Filed To Story: Snatched a Billionaire to be My Husband Book (Cora & Byron)
Jane instantly felt as if she was trapped in ice.
Arnold’s voice rang out,
“Right. Both of you have known each other, so I don’t need to introduce you to each other again. Now let’s get into the house. It’s indeed a bit cold out here.”
Arnold led the two into the house with a smile, but he wasn’t aware that the two girls were currently engaged in an eye-to-eye confrontation.
“I really didn’t expect Dr. Lane to find the time to learn woodcarving despite being so busy with her work in the hospital.”
Perhaps it was because of the cold air in the suburb that Jane’s tone sounded colder than usual.
Cora smiled, but her voice was also frosty.
“People will always have to learn for all their lives. Even if you don’t have the time, you still need to squeeze some time.”
If it wasn’t because Sara had pushed her to the edge, she would never want to get involved with the
Yoris family.
Arnold didn’t know that the two girls were going against each other, and he even praised Cora with a smile,
“Learning is an endless process! This is what I like about this kid the most!”
These words also hurt Jane’s feelings unintentionally. It wasn’t because she felt inferior to Cora, but because Arnold was praising Cora today when he had never praised other girls in front of her before.
Because of this, only after Arnold had introduced Cora to his other apprentices and the woodcarving masters he invited did Jane suddenly say,
“Grandpa, I also want to learn woodcarving now. What if you accept me as your apprentice, too?”
Jane’s words surprised almost everyone present, especially Arnold.
He carefully asked,
“Jane, are you sure?”
Back then, Arnold very much wished for Jane to inherit his skills.
Ever since he became the successor of the intangible cultural heritage of woodcarving, Arnold had always hoped that Jane could take some time to learn from him.
Since Jane’s paintings had won her many awards before, and she also had unique insights about arts,
Arnold thought there was no one more suitable than her to learn woodcarving.
But no matter how many times he had mentioned it to Jane, Jane had always refused him, so he had no choice but to find someone else to be his apprentice.
Therefore, no one had expected Jane would take the initiative today to mention that she wanted to learn woodcarving.
Faced with Arnold’s question, Jane replied firmly,
“I’m sure. I didn’t want to learn it before because I thought I couldn’t learn it well, as I am a girl after all. But after I saw Dr. Lane also came here to learn, I suddenly became very confident. So I hope Grandpa can also allow me this opportunity to learn.”
For Arnold, this could be considered a joyous event.
After all, Jane was his only granddaughter. And it was true that he favored her and wanted to pass on his lifelong skills to her.
But the problem was that he also promised Cora to let her be his last apprentice and pass on his lifelong skills to her.
He was slightly in a dilemma, so he could only turn to look at Cora.
On the contrary, Cora was very calm.
“Actually, I don’t mind if Dr. Yoris wants to learn woodcarving together. But I have promised Sir Yoris before Dr. Yoris does, so I want to be the senior.”
Everyone could tell that Jane suddenly suggested today that she wanted to learn woodcarving as
Arnold’s apprentice because of Cora.
But she had cleverly found an excuse for herself and concealed her envy perfectly, so she didn’t mind giving way to Cora, as well as to not embarrass Arnold.
As for Cora’s suggestion to be Jane’s senior, it was a slight discomfort for Jane.
As expected, Jane didn’t want to regard her as her senior.
“No, this won’t do. If you want to count it like this, my grandpa has asked me since a long time ago if I want to learn woodcarving with him. If so, then I can be counted as the most senior out of all of you.”
Her half-joking tone easily resolved the previous awkward atmosphere.
Arnold finally decided.
“How about this? Tonight, both of you will attend the apprenticeship ceremony together, and thus be counted as the most junior apprentices. The other senior apprentices will regard you as their juniors, so you have to show some respect to them, while the two of you can treat each other as usual.”
Jane seemed to be overly triumphant, but Cora was definitely aware that this was still a form of
Arnold’s favoritism toward Jane.
However, it didn’t matter anymore. The most important thing for her to be Arnold’s apprentice this time was to put Sara and Jane into a difficult situation by breaking into the enemy’s territory, so they wouldn’t dare to take action easily. Learning skills came second.
Cora just smiled and said,
“Sir Yoris may decide. I have no objection.”
And next came the apprenticeship ceremony.
Cora and Jane read the apprentice vows in front of Arnold together, and the woodcarving masters that
Arnold had invited to witness the ceremony congratulated Arnold for gaining two outstanding last apprentices in one day.
Arnold vowed to Cora and Jane,
“We surely have to create achievements in the future, and let that Max know that the Yoris family will never lose to him!”
Truthfully, this was the first time Cora met a woodcarving master, so she didn’t quite know what Arnold was talking about.
“Max?”
Cora asked.
Seeing her bewildered look, a senior who appeared to be slightly older than her quickly explained to her.
“Cora, you might not know about this, but Max is our teacher’s former senior. But since the two of them had different views, they regarded each other as a thorn in the flesh. They wished that their respective apprentices could completely overshadow the other’s apprentices in the future.”
Cora was just discerning this information when another senior who looked quite young came up to chat with her.
“Cora, do you have a boyfriend?”
“Damn it, Kevin! That’s what I want to ask Cora! Don’t steal my words!”
Seeing the interaction of these young people, one of the masters that Arnold invited couldn’t help teasing him,
“It seems that the young apprentice you have accepted is doing well.”
Arnold took the praise for his apprentice as praise for himself. He proudly said,
“This kid is very beautiful, so naturally she will have many suitors.”
Yet, no one knew that this unintended remark had shaken Jane in the soul.
Despite being a new apprentice like Jane, the seniors were all circling Cora alone, while Jane’s side was practically similar to a deserted land.
However, Jane still didn’t think that she was not popular, or that it was wrong for her to be cold and aloof.
She assumed that it was probably because those seniors knew that she was the only girl in the Yoris family and that she had already carried the status of Byron’s fianc?e. That was why they didn’t dare to get close to her.
As for their attraction toward Cora, they probably weren’t genuinely attracted to her. They must be thinking that Cora was easy to trick, being that she was of an ordinary family background.
Having such a thought made her feel slightly better.
At the same time, under the seniors’ incessant questioning, Cora replied with a smile,
“I have a boyfriend.”
She seemed to be responding to those seniors, but she was actually looking at Jane.
It was because the boyfriend she mentioned was the same person Jane thought was her fianc?.
However, she didn’t directly refer to Byron as her boyfriend. After all, she was aware that Byron didn’t consider them to be in a romantic relationship.
When Jane heard Cora’s words and looked at her, she also felt that Cora’s eyes seemed to contain another meaning.
But she couldn’t figure it out for the time being.
As for the boyfriend Cora mentioned, Jane automatically recalled when Tyler said that Cora was his girlfriend during Gideon’s birthday banquet, so Jane thought Cora was talking about Tyler.
After hearing Cora’s straightforward clarification that she had a boyfriend, some seniors inevitably felt a little disappointed.
“Ah, I knew it. Such a beautiful girl wouldn’t be single.”
But some continued to joke with Cora,
“Then do you mind having a hookup?”
Cora couldn’t help laughing.
“Guys, stop making fun of me. I can be a two-timer when I’m unhappy, you know.”
When Jane heard it, she thought it was a bit ridiculous.
After all, the fact that Cora could get along with Carter after she broke up with Eason was the best evidence that she was a two-timer.
The more she watched the interaction between Cora and those seniors, the more she perceived that
Cora was hypocritical and showing off.
After the ceremony, Arnold assigned a task to them. He gave each of them a block of wood and a blueprint, asking them to carve out what was on the blueprint in a week.
The seniors’ blueprints had relatively complicated things drawn in them, but Cora and Jane were only assigned to create relatively simple and small objects.
“I don’t think you’ll find it difficult, kid,”
Arnold said when he handed the blueprint to Cora.
But when he handed it to Jane, Arnold said,
“If you find some difficulties here, just ask me to help you.”
Jane only started learning today, unlike Cora who had already mastered certain basic skills, so Arnold’s advice was considered normal.
However, since Jane had an emotional roller coaster today, she could only feel that Arnold was looking down on her.
Out loud, she replied,
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