Chapter 185
“I’ve discussed with the staff. My performance will end at 7 o’clock so I’ll be back around 8 o’clock,” Isabella said with a laugh.
Joseph said lightly, “That’s for the best. You are the center of attention in the part of dancing and blowing candles. Don’t go wrong on my 30th birthday.”
“Wow! You are already so old... Ah! Don’t stare at me, I know!”
“Send the location of your performance to my phone later. I’ll ask Gerry to pick you up...”
“Ah! No, no, no!”
Isabella refused immediately, “I don’t need you to pick me up. I’ll wear the gown and walk the red carpet from the front door when the time comes. I want to give you a surprise. What do you think?”
Looking at Isabella, who was trying to please him with a sweet smile, Joseph couldn’t help but smile, “Since you have planned for today, it’s up to you.”
“It’s deal!”
.....
Isabella hurriedly touched Joseph’s face, “Can you show your smile today? It’s not good to keep a serious expression on your birthday.”
“Am I always serious?”
“No, you smile usually, but now you give me a sincere smile.”
Isabella crossed her arms, looked at Joseph narrowly, and nodded, “Your smile is too scary at ordinary times, which means that you are preparing to do something bad or you are doing something bad... Ow! Don’t strangle me! If I die, no one will dance with you!”
Joseph rolled his eyes at Isabella and retracted his hands. Then he turned his head and didn’t want to talk to Isabella.
Isabella giggled. Seeing that the car had arrived at Richmond Arts University, she opened the car door and said, “Bye, see you tonight! Remember to be happy today!”
“Wait!”
Isabella turned around and looked at Joseph confusedly.
“The guests are all friends in my circle and they will not remark casually outside. Even if the matter between you and me is exposed, I will solve it, so you just enjoy yourself.”
Isabella did not expect Joseph to be so careful. The day before yesterday, he forced her to be obedient, but today, he explained his concerns to her. Isabella was surprised and then happily said, “Mr. Joseph, you are a good man! Kiss you!”
Joseph pulled Isabella back. “What exactly do you mean?”
“Eh... that is... how should I put it...”
Isabella thought for a moment. Looking at Joseph’s handsome and puzzled face, she leaned over and kissed Joseph’s cheek driven by passion. Then she ran away at once...
Joseph was in a daze for three seconds. Then he touched his cheek, looked at Isabella’s back as she ran away, and smiled, “What a lecherous little fox.”
“...”
Isabella lacked only 400 to buy that cigarette filter, so she needed to go to Empire Entertainment Center to dance for an hour. Then she could dress up beautifully to attend Joseph’s birthday banquet and eat a lot of delicious food.
At five in the afternoon, Isabella arrived at Empire Entertainment on time. She changed her clothes and performed on time, but she failed to finish it at seven.
There were a lot of guests today, who called out encore and whistled at her all the time. Isabella was about to decline as usual when a middle-aged man with glasses suddenly stood up and opened a bottle of Remy Martin Louis XIII which costs thousands of dollars. He handed a cup to Isabella.
“Beauty, have a cup!”
“A cup! A cup!”
The booing was louder and louder, and Isabella looked at the cup speechlessly.
Isabella was obedient to drink a small cup of wine these two days after an encore, but she was unwilling to drink such a big cup of wine.
Fred who was the manager of Empire Entertainment Center gestured to Isabella from afar to make Isabella know that this man’s wine was expensive. She glanced at the electronic clock which showed five past seven.
Isabella gritted her teeth and raised a bright and charming smile. Then she picked up the glass and drank it.
“Good.”
As usual, Isabella placed the glass upside down and turned around. However, the middle-aged man suddenly jumped onto the stage and pulled her, “The wine costs so much money and we should drink it off!”
“If I do, I’ll be sent to the hospital!”
“Maybe next time. I have to dance later!” Isabella smiled as she pulled the man’s hands away.
“What kind of dance?”
With a smell of stale alcohol, the man shakily took out a stack of money from his pocket and threw it on Isabella, “You come with me to dance in my box. I will give you ten times the price!”
Cheers came from below. Isabella was disgusted, but she knew that she could not reason with a drunkard in such a place. Then she rejected, “I can dance for you and you can talk to our manager first. I’ll go back and change clothes.”
“You change your clothes here!” The glasses man said as pulled Isabella’s clothes.
Isabella’s collar was torn.
Although Isabella knew that he could not act rashly in this kind of situation, she won’t tolerate it if someone reached her bottom line.
Therefore, when the man was about to touch her dress, Isabella gave him a stinging slap without hesitation!
He was stunned and suddenly a great clamor arose here. When Fred saw that the situation was not good, he brought people to mediate quickly.
“Damn it, how dare you hit me?”
The middle-aged man shouted, and the bodyguards rushed forward. Fred hurriedly said, “Isabella, how can you hit the guest? Apologize to the guest this instant!”
“It’s him who broke the rules and tore my clothes!”
“What the fuck rule! You dare to hit me, and I will let you prostrating!”
When Isabella saw that she was in danger, she ran backstage quickly. Fred and other managers did not expect that the man had brought people, so the two sides were in a tangle.
Because Fred had previously said that someone who did not abide by the rules would be settled by Empire Entertainment Center, Isabella entered the locker room and quickly changed her clothes. She had planned to change into a gown here, but now she did not dare to stay any longer. Thus, she picked up the gown and prepared to leave.
The door of the locker room was kicked furiously, and there was a torrent of oaths outside the door.
“You dare let me get beaten. If you don’t give me the woman, I will pull down Empire Entertainment Center tomorrow!”
Fred tried to persuade him, “What if we free the consumption tonight? She is a thoughtless student. Why should you lower yourself to argue with her? You are the bigger person and let her go.”
“Bah, still a student!”
The door was kicked loudly as the man cursed.