In Maria's mind, she only updated the extra chapter just now because she wanted to make Anthony happy. After all, he suffered from hunger because of her selfishness. But then, out of nowhere, her eyes widened. She suddenly felt that there was something wrong.

Maria thought if what Night said was finally making sense.

With a sudden inexplicable blush, Maria Logged out of Novel Hub.

She wanted to go and confirm something. She needed to see what Anthony was doing.

However, while she was on her way out of the study, her phone rang. Looking at her phone's screen, it turned out to be Vincent calling.

“What is it?" Maria directly answered the phone with a cold tone.

“Hey, my good disciple. Did you miss me?"

On the other end of the line, Vincent, who was almost eighty years old now, was still using a playful tone as if trying to coax his precious granddaughter.

“Just get to the point." Although Vincent couldn't see Maria's face, he could clearly imagine it just by listening to her irritated voice.

Back at the training program that was held in Hillside Spa Hotel, Vincent sent Maria a large piece of jade, asking her to polish it and carve it because of his unfortunate injury.

In fact, Maria didn't sleep for several nights before she finally finished that piece of meticulous work.

This wasn't even the first time that the old man had given this kind of tedious task to her, which obviously made Maria so angry.

The only reason why she kept agreeing was that she was also very obsessed with fine jades. As long as she got one, she would give her all and focus on the intricate process.

“Let me make one thing clear in advance. I'm very busy right now. I don't have time to carve any more stones," Maria said firmly.

This time, no matter how high the quality of the jade was, she was already committed to her other responsibilities. Hence, she couldn't take more loads.

Hearing this, the corners of Vincent's mouth trembled. He knew that his beloved disciple was really angry at him for forcing her to carve the gift for Anthony's grandfather for him.

So, his tone became gentler.

“My good disciple, I'm not going to give you a difficult task this time. I just want to invite you to dinner. Would you please come?"

Dinner?

Maria was not interested. She could have dinner anytime she wanted. Besides, she was only interested with dishes that offered new and interesting recipes.