A man stood by the pillar.
He kept looking at a beautiful girl dressed in a burgundy dress from afar.
He drank his drink quickly. He obviously looked nervous tonight. Without realizing it, a young man approached him.
"Hey, dude! Where's my blank check?" he asked, holding out his hand.
"Just go away," he said coldly. He turned his head for a moment, then looked back at Velina from a distance.
"I think before you walk over to her, you'd pee in your pants" he teased.
"One more word and I'll take my investment out of your business," he replied.
He was annoyed at being teased by his best friend, Mickey.
Mickey was the most talkative person among his friends' circles. But somehow, he always put up with Mickey's annoying behavior. Apart from that, he was also a friend who can always be relied on, although most of the time he annoyed him.
"Is Marino not here yet?" asked Mickey. Daniel shook his head in response.
Before long, a middle-aged man and a younger man walked into the courtyard of the house. Suddenly, all eyes were on them.
They were Franco Marcello and Marino Marcello. Along the way to the hall, they greeted their business associates just for pleasantries.
Franco Marcello hastily walked over to his father, Nico Marcello, who was chatting in the crowd.
He immediately approached his father and apologized for being late.
"Dad, happy birthday!" he said, snapping his fingers, asked one of his men to show his father his gift for his birthday.
His man immediately cleared a table and put a large box on it. With enthusiasm, Franco told the man to open it immediately.
He immediately took out a chessboard made of very fine marble with a slightly yellowish-white color. The chess dippers were a slightly greenish-white, all made of the finest jade in the world.
The guests were all stunned to see it. Just one top-quality jade ring could cost tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars, let alone this, a set of chess pieces!.
Inside their mind, they all estimated the value of that set of chess pieces. The Marcello family was indeed a rich family from generation to generation.
Maybe until the next seven generations, they would still be rich.
"Wow... Eyang who often loses playing chess got a prize like this! Imagine if you win against me!" teased Marino, a man who that night was occasionally dressed up very neatly, wearing a complete tuxedo set, making him look like an aristocrat.
"Damn brat! Looks like you need to buy a mouth filter to screen your words!" his grandfather scolded, but he actually couldn't help smiling.
"This is a gift from me" Marino handed him a neatly wrapped present.
"What is this?" Nico asked, only glancing at the gift, not intending to touch it even a bit.
"This is a book of 'how to play chess'!" Marino answered casually.
Quick as a lightning bolt, Nico immediately took the gift in Marino's hand, and immediately hit his head with the book.
"Damn brat!!!" Marino just laughed and resignedly accepted a 'reward' from Nico because of his boldness.
The people around them just stared at them, not daring to laugh or made a comment about it. After all, they were outsiders. One wrong word, maybe they could ruin their business for life.
At that instant, the sound of a woman's crisp laughter made everyone stare at her.
Franco turned his head, then his eyes widened in surprise, "Na.. Na ... Velina ... Nana!" he said haltingly. He could not believe his own eyesight that the woman in front of him was his real daughter.
"Hi, daddy!" Velina greeted her father with a warm hug.
"When did you come home? Why I didn't know about it?" he asked longingly.
"Eh... Yesterday? I've met Marino and Nadine anyway!" replied Velina.
She understood very well the extraordinary activities of her family.
Even though they lived together in the same house, oftentimes, they didn't even know who was at home at that moment.
Velina's father immediately turned his gaze to Marino with a murderous look.
"Eeh ... I haven't had time to say, huh ..." he said, rubbing his nose.
"I'll make some calculations with you later!" Franco threatened irritably.
"Hi all!" a cheerful voice suddenly approached.
it was Mickey's voice.
He walked over to a man next to him.
The man was very handsome but looked cold and unapproachable. He was 187 cm tall, equivalent to the height of Nico Marcello.
That man continued to stare at Velina, but when Velina smiled sweetly at him, he looked away instead, making him look impolite.
Whereas, he was only surprised to see that Velina suddenly smiled at him. Without warning, his heart was beating very fast. made his smile look stiff and forced.
"You idiot!" Mickey groaned.
No wonder throughout his 27 years of life, he was always been single!
Mickey rolled his eyes, cursing at his friend silently.
Velina gave a crooked smile as she looked at the man.
Feeling constantly being stared at by Velina, Daniel lowered his head.
Velina was amused by Daniel's attitude.
He looked so cute, which didn't match his macho appearance at all.
"Velina, do you still remember Daniel? Daniel Garibaldi, the son of Noah Garibaldi!" Mickey took the initiative to become an intermediary between the two of them.
Because when it comes to love affairs, entrusting it to Daniel Garibaldi is a big mistake, General!.