Mr Carlos Huo, She's Your Wife novel Chapter 1039

Sheffield didn't care how often Evelyn went to the farmers' market. After all, that wasn't the purpose of his question. He continued, "You've seen the vegetable stalls, right?"

"Yeah," Evelyn answered.

"What do you see at those vegetable stalls?"

"Vegetables, and the hard work of farmers and vendors..." She listed off a few items.

"You're right, but you get an incomplete for this one. Don't underestimate these vegetable sellers. They use natural science, modern logistics, marketing, pricing, metrics, economics, consumer psychology and math, to name a few."

Evelyn thought about it. What he said seemed legit.

"You'll do okay. Just keep on top of things." He was encouraging not only Evelyn but also himself.

His inspiring speech made Evelyn smile. "Right. Let's both work hard."

Sheffield's lips curved into a cunning smile as an idea crossed his mind. "Wanna make a bet?"

"On what?"

"On our companies' profits. Let's go to the end of the year. Then we'll compare net profits. ZL Group vs. Theo Group. Sound interesting?"

"Well, aren't you worried that you'll lose? If you're not, count me in." Competing against ZL Group? Evelyn didn't want to scare him to tears.

But Sheffield wore a sly smile on his face. "Of course I'm not worried. You haven't heard my terms yet. If Theo Group posts a higher profit, you marry me and let me support you. If ZL Group shows a higher profit margin..."

"Then what?" she asked expectantly.

"Well, then I'll still marry you. You can support me and I'll live off you. What do you think?"

Evelyn almost laughed out loud. "What's the difference? Besides who supports who?" Her heart was bursting with happiness. This all was very sweet.

"The difference is, if you marry me, you'll take my surname, Tang. If I marry you, I'll take yours. I'll be Sheffield Huo. Do you like my new name?" He sounded serious.

Evelyn tucked a strand of hair behind her ear and said, "I like Evelyn Tang better."

"Me too. I'll work harder to make Theo Group's net profit exceed ZL Group's. Then you marry me. Okay?"

She said in a soft voice, "You got it, Mr. Tang!"

The call motivated him a lot. With the goal of marrying Evelyn on his mind, he focused on his work.

After ending the call, they both were grinning from ear to ear.

Evelyn poked at her lunch, and then finally made her way to the fashion show. It was an event with over a hundred models and a thousand people in the audience.

Everyone was bustling around. Evelyn didn't need to take the stage to make a speech. Instead, she worked as a temporary supervisor backstage.

Shortly after the show started, Nadia trotted over to Evelyn and told her anxiously, "Miss Huo, one of our male models had acute appendicitis and was rushed to the hospital."

Evelyn replied decisively, "Find a substitute."

"We have two. One of them is already subbing for someone else, and the other one hasn't arrived yet." It was a tricky situation. "This is pretty urgent since things are underway. Should I just grab a random model and turn him loose up here?" Nadia suggested.

"Do we have enough time left to find anyone else?"

Glancing at her watch, Nadia said, "I'll try. On it now."