The Headline Queen: President Hawthorne is Her Die-Hard Fan! Chapter 181: Sulfuric Acid

The more people talk about her shortcomings, the more she wants to hold her head high in public, so at least others can see she has a clear conscience.

As they reached the doorway, however, they were stopped by soone who said the venue was booked by the Xavier Family today, and they couldn’t go in.

Because today is the birthday of the Xavier family’s eldest daughter, Sumr Xavier.

Mona Wright complained, "Why didn’t she invite us to her birthday?"

Without needing Skylar Hughes to reply, she continued herself, "Sumr has always had a good relationship with Paige Sterling. Because of Paige, Sumr probably looks down on us. God knows what kind of spell Paige has put on them."

Skylar Hughes chuckled and said to the staff, "I know the people inside, and Miss Xavier is also my friend. It’s nothing if I go in."

The staff replied, "Miss Xavier specifically said, no uninvited guests today, sorry."

Mona Wright widened her eyes, "Uninvited guests? Do you know who she is? Dare to call her an uninvited guest?"

The staff’s expression was aningful, "I know Miss Hughes; there are photos of her online."

Skylar Hughes is famous now; who doesn’t know her?

Not ntioning the internet was fine, but upon ntioning, Skylar’s face turned stiff.

Skylar quickly composed herself, laughing helplessly, "I just wanted to join in the fun for Miss Xavier’s birthday, but if that’s not possible, let’s leave first."

Mona had no choice but to give up.

At this mont, Angus Langdon walked up and asked the staff, "What’s going on?"

The staff quickly said, "These ladies claim to know Miss Xavier and want to go in, but they don’t have an invitation."

Skylar smiled at Angus, "Young Master Langdon."

Angus had a pretty good impression of Skylar; everybody said she sched against Paige, but he hadn’t seen it.

Knowing Paige’s personality, perhaps Skylar was too weak and got bullied by her.

Angus glanced over at Paige, then told the staff, "They’re acquaintances, let them in."

Angus was close friends with the Xavier Family, so the staff naturally didn’t dare to stop them.

Thus, Skylar and her group entered the venue.

Sumr Xavier saw Skylar and her group, her expression soured, and she glared at Angus.

"Angus, what do you an by this?"

Angus said, "Don’t you like lively gatherings? The more people, the livelier it is."

Sumr was stuck between frustration and irritation, feeling like Angus was deliberately causing trouble. She liked lively parties, but not with people she disliked.

Yet, rembering it was her birthday today, she thought she should be happy, and just ignore these people.

Sumr walked away.

Skylar wasn’t afraid of awkwardness, acting as if she didn’t notice the strange looks cast in her direction.

She scanned the room but discovered Paige was nowhere to be seen.

At this mont, Paige was tucked in a quiet corner making a phone call to Julian Hawthorne.

Such occasions were clearly unsuitable for Julian, given his condition; Paige usually never brought him to these events, fearing that too many people would make it difficult to control the situation, possibly injuring Julian.

But she couldn’t possibly miss Sumr’s birthday.

Mr. Hawthorne was alone at ho, probably feeling a bit lonely.

Paige called to comfort him.

Mr. Hawthorne on the other end sounded pitiful, "The bed is cold."

Paige rubbed her nose, "Why don’t you turn on the air conditioner?"

Julian said, "I’ve recently developed an allergy to air conditioning."

He asked, "When are you coming back?"

"The party should be ending soon, and I’ll be back then."

Her tone was comforting, successfully cheering up Mr. Hawthorne a bit, "I’m waiting for you."

After thinking a bit, he added, "Sonny Chambers is also waiting for you, so co back soon."

The child doing howork next to him, Sonny Chambers, "..."

Who the heck is waiting?

I’m still just a kid, trying to grow taller; how can I stay up late?

After finishing the call, Paige erged from the corner—a staff mber carrying a tray approached her, "Miss Sterling, I’ve been looking for you. Here’s the honey grapefruit tea you requested, and this is the honey; if the sweetness isn’t right, you can add more."

Paige nodded and accepted it, "Thank you."

She drank half a cup of grapefruit tea, tasted a little honey, found it quite sweet, discarded the grapefruit tea, and headed back holding the honey.

Skylar finally saw Paige and instantly walked over, "Paige, where have you been?"

Paige glanced at her, lazily intending to sip the honey.

Skylar’s expression abruptly changed, and she took a step back, "Paige, what are you doing?"

Paige looked at Skylar and then at the honey.

"Why are you looking at like that? Soone who doesn’t know might think I forced you."

All around, people heard Paige’s words and couldn’t help but laugh.

Paige always told jokes with a deadpan expression.

Skylar swallowed hard, "Paige, what is that in your hand?"

Everyone’s gaze fell on Paige’s hand.

Those who frequently ordered honey grapefruit tea at this venue naturally recognized it as the honey bottle from the place.

What’s there for Skylar to be shocked about?

However, as Skylar doesn’t frequently visit here, and neither does Mona Wright, they both misunderstood.

Mona also had a frightened expression.

"That seems like... sulfuric acid?"

Bottles of that color have always been used to store sulfuric acid and things of the sort.

Skylar almost jumped with fear; was Paige really thinking Skylar was involved in lody rcer’s sulfuric acid incident and planned to splash it on her?

She cried out in terror, "Paige, don’t splash with sulfuric acid, I’m scared, please don’t..."

Her fear wasn’t faked, considering she’d seen lody’s disfigured state; how could one not be afraid?

Paige picked up the bottle in her hand and raised a brow slightly, "Sulfuric acid? It’s not."

Skylar spoke fearfully, "If it’s not sulfuric acid, then what is it? Do you truly think lody splashing you with sulfuric acid was my doing? Are you seeking revenge on ?"

Paige chuckled and approached Skylar, her face indifferent.

Skylar had no room to retreat, and at that point, Paige directly raised the bottle, aiming its opening at her, and the liquid splashed towards her face.

The uninford people around were dumbfounded.

Skylar scread in fright, ahhh.

She scread for quite a while, and the surrounding silence accented her shrill cries, reminiscent of pigs being slaughtered during Chinese New Year.

When she finally stopped screaming, she opened her eyes and saw everyone around looking at her with strange expressions.

Skylar tremblingly touched her face, found her hand covered in stickiness, but felt no pain.

When the sticky substance dripped into her mouth, she discovered it was sweet. This is... Honey?

Everyone naturally realized there was no sulfuric acid at all.