As the clock struck eight o'clock, the dinner began.

The protagonist of tonight, the beautiful and beautiful Miss Grace, slowly walked down from the second floor under the service of the servants, carrying the corners of her skirt, under the eyes of countless admiration.

She wore a crisp white evening gown with a high collar that revealed a delicate collarbone and a small patch of pink snow-white, and above her collarbone was a chin as round as an egg.

She strolled around, with an innate nobility, and her sparkling eyes shimmered like jewels stained with droplets, shining with an unforgettable light.

"I haven't seen each other for a few years, but Grace is getting more and more beautiful."

Phoebe took a sip of red wine and sighed,

John nodded, "In terms of appearance alone, she ranks in the top fifty of all the women I've seen. ”

"Former ...... Fifty? ”

Phoebe was amazed, this data was too different from his inner judgment, and asked, "Who is number one?" ”

John put down his glass, smiled and said nothing,

"Let's go, it's time to say hello to this junior sister."

"There are so many people around her, how can she squeeze through."

"No need to squeeze, she will naturally call us to her side when she sees us." John affirmed,

Phoebe frowned, unable to figure out how he could have such a judgment.

John smiled and looked at Grace, who was surrounded by young people and looked around like a frightened duck. Louis, smiling,

"She needs a shield, and is there a better person to act as a shield than the two of us on such an occasion?"

The two walked over, and the situation was exactly as John expected, and the first time he saw the two of them, Grace's eyes instantly lit up, and beckoned to them from a distance to let them pass.

John smiled slightly, "How?" ”

"Awesome!"

Phoebe cocked her thumbs up and was convinced.

The two walked up to Grace along the path where the crowd separated, and under the countless scrutinizing eyes, they stepped forward and hugged her gently.

"Grace, long time no see."

"It's great that you're here."

With a smile on her face, Grace pulled them to introduce to the people around her,

"Phoebe M. J. Leochs, my senior, a well-known barrister in Memphis, I won't introduce much more than everyone knows, as for the one on the right. ”

As she spoke, she turned to look at John, and a trace of complicated emotions flashed in her watery eyes,

"John Condon, from Condon Manor, Mississippi, is a talented young painter and an alumnus of mine."

"Everybody welcomes them."

Grace opened her hand, and there was a sparse round of applause from the crowd.

Looking at the scrutiny that turned into hostile gazes around her, Phoebe was really speechless, knowing that she wouldn't be attending this dinner tonight.

"Can you talk to me?" Gray smiled and invited,

"Of course! It is our pleasure. ”

Before Phoebe could speak, John agreed.

With John and the others by his side, the young men who had been around Grace were not easy to intervene again, and they gathered together in twos and threes, talking and laughing not far away, glancing at this side with a meaningful gaze from time to time.

John took a glass of red wine from the squire's hand and handed it to Grace, and said with a smile,

"What's the matter, our two shields are incompetent?"

Grace nodded, pursed her lips and smiled,

"So far, it's not bad."

Phoebe on the side sighed and said helplessly, "You two are really ......"

"What is it?" Grace wondered,

"The same cunning."

Cluck!

Grace laughed briskly, and the sweet laughter spread far and wide, causing the young man staring at this side to look ugly for a while,

"That's it! My Miss Grace, you'd better be restrained! ”

John pointed to the young men around him, and said helplessly,

"If you keep laughing like this, we won't want to go home tonight."

"Then don't go back, there are empty rooms in the villa."

John shrugged, "I don't care, but ......" he winked at Phoebe and teased, "the barrister is different, he doesn't dare spend the night with women now." ”

Grace looked puzzled and looked at Phoebe suspiciously.

Phoebe glared at John and said,

"I have a fiancée."

Hey?

Grace paused for a moment, and was about to open her mouth to ask, when suddenly there was a noise mixed with exclamations in the distance.

"Wow, what a beautiful woman."

"It's like a goddess."

"With beautiful curves and a compelling temperament, she is simply a contemporary princess Helen."

"No, even Princess Helen doesn't have her beauty."

"Who is she? Is it from Memphis? How I've never seen one. ”

The admiration came and went, and the people who had been paying attention to this side were also affected, and they unconsciously looked over there, and then, a pair of eyes seemed to be attracted by a magnet and the iron filings could no longer be removed.

"What a beautiful woman, which noble lady is this?"

The atmosphere suddenly became weird, and everyone's eyes were looking there, and Grace couldn't help but be a little embarrassed.

This banquet was specially prepared for her, and she was the queen of the ball, but now she was robbed of the limelight by a foreign woman, which really made her the host unable to get off the stage.

"I'm going to see this so-called goddess."

Grace whispered, and without waiting for the two of them to answer, she walked straight out.

John and Phoebe looked at each other and smiled,

"The eldest lady is angry?"

"I see."

Phoebe tidied up her collar and said a little impatiently,

"Let's go, let's also go and meet this beautiful woman who caused a sensation as soon as she appeared."

"Whatever you want."

John shrugged, not much interest, he was a pure teenager who had experienced the bombardment of various Internet celebrity faces in the 21st century, not these aristocratic young masters who lived in Memphis City and only had a radius of dozens of miles as far as the eye could see, what kind of beauty he had never seen.

However, when he squeezed out of the crowd and saw the woman who was surrounded by everyone and exuded a peerless demeanor, his eyes widened, and the wine glass in his hand snapped and fell to the ground.

"It's... Be... Be... She. ”

Rumble!

John felt like his chest was about to explode, his eyes flickering violently, and the blue light in the pupil of his left eye seemed to bubble out uncontrollably.

In the back of his mind, the quiet Zero screamed frantically, constantly warning John.

"Shut up!"

John screamed angrily in his heart, a trace of abnormal flush drifted across his face, and he inhaled sharply, his chest rising and falling like a bellows, but fortunately, all eyes around him were focused on the woman, and no one noticed his abnormality.

Finica, the Blood Dragon Maiden, a legendary vampire who has passed the age of two thousand, why is she here, is she here to seek revenge on me?

John's head spun rapidly, then shook his head, rejecting the hypothesis.

"No, it shouldn't be, if she wants to seek revenge on me, she will act a long time ago, and she won't wait until now."

"Master, I can't stay here anymore." Zero shouted,

"I know."

John crouched, squeezed out of the crowd, and walked out without a trace.

Unfortunately, just as he was about to walk out of the side door, Finica in the center of the hall suddenly turned around and stared straight at John through the crowd.