Skyhaven Restaurant.
The guests on the 2nd to 5th floors, who originally planned to return to their private rooms to continue eating and drinking after watching the performance, turned back after hearing Ryan Caldwell's words.
Jeff also frowned and looked toward the second floor.
Suddenly, several staff members wearing "Skyhaven Balloon" T-shirts and holding colorful balloons appeared beside Ryan and entered the private room where Ryan and Emily were.
There were many balloons, mainly in three colors: white, pink, and red.
On the other side, several people were carrying boxes filled with rose petals, and they were scattering the roses on the floor of the private room.
Wow, is this a marriage proposal? A rich guy is proposing!
"I heard that location costs one hundred thousand dollars!"
"Holy crap, I was so focused on the performance that I didn't even realize the woman being proposed to was so beautiful!"
"This woman is too beautiful! If I could have her just once, I'd be willing to give up ten years of my life!"
"Are you drunk? Women like that only belong to super-rich second-generation heirs. How could a loser like me be worthy of them?"
Ryan's actions sparked much discussion at the scene.
Jeff was furious!
In his restaurant, without his permission, he arbitrarily occupied his space and guests, and even wanted to propose to his woman.
Screw you!
Jeff quickly called the restaurant manager over and ordered, "Clean up all that trash on the second floor immediately! And take the microphones back!"
"Yes!"
On the second floor, Ryan, holding a microphone, knelt on one knee facing Emily: "Emily, are you willing... hello, hello."
As Ryan was speaking, he suddenly realized that the microphone was silent.
Not only that, a restaurant waiter came over, took out a SIM card ejector tool, and pierced the balloon that symbolized romance and purity.
Bang.
Bang.
Bang.
Dozens of balloons were popped one by one.
Ryan panicked: "What the hell are you doing! Why did you pop my balloon! That was my confession balloon!"
Just as he was getting angry, a woman in her forties came over with a broom: "Lift your feet."
As she spoke, she swept all the roses on the ground into a dustpan.
Ryan jumped up again: "Ah! My roses! Don't sweep them away!"
However, the waiter completely ignored Ryan's orders, even though they were given by Jeff.
At this moment, the guests also started to laugh.
"Haha, this guy was planning a romantic proposal, but who knew he'd get shut down by a restaurant waiter."
"This is hilarious—I guess this marriage proposal is going to fail, haha."
"Why am I so happy? Even though I'm not good enough for that beauty, I just don't want her to marry that wicked rich kid!"
After laughing for a while, the guests returned to their private rooms.
Seeing that his prepared proposal venue had been destroyed and the onlookers had dispersed, Ryan roared in anger:
"Bring your restaurant owner out here! Damn it, does he know who I am? I'm Ryan Caldwell from the Caldwell family! Let him find out my status in Riverforge!"
Jeff originally didn't intend to pay them any attention, but since Ryan wanted to see him, Jeff went down from the 3rd floor.
Jeff put his hands in his pockets and said to Ryan, "What are you yelling about here? If you're not going to eat, get out of here and don't disturb my guests!"
Ryan hadn't quite grasped Jeff's words yet, and said, "None of your business! Get out of the way, I'm looking for the owner of this restaurant!"
"I am the owner of this restaurant!" Jeff said seriously.
"What?"
Ryan and Emily were both stunned.
Behind Jeff, Victoria Lang and Rachel Brooks both smiled.
Ryan laughed too: "Haha, you're the owner of Skyhaven? Stop showing off! I checked—Victor Lang didn't just sell this one restaurant, all his restaurants in Riverforge were bought by the same person! It's said that person spent sixty million! You poor bastard, you can come up with sixty million?"
Emily also didn't believe that Jeff would have sixty million.
Although she knew Jeff had a very good reason for buying the restaurant, because Jeff wanted to deal with Vincent Moretti!
"Heh, you don't believe me again?"
Jeff had had enough of the contempt these rich kids had for him, so he called over the middle-aged woman who was sweeping the floor: "Auntie, come here for a moment."
A middle-aged woman approached. She had seen Jeff that morning and knew he was the boss. She bowed respectfully and said, "Boss."
Jeff pointed at Ryan and said to the middle-aged woman, "Hit his face with a broom, and I'll give you ten times your salary this month."
"Ten times?"
The middle-aged woman became excited and swung the broom at Ryan's face.
"Ugh! Pah!"
Ryan was caught off guard and couldn't believe that he, the young master of the Caldwell family, would be beaten by a waiter.
As Ryan dodged, he spat out the trash that was stuck to the broom and had gotten into his mouth, shouting:
"You stinking janitor, are you out of your mind?! Don't you know who I am?"
The middle-aged woman said in a thick accent, "I don't know. I just came here to clean the toilets. My boss pays me, and I do whatever he tells me to do."
The middle-aged woman wanted to hit Ryan with a broom, but Jeff stopped her.
"Do you believe me now? If you don't, I'll have the other employees beat you up one by one." Jeff looked at Ryan.
Ryan pointed at Jeff and roared, "So, Jeff, who's been ruining my proposal here? It's you! What, you're upset now that you see me proposing to Emily? Jealous? Heartbroken?"
Emily knew that Jeff still loved her, and he certainly wouldn't want to see her being proposed to by someone else.
However, Jeff said, "Emily and I are already divorced. Your proposal to her has nothing to do with me. But in my restaurant, you have to follow my rules. You can't do these things without my permission!"
"You..."
Ryan was furious, but Jeff was acting like the host, while he was just a guest. He had no home-field advantage and couldn't win the argument.
Ryan said, "Jeff, you definitely don't have the money to take over this restaurant, let alone hire a popular singer to perform. I bet Ms. Lang is the real boss behind the scenes, right?"
Victoria Lang did not completely deny it: "I do have some shares."
When Victoria Lang learned that Jeff was going to take over the catering industry in Riverforge, she immediately invested ten million dollars, because she knew that with Jeff's strength, dominating the catering market in Riverforge would be as easy as taking candy from a baby.
This investment was a sure thing, guaranteed to make a profit.
Ryan snorted coldly: "I'm afraid Ms. Lang is the largest shareholder, and Jeff is just a small shareholder, right? Jeff, you can only put up a few hundred thousand at most, which is only one percent of the shares. What are you so smug about?"
As he spoke, Ryan took out a Tiffany box from his pocket, opened it, and took out a diamond ring.
The moment Emily saw the diamond ring, she was stunned. The color and quality of the diamond ring were enough to drive any woman crazy!
Ryan said smugly, "This diamond ring is three carats and worth over four million dollars! You could be a bodyguard your whole life and still not be able to afford it for Emily! I'll use this diamond ring to steal the woman you've loved for three years right in front of you!"
After saying that, Ryan faced Emily and knelt on one knee: "Emily, marry me!"