novelraw Chapter 493: The Nine-Level Banquet
Chapter 493: The Nine-Level Banquet
They actually managed to secretly record the ninth-floor banquet, that’s incredible!"Gale Network’s online live broadcast." As he spoke, the staff member mentioned the name of the site.
The guests, upon hearing this, realized it was from a media outlet, a professional one at that.
The revelation of Gale Network’s name immediately drew complex looks from their peers, a mix of envy and jealousy.
The leader of Gale Network, who was on-site with the team, unhappily asked his colleagues nearby, "What’s up with him? Didn’t he say he had a stomachache? Why did he go and film secretly? Such a lack of organization and discipline! It’s outrageous!"
The reprimand from Gale Network’s leader was met with disdainful glances from other media. Who would believe such nonsense? Would a reporter dare to act alone without the leader’s approval?
Of course, disdain aside, other media outlets strongly resented it. Why weren’t they the ones who discovered what was happening on the ninth floor and sent their people to film it?
With this video, the website’s hit rate will definitely shoot up.
The first website that obtained James Reed’s engagement party’s live broadcast rights had been cursing internally. Originally, they were supposed to be the biggest beneficiaries; tonight’s traffic should have made their site explode. However, with this undercover footage... it was all for nothing today.
All of their spotlight had been stolen!
The media’s intentions at the engagement party weren’t the concern of the guests; they just wanted to see what was really going on with the ninth-floor banquet through the live broadcast.
As the undercover footage rolled, everyone saw that it was just an ordinary banquet hall, with no special decorations.
It wasn’t a Western-style cocktail party at all, but rather a Chinese banquet. A wide pathway connected the high platform and the banquet hall’s main door, with only a few round tables neatly arranged on either side.
The key issue was that those round tables didn’t even have tablecloths, let alone flowers on display, and looked embarrassingly bare.
The ninth floor wasn’t quite the grand and luxurious place people imagined it to be, was it?
Wasn’t the difference a bit too big?
The public didn’t have time to let their doubts ferment because they were stunned by the sight of guests caught in the secretly recorded footage.
Isn’t that person often appearing on TV news? Oh, that one is a regular on financial news, and that one over there...
The undercover lens casually swung around, capturing several influential figures. The crucial part was that maybe the filming angle wasn’t great afterward, and they couldn’t capture the guests’ faces, only up to the waist.
But even such a secretly recorded broadcast didn’t leave everyone regretful, because they just saw those big figures eagerly chatting with others.
They couldn’t see the facial expressions, were too far away, and the voices were not very clear, but from the gestures and body language, it was evident that those big figures respected the people they were talking to.
Therefore... the status of those people who couldn’t be captured in the back... is beyond words.
Guests of the engagement party collectively gasped; no wonder they said the ninth floor was not open to the public.
The people attending the banquet were those they’d usually struggle to even befriend.
And yet, an event they couldn’t even reach, Old Master Seymour was actually able to attend.
Ethan and his family received invitations too, but they turned them down for James Reed’s engagement party.
Should one say the Seymour Family is too faithful to their word, or are they just too foolish?
How could they even think about turning down such an opportunity?