“Really? I didn’t come to the office yesterday. Did I actually miss a good show?”
“Exactly… President Xyla was so cool yesterday. When her husband showed up, he was pretty awesome too.”
“Really?”
“Of course… I’m so envious of her. My favorite idol, Josh Batton, even liked her post on Weibo. I’m so jealous.”
“Oh, yeah… Did you know, this morning… Her husband…”
The ladies immediately became quiet when they saw Xyla Quest. After that, they smiled at Xyla.
Xyla politely smiled and nodded at them before she continued walking to the elevator.
“President Xyla… Keep it up…” A pretty lady behind the reception desk said while she looked admiringly at Xyla.
“Sure, I will.” Xyla smiled and started walking to the elevator.
When she entered her office, she was shocked…
Her desk was full of shopping bags of various sizes with LV’s logo on them. There was barely any space left.
Xyla quickly walked up to her desk and carefully checked what was inside each of those bags.
Most of the bags contained clothes.
Xyla randomly took a few pieces of garment out from the bags. She realized that these were all clothes for summer.
In fact, she liked each of them a lot.
Stanley Batton had an immaculate taste in fashion.
Hence, Xyla knew that it couldn’t have been anyone else but Stanley who gifted her so much stuff.
She immediately called Stanley on the phone.
“Did you get the stuff?” Stanley asked.
“Yeah… What’s going on? Why did you buy me so many clothes?” Xyla asked.
“I noticed these clothes when I went down to the shopping mall earlier. I thought they’d look good on you, and so I asked someone to send them over. Do you like them?” Stanley said.
“President Xyla’s husband is way too nice. Yesterday, he gave her a bracelet made of a Martian meteorite. Today, he gave her LV clothes… A lot of them…”
“I heard that the stuff he bought occupied President Xyla’s entire desk.”
“Sigh. Being poor has restricted a great deal of my imagination…”
Usually, when everyone got tired of work, they would chat for a bit in the group chat.
Xyla briefly skimmed through the conversation. However, she didn’t respond to any of it. After that, she closed the group chat and opened her email inbox to start working.
***
After finishing all her work at seven o’clock in the evening, Xyla drove to Atlantis Triple Stadium, where Teenage Idol’s finale was held. A group of bodyguards escorted her.
This finale was no different from significant concerts. Audiences were able to purchase tickets to watch the event in the stadium.
There was half an hour left until the finale commenced. Outside the stadium, many people were walking about, and all of them were fans of the reality show’s participants.
There were more women than there were men.
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