Chapter 51: Accident During The Performance!
As soon as they arrived at Room 307, a middle-aged man who seemed to be about 40 years old walked towards them.
“Hey, Miss Clarke! What a coincidence!”
The man seemed to know Victoria.
Victoria was also a bit surprised. “It’s you, Mr. Crews. Are you here for dinner too? I remember that you usually dine at Sunny Restaurant.”
Victoria knew Mr. Crews, a close friend of Zack, and would often dine at Zack’s restaurant.
Mr. Crews said, “Well, my son insists on watching Trey Scott or whoever that is, perform, so he made me come here.”
Victoria smiled. She believed that many of the patrons tonight were people who had been coerced into having dinner here by their children.
The reason being, most teenagers and young people who liked listening to Travis Scott could not afford to book a private room or dine at this restaurant. Besides, it was commonplace for parents to indulge their children these days to generally give in to their children’s requests and take them wherever they wanted.
Therefore, Jordan chose to invite a singer who was popular among young people and not middle-aged folks.
Mr. Crews glanced at Jordan beside Victoria and asked, “Who’s this?”
Victoria looked at Jordan, whose identity as the company president was still kept a secret to the public and known only to the C-level executives of partner companies. Hence, Victoria didn’t dare to introduce him.
Seeing this, Jordan put his arm around Ashley’s shoulders and said, “I’m Ashley’s boyfriend.”
Ashley was so flattered and surprised that she almost jumped up and leaped into Jordan’s arms.
‘I wish Mr. Steele would keep holding me like this…’
Ashley really wanted to pin Jordan beneath her at this moment.
Upon sight of that gesture, Mr. Crews laughed and said, “So he’s Ashley’s boyfriend, I see. I can tell that Miss Rose and this young chap here are very much in love with each other.”
After exchanging a few more pleasantries, Jordan and the two ladies headed inside the private room and closed the door.
Ashley had great self-awareness and didn’t think of herself as Jordan’s girlfriend anymore. Hence, she immediately poured some water for Jordan and Victoria as soon as they entered.
Victoria said, “All the seats are filled in Cloud Cafeteria today, and the reservation slots for the rest of the week are almost full. Meanwhile, there are now less than twenty customers in Zack Smith’s restaurant across from us. Some of them might even be his friends whom he had invited.”
Ashley, too, raised her arm and exclaimed, “Mr. Steele, you’re awesome! You completely defeated Zack Smith, and you’re going to monopolize the restaurant industry of Orlando!”
Looking at Ashley’s adorable behavior, Jordan smiled and then said,
“Sunny Restaurant has the liveliest business among all the restaurants under Zack Smith. I just need to make this restaurant go out of business, and there’ll be nothing to fear anymore.”
Jordan picked up his glass of water and recalled the domineering and condescending attitude that Zack had during Diana’s birthday banquet the other day. He then chugged the water in one go!
“Let’s see who’s going to have his career and means of livelihood ruined!”
Soon, it was 8 o’clock in the evening, which was the time for the hit, Sicko Mode, to be performed.
During this time, all of the guests in the private rooms from the second to the fifth floor left their rooms and stood outside to watch the performance.
Inside Room 307.
“Do you want to go out and watch the performance?” Victoria asked Jordan.
She was worried Jordan would not like seeing both Tyler and Hailey since Tyler and Hailey were dining at the same place the song was being performed.
Jordan said, “Of course, I’m the boss of this place. Even if I dislike the music, I still have to go out there and see how the audience reacts to the performance. Come on, let’s go outside.”
Jordan, Victoria, and Ashley, too, came out of the room.
The rapper soon appeared on the second floor, and it instantly caused a huge commotion.
After briefly greeting a few fans, he quickly began performing.
Many of the customers in the restaurant started screaming at the top of their lungs as soon as the intro began.
The rapper slowly began to perform.
“Sun is down, freezin cold.”
The audience started to chorus after the first line of the lyrics was sung.
Tyler and Hailey also sang along when they were beside the rapper.
Tyler flaunted smugly, “Does it feel good to be so up close to a celebrity!?!”
Hailey nodded profusely, “Yes! It’s great to have money, haha!”
“That’s right, being rich is awesome! I’m the perfect husband, hahahahah!”
While relishing smugly, Tyler took the opportunity to put his arm around Hailey’s shoulders, which the latter did not refute.
At this moment, Victoria noticed that Jordan had tightened his grip on the railing of the third floor.
She glanced down to look at Tyler and Hailey and instantly understood what was going on.
Victoria extended her fair left hand and placed it on Jordan’s right hand.
She gave it a few gentle rubs and said, “If you don’t want to see them, you can tell them to leave.”
Jordan was the owner of this place, so of course, he had the right to do that.
Jordan sighed and said, “Even if they don’t get all touchy-feely here, they will do it elsewhere.”
“At the end of the day, I still haven’t completely gotten over her.”
After all, Jordan had loved Hailey for three years, so it obviously wasn’t easy to let it go just like that.
Victoria had also gone through a similar experience. She predicted that Jordan would probably take more than a year to get over Hailey.
At this moment, the rapper’s voice was suddenly inaudible, and only the background music could be heard. The rapper began to panic a little as he constantly tapped the microphone.
Jordan hurriedly snapped back to his senses with a stern expression.
Chapter 52: I’m The Owner!
“Damn, why is there no sound at all!?! I can’t even hear what he’s singing!”
“What’s going on? Are they trying to fool us? What nonsense is this!?!”
Although the slip-up had just happened, many customers were already enraged.
All of a sudden, there were customers throwing items down from the third, fourth, and fifth floors at the same time.
Smack!
A banana peel hit Tyler’s face.
Another orange peel landed on Hailey’s thigh.
“Ah!” Hailey began to panic.
“Damn it, who did that!?! Come down!” Tyler hollered furiously and stood up.
After seeing that, Victoria exclaimed, “Well done! An adulterous pair does deserve to get things thrown at them!”
Jordan didn’t have the time to comment or mock Hailey and Tyler.
He said to Victoria, “This matter is not that simple. The microphone that he used is of the best quality, and nothing should go wrong. It’s very likely to have been swapped.”
Victoria panicked and asked, “You mean someone deliberately created this slip-up? Do you think it’s Zack Smith?”
Jordan glanced at the guests upstairs. In addition to Zack’s tampering with the microphone, they sent some people to pose as guests and incited the guests to attack the people below by smashing objects.
Fortunately, Jordan and Victoria did not choose the room that Tyler did. Otherwise, they would have been the ones to have been hit by the fruit peel.
The fool Tyler had actually spent $90,000 on a seat that caused him to end up getting hit by the fruit peel.
However, Jordan’s restaurant management team was the top in the nation. Seeing that there was something wrong with the microphone, they immediately replaced it.
The rapper started performing the song repeatedly from the start and everyone chorused along, completely forgetting about the slip-up.
After the end of the performance, everyone clapped in satisfaction.
“Thank you everyone, please enjoy your dinner and the rest of your night, goodbye!”
The rapper was just about to leave with the microphone.
At this moment, Tyler took the microphone from the rapper and exclaimed at the customers upstairs.
“Everyone, wait a minute, don’t go back to your rooms yet. I have something important that I would like all of you to witness!”
In Cloud Cafeteria.
Guests on the second to fifth floors who had planned to go back to their private rooms after watching the performance turned around when Tyler spoke.
Jordan also frowned and looked at the second floor.
A few staff members clad in the uniform of ‘Joy Balloons’ suddenly appeared beside Tyler and headed into the private room where Tyler and Hailey were in, with colorful balloons in hand.
There were many balloons themed around the colors white, pink, and red.
A few people on the other side of the room carried boxes of rose petals that they scattered on the ground.
“Wow, is this a marriage proposal? A tycoon is proposing!”
“I heard that that private room costs $90,000 to book!”
“Damn it! I’ve been so focused on the performance that I didn’t even realize how beautiful the lady being proposed to is!”
“That woman is gorgeous! I’d be willing to trade ten years of my life for a chance to sleep with her once!”
“You’ve had too much to drink, haven’t you? A woman like her will only marry megrich scions. How can we be fit to have a woman like her?”
Tyler’s actions sparked a considerable discussion.
Jordan was furious!
‘You set up a proposal in MY restaurant in front of MY guests without my permission, to MY woman?’
‘Screw you!’
Jordan quickly called the restaurant manager over and ordered, “Clean up the rubbish on the second floor immediately! Take the microphone away too!”
“Yes!”
On the second floor, Tyler took the microphone and got down on one knee while facing Hailey. “Hailey, will you… Hello? Hello?”
When Tyler was talking, he suddenly realized that the microphone had stopped working.
That wasn’t all. A restaurant waiter walked over and poked the balloons that symbolized romance and purity with a needle.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
Dozens of balloons were poked and burst one by one.
Tyler panicked. “What the hell are you doing!? Why did you pierce my balloons!?! They were meant for my proposal!”
During his temper tantrum, a woman in her forties walked over with a broomstick and said, “Lift your feet up, please.”
While saying that, she swept all the rose petals on the ground into the dustpan.
Tyler jumped up again. “Ah! My roses! Don’t sweep them away!”
However, the service staff ignored Tyler because she was carrying out Jordan’s orders.
At this moment, the guests also burst into laughter.
“Hahahha, this punk had a romantic marriage proposal all planned out, but who knew his plan would be ruined by the service staff of the restaurant?”
“I’m laughing so hard. I reckon the proposal is going to be a flop, haha.”
“Why am I so happy? Although we are not worthy of that beautiful woman, I just don’t want such a ravishing beauty to marry an evil scion!”
The guests laughed for a while and then returned to their respective private rooms.
Seeing that the proposal setup had been destroyed and the onlookers had left, Tyler flew into a rage.
He barked, “Get the owner of this restaurant to come out! Damn it, does he know who I am? I’m Tyler Collins! Tell him to find out about my status in Orlando!”
Jordan initially didn’t intend to pay attention to them. Still, since Tyler wanted to see him, he decided to make his way downstairs from the third floor.
With his hands in his pockets, Jordan said to Tyler, “What are you clamoring about? If you don’t want to continue dining, just get lost. Don’t disturb my customers!”
Tyler had yet to figure out what Jordan meant. “It’s none of your business! Get out of the way. I want to see the owner of this restaurant!”
“I am the owner of this restaurant!” Jordan snapped sternly.
Chapter 53: The Proposal!
“What?”
Both Tyler and Hailey were stunned.
Victoria and Ashley both laughed while standing behind Jordan.
Tyler guffawed too. “Haha, you’re the owner of Cloud Cafeteria? Stop pretending! I’ve already checked it out. This is not the only restaurant that Steve Williams sold. All his restaurants in Orlando were bought by the same person for 10 million dollars! You’re just a penniless man. Are you sure you can afford 10 million dollars?”
Hailey didn’t believe that Jordan would have 10 million dollars, although she knew that he would want to buy the restaurant to deal with Zack!
“Hah, you don’t believe me again, huh?”
Jordan had gotten enough of the condescending and arrogant nature of these wealthy scions who loved looking down on others. He called the middle-aged woman who was sweeping the floor over. “Ma’am, please come here for a moment.”
The middle-aged woman walked over as she was told. Having seen Jordan in the morning, she knew that he was the owner of the restaurant. “Yes, boss?”
Jordan pointed at Tyler and said to the middle-aged woman, “Hit his face with the broom, and I’ll give you a bonus of nine times your salary this month.”
“Nine times?”
The middle-aged woman was elated. She grabbed the broom and swung it against Tyler’s face.
“Ah! Ew!”
Tyler was completely caught off guard, and he could not believe that he, the scion of the Collins, would get hit by a janitor.
While dodging, Tyler spat out the garbage that had been stuck to the broom and gotten into his mouth.
“Damned cleaner, do you have a death wish!?! Don’t you know who I am?”
The middle-aged woman replied, “I don’t know who you are. I’m just here to clean the restrooms. Since my boss is paying me, I’ll do whatever he tells me to.”
The middle-aged woman was about to continue hitting Tyler, but Jordan stopped him.
“Do you believe it now? If you don’t believe me, I’ll have the other employees come to beat you up one by one,” Jordan said, staring at Tyler.
Tyler pointed at Jordan and snapped furiously, “Jordan Steele, I was wondering who the culprit who sabotaged my proposal plans is. It turns out that it’s you! Why? Are you getting flustered now that I’m proposing to Hailey? Are you jealous and heartbroken?”
Hailey knew that Jordan was still in love with her and that he definitely didn’t want to see another man proposing to her.
However, Jordan said, “I’ve already divorced Hailey Camden and you proposing to her has nothing to do with me. However, if you’re in my restaurant, you must adhere to the rules, and you cannot do this without my permission.”
“You…”
Tyler was enraged, but Jordan was the restaurant owner while he was just a customer, so he didn’t have the advantage of being on his own turf.
Tyler said, “Jordan, you definitely wouldn’t have had the money to acquire this restaurant. You even hired a popular rapper. I reckon Miss Clarke is the true owner of this restaurant, huh?”
Victoria did not completely deny it. “I do own a share in this restaurant.”
Upon hearing that Jordan was taking over the Orlando restaurant industry, Victoria invested 1.5 million dollars straight away because she knew they would be able to monopolize it with Jordan’s ability to run a business.
She was sure that there would be guaranteed returns on this investment.
Tyler humphed coldly and said, “Miss Clarke, you’re probably the largest shareholder while Jordan Steele just holds a small number of shares, right? Jordan Steele, you probably own only one percent of the shares. What are you so proud of?”
As Tyler said that, he took out a Tiffany box from his pocket and opened it to take out a diamond ring.
The instant Hailey saw the diamond ring, she got a great shock because the color, clarity, and quality of the diamond ring were enough to drive any woman crazy!
Tyler said smugly, “This is a three-carat diamond ring that’s worth more than $600,000! Even if you work as a bodyguard for the rest of your life, you can’t afford to give one to Hailey!”
“Today, I’ll use this diamond ring to win over the woman you’ve loved for three years!”
After saying that, Tyler looked at Hailey while on one knee.
“Hailey, marry me!”
Chapter 54: Rejected!
Tyler had just proposed to Jordan’s ex-wife right in front of him!
Seeing how disrespectful Tyler was to Jordan, Victoria felt a strong urge to step forward and give him a slap again like she did previously.
However, she did not do so.
‘If Hailey Camden marries Tyler Collins sooner, there’ll be a chance for me to get together with Jordan…’
Women who were business elites attached great importance to their personal interests.
If Tyler and Hailey got married, it would actually be a good thing for Victoria.
Jordan didn’t stop them either.
Jordan had stopped Tyler from proceeding with his proposal by switching off the microphone and destroying the balloons, only because Tyler’s actions affected the environment and guests.
With the decorative items removed, an ordinary customer proposing to another customer no longer violated any rules.
More importantly, Jordan also wanted to know if Hailey would agree to the proposal!
Hailey and Jordan had been married for three years and only got divorced a few days ago. Hence, he wanted to know if Hailey would remarry someone else so soon.
Jordan looked at Hailey.
Hailey was flustered because she didn’t prepare herself mentally for this at all.
Although in the plan that she and Rachel Quinn had drawn, Hailey’s next step was to marry Tyler, However, Hailey didn’t want to agree so quickly.
Hailey said, “Tyler, um… can you give me some time to think about this?”
She didn’t turn him down straightaway, but she didn’t accept the proposal either.
Tyler nodded. He was actually already prepared to propose to Hailey a few times. After all, she was hailed as the most beautiful girl in Orlando who was far out of reach, so it was expected that he would fail on the first try.
“Okay, there’s no hurry. Take your time and consider it but please accept the diamond ring.”
Tyler stood up and placed the Tiffany ring box in Hailey’s hand.
Hailey took the box and looked at the sparkling diamond ring inside, overwhelmed with joy.
However, she soon looked glum and sorrowful.
She walked towards Jordan with a look of resentment and said, “You keep saying that you’re rich and that you’re the owner of a corporation and a restaurant. If you’re really so loaded, why didn’t you even give me a diamond ring?”
“Back then, you took your bags with you and moved into my home without even proposing to me. You didn’t buy me a single engagement ring or wedding ring!”
In fact, Jordan had indeed failed to satisfy Hailey in that aspect. It was probably every girl’s wish to be proposed to grandly with a nice diamond ring.
However, Jordan married Hailey as a live-in husband, so he couldn’t have been able to give her those things.
Jordan said, “If you hadn’t been unfaithful to me, I would have made it up to you with a 21-carat diamond ring.”
Hailey suddenly recalled a movie titled ’21 Carats’ that she and Jordan had watched together at the theaters a year ago.
After watching the movie that day, Hailey griped about the fact that Jordan hadn’t given her a diamond ring.
On that day, Jordan promised that he would definitely make it up to her with a 21-carat diamond ring a year from then.
At that time, Hailey simply laughed in disdain because she didn’t believe that Jordan could do it at all.
Jordan didn’t linger around any longer and instead returned to the third floor with Victoria.
As soon as they returned to the room on the third floor, Victoria said, “Hailey might not have accepted Tyler Collins’ proposal today, but she didn’t reject him either. I’m guessing she’ll say yes if he proposes to her again a few more times.”
Jordan kept a straight face as he picked up a cup of water and took a sip of it.
Victoria was curious to know what Jordan really thought about the idea of Hailey and Tyler getting married. The fact that Jordan was now executing his revenge on Zack showed that he was a vengeful person.
Victoria didn’t believe that Jordan would just sit back and watch Hailey and Tyler enjoy conjugal bliss after they had cheated on him!
Victoria’s intuition told her that Jordan must have devised a plan for revenge against them!
Chapter 55: Jordan’s Plan For Revenge
Victoria made a bold guess. “Mr Steele, are you also hoping Hailey Camden will marry Tyler Collins so that you can go and tell them someday you’re the president of Ace Corporation, and make Hailey Camden regret it when it’s already too late?”
Jordan suddenly stopped drinking his drink and looked at Victoria with surprise.
Victoria actually managed to guess the plan that Jordan had in mind!
Jordan nodded at Victoria with satisfaction. “Very smart of you! You’re indeed worthy of being my vice president.”
Victoria was elated. “Did I guess correctly?”
Jordan shook his head and said, “But I’m not going to do it after they get married. I’m going to do it on the day of their wedding!”
“I’m going to let Hailey Camden find out on the day that she marries a man whom she thinks is the wealthiest scion she can ever marry, that I’m the true megrich tycoon!”
“On that day, I will not only let Hailey Camden find out the truth. I am also going to inform all the people in the business industry in Orlando that I, Jordan Steele, the former live-in husband of Hailey Camden, am now the president of Ace Corporation and the richest man in Orlando!”
Victoria perked up immediately in agitation. She was thrilled to find that she had guessed correctly!
Jordan could have easily asked Hailey to go to Ace Corporation, where he would show her the shares transfer agreement and ask the entire staff to prove that he was the president.
However, he did not do so.
If he let Hailey learn of the truth now, he was 100% sure that she would throw herself at him again and beg for his forgiveness, given how reliant she had been on him in the past three years.
Although Jordan wouldn’t agree to get back together with her, the consequences that Hailey would bear would be too minor. She wouldn’t have to deal with the messy issues that would come with severing ties with Tyler.
What if he carried out the plan when Hailey had already married Tyler?
The matter would then become complicated!
If Hailey had already become Tyler’s wife, what would she do after learning of Jordan’s true identity?
Get divorced again at the expense of offending the Collins and then come crawling back to Jordan?
The price of doing that would be too high!
Jordan really wanted to know what choice Hailey would make when the day comes!
Jordan remained composed and said, “Before they get married, I want to be one of the richest people in Orlando as well as a restaurant magnate with monopoly in the restaurant industry. I also want to be in control of the entertainment industry and all other industries that I can take hold of.”
“I want to be the king of this city!”
The king of Orlando!
Victoria’s heart was racing. All these years, she had been looking for a domineering man like Jordan!
‘I want to be the queen of Orlando!’
Victoria secretly set a goal for herself too.
On the other hand, Ashley thought to herself, ‘I want to be Mr. Steele’s concubine!’
Bang! Bang!
Someone knocked on the door outside the room.
“Come in,” Jordan said.
The person who walked in was the restaurant manager. He walked towards Jordan with an electronic tablet in hand.
“Mr. Steele, I just watched the surveillance camera footage. The microphone used for the performance just now had been replaced by someone very likely to be a customer here. We’re now checking every single private room.”
Jordan said, “That’s not necessary. Just go straight to Rooms 422 and 501.”
Everyone froze in shock, wondering how Jordan knew that the guests in those two rooms were the culprits.
In fact, the customers outside those two rooms were the ones who tried to incite anger within the other customers by throwing things downstairs as soon as there was a slip-up in the performance.
Jordan guessed that they were the culprits.
Victoria once again looked at Jordan with reverence, in awe of his impressive memory.
Soon, the man caught stealing the microphone by the surveillance cameras was brought in.
“What did you bring me here for? I’m having some drinks with my buddies. Get straight to the point!”
The young man said impatiently with annoyance.
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