Looking around, Leilani did not see Waylen, who said he would come later.
She gave a smile, and replied, “Waylen is busy, and he lets me hold the birthday party. These are all I should do.”
Then someone said in a low voice, “It seems that Mr. Bamford has a good relationship with her.”
Waylen’s grandmother smiled in disdain and looked at elsewhere deliberately. Her eyes suddenly brightened, “Diana.”
Diana took a few steps forward and helped Waylen’s grandmother, “Slow down.”
Diana’s soft and weak body could not help but let people feel sorry.
“Why are you so thin? I’ll have Maureen make you some soup later.” Waylen’s grandmother clasped Diana’s wrist.
“No, it’s just my physique.”
“I’ll ask Dr. Walter to check for you.”
“This girl is not telling the truth.” Fiona asked a servant to take the gift, “In order to prepare this gift, Diana suffered a lot, so she lost a lot of weight.”
The servant came in with a big white gift box with the same color transparent ribbon.
Waylen’s grandmother asked Maureen to take over the gift box and patted Diana’s back, “I’m very happy you come here. You don’t need to bring me a gift.”
“I just want to celebrate your birthday.” Diana smiled shyly. Diana and Leonie had two different characters. The former looked clever and sensible, while the latter seemed to be delicate and charming.
Waylen’s grandmother was guilty about what had happened to Leonie and her father’s death.
She had wanted Leonie to marry Waylen, but she was sick. So she treated Diana differently, and she was trying to let Diana marry Waylen.
As long as it wasn’t Leilani marrying Waylen, she would be glad.
She looked at Maureen, who immediately said, “I heard that Leilani also prepared a gift. Why don’t you show it?”
The servant bowed humbly, quickly came out, and took a small and shabby box to put next to the gift box sent by Diana.
Compared with Diana’s mysterious gift with a simple, big, and beautiful package, Leilani’s package was decorated with red silk. Telling from the package, people assumed that it must be jewelry in the box, so no one cared about the gift.
For the rich and famous family, jewelry was not a special gift.
Hearing from Fiona Summer that Diana took pains to prepare the gift, people paid more attention to Diana’s gift.
It was natural to make a comparison between Diana and Leilani because both of them got close to Waylen.
Grandma picked up Leilani’s gift package first. After having a glance over it, she wasn’t interested in it and even and even wanted to put it away and turned to Diana’s gift, Maureen Fletcher whispered to her, “Grandma, we can have a look. All in all, I believed that I believed that Leilani must make efforts to prepare for it.”
Grandma would have planned to give Leilani a chance to make full preparation, but she had never expected that Diana did such a good job.
However, when Leilani heard Maureen’s suggestion, she wasn’t happy with it because she knew Maureen didn’t want to help her. Instead, Maureen just wanted to make a comparison between Diana’s gift and Leilani’s.
No comparison, no difference, so there is no hurt.
Leilani had expected that Diana must prepare a perfect gift, but she had never believed that Diana made a lot of effort so that she lost all that weight.
Still, Leilani tried to calm down though everyone laughed at her.
Then Leilani had a glance over Maureen. She still had short hair, thin lips, and a pair of long eyes. All of a sudden, Maureen found Leilani stared at her, so she looked back calmly and joyfully.
Grandma opened Leilani’s gift package. As expected, it was a delicate Hetian jade bracelet carved white gold on edge.
“It seems that it is the limited edition bracelet made by D.O. I hadn’t gotten it even if I had waited for one month.”
“It is worth millions.”
“But you can’t buy it even if you can afford it.”
“So what? It is just a bracelet.”
Grandma agreed with the man, “It was just a bracelet.” She had more than dozens of bracelets, so she just put the bracelet back with disdain.
“Grandma, look at this one,” Maureen gave a sign to a maid, and then the maid put the gift before grandma.
Grandma unloosened the ribbon effortlessly. As soon as she opened the box, everyone couldn’t help make an exclamation:
“Beautiful!”
“Is this embroidered? How wonderful it is.”
Hearing the praise from the crowds, Maureen was extremely pleased.
Some people even tried to move forward and look at the gift, saying, “Is it a handmade gift by Diana? No wonder that her mother said Diana took a lot of pains to prepare this gift. It is a perfect cheongsam. If you ask me to make such a beautiful Cheongsam, I must be blind, not to mention lose weight.”
When the rich women heard that Diana made the cheongsam, they were amazed, “Does Diana make it? Marvelous! How talented she is! It is the best gift, I think.”
“I envy. How lucky to have such a good daughter-in-law! I want it.”
“It’s my pleasure,” Diana said with a smile. Although everyone was praising her, she was still elegant and humble.
“It is good. Make a gift. Rather than buying a gift.”
“That’s right. We are all envious of having such a good gift.”
Leilani said nothing still. She didn’t care about what people praised.
At that time, a man said, “When have you learned to make a cheongsam from Abbie Veronica?”
According to the voice, Leilani turned to look at the man. It turned out to be Sophie Johnson.
Sophie was the CEO of D.O. and Byran’s mother.
Diana was surprised to hear someone mention Sophie Johnson, but Maureen arrogantly answered for Diana, “Who is Abbie Veronica? Diana must do a better job than her when it comes to the embroidery technique. If Diana focuses on this area, she must be the No.1.”
Sophie walked forward and looked at it carefully, saying, “The cheongsam is made in the same method with my friend Abbie Veronica. We have known each other for so many years. I am familiar with her method. As you can see, the full-fashioned kitting method is the same as my friend’s method.”
Diana became a little bit embarrassed; however, Maureen directly pushed Sophie’s hand away, growling, “It is normal to find the method they conducted. If you don’t have any evidence, you shouldn’t defame Diana. What a bad man!”
Grandma was unhappy too, but she said one sentence because Sophie was a powerful woman in the City, “Mrs. Johnson has lived in the B Country for many years. Now that you are very interested in the cheongsam, later, I can ask Diana to show the technique before you.”
“All right. I indeed like the technique very much, but I think that today is a suitable time,” Sophie answered while she secretly winked at Leilani.
Leilani had not met Sophie for a long time. I was surprised to see her at grandma’s birthday party.
“Is she trying to give me a hand?” Leilani thought to herself.
“Doing embroidery is not an easy thing. We need time to do it.”
Hearing that, Sophie smiled and pointed at the last step for making a cheongsam, “Abbie Veronica has her way to make the last step. Unlike others who like to put the thread within another thread, Abbie likes to choose the thread whose color is close to the clothes to knit. Moreover, she is accustomed to embroidering her name in the neckline. Please look at it.”
Sophie showed the neckline to others. It was true that there was the name of Abbie Veronica.
“It is true…”
“Diana does not make it, but she pretended to make a lot of effort to do it. She is not honest.”
“Yeah. Why did Diana lie to us?”
Diana, however, kept smiling, “I have never said I made it.”
The crowds were shocked as if they realized something. Diana was right. She didn’t mention it, but the groups assumed she made it.
Grandma was very embarrassed and said hurriedly, “All right, I love the gift no matter if Diana made it or not. Forget about it.”
Sophie shook the head, saying, “Do you think the bracelet is just a limited edition from D.O?”
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