A Beautiful Misunderstanding

"Are you deliberately trying to humiliate my wife?" Zac leaned over and whispered to Mary's ear with restrained anger.

"What are you talking about? I asked her before we arrived here and she said she knew how to play the piano." Casting him a stare, Mary said in a sharp tone, "The daughter-in-law of the Rong family is very popular and behaves very well at any parties of celebrities. Do you want an exception for her?"

"No other woman could ever compare with my wife." Zac took Essie's hand while he stared into her eyes and murmured, "I'll play with you."

There was a subtle smile on her face and she said nonchalantly, "There's no need for that. Could I play just any song?"

"If you really don't know how to play, you could just go and play 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star'," Valery burst out with a huge contemptuous smile plastered on her face. In that moment she could already imagine how Essie would make a fool of herself in front of the audience. 'Mommy is so clever. Essie will be the laughing stock of the whole high class societies by tomorrow. Too bad for her, she won't be able to show herself to the public after this,' Valery thought to herself with her lips curling into a sinister grin.

Essie couldn't even bother to respond to her, as if the words went straight out to her other ear.

She walked with elegance to the stage, and she had a calm and graceful demeanor.

Mary was surprised at the sight of her composure as she went to the front.

"I will now begin my performance," Essie said with a smile that made her look like a blooming lotus.

When the sound rang from the piano, the whole banquet hall settled down into silence.

Both Mary and Valery's faces contorted into a revolted expression at the same time.

Essie played a piece called 'Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op.30' composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff, which was considered one of the ten most challenging piano concertos in the standard classical piano repertoire. It was one of the pieces that famous pianists would play to show off their technical skills.

Besides that, the section of the piece that Essie played was the most difficult part.

Her fingers moved with whimsical exuberance along the keys. The series of running notes ran around like ten thousand horses galloping in a desolate field, majestic and powerful. It could also be compared to a waterfall gushing into river, shocking everyone in the audience.

A loud and rapturous applause burst out from the audiences in the banquet hall.

Zac himself was also shocked as he watched his wife on stage.

His little fool was not only a skilled and excellent golf player, but was also talented and masterful in playing the piano.

He wondered how many more secrets he would discover from her.

"Sister-in-law is remarkable! I can't even properly play this concerto until now." Ivy gawked at Essie's figure with praise and admiration.

"I also failed to complete this piece as I found it too difficult. Never thought that sister-in-law would be so good at playing," interjected Daisy, who was also overwhelmed with astonishment.

Valery watched with hard staring eyes as anger brewed inside her soul. She started to get dizzy and felt like she was about to faint. It felt like she had come from the moon and had fallen into the bottom of the Great Rift Valley. In this moment, Valery was reminded of her childhood nemesis, Cathy, who could master the world's top ten piano concertos. In their youth, she would catch everyone's attention by playing different challenging piano pieces, and would leave Valery completely invisible to everyone.

She had always hated Cathy so much that she cursed her a hundred times every night before she went to bed.

Essie was like an exact replica of Cathy, who had always cast a huge shadow on her.

background, she was completely outperformed by Essie in every other

lips trembled. It seemed as though she was inflicted by the cunning fox. Her plan was to initially humiliate her, so that her two sons would lose interest in her and mock her instead. She didn't expect that she would end up making a fool of herself. She turned back her head to look at Walt, who didn't even spend a single second taking his eyes off Essie. It appeared as though his soul had completely been sucked

This turned out to be a mistake,' Mary thought with

the keys to the bass, just right

was

a thunderous applause and a standing ovation

a hostess of the Rong family

the Rong family would take an interest on her, she

socialites all

an elegant curtsy, she yelled while waving her hand,

next to Zac, he held her into his arms and gave her a passionate kiss. In his eyes, it was only her shadow that could be seen. She was the only woman in the world who could catch his attention, and the glamour of his

with envy

Walt's core. He turned his head away immediately, not wanting to see such an agonizing scene. When Mary noticed

family is screwed! Both my sons would end up hurting each other because of this one

Dragon City, but in the whole country. If you fancy

what if I choose a girl but you don't like

this, but understood what he had

would do. If there wasn't a suitable girl from Dragon City, she would go out of her way to help him choose one from all over the country. If not, she would not think twice about scouring

at Walt with eagerness and anticipation, hoping that they would be chosen to

shifting his gaze towards the women around him, when his eyes finally fell on a sweet and

looked up straight into his eyes, and she

out his hand. The woman smiled and took his hand. Everyone else found themselves a suitable partner and followed them into the

chairs as they watched everyone. They had no interest to go out to dance

to Mary throughout the night. Both of them were still distressed from Essie's performance,

was already dancing with Essie on the

that you have an IQ over 160 after seeing that performance," he whispered softly to her while he gazed longingly at her without wasting a single moment blinking. His deep eyes shone

said Essie

eyes, you will always still be my muddleheaded fool," he teasingly said with

she asked with discontent. It

to the short circuit. So you can be baffling at times." A charming smile

if that was really

it really just her who experienced

and asked, "Don't you ever experience a

with you." A subtle, mysterious smile appeared on his face. Ever since they met, Zac would easily go out of control, and his mood had been erratic. He would go from feeling happy to feeling angry and sorrowful. He had always been an indifferent

emotion. When they first met, he was instantly pulled by her magnetic forces and had become her

you really infect someone with your short circuits?" she asked, wrinkling her

replied pursing his lips together

out of my way to infect you so that you could make a fool out of yourself." She made a

doesn't matter to me if I look like a fool in front of everyone, as long as I have you by my side." He lowered his head and faced towards a different direction, then, he suddenly pulled her by the waist and dragged her out