Chapter 154 Old Raines Residence
Lyra pulled out Sydney''s folder and flipped it open. Her face fell slightly when she saw the contents.
Although she did not know anything about business, it did not mean that she could not understand
the quality of a project.
Sydney''s proposal was a good one. It was much better than the one she handed over.
It was hard to imagine that Sydney, who had only been in charge of Skylight for less than two
months, could write such a good n.
''No, there''s no way Sydney wrote this. She must’ve hired someone to write it for her. Yes, that must
be it!''
Lyra pressed down the jealousy in her heart and insisted that Sydney did not have this ability.
However, no matter who wrote this n, there was no denying that the possibility of this n being
favored by Julien was very high.
Lyra could not ept the thought that Sydney might get a cooperative seat and her family might be
brushed away.
"No..." Lyra bit her lower lip and an idea suddenly came to mind.
She ced Sydney''s proposal and her own on the table at the same time. Then, she unlocked the
metal sp of the folder holding the proposal and switched the two proposals inside since there
were name tags on the folder.
Property of N?)(velDr(a)ma.Org.
This way, Sydney''s proposal became Brandon''s, and Brandon''s became Sydney''s.
Lyra curled her lips after doing this.
Suddenly, the sound of footsteps came from outside the door.
Lyra knew that it might be Zaching back. Her eyes shed with panic and she quickly closed
the folders before cing them back ording to their position earlier.
Then, she hurriedly sat back on the sofa and took out her phone, pretending to look at it.
Zach came in. "My apologies for the wait, Ms. Madden."
"No worries," Lyra replied with a smile.
Zach did not find anything wrong in the reception room and ced the drink in front of her.
Lyra was about to take a sip when her phone rang.
"Sorry, I''ll take a call." She smiled apologetically and took out her phone. "Hello? Kate, are you out?”
Lyra''s expression was full of surprise.
Zach looked at her and raised his brows slightly.
Kate was out?
"Okay, I''ll be right over." Lyra put down the phone and looked at Zach. "Zach, help me tell Julien that
I won''t be meeting him."
She was going to meet Kate. She did not regard Kate as a friend and only thought of her as a
lackey who she could beckon or kick away at her whim.
However, thisckey was devoted to Lyra, so Lyra naturally had to keep her by her side. If anything
happened in the future, she could still push Kate out as a shield, so this rtionship could not be
broken.
"Sure. Go ahead, Ms. Madden. I''ll convey your message to President Flint." Zach nodded with a
smile.
Lyra left.
Zach went up to the top floor holding the pile of folders and knocked on the door of the president''s
office.
"Enter." Julien''s cool and low voice sounded.
Zach pushed the door in. "President Flint, these are the proposals handed in by the twenty
company bosses."
When Julien heard this, he stopped his pen and raised his head, resting his gaze on the stack of
documents." They''ve all been handed in?"
"Yes." Zach nodded.
Julien''s eyes shed. "Where''s Sydney''s?"
He regretted the words a little as soon as they came out.
He asked for Sydney''s proposal first before anyone else, which would make people think that he
was concerned about her. He also did not know why he was so concerned about Sydney''s
proposal.
However, Julien saw that Zach was not surprised at his attention toward Sydney, and the regret in
his heart gradually faded.
Perhaps Zach did not think that he was being concerned about Sydney.
However, what Julien did not know was that Zach was not surprised because he already knew that
Julien was not without feelings for Sydney.
That was why he was naturally not surprised when Julien opened his mouth and asked about
Sydney''s proposal immediately.
"Here." Zach drew out Sydney''s proposal and handed it over.
After receiving it, Julien flipped it open with an indescribable curiosity and expectation.
However, after seeing the contents of the proposal, his brow furrowed and the little expectation he
had disappeared without a trace.
Terrible. It was absolutely terrible!
The nning was too ordinary. There were no good points about the proposal and no
competitiveness at all.
How could she have brought herself to submit a proposal like this?
Julien pursed his lips. His eyes held an undisguised disappointment.
Zach saw this and pushed his sses. "President Flint, is there a problem with Ms. Raines''
proposal?"
"See for yourself." Julien threw the folder over.
Zach hurriedly caught it and looked through it.
After reading it, the corners of his mouth could not help but twitch. "This... Maybe it''s written like this
because Ms. Raines has never been involved in new energy before and doesn''t know much about
the field..."
At those words, Julien''s tightly furrowed brows loosened considerably. "Leave this proposal here
and screen the others. Eliminate the bad ones and keep the good ones. I''ll make the final decision."
"Understood." Zach nodded. Then, he took the remaining neen folders and left.
Before leaving, he did not forget to nce at Sydney''s proposal.
''President Flint said to eliminate the bad ones. By definition, Ms. Raines'' proposal should be
eliminated as well, but the president kept it.
It seems like the president still wants to give Ms.
Raines a chance. What happened to fairpetition
and no hidden tricks?''
Zach could not help but roll his eyes.
President Flint was a hypocrite.
After Zach left, Julien took Sydney''s file and opened it again. At the same time, he picked up a pen
and started making changes and suggestions on it.
Sydney did not know that this was happening and had already driven to the Raines family vi.
The Raines family vi was the newly-wed house her parents bought when they got married more
than twenty years ago. It was also the ce where she grew up and filled withughter.
However, twenty years ago, everything changed after her mother died, and her father married her
stepmother and gave birth to her sister. The vi was no longer her harbor and became a ce
where she just ate and slept.
Six years ago, her father died and her stepmother and sister ran away with their money. She sealed
this vi and never came back.
Now that she was back here, the vi was still the same, but there was a feeling that something had
changed.
Sighing, Sydney took out the key and prepared to open the door.
Suddenly, she remembered something and frowned. Then, she hurriedly took out the key that
Grandma had given her.
"Strange!" Sydney lowered her eyes and looked at the two keys in her hand.
One was given by Grandma, and the other was her own.
When Grandma gave her the key, she said that it was the key to the old Raines residence.
The key she had was also the key to the old Raines residence.
However, the two keys were obviously different.
When she received the key from Grandma, she did not remember that she kept the key to the old
residence, so she naturally did not find any difference between the key Grandma gave her and the
key in her possession.
The reason why she brought the key to the old residence with her was because the keyring had the
ess card for this vi area.
It seemed like there was a problem with the key given by Grandma. Either the lock of the vi had
been changed, or the key was to open something else.
At that thought, Sydney looked at the vi door and walked over. In the end, she found that the lock
was not changed, so the key that Grandma gave was probably used to open another lock. She
wondered which lock it was for.
"Let''s go in and have a look," Sydney muttered and opened the vi door to go inside.
The vi was empty. The furniture, appliances, and whatnot were all sold by her stepmother and
stepsister. The only thing present was the thickyer of ash on which she left footprints when she
stepped on the ground.