The Interstellar's Expert Plant Tamer

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Attend Julos' birthday party? With Maine and Julos' current relationship, was Maine's uncle's head in the sand?

Xie Sen, since he knew how much Maine thought of his uncle, only sighed in disgust and asked, "Did you say yes?"

Maine nodded, "I can't say no."

Xie Sen looked at him in surprise. What do you mean you can't say no?

Maine pursed his lips. "I don't want to make things difficult for Uncle. Admiral Cox gave him the order." Here Maine's tone was slightly cold. "He probably wants to talk to me about something!"

Xie Sen guessed, "Could it be that he saw you win the league, thought you were good and wants to take the opportunity to improve relations?"

"Maybe," Maine said. "We'll find out when we go tomorrow."

Xie Sen wasn't quite sure. Maine's most important person was his uncle, while his worst relationship was with his uncle's brother and Julos, and Maine was ostracized. It was most likely due to them.

At Julos's birthday party, with all these people present, there were too many possible situations.

"I'll go with you," Xie Sen suggested, as he thought clearly. "Can you take me?"

Maine said, "Do you really want to go?"

Xie Sen nodded affirmatively, and Maine said, "I'll ask Uncle for another invitation."

"No need to go through all that trouble. For a party like this, you should be able to bring a date, right?" Xie Sen asked.

Maine looked at him, and nodded, "Yes."

After they decided to go to the party together, they once again rented suits online. Neither of them were too concerned about Julos' birthday party, so they didn't put any thought into it.

The next day, Xie Sen went home from work to change, and had dinner with Maine before they headed to the Cox's house. The architecture of the Cox's house was similar to that of the Aben Family. A castle with a huge open area. It was very nice to enter through the front door and pass through the corridor to reach the banquet hall, with fake ornamental plants along the way.

"Oh, dear Maine, it's so good to see you." Sotoko, dressed in a black straight suit, walked up to Maine, and opened his arms to give him a hug. A warm meet-and-greet.

After the meet-and-greet, Sotoko took a step back, and looked at Xie Sen beside Maine with slight surprise and curiosity. "Won't you introduce me to this beautiful female?"

The standard smile on the corner of Xie Sen's mouth froze, and the back of his teeth clenched as he tried to hold back the 'You're the female!' that usually came out.

Maine corrected, "This is my friend Xie Sen. He's a male."

"I'm sorry," Sotoko apologized, as he extended his hand towards Xie Sen. "Please forgive me. It's nice to meet you."

Xie Sen reached out and shook his hand. He tried to be generous and smiled, "It's okay."

"We have twenty minutes before the official start, so you can look around and have something to eat. I have to go greet the guests."

Maine nodded as Sotoko greeted another visitor. Xie Sen looked around, and pulled Maine with him, ready to go to the couch in the corner and stay there. He could already feel that the eyes of the guests around them were falling on them now and then, accompanied by murmurs of surprise.

Maine's appearance at Julos' birthday party was indeed surprising enough, given that the conflict between Maine and Julos had been rampant not long ago. He hadn't taken two steps with Maine when a tall man in a tuxedo of the same color as his approached them. Like most of the people here, this man had handsome features and was holding two wine glasses.