Oliver's Substitute Bride (Oliver and Jessica)
Chapter 22

There were only her and Jessica last time, and Jessica didn't notice thatit was her who deliberately locked Jessica into the storage room. Today,she didn't even have to do it herself. She just needed to say a fewwords and Jessica could offend those rich girls. Catherine sneeredsecretly and returned to normal

Catherine looked at Jessica as if they were close. "Ladies, let meintroduce her to you. This is my colleague, Jessica. She is pretty andoutstanding. Although she is new here, she’s highly valued by ourpresident. If you want to know more about our president, you can askJessica. Don't underestimate her."

Jessica hated Catherine to say so. She just smiled and said. "Don't youwant to enjoy those beautiful paintings? I'll give you a tour of theexhibition hall.”

A lady named Zelda said, "Miss White is so beautiful. It's a pity to workas a guide.”

Jessica smiled and said, "Thank you. Pretty face couldn't earn money. Ihave to work hard to support myself."

As they were talking, a waiter came over with red wine.

Catherine said, "Ladies, let's enjoy the painting while tasting the wine.”Everyone had a glass of wine in their hands, and Jessica led them all theway.

Suddenly, Zelda accidentally stepped on Alice's dress. The red wine inAlice's hand spilled on her own dress. This dress was customized inFrance, and Alice wanted to dazzle Oliver with this dress. Before shecould say hello to Oliver, her dress was dirty, and even her good moodwas ruined. She looked especially gloomy.

Zelda looked at the particularly eye-catching dark red wine stains onAlice's sky-blue dress and knew that she had pissed Alice off. Shewhispered in her ear, "It's Jessica. She must be jealous, so shedeliberately stepped on your dress to make you look bad."

After hearing Catherine's introduction just now, Alice knew that Jessicawas not easy to deal with. Her face was terribly pretty. This poor womancould be favored by Oliver, so it seemed that she was very clever.

Alice turned around to exchange her wine with Zelda and raised herhand, trying to pour red wine on Jessica's face.

Jessica was on guard when she heard how Catherine introduced her tothem. She found that Alice's eyes were full of hatred to her andimmediately understood what she was going to do. She subconsciouslygrabbed Alice's arm.

Alice was furious and shouted. "How dare you. Let go of me."

Jessica looked into her eyes and said seriously, "Miss Zamani, I didn'tstep on your dress. You shouldn't waste your red wine on me."

While they were confronting, Catherine whispered, "Mr. President ishere."

Alice leaned forward to Jessica and poured a glass of red wine onto ascroll of landscape painting hanging next to them.

Jessica immediately let go of her hand. She did not expect Alice todestroy the painting in front of so many people. If this were to spread,no one would be willing to put their work in the Williams Groupexhibition.

Jessica said, "Miss Zamani, you're really going too far."

The people around them were all dumbfounded.

Then they heard a delicate voice calling, "Oliver". Alice ran to Oliverwith her dress raised.

In Oliver's memory, Alice was like his little sister. He did not expect thatshe had grown up to be a beautiful woman after so many years that hehad not seen her.

"Alice, here you are.”

"Oliver, your favorite employee spilled red wine all over me.” As Alicespoke, her eyes turned to Jessica.

Jessica heard this clearly and said, "Mr. Williams, I didn't do it. Youshould have seen what happened just now. Miss Zamani spilled redwine on the painting. I just checked. This painting happens to belong toMr. Lambert. Please inform him in time. The painting may be savednow. It won't be good if the wine is dry later.”

When Oliver heard from Jessica it was Lambert's painting, he was evenmore indifferent.

Alice saw that Oliver didn't fancy this woman at all. She said with anaggrieved face, "Oliver, she deliberately held my hand to pour the wineon the painting and wanted me to take the blame.”

Oliver looked at Jessica with a cold look in his eyes and opened his lips,"You did a terrible job."

"You..."

Jessica was speechless.

"You motherf*cker! Pathetic jerk! F*ck you! Both of you!"

Jessica thought she was a good quality woman, but she really couldn'tcontrol herself anytime when she saw Oliver's stupid face.

This stupid man was unreasonable in front of the beautiful woman. "Mr.Williams, there are surveillance cameras here. Please take a look at thesurveillance footage.”

Seeing that something was wrong, Catherine sneaked out andcontacted Lambert to see how badly Jessica had destroyed his painting.Oliver said, "Seeing is not believing, not to mention there is a blind spotin the surveillance.”

"So, Mr. Williams thinks I set up Miss Zamani?"

Oliver did not answer Jessica's question.

"You are too pathetic, Mr. Williams." Jessica finally spoke out what shewanted to say, well, in a polite way. Her words made Oliver completelyshocked.

While Alice and the others were going to give this stubborn silly girl ahard time.

After all, she was the First Young Lady of the Zamani Family. Althoughshe didn't draw paintings, she had been exposed to them since she wasa little girl, so she had good eyes. She deliberately splashed thispainting on this one because it looked better and more expensive."How dare you say that? You have to compensate it." Alice motionedfor Zelda to take a photo as evidence.

Zelda said, "She is poor. She can't afford to pay for this painting even ifshe sells herself."

After a while, Lambert came in. Seeing that his painting which he hadbeen painting for almost a year was ruined, he felt heartbroken. Hecherished this painting very much. Though he had always been modestand gentle, he wore a gloomy expression instantly.

Lambert had heard what Catherine said just now. Looking at the peoplearound, he roughly understood.

Sally came at this time. She was the curator of the art exhibitiontonight. Just now, she was busy entertaining her artist friends. Whenshe heard that something happened, she also came to check.

She found that the scene was awkward. To lighten up the atmosphere,she smiled and said to Alice, "Hi, Miss Zamani. If you want to see the artexhibition. I can accompany you."

"Sally, you're here just in time. Let's see how to deal with the woman.”"I'll take care of it. You can go change first." At a glance, Sally saw thatAlice's clothes got dirty.

Seemingly, Alice was waiting for a good show, so she didn't want toleave.

Since Lambert was here, Jessica didn't want to talk to them anymore.She said to Lambert, "Mr. Williams, let's save the painting first."Lambert didn't say anything. Instead, he reached out to take thepainting off.

Fortunately, his landscape painting was painted on high-quality artpaper and it was a piece of meticulous landscape. The high-quality artpaper would not break even if it was washed with water.

His drawing tools were in the hotel room. Before the wine stainsbecame dry, he quickly washed it so it could restore its originalappearance.

Lambert took the painting out of the hall.

Jessica followed, "Mr. Williams, let me help you."

No matter what, she was a staff member and she was not blameless.They watched Lambert and Jessica leave, with subtle expressions ontheir faces.