"Everyone has different eating habits and preferences." "Always eating rich food isn't necessarily healthy." Laila sat down beside Evie and echoed the sentiment.
"That's why we need to balance meat and vegetables." "That way, we get all kinds of nutrition." "Evie, do you diet to stay in shape?" Laila turned her head and asked.
"I don't diet." Evie answered simply.
"Right, you don't need to lose weight." "You're just the right size." "Actually, not every man likes a woman who's too thin."
"No, I'm just afraid of being hungry." "If I'm hungry, I can't think straight, and I can't study." "So I have to eat enough." Evie explained.
"I almost forgot, Evie is still a student." Laila smiled.
"That's it." "Alexander is really impatient." "He can't even wait for you to graduate before marrying you." Laila held her chin, looked at Evie, and said with a smile.
"My mother-in-law said the end of last year was an auspicious time." "So we held the wedding." "It was going to happen sooner or later anyway." Evie explained, a little embarrassed.
Talking about getting married before graduation always made her feel awkward.
But there was really no way around it.
"Yes, sooner or later." "It's better to do it a little earlier." "At least it gives you a proper reason." Laila said.
But Rory secretly touched Laila's hand under the table.
Laila glanced at her and said nothing more.
Grace ate her meal calmly from start to finish.
"Evie, what did you study in university?"
"Finance."
"What specific area of finance?" Rory asked.
"Generally, there are specialized directions." "Like insurance, securities, and banking." "Our school studies the broad category, covering all three major parts." "When you take the postgraduate entrance exam, you can choose one direction to focus on." Evie explained.
"Doesn't the Sterling Group include insurance, securities, and banking?" Laila turned to Rory and asked.
"Yes, so Evie chose a great major." Rory complimented her.
"This shows she was born to manage the family business." Laila echoed.
Evie blushed. "Actually, my sister chose it for me." "She thought I was suitable for this major." "And I could work in a bank from nine to five in the future."
"Do you still need to work after graduation?" Rory said with a smile.
"I should have a job." "It's better to have a job." Evie responded.
"It's the same whether you earn more or less." "At least you have your own social circle and the ability to be independent." "You don't have to revolve around a man all day." Laila agreed with this.
"Since it's so good, why don't you go to work?"
"I want to, but Leo doesn't like it." Laila rolled her eyes and said.
Evie choked on the food in her mouth.
Embarrassed, she took out a tissue, covered her mouth, and coughed twice.
"Evie, what's wrong with you today?" "You keep choking." Rory said with a wry smile.
"I wasn't being careful." Evie replied awkwardly.
"You shouldn't be in a hurry to go back, right?"
"No hurry."
"Then eat slowly." "It's still early anyway." "We can go back later."
"Mm-hmm." Evie nodded.
She hadn't choked just now because she was in a hurry to go back.
It was because she just found out that Laila was Leo's fiancée.
Before the party, she had met Leo's girlfriend, Xin Yuan. She was a college student, just like Evie.
Quiet and reserved.
She never expected Laila to be his real girlfriend.
She didn't know if Laila knew that Leo had another girlfriend.
Or maybe Laila just didn't care.
Evie thought awkwardly that their relationships were really complicated.
"Grace, why aren't you talking?" Evie spoke to Grace at this moment.
"I'm listening to you all." Grace said with a smile.
"When you work at the hotel, do you often have to work overtime?" Evie asked.
"It's shift work." "But during busy times, we do have to work overtime." Grace replied.
"That's really hard work too." Evie nodded.
"You just get used to it." "No profession is easy."
"Yeah, Alexander often works overtime and goes on business trips." Evie echoed.
"By the way, Grace, what happened with that guest who peed in the lobby you mentioned last time?" Rory came over to gossip at this moment.
She had made a dinner appointment with Grace last time. As a result, she was more than half an hour late. Later, she found out that Grace was about to leave work when she encountered a drunk guest who urinated in the lobby.
"Peed in the lobby?" Evie's eyes went wide with surprise. "Yes, I've heard Grace talk about it." "There are even more amazing things." "Like people drinking crazily, urinating everywhere, finding bugs in their food, complaining about those small things." "And the kind of people who threaten to kill themselves over a broken heart, or come to the hotel to jump off the building." "All kinds of crazy things." Rory answered.
"No way, how can there be such things?" Evie said incredulously. She then turned to look at Grace and asked, "Are you responsible for handling all of that?"
"I have to solve it." "Otherwise, I can't just watch the guests actually jump." Grace replied with a smile. "But these situations are just isolated incidents." "Most of them aren't that crazy."
"If I ever encountered them, I wouldn't know how to handle it." Evie murmured.
"There will be professional training." "Even without training, you'll know how to deal with it after a few times." "You get used to it after a while." Grace answered lightly.
"Is your Gabriel willing to let you keep working at the hotel?" Laila asked.
"He mentioned it to me gently once." "But I really love my job." "I'm not thinking about resigning for now."
"Will you still work at the hotel after you get married?"
"It's fine to keep working after you get married."
"I know it's fine." "But I don't think the Fraser family will think so."
"It's okay." "I don't have to marry into the Fraser family."
"That's good then." Laila nodded.
"The fruit here is delicious." Evie said at this moment.
Almost in unison, everyone turned and looked at her.
Evie forked a piece of cantaloupe and laughed awkwardly.
She just felt that the conversation behind her seemed to have changed a bit. When she got nervous, she habitually started to change the subject.
Rory laughed first and said, "Evie is so cute."
Laila laughed and said nothing. Grace replied, "The grapes are good too."
The previous topic had been successfully diverted.
After eating, Evie asked Rory, "Should we go straight back after we finish eating?"
"Let's see if anyone wants to get a spa treatment." "If not, we'll go straight back." Rory answered.
"Do you want to get one?" Evie asked.
"I can do it." "Ask them." With that, Rory turned to Grace and Laila and said, "Do you want to go back after a spa?"
"Maybe another day." "I'm a bit tired today." Laila stroked her neck and answered.
"I'm a bit tired too." Grace followed up.
"Alright, next time." "We'll go straight back in a bit." Rory said to Evie.
"Then I'll call Alexander now to come pick me up." "He should be almost here." Evie asked.