Chapter 37

As soon as Xu Yinyin got off the car, Zhou Jingjing saw her. The gentle and friendly smile on her face as she was greeting people suddenly turned into angry and unhappy expression.

"Sorry, I have to excuse myself for a moment."

After Zhou Jingjing said goodbye to everyone in a hurry, she walked towards Xu Yinyin.

"What are you doing here? Do you have an invitation?" Zhou Jingjing looked down at her.

Zhou Jingjing's grandparents could barely be considered wealthy, but by the time the business was passed on to her father's generation, most of it had already been lost. Coupled with the scandal caused by her younger brother, the stock market plummeted in an instant, and the family was on the verge of collapse.

In order to save face and to present herself to the jury as a family of upright philanthropists, her father asked her to find a way to go to the auction held by the head of the Yan family to get gold.

She could only ask her fiancé's family for permission to participate.

As for Xu Yinyin, a rich family's daughter who was adopted halfway through, she never took her seriously. After all, there were too many scandals in the rich family, and who knew if she was a bastard. The old man seemed to promote her, but in fact he was just using the recognition of kinship to build a social platform.

Therefore, she naturally thought that Xu Yinyin might also be like her, hooking up with a young man and asking him to bring her the gold-plated one.

And given her embarrassing status, the man she found must be inferior to her, so she questioned her so arrogantly.

"Invitation letter?" Xu Yinyin was puzzled. "I don't have one."

Zhou Jingjing was amused by her fearless and frank attitude, and said sarcastically, "That's right, this should be your first time in such an occasion, so it's normal that you don't know."

She pretended to look around her and asked worriedly, "Are you here alone?"

"What's wrong with being alone? Is there a problem?" Xu Yinyin continued to pretend she didn't know, wanting to see her little tricks.

"It's fine for others to be alone, but not for you. Do you know who is hosting this dinner? With the status of your Xu family, you are not qualified to participate. If you really want to use the platform to make money, you must first find a high branch to curry favor with."

Xu Yinyin nodded in sudden realization: "Oh~ You mean to find a rich and stupid guy as a springboard, right?"

Zhou Jingjing's smile froze. Although her words were a bit vulgar, she really meant it. "You speak so vulgarly. Are you always like this?"

"No, I only say this to you because you are the only one who deserves such vulgar words. Don't you think it's very kind?"

"you--"

"Jingjing." Zheng Gang walked towards Zhou Jingjing, glanced at Xu Yinyin and asked her, "Is this your friend?"

Zhou Jingjing changed her arrogant look and smiled gently, "Not really, just an acquaintance."

Out of courtesy, Zheng Gang introduced himself: "Hello, I am Zheng Gang, Jingjing's fiancé."

Xu Yinyin nodded, said "Oh" in a tone of sudden enlightenment, and then said: "Jingjing mentioned you to me, nice to meet you!"

Zheng Gang's eyes were filled with pride. Zhou Jingjing was indeed marrying above her station by dating him, and it was only natural for her to brag about it all day long. "Really? Jingjing always likes to mention me in front of her friends. I feel embarrassed."

Xu Yinyin smiled and comforted her: "You don't have to feel embarrassed. After all, she didn't say anything good about you."

"By the way, do you know what he thinks of you? He said you're a rich, stupid, rich rich guy, and told me to find one for myself, so I can climb the social ladder faster."

Zheng Gang's smile faded, and he looked at Zhou Jingjing coldly. The latter's cheeks and ears turned red at this moment, half because of embarrassment and half because of anger.

"I didn't, she's talking nonsense."

"Yeah, I'm talking nonsense. Don't believe me. Her family is going to be sued soon. How can she have the time to fish for you?"

Zheng Gang's forehead was throbbing. He had indeed heard a lot of rumors about the Zhou family recently, but he had never taken it seriously. It was time to find someone to investigate.

He lowered his eyes to look at Zhou Jingjing and warned in a low voice: "You'd better give me a reasonable explanation."

"I'm not, I didn't, she did it on purpose."

Zhou Jingjing explained while chasing after the man with her skirt lifted up. It seemed that she would not be appeased in a short time.

[Little guy, you are still a little naive to play tricks with me. ]

[Umbro, you are really good at tricks, awesome.]

[It's just so-so. You have to use cheap tricks to deal with cheap people. 】

"Yin Yin."

Xu Yanwen's voice came from behind her. Xu Yinyin turned around and saw three beautiful landscape lines rushing into her sight.

The girl was wearing a bright red long skirt. The fishtail-like hem made her already superior figure look smart and sexy. With her loosely tied hair, she looked even more charming. Her smile was full of gentleness that could not be concealed.

Yan Yashan wore a black velvet long skirt with a shawl of the same color. Her silver hair sparkled under the light, and her delicate and graceful makeup made her look elegant and generous.

Next to her, there was a tall and graceful man in a black suit, with broad shoulders, narrow waist, and long legs. His abstinent and otherworldly face showed his noble status and majestic aura in his serious and smiling manner.

As soon as the three of them appeared, they attracted countless surprised glances, with occasional gasps.

[Oh my god, what a magnificent beauty! Each one is prettier and more elegant than the other. Huo Yan is even prettier than in the photo.]

Xu Yinyin's voice immediately made the crowd exclaim again. It turned out that the man in front of them was the famous chairman of Lingsheng Group, who was ranked in the top three of the world's richest people, the proud son of heaven in the past five years, and the Yanluo King of the shopping mall, Huo Yan!

【Are you excited about Umbro? 】

[No, a man with both strength and charm like this is not something a salty fish like me can dream of. There are too many rivals in love, and I can't resist him at all. ]

Xu Yinyin greeted them with a smile and greeted everyone one by one. When it was Huo Yan's turn, she still politely introduced herself, "Hello, my name is Xu Yinyin. It's our first meeting. Please take care of me."

Huo Yan glanced at Xu Yinyin calmly, reached out and gently held her fingertips, and uttered two words in a reserved manner, "Huo Yan."

[Look, one of Long Aotian's characteristics, his arrogance and his love of words, did he hit the mark? ]

[I got it, but he is really handsome! 】

【hehe.】

A chuckle made Huo Yan raise his eyebrows slightly. Was this meant to be a mockery?

Xu Yanwen invited everyone to come in, and took Xu Yinyin's arm and walked behind the two of them.

Yan Yashan looked at Huo Yan with a smile and said in a low voice, "Isn't Yin Yin very interesting?"

Someone snorted, "So-so."

She actually mocked him, huh!

"Is the person who just spoke to you a new friend?" Xu Yanwen recognized Zhou Jingjing and was worried that her little niece was being bullied, so she asked carefully.

"No, she bullied Yaoyao at my family reunion party, and I just gave her a small lesson."

Upon hearing this, Huo Yan sneered in his heart, "You are so vindictive and yet you dare to say that I am frugal with my words? Humph!"

"Yinyin did the right thing. If you encounter injustice, you should fight back. If you get into trouble, I will support you. Don't be afraid."

"Yes, don't worry, aunt. I won't let myself suffer any loss."

Huo Yan rolled his eyes silently in his heart. That's it? A grandma dared to say that this girl was excellent. Isn't this a spoiled brat?

As if he had guessed Sun Zi's thoughts, Yan Yashan whispered, "Yin Yin's charm lies in her inner purity. You'd better not be too blunt in your attitude, otherwise you will be the one who suffers."

"Really? I don't think I'll suffer any loss." Huo Yan responded with great pride.

Yan Yashan smiled without saying anything. It was a good thing to suffer more in love, and she was not panicked at all.

After the group sat down, the staff handed everyone a sheet of information that listed the detailed information of each lot, with pictures and texts to give them a more intuitive understanding of the background of the lot.

Xu Yinyin was flipping through the pages boredly, but her mind was on eating melons.

[Let me tell you, Zhou Jingjing clapped hard in the lounge to appease her fiancé, and she will definitely not dare to clap loudly later. You can only compete with her for one or two things, and it won't cost much money.]

[Yeah, I get it. Anyway, my goal today is to make her life miserable. She can’t even think of gilding the family reputation by doing charity. Her brother should be punished for doing such a shameful thing.]

[No, I support you.]

It’s not a big deal in the upper class circle, but everyone has heard about the sensational news about the Zhou family in recent days. However, because the news has not yet spread, many people only eat half of it. Now, after hearing the voice that came out of nowhere, they instantly perked up.

Everyone looked in Zhou Jingjing's direction in tacit understanding. Rather than the gossip about her and her fiancé clapping in the lounge, they wanted to know what happened to her brother.

So they took out their mobile phones and typed in Zhou Jun's name, but they were disappointed because they didn't find a single name.

Zhou Jingjing was so angry that she wanted to burst into flames. She actually forgot that everyone could hear Xu Yinyin's thoughts. She turned around and glared at her angrily.

Xu Yinyin noticed it, looked towards the source of the gaze, and waved at her with a very annoying smile.

[Oh my, she still dares to glare at me, does she think the lesson I just gave her was not enough? ]

[Ah, I'm just yelling about my incompetence. After all, she's a pitiful person.]

【How do you say it? 】

Xu Yinyin straightened her back silently and raised her ears.

The melon-babies also tacitly pretended to listen attentively.

Only Huo Yan was concentrating on reading the descriptions of the auction items, standing out from the crowd of people around him.

How can she be called a lady from a noble family if she pries into people's privacy? The older my grandmother gets, the worse her judgment of people becomes.

[Actually, she was the illegitimate daughter of Zhou's father and the domestic helper. The helper was only fourteen years old at the time, and Zhou's father's behavior was considered a crime.]

【ah?】

The crowd eating melons gasped and said, "Oh my God, is this something you can even say?"

[The situation at that time was similar to Zhou Jun's. After the victim's parents found out, they threatened to sue the Zhou family, but the old man stopped them.]

[No need to guess, it must be paying to keep quiet. ]

[Not only did he take the money, he also promised that the child could be included in the Zhou family genealogy and have the right to divide the inheritance, but the mother had to give up the child's custody rights and leave, and the child would be raised by the mistress of the family, that is, Zhou Jun's biological mother and Zhou's father's legal wife.]

[The most important thing is that Zhou's father had not yet married at that time.]

[Oh, doesn't this mean that the new bride has to be happy to be a mother when she enters the house? Isn't that unacceptable?]

[Of course the legal wife won't do it, but most wealthy families marry through family alliances. Just because you don't do it doesn't mean your family won't do it. In order to establish a solid partnership, the legal wife had to swallow her anger and take over Zhou Jingjing, the burden.]

[But children like this who are not expected to be treated well are usually abused. ]

[No, no, no, the mistress of a wealthy family doesn't abuse people. She likes pua, and she calls the servant who should have been the victim a despicable and shameless seducer. She also says that she has the blood of a despicable person in her body. If it weren't for the Zhou family, she would be dead now without knowing where she is. She wants her to learn to be grateful, to break up with her mother, to be kind, and to give back to the Zhou family.]

[No wonder she would serve the devil with her body, it turns out it was all the result of her adoptive mother's pua since she was a child. ]

[Well, there is one more thing. Her adoptive mother has always known about her son's perversion. She quit her job as a domestic worker because she was afraid that Zhou's father's sins would repeat themselves on her son. As for Zhou Jingjing's voluntary sacrifice, it was also designed by her adoptive mother. She thought that if she was really pregnant, she could accuse her of seducing him and be as despicable as her biological mother. She wanted to let her old man and Zhou's father see the sins they had committed. It was a kind of revenge.]

[But this is too cruel. Why should the next generation fill the gap in the grudges of the previous generation? Children cannot choose their parents, so the children should be the ones who are wronged. ]

【Who says it’s not! 】

The melon-babies sighed silently and looked at Zhou Jingjing at the same time.

However, Zhou Jingjing did not show the surprise and shock that everyone thought. Instead, she had a smile on her face and looked calm and composed.

[Wait, there is a twist here! ]

The system's exclamation suddenly lifted the gossiping souls of the melon-badges to the top of their heads, and everyone turned into King Jiji, and quickly spoke up!

Huo Yan, who was standing next to Xu Yinyin, raised his hand to loosen his tie and straightened his back subconsciously. It wasn't that he wanted to hear the rest of the story, but it was just a little hot in the room :)

Xu Yinyin has been watching medleys of gossips for many years, but she remained calm when faced with such a turn of events.

[It's nothing more than the foster mother's thinking that she was the mastermind behind the scenes, but it was actually Zhou Jingjing's acting.]

[Wow, Umbro is indeed a seasoned melon expert. Ordinary melons simply don’t interest you. However, you are only half right.]

[Hmm? Then what is the other half? ]

Just as the system was about to speak, the auctioneer came on stage.

[Let’s eat later. The auction has started. Aren’t you going to have sex with Zhou Jingjing? ]

【Oh, that's right, it's important to get down to business. 】

The melon-eating badgers sighed silently in their hearts, isn’t eating melons a serious matter?

Hanging it like this with such a big hook is really torturous, isn't it?

Ahhh, we want to eat melons!

For this reason, when the auctioneer came on stage with a smile on his face, he was met with unhappy and resentful looks from everyone in the audience.

Uh...what's going on?

The auctioneer was bewildered, and his professional smile immediately turned into a wry one with a hint of grievance.

After he introduced the background of the first piece of collection, announced the starting price, and bid one hundred thousand, someone immediately bid ten million, and then no one raised the price anymore, and the deal was done directly.

The first item was sold in less than a minute, setting a record for the fastest transaction in his career.

“······”Is everyone in such a hurry?

The host was also confused and rushed over to save the situation.

What we mean is that the second lot is not ready yet, and today's wealthy people seem a little anxious.

[Hey, it wasn't like this when we watched the video last night. Aren't there always people fighting over something? How come it's decided by just one person bidding? ]

[It seems that the video is not credible. I think the staff is so inefficient that they may not be able to get the second lot for a while. Let's start with the story.]

The innocent staff member who was shot: “…” Blame it on us!

The rich people who have melons to eat again: Hmm~ o(*￣▽￣*)o

[Didn’t we say earlier that Mr. Zhou used the Zhou family’s inheritance rights to buy the child and sent the maid back to her hometown? The maid’s parents took the money and decisively took their daughter back to the countryside. I thought this was the end of the story, but I never thought that the maid would never let go of the child, and she didn’t intend to let Zhou’s father go, so she used the compensation money to change her face and returned to the Zhou family.]

The melon-babies gasped silently. Huo Yan, who was standing beside him, loosened his tie again and involuntarily moved a little closer to Xu Yinyin.

[Oh my, if she returns to the Zhou family, she might become a maid again, specifically serving Zhou Jingjing's brother, right?]

[Wow, you guessed it right again, you're amazing, my baby.]

Huo Yan glanced at Xu Yinyin with resentment in his eyes. How could she guess everything? This made him look like a fool!

[No, what kind of train of thought is this? Shouldn't they just remove Zhou's father's third leg and make him inhumane from now on? Why do they have to take a roundabout approach?]

[You don't understand this, right? If she had just killed him, there would have been no need for plastic surgery. She wanted the evildoer to suffer the consequences of his own actions.]

[Wait! Let me drink some water first. ]

Xu Yinyin looked at the booth and reached out to touch the hot drink next to the seat. A pair of big hands handed the drink directly to her.

"?" Xu Yinyin glanced sideways in surprise, and met Huo Yan's cold and handsome face.

"I was afraid you would fall and spill it on me." He explained calmly.

He is not in a hurry at all :)

“······Thank you!” Xu Yinyin rolled her eyes in her heart.

[I'm not handicapped! ]

【Oh, he is quite considerate. 】

[(Yin Yin sneers) Open the melon! ]

[Zhou Jingjing's biological mother was originally an excellent student with excellent character and academic performance. However, her family was very poor and she could not complete her studies. She could only go out to work through introductions. She also heard that being a nanny in a wealthy family would pay well, provide food and accommodation, and allow her to study after work. She could also take the adult college entrance examination and continue to go to university, so she came to the Zhou family.]

[At first, life was dull and ordinary. The owner went out early and came back late, so I hardly saw him. After completing my daily tasks, I spent the rest of my time studying. I kept 5,000 yuan of my monthly salary for tuition and sent 5,000 yuan back to my parents. Life was dull but fulfilling. I thought things would get better, but one night, the peace was broken.]

[I guess it must be one night when the master came home drunk and all the servants were asleep. She was the only one who saw them. Out of duty, she went to take care of them, and then she got drunk and did that, right?]

【Yes, yes, yes.】

[Haha~ I know men's nature too well. A truly drunk person has no strength at all. He will fall asleep wherever he lies. Those who say he has sex after drinking are all lying down. He just wants to stab someone with his dick! ]

[Hahahahaha, the little brother wants to stab someone, I'm laughing so hard! ]

The melons and badgers bit their lips to hold back their laughter. My god, this little brother stabbed someone. They laughed so hard, okay?

Huo Yan: “...” You have a great talent for languages!

[After he forcibly tattooed the woman, he saw that she was beautiful and he had second thoughts about her. He wanted to develop a relationship with her, so he pretended to be upset and knelt down to admit his mistake. He even slapped himself in the face and lied that he could tell his parents and marry her.]

[Huh?! He really knows how to avert his gaze. I guess the woman definitely doesn't agree.]

[Of course I can't agree to this. The other party insisted that this was forcing others to have sex. I will call the police.]

[The bastard man was not in a panic. He dragged her to his parents to confess his wrongdoings overnight and declared that he would marry her. Then the family began to play double roles. The mother played the good cop and apologized to the girl. She comforted her and said that she would help her go back to school. The father directly punished the unfilial son with family rules and beat him half to death. The girl was only fourteen or fifteen years old at the time and was young and ignorant of the world. How could she have imagined that this was a conspiracy of the three of them?]

[Plus, the family usually had a good personality, treated the servants politely, and often made headlines as philanthropists. The girl thought it might be an accident, and then she fell into the trap. After that, they really sent her to a private school, and took good care of her. When she found out she was pregnant, the child was already five months old, and she had to induce labor. At this time, the cunning parents played a double act to stabilize her, and half tricked and half coaxed her into giving birth to the child. ]

[Then it's time to directly snatch the child and seduce others? ]

[No, no, no, before that, there was an even more outrageous act! ]

Everyone pricked up their ears, and Huo Yan even breathed more gently.

At this time, the auctioneer came on stage with the second collection.

[Ah, the second lot is up, let’s get down to business first! 】

The melon-eating bastards looked at the auctioneer with eyes that looked like they wanted to skin him alive. How could they let people finish eating the melon in one go?!

“······”QAQ, who did I offend today?

In order to make everyone happy, he even changed the order of the items to be auctioned and took out the items that had been kept at the bottom of the box, hoping to win some goodwill, but why did he only attract more hatred?

Woo! The baby feels wronged, sob T0T!

He tried hard to put on an enthusiastic smile and introduced the new lot. He had just announced the starting price of three million when he heard Huo Yan bid: "One hundred million."

The wealthy people in the audience said in unison: "We won't follow!"

Auctioneer: “…”

Zhou Jingjing, who was about to bid: "..."

Damn, you all want to eat the melon, right? I’ll choke you to death!

Xu Yinyin wondered: [Is this a special forces auction? Why is it so urgent?]

[Who cares about them? Zhou Jingjing can't afford this price anyway, so just keep eating melons.]

The auctioneer left the stage again, but he had lost the courage to go back on stage. He was afraid that he would be glared at.

[Do you know why they wanted to induce her to give birth to the child? ]

[Hmm - I guess he wanted to bite her back, turning the forced relationship into an active seduction, just to get promoted. After all, the Zhou family provided her with food and drink and sent her to school, which was obvious to everyone. Even if he testified in court, the victim would have no way to defend herself, right?]

【Bravo! Umbro, you are so amazing. 】

The melon-eating civets secretly gave her admiring looks, and even the melon owner Zhou Jingjing had to admire her wise melon-eating soul.

Huo Yan wanted to find an excuse to convince himself that it was just a trick, but when he thought about the twists and turns and hidden secrets of this melon, he became discouraged.

It's just that everyone has their own specializations, huh!

[That's what they thought, and this wasn't the first time. It's just that the previous times there was no ironclad evidence of a child being left behind. Most maids were not well educated and could be easily dismissed with money. But Zhou Jingjing's biological mother was different. She had received an education and wanted to apply to law school, but she was ultimately defeated by the cunning and shameless Mr. Zhou.]

[So, when she decided to have plastic surgery again, what she wanted was to treat the other person the way he was treated. She used Zhou Jun's inherited lustful nature to criticize his father, and lured his son to do something disgusting. Then she secretly photographed the evidence to prove the crime, and then went to find the former victims, formed a group to sue, and used her tattered body to drag the Zhou family into hell. 】

[Don't you like to portray them as upright gentlemen and philanthropists? She wants them to be judged by the public in a way that everyone despises, so that they can never raise their heads for the rest of their lives, and also let them feel the frustration and resentment of being schemed against.]

[But such self-destructive behavior is still a bit too tragic. I always feel that this revenge is not satisfying. ]

[I didn't lose eight hundred dollars. 】

[Hmm? What a reversal! ]

The melon-eating beasts held their breath again. Eating a melon is more exciting than watching a suspense movie. Don’t stop!

Huo Yan loosened his tie for the third time. It had never been so exciting at the negotiation table!