?" Grace quickly took the chance to ask the question she had long been curious about.
Tyler nodded, confirming his answer, "Mm, I've known her since I was young. She's old friends with my father. They knew each other even before I was born."
"Ah, so she knows your father," Grace nodded. "No wonder you seem so close!"
"Yes, I'm very close with her," Tyler said. "However, my brother is even closer with her."
"You have a brother?"
"Yes," Tyler nodded.
Grace was surprised again. "I've never heard you talk about your family."
"My family is very simple; it's like most families, there are both the good and the bad sides." It seemed that Tyler didn't want to discuss the topic anymore. He smiled and said, "Hey, by the way, if Professor Brooks wants you as her god daughter, would you like that?"
Grace was stunned for a moment, but she said immediately, "How is that possible? I can't possibly accept that."
"Professor Brooks only has two sons. Her biggest wish in life is to have a daughter. Fate wasn't on her side; she and her husband only had sons, so she wants to have a goddaughter," explained Tyler.
After hesitating for a while, Grace shook her head. "This is not child's play, we have to leave it to fate."
Tyler burst into laughter. "Alright, let's go for the interview first."
"Okay."
"Go in now and conduct the interview. It should be about an hour and half long. When it is almost twelve o'clock, come out for lunch. The next three interviews have been scheduled for the afternoon. Four people a day, each person around one and a half hours."
"That's what I have in mind too," Grace said with a smile.
Tyler nodded. He looked at Grace and said, "It's an honor to have guessed what you were thinking."
"It's an honor to get to know you," After saying that, Grace went to work.
Soon, an hour and a half passed.
Chuck had to hold back his questions for more than two hours. Finally, he had the chance to talk to Grace in private.
"Mr. Henley is an outstanding person, Grace. He put in every effort to help you, introduced so many people to you, and all of them are important people. These are enough for our publication for the next few months."
"Yeah, he helped a lot."
"Why didn't you ask Mr. Jones for his help? Why did you ask Mr. Henley?"
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