Suddenly, the waiter lost his balance, and the plate was knocked over. The cocktail splashed on the tie.

All of a sudden, it was dyed with the colorful juice, and was completely ruined.

This movement caused the woman who was holding the tie to scream.

"It’s none of my business."

As she spoke, she threw the tie on the ground in disgust.

Janice stood there, with her hands clenched into fists.

She didn’t want to argue with them. After all, today was her father’s birthday. No matter how much she disliked them, she didn’t want to make trouble at this time.

However, she had never imagined that they would be so unscrupulous to humiliate her like this.

Especially Vanessa, who had done it on purpose.

"She had clearly seen this bag in the mall yesterday. It was obvious that she wanted to make a fool of me."

Janice couldn’t stand it anymore.

"Vanessa, you did that on purpose, didn’t you?"

Janice looked her dead in the eyes.

Everyone was stunned.

Vanessa had been waiting for Janice’s anger for a long time. At this time, she quickly seized the opportunity and pretended to be scared. She said in a weak voice, "Sister, I didn’t mean it."

As she spoke, she stood behind Gladys, as if she was too delicate to address her directly.

Gladys comforted Vanessa for a while and then said, "Janice, your sister didn’t do it on purpose. Don’t be so mean to her."

"Yes, yes, Vanessa didn’t mean it."

As soon as Gladys spoke, her friends also spoke for her.

Janice glared across everyone’s face.

"And you, I know all of you dislike me."

Janice gritted her teeth.

Upon hearing Janice’s retort, those women all stopped talking.

At this time, Malcolm heard the noise. He quickly said goodbye to his friends and walked forward.

"What’s going on?"

Malcolm’s eyes swept around and finally fell on Janice, who was in a T-shirt and jeans. He immediately frowned.

"Why are you wearing this today?"

Janice was already very annoyed by being ridiculed, so she couldn’t stand it when she heard Malcolm’s words.

No one had informed her about the dress code this evening, so how was she to know?

Why was everyone blaming her now?

Before she could speak, Vanessa said, "Dad, don’t blame my sister. She bought a gift for you."

As Vanessa spoke, she bent down and picked up the tie, which had been stained with various colors. She handed it to Malcolm while saying, "Although it’s dirty now, it’s the thought that counts. You know, her monthly salary is modest and she has to support her husband too."

As Vanessa spoke, she even wiped away some perfectly timed tears.

Seeing this, Gladys also said, "Yes, Malcolm, don’t blame Janice. She lives a hard life. She only has a modest salary and has to support a family."

Gladys’s voice was loud enough to be heard by the people around her.

All of a sudden, everyone began to talk about it.

Malcolm’s face took on a ghastly expression. He had always been angry that his daughter would marry such a useless man who needed financial support.

...

He cared about his reputation very much. At now, when he heard the discussion around him, he felt even more embarrassed.

Besides, it was his birthday party today.

Thinking of this, Malcolm grew angrier. He looked around but didn’t see Christopher. Then he angrily asked, "Where is he?"

Janice knew that her father was referring to Christopher.

At this moment, she didn’t want to explain at all. All of them despised Christopher because they thought he was poor.

However, they didn’t know how affluent he was.

Janice found these people were really ridiculous.

Even so, she didn’t want to explain. After all, she and Christopher were about to divorce. She didn’t want to take advantage of his identity to gain fame.

She didn’t care about profit that much. Thinking of this, she said, "He’s busy today."

"Nothing is more important than his father -in-law’s birthday. Besides, he is just a vagrant. What is he SO busy with? He just doesn’t have his priorities in line."

Malcolm snorted.

Janice couldn’t stand it.

"Not put heart? I really put my heart into your birthday. However, all of you just want to laugh at me. Who really cares about my feelings?"

Malcolm didn’t expect Janice to rebuke him in public. He was embarrassed and said angrily, "You’re talking nonsense! Who wants to laugh at you? I see, you came to make trouble on purpose."

Hearing Malcolm’s words, Janice smiled.

He had never protected her since she was a child. She was always bullied by her stepmother and sister.

As her father, he had never done anything for her.

Sometimes, she thought that if he had defended for her just once, even one word, they wouldn’t have been so rampant.

However, he had never done this before.

Janice felt upset.

She even regretted coming. She knew that she would be treated like this, but she

still came. It was really her fault.

She said sadly, "I’ve delivered the gift. I’ll be leaving now."

After that, she walked toward the door.

As soon as she arrived at the entrance of the banquet hall, she met with Rob Hanson.

Rob stopped her. "Ms. Gladwell."

Seeing that it was Rob Hanson, Janice asked in surprise, "Why are you here?"

Rob answered, "Mr. Bateman asked me to send the gifts over first."

As he spoke, Rob stood aside and let his men to carry the items in one by one.

Janice subconsciously took a look at the things. All seemed magnificent, but she didn’t know what they were.

However, that was not the point. The point was that Christopher asked him to send them over.

As she was about to ask Rob to move back, someone in the hall heard the noise and came out.

Malcolm walked over and looked at Rob, saying, "Sir, these are..."

Rob knew Malcolm. After all, he had investigated him before.

He looked at Janice. After all, these things belonged to her. It was better to let her explain.

Therefore, Rob did not answer him.

Malcolm felt awkward because he was ignored. Then he turned to ask Janice, but his tone was not very good.

"What’s going on?"

Hearing her father’s tone, Janice said directly to Rob, "No need. Move them back."

After that, under the surprised gaze of Malcolm, she turned to walk out. However, as soon as she reached the entrance, she bumped into someone.

...

A familiar voice came from above her head. "What’s up? Why are you leaving? I just arrived."

Upon hearing this familiar voice, Janice looked up and saw Christopher standing in front of her.

"Why is he here?" Janice thought.

She had thought that he just asked Rob to send gifts. She didn’t expect to see him here.

However, at this moment, the one person Janice didn’t want to see was Christopher.

She didn’t want Christopher to see that she was an unpopular person here. Although he might know, she still didn’t want to be seen to look embarrassed.

She said, "Why are you here?"

Christopher looked at her. "Today is my father-in-law’s birthday. How can I not come?"

As he spoke, he looked at Malcolm.

Malcolm also saw him.

He was already dissatisfied with this son-in-law. Therefore, when he saw him, he was about to scold him.

"Weren’t you busy to come?"

Christopher glanced at Janice. He knew that these must be said by Janice.

He said, "I was busy with something before."

However, Malcolm sneered, "If you don’t want to come, then don’t come. Don’t find an excuse."

Malcolm’s tone was petulant.

Janice couldn’t stand him anymore. She could tolerate her father treating her like this. But he couldn’t treat Christopher like this.

Besides, unlike her, Christopher didn’t owe him anything. On the contrary, he had secretly helped the Gladwell Group.

How could he say that?

"Dad, when he didn’t come, you said he didn’t have his priorities in line. Now he’s here, and you say he’s looking for an excuse. What do you want him to do?"

Janice asked bluntly.

"You..."

Malcolm couldn’t answer her question. He just felt awkward in front of the guests and wanted to vent his anger.

Of course, he would never admit it.

In order to hide his thoughts, Malcolm raised his hand and was about to discipline her, but was stopped in the air.

The person who stopped him was Christopher.

Seeing this, Malcolm said angrily, "Let go of me."

Christopher remained unmoved.

Malcolm struggled, but he was not as strong as the young man.

He said angrily, "It’s none of your business. I am teaching my daughter a lesson!"

"She’s your daughter, and she’s my wife!" Christopher’s face was expressionless, but his words were cold.

Even Malcolm couldn’t help but feel a little scared. However, he was his father-in-law, and he would never allow the younger man to treat him so rudely.

"So this is how you treat your father?" Malcolm questioned Janice.

Janice found it ridiculous. The moment Malcolm raised his hand, her heart went cold.

She just asked him a question but he was going to hit her. Maybe he had wanted to hit her for a long time, but he was afraid of losing face because there were too many people.

Thinking of this, she looked at Christopher.

"Christopher, let him hit me, as he wished."

Janice’s eyes turned red.

Christopher did not let go of Malcolm. Instead, he reached out with his other hand and held her in his arms.

"As long as I’m here, no one can hurt you."

As he said that, he withdrew his hand. Malcolm lost his balance and almost fell down.

"You... you..."