The Unveiling of Secret Queen

Chapter 896: Nathalie: Just One Acquaintance

This tone sounds oh so familiar!

Definitely more than just friends.

At least in Nathalie’s regard, Jaycent Kingsley’s status is not low.

Both Leonardy Zachmann and Mr. Zachmann watched in silence once again.

However, Nathalie didn’t show any particular emotion, treating the person before her as if they were just an ordinary person. She slipped her hand into her pocket, far more casual than when she was talking to Mr. Zachmann, and responded with a grunt, "I appreciate the thought, but no need for gifts."

After a pause, she added, "...I only invited you over for dinner because you said on the phone you were fine. If I’d known you were busy, I wouldn’t have asked you to make the trip."

Jaycent Kingsley chuckled again, speaking languidly, "I couldn’t miss your graduation banquet. How could I not come after hearing about it, no matter how busy!"

Nathalie Quinlan lifted her eyelids for a brief glance at him, her eyes extremely dark, then quickly averted her gaze, saying, "Whatever suits you."

She had only called Jaycent Kingsley because she received a call from Leonardy Zachmann saying no one was coming to the banquet. Flipping through her contacts, she remembered Jaycent was in Beijing and so she made the call.

Had she known that Amadeus Yancey would invite so many people, she probably wouldn’t have made that call.

But...

With a crooked smile, Nathalie tilted her cap with a rather roguish flair, "I’ll remember this favor!"

...

Not far away, Amadeus Yancey had just arrived.

As soon as he entered, he received a message from Brian Bonette.

It was just a short text.

[I saw Jaycent Kingsley, why is he here? Did you call him?]

Jaycent Kingsley...

He narrowed his eyes and pocketed his phone, remembering the phone call the girl in the car had made earlier. It seemed that the name she had called out was Jaycent Kingsley.

At that moment, he had thought it was just a coincidence of namesakes.

But now, seeing Brian’s message, it seemed the Jaycent Kingsley mentioned in the call was the same one known as the ’Domestic Warren Buffet’ of Beijing’s Stock Market.

Quite young.

And the Kingsleys Family wielded power in the Illegal Zone.

Nathalie Quinlan knew Jaycent Kingsley?

He didn’t stop walking, quickly spotting the individual he was looking for among the crowd and headed over...

Jaycent Kingsley had already left, and Nathalie was being introduced to some people by Mr. Zachmann; she had just freed up.

Finding a spot, she sat down irritably.

A voice suddenly addressed her, and the chair beside her was pulled out, "Someone saw Jaycent Kingsley attending your graduation banquet. Do you know him?"

Mr. Zachmann had also subtly asked her the same question in private, which she had vaguely brushed off.

But to Amadeus Yancey, she didn’t conceal much, "Mm, a friend."

"A member of Red Alliance?" Amadeus Yancey poured her a glass of water and placed it in front of her.

Nathalie Quinlan, feeling quite thirsty, picked up the glass and took a small sip before leisurely denying, "No, just a friend I know."

She just happened to dabble in stocks, and so did Jaycent Kingsley; one thing led to another and they got acquainted.

But in reality, they had rarely met.

Today was only their second encounter.

They weren’t especially close, but also not quite strangers, the kind of relationship where sharing a meal was acceptable.

Hearing her say he wasn’t from Red Alliance, Amadeus narrowed his eyes, his features shadowed, but he didn’t probe any further.

There were certainly more questions he could ask.

For instance, aside from the relations in the Illegal Zone, he couldn’t figure out how they could be connected.

One was a hacker, the other was into stocks.

Unless Jaycent Kingsley sought Nathalie Quinlan out to hack the stock market’s mainframe for insider trading, he honestly couldn’t think of any other point of intersection between the two.

Although Red Alliance operates within the Illegal Zone and wields power there, they have never engaged in illegal business – it would be impossible for Nathalie Quinlan to help Jaycent Kingsley hack the stock market’s mainframe.