(Chapter 47) Influential People

Ever so quickly, another month passed to the day of Francesca's birthday. Many influential people filled the venue for the night. Mr. Di Rui suddenly felt this was a great idea.

He was no idiot to realize that either Mrs. Tuhs was someone with a lot of influence, or money. The businessmen coming with their daughters and sons might be understandable. But world-renowned directors and actors? His daughter had found a great backer!

Mrs. Tuhs had arrived quite early. As she gave her congratulations to Francesca, she went to the side to wait for more people to arrive.

While not everyone could recognize her. The people that did were stunned. 'Volgader really is here!' These people had only received an invite to this girl's party from her. They didn't expect to see the legend here today...

Many rumors had floated about her appearance from the limelight. Some say she got married, some said she lost her beauty. Some believed that she even died! But looking at her now, the world-renowned directors all were burning with passion.

If Volgader was here. Would that mean she would return to acting? Or modeling? They had their questions, but they were going to wait until more people were around.

Francesca had been involved in a few parties and socialite meetings. But this was a lot of influential people all congratulating her. So she was slowly becoming quite tired and even slightly nervous. But when she spotted her friends. Her smile beamed.

"You guys made it! She enthusiastically greeted her friends. Most of the current guests noticed her loud voice and a beaming smile, so they decided to have a look at the guests who had come.

Two girls that seemed to be Francesca's age, a boy probably her age. And a man stood behind that boy.

Winoa dressed conservatively, wearing a green floral dress. Despite being simple, her happy demeanor immediately made her be labeled cute by the sons of the businessmen.

The boy was dressed in a navy suit. Despite looking slightly uncomfortable wearing it, it suited his personality well. The daughters weren't entranced by him though...

It was the man walking behind the three. It was like he was personally sculptured by god before being sent to earth. His classical black suit matched his cold face. While the girls were captivated by him. The boys and even the older men. Had their gaze on someone else...

Astrid was wearing a pale blue shoulder dress. She wore small heels and had some extremely expensive jewelry on her. But they were completely captivated by her face.

She was beautiful, even though she seemed to be the same age as Francesca, she completely attracted the eye of close to everyone. Her cold face with her sculptured chin and nose made her look cold. While her warm eyes and eyebrows made people turn their heads. While her figure suited the dress she was wearing.

"How could we be late birthday girl?" Winoa spoke with a chuckle as she hugged Francesca, she was beautiful today...

The birthday girl was extremely beautiful, but upon seeing Astrid look the way she did. She felt she wear a bin bag and people's heads would turn.

Astrid had a small amount of makeup on her. Just a tinge of rouge and lipstick. Nothing major, but that was enough to ensure that she would ruin a country when she was older...

Francesca glanced at the man behind them and was surprised. She had heard Leone talking about his brother like he was some god... She always thought he was exaggerating, but here he was.

"Happy birthday." Astrid's voice was quite emotionless. But Francesca knew her well enough the reason for that.

"Ah, happy birthday! I can't believe you are 16 before me!" Leone teased with a smile.

Francesca frowned. "What do you mean by that huh? Look at you! Brother this, brother that. How about you make a name for yourself huh?" Francesca responded with sass when it came to Leone.

Leone pouted and stayed quiet. He had been exposed, maybe his brother behind him will say something...

"You are a good friend to my younger cousin. So I've come to offer my thanks." Lewis said with a slight smile.

The girls at the party were dazed. They were mainly the same age or slightly older than Francesca, so there were ready to experience teenage love...

Francesca became a little embarrassed. "It's nothing, he is stupid enough to earn Astrid's pity." Francesca had developed an immunity to good-looking men mainly because of her intensive training with Mrs. Tuhs. But the man was still thanking her with a smile, making her nervous.

Lewis shook his head lightly. "Alright, enjoy yourselves then." He left them, he wasn't someone built to walk around teenagers all day.

Now, you might be asking why Lewis was here on this day? The reason was quite simple.

He went into the corner and kept an eye on the 'friend' of his younger cousin. The girl had been bothering him ever since he first saw her...

He believed it was no coincidence that the same night of meeting her, his computer was hacked! Luckily he paid a lot of attention to online security, so he managed to counter-attack. Finding the IP of the person who had attacked him.

He then connected the dots. If it were anyone else he would have labeled them an enemy. But he remembered what happened earlier in the day. And decided not to act.

To his surprise. It turned out she didn't give up! She had hacked him again a few months ago! He only knew this because he had noticed the speed of hacking was much improved from before. And the only person that could even be close to matching her, would be him...

But she overpowered him. For the first time in his life he felt someone was better than him! But then he calmed down after knowing she didn't do anything.

Instead, he sat at his computer chuckling that night. The little girl had hacked him to show him how much she had improved! He had been touted as a genius most of his life. But the level of improvement she had shown was ungodly.

So he decided to keep an eye on her, not investigating. But watching her actions. He now was intrigued by the girl. And wanted to know how much she could impress him...

But Leone saw his look as something else. A burning desire. His brother had never even glanced at a woman, he might be respectful at times. But he only smiled at Francesca because people didn't know his identity here!

As half of the venue was entranced by the looks of Astrid and Lewis. The other half were left stunned.

'That! Doesn't she look like Volgader!?' The world renowned directors, A list actors, golden managers. All of them were left comparing the two.

Astrid's face was made from the same mold as Mrs. Tuhs' she also was deceptively tall. As she was close to 5 foot 10 inches with heels, despite being young. Her body type was also an hourglass figure similar to her mother. Her hair was also the same blonde color, while she had different colored eyes. She might as well be a copy of Volgader!

But Astrid never reacted as she made eye contact with Mrs. Tuhs, neither did she. They were truly good at acting...

Francesca and Winoa both observed, they were afraid that Mrs. Tuhs might crack some emotion. But it seemed they were horrendously wrong. Mrs. Tuhs seemed to have not seen everyone staring at her daughter and comparing them.

Lewis was an intelligent man. He could immediately sense something going on. He found out that he couldn't investigate into Astrid's background without some serious backlash. He also did try a background check in the dark, the men all said similar things.

"We can only find out that the girl is meant to be ill, she apparently is the target of many organizations in the dark. They wish for her to be captured alive."

He had been thinking about those reports for months. Something was incredibly wrong within Astrid's family. He wanted to find out more, but was blocked by some government officials he knew.

The party then officially started. With Mr. Di Rui giving a speech about his daughter. And then Mrs. Tuhs following up...

"I'm sure that some of the people in this room today has noticed something. Why would I suddenly reappear? You may know that I have been away from the limelight for close to 20 years now. But I am proud to say, that Francesca here. Is my pupil." Mrs. Tuhs gave her speech.

Most of the younger members had no idea who Volgader was. But the entertainment industry never forgot. Those directors now all looked at Francesca with burning eyes.

'Pupil of the acclaimed Volgader!? Will she be the next movie queen? Will she be taking the country away by a storm in the next ten years?' The people related to the entertainment industry all then decided to connect to Francesca now, while they had the opportunity.

As Mrs. Tuhs finished her speech. Francesca looked at her with surprise. She could hear some of the murmurs. So it turns out she was the legendary Volgader! Her idol!

In the corner sat Mr. Tuhs. He had been invited because of his connections to Mr. Di Rui's business. He found it funny that all members of his family were invited to this birthday party, but all for different reasons. They weren't even treated as a family.

Astrid also was invited based on her now positon President of Hanxi. Of course, the President would never come in person. Mr. Di Rui knew that, but he was still surprised and honored to see Mr. Wu's representative!

Of course, he expected to see Mr. Wu, as he was the 'President' to people's knowledge. Since they had seen Mr. Tuhs speaking to the man about the shares.