Chapter 39 - Chapter 39: The Game

 "But I heard there's a new game on the second floor now, before you go upstairs, the waiter will hand out a ball mask, then line up to get a number and enter in separate sessions, 3 sessions per night, 100 men and women per session, and the time lasts for an hour." Olivia whispered mysteriously into Vanessa's ear.

  "And then what? Have 3 masked balls?" Vanessa was dumbfounded, this...Look at the cute guy being so secretive?

  "Of course not, there's an event host on the second floor, The first round randomly draws people to do tasks, and each task draws two people to work together to complete it, there are easy and hard tasks."

  "Successful completion of the mission is rewarded with a gift from the bar, with the worst reward being a drink reduction for the night, and the highest reward being a gift of a 6 million dollar condo in the heart of New York City, and it's a gift for both of the people who complete the mission."

  "Wow, so this isn't a fight to turn a bike into a motorcycle? What's the point of that mask?" Vanessa's wealthy eyes rubbed together, but thought the mask was pretty redundant.

  "In the second round the event was about masks, there was a love song duet in the second round, and those who couldn't sing had to take off their masks and be punished with a drink or a performance, but judging by the previous ones, there were a lot of people who purposely couldn't sing, and took off their masks to get the full attention of the crowd..."

  Olivia Bennet rubbed her chin.

  "Huh? There's a love song duet, I don't know it..."Vanessa hesitates, she's not good at singing.

  "It's okay, it's also a random number draw, it's not always possible to draw you, let's go~ Let's go have some fun." Olivia Bennet pulled Vanessa through the crowded crowd and headed to the second floor.

  .....

  On the third floor in the honorable box

  "Ethan, it's so hard to get you to come out and get together these days..."William Brown raised his glass to Ethan Blackwood.

  "Busy," Ethan Blackwood says in a muted voice.

  "Yeah, it's hard for us to get together once a year, William only comes back to New York once every few years" Daniel Moore lamented

  "Well, distance makes beauty!" Joseph Taylor shook his glass of wine and took the hand of the girl sitting next to him, "This is my fiancée Grace Holloway."

  "Ethan Blackwood, Daniel Moore, William Brown, Robert Thomas, my best buddies!"

  "Hello, Ms. Holloway~" Daniel Moore sits up with a startled start walks over to Grace Holloway, and takes her hand in a half crouch for a kiss on the hand.

  "Mr. Moore, how do you do, nice to meet you!" Grace Holloway shyly returned, trying to tug back the tightly held hand.

  "No hand kissing required!" Joseph Taylor ripped away Daniel Moore's hand and clutched his fiancée's hand in his own.

  "Eh, I wasn't too excited" Daniel Moore wasn't embarrassed and cheerfully returned to sit on the sofa.

  "No sound to go to Italy for a few years, bring back a fiancée, ah" William Brown cynical smile, William Brown and Joseph Taylor used to be the most "stinky similarities", they are all Sea King playboys, but he didn't expect Joseph to fall first...

  "The fate given by God~" Joseph Taylor smiled happily and kissed the delicate hand in his hand to his mouth, Grace Holloway looked down and made a big red face.

  "Tsk, tsk, tsk, becoming a gentleman." Daniel Moore coaxed.

  "Stop poking fun at Joseph!" Robert Thomas tugged on Daniel Moore and gave him a wink, reminding him that he had another important thing to do today.

  Daniel Moore understood and immediately made a zipper gesture around his mouth.

  "Ethan, I went to France last month and ran into Natalie Rivers at the Paris Fashion Week venue." Daniel Moore stammered, watching Ethan Blackwood's face as he spoke.

  Ethan Blackwood's drinking hand paused for a moment and then took a sip, "How is she?"

  With Ethan Blackwood's financial resources, he certainly had insight into all the traces of Natalie Rivers, but he hadn't wanted to break down that line of defense in his heart.

  "Uh...Quite well, she has set up her own clothing studio in France and has quite a reputation in France, this is her contact information..."Daniel Moore took out a business card and handed it to Ethan Blackwood.

  When Natalie Rivers dumped Ethan Blackwood and disappeared out of the country, it shocked all of them, she was the first one who dared to toy with Ethan Blackwood like that!

  At first, this incident on Ethan Blackwood's change is also quite big, originally a sunny type big handsome man into now this cold heartless group president.

   ....

  The second floor was so much quieter compared to the first floor, the music that kept the heart following the beat was gone, and some softer trendy songs were playing to warm up for the event.

  "Vanessa, what number are you?" Olivia Bennet picks at Vanessa's number fluorescent bracelet

  "27, what's yours?"

  "35!"Olivia Bennet excitedly shouted out, "You know what, 35 is my lucky number, I used to have 35 in a lot of raffle draws and stuff, looks like something good is happening to me today ."

  "Possibly that apartment in downtown New York oh~" Vanessa gave Olivia Bennet an amused look and turned her eyes to look around, the overall 2nd floor consisted of a circle with an outer ring of card seating and a round table in the center with different lights rotating, a glance upwards showed the windows of the 3rd-floor box.

  "Olivia, what is the 3rd floor for?" Vanessa was a little curious, the whole 3rd floor didn't cover much ground, and the center skeletonized the same roof as the 2nd floor.

  "The 3 floor is a variety of top luxury families of princesses and princes alone party place, bored to glance down, but also look at the 2nd floor of the program to help cheer."

  "I heard that the 2nd floor of this activity is the bar owner united with these top plutocrats together to carry out the activities, or else you say that the lucky draw also sends the house such a great deal, and then the rich bar can not do it ." Olivia Bennet excited gossip, still wanting to mutter a few words was interrupted by the host's voice ...