Chapter 318: Why Is Lily So Powerful?

Chapter 318: Why Is Lily So Powerful?

David didn't expect Lily to make it to the position of chief engineer. It must have been Eric, with ulterior motives to give her shares.

If they could embarrass Lily later, that would be good for the Roberts Group, too.

Emily overheard their conversation and secretly took out her phone to message Lily, telling her to be careful when speaking.

Lily saw Emily's warning message and smiled.

She wasn't afraid of questions at all.

"Lily."

Eric called, his eyes darting round the venue. "Dennis, where is he?"

"When we got out of the car, he received a call from the hospital about his grandmother's condition and went straight to the hospital."

Eric sighed. "Mrs. Odette Gonzalez's health hasn't been good these past two years. Her only wish is to see Dennis get married, which is why the Harpers got ideas and desperately spread rumors, trying to use Dennis's filial piety to force him to agree."

However, at the time, Dennis chose to make a trip to Imperial City, probably wanting to say goodbye to the past.

But he happened to meet Lily, and many things started to spiral out of control.

After hearing this, Lily was silent for a moment. "Is Mrs. Gonzalez's illness very serious?"

"It is quite serious. Fortunately, she was saved. But I heard the situation keeps going up and down, and she has just one wish."

At this point, Eric deliberately looked at Lily. "If, and I'm saying if, something happens to Mrs. Gonzalez and Dennis wants to take you to see her, could you give him a chance and not refuse?"

This question stumped Lily.

She thought about how good Dennis had been to her before, and Celeste had treated her well, too.

Considering this, all she could say quietly was, "Mrs. Gonzalez will be fine."

Lily recalled that in her past life, Odette's death seemed to have happened next year.

It seemed the Gonzalez family had also been scammed out of some money by IntelliSense AI Corporation, and some people rumored that Odette died of anger after finding out about the scam.

She should remind Dennis not to have any cooperation with IntelliSense AI Corporation.

Maybe that could help Odette live a few more years?

Eric glanced at Lily and ultimately didn't continue. Many things still needed these two to resolve themselves.

He spotted the Roberts, with Connie and Emily standing nearby.

Eric's brow furrowed. "Why did my aunt, Connie bring Emily here? Does she want to tell everyone that Emily's husband is David?"

"Most likely that's the intention. Mrs. West partnered with the Roberts family on an AI project. Does she know that Maple Leaf Corporation has your name on it?"

Lily knew Connie was Eric's aunt, Dennis had told her that.

Eric smiled bitterly. "I only just found out about this, too."

"But the partnership was agreed on a long time ago, it's just been exposed recently."

Since David wanted to use the West family's influence, he couldn't keep hiding.

Eric was a bit unhappy. "I'll talk to Connie later. David's character is bad, he can't be Emily's husband."

Lily nodded. If Eric stood on Emily's side, breaking off this engagement shouldn't be difficult.

Soon, the exchange event began.

As one of the representatives, Lily went on stage to speak. She took in a deep breath, took the microphone, and said, "I'm honored to discuss the latest AI technology with everyone here. The following points..."

Lily spoke clearly and confidently, attracting many people's attention.

Because the speakers were technical experts selected by various companies, mostly older, middle-aged men.

Lily was the only young woman.

People in the audience started discussing. "I heard this is Maple Leaf Corporation's chief technical engineer, and a top student from Quest University."

"Not just that. I heard that to keep this talent, Maple Leaf Corporation even gave her original shares with very good benefits."

"But she's so young, is she really that capable? I heard it's because she has an intimate relationship with Maple Leaf Corporation's boss behind the scenes, which is why she keeps getting resources and support."

Everyone was talking, all discussing Lily's situation.

Sophie felt jealous hearing these words. If all those things hadn't happened, she could have asked David to let her speak on stage.

Now Lily had stolen the spotlight by herself.

James was also very critical of Lily now. "David, Lily knew the Roberts also has an AI project, yet she helps another company. Why didn't to stop her?"

David's expression wasn't good. "How can you stop Lily with her bad temper? She's asking for trouble now, can't blame anyone else."

Now he had dragged the West family into this, and they would deal with her.

Sure enough, after Lily's speech ended, during the Q&A, someone asked a very tricky question.

Lily glanced at the reporter. "Your question is beyond the scope of my speech today."

The reporter's tone was aggressive. "But this is a simple technical question. You can't answer it, can you?"

Most people around were just watching the show.

Connie came out of the VIP room at this moment, specifically to watch the joke. She walked to David's side, her tone cold. "Your sister, the higher she was praised before, the harder she'll fall today!"

"She's just relying on someone backing her up, which is why she's become more and more disobedient."

David also wanted to teach Lily a good lesson today.

Connie glanced at David. "I thought after you found out, you wouldn't dare go after your sister."

After all, David might think of using Lily to connect with Dennis, and then her investment would fall through.

"One thing is one thing. She should learn a lesson."

David thought Lily was just relying on Eric's support. After all, even Connie didn't give Eric respect, so what did he have to worry about?

But soon, David and Connie couldn't laugh anymore.

Not only did Lily answer that question, but the reporter couldn't even understand if Lily's answer was correct.

It was the other engineers who had spoken earlier who nodded one after another. "Very good answer, some things we didn't even think of."

Connie wasn't satisfied and said coldly, "Keep asking."

Two more questions followed, and Lily answered them easily, but again the reporter couldn't understand at all.

But from the applause from industry insiders, they could guess how well Lily had answered.

Connie said in disbelief, "What's going on? Were the questions leaked in advance?"

Emily said lightly from the side, "Connie, couldn't it just be that Lily is really that good?"

David rejected this outright. "Impossible, these are too difficult."

"Is it so hard to admit someone else is excellent, to admit your sister is this excellent?"

Emily's eyes were mocking, which really made David angry, but he didn't dare contradict her in front of Connie.

Connie was very angry and directly questioned David. "You siblings are working together to play me, right?"

"Mrs. West, how could I do such a thing? The Roberts is counting on your help now."

"I can't take that responsibility, after all, you can find a new backer now."

After all, Lily had hooked up with Dennis.

David was anxious. "Mrs. West, I don't understand what you mean. Isn't Lily's backer Mr. Murphy?"

After all, Lily's boyfriend was just a powerless school doctor.

"Don't you know yet who's backing Lily?" Connie asked.

"I always thought it was Mr. Murphy. Is there someone else?"

From Connie's expression, David guessed that besides Eric, there was someone else.

Who was it?