“Xinxin, didn’t you dislike jade the most?”
Gu Jiusi glanced at Gu Yingxin with confusion.
“I didn’t like it before, but when I saw this piece of red jade today, I suddenly fell in love with it. I couldn’t get that bag earlier, but you must help me win this jade, Second Brother!”
“Since Xinxin likes it so much, your Second Brother must get this red jade for you!”
Gu Yingxin thought smugly:
Everyone was saying earlier that Si Yueting came today for Mrs. Si.
Hah. If that were really true, would Si Yueting sit so coldly on the side and let her bid by herself?
Which wealthy lady here with her husband didn’t have her husband win the bid and gift it to her?
After all, they still had to maintain appearances!
As long as it was something Yan Zheng liked, even if it was just a worthless stone, she would snatch it away!
She wanted everyone to see who the true young lady of the Gu Family was!
A female tycoon who arrived late took a liking to this piece of red jade as soon as she arrived and bid 3.5 million.
Gu Jiusi immediately raised the bid to 5 million, widening the gap.
Yan Zheng stared intently at the red jade, clenching her fists.
Old Mrs. Si had just run into an old friend she hadn’t seen for years, and the two were catching up at the entrance.
Yan Zheng couldn’t go over and ask her grandmother for money.
After the price soared to 10 million, Gu Jiusi arrogantly raised his bidder’s paddle.
“15 million!”
The female tycoon put down her paddle. Though unwilling, she had no choice but to give up.
At this price, one could even acquire a set of Emerald Jadeite.
“Director Gu raised the bid by 5 million in one go. He really doesn’t hold back when spending on his sister!”
“It’s not just Director Gu who dotes on Miss Gu. Did you see before her birthday, the eldest young master of the Gu Family directly gifted her a sports car worth nearly 20 million!”
“So, background isn’t important. What matters is whether you have such good fortune!”
Gu Yingxin turned to Yan Zheng and said apologetically,
“Sorry, Yan Zheng, this red jade is mine now.”
Later, after she got it, she would “accidentally” drop it in front of Yan Zheng and step on it!
If Yan Zheng still liked it, she would generously give it to her.
After all, she only deserved to pick up the trash she didn’t want!
“25 million.”
Si Yueting raised the bidder’s paddle that had been left idle due to lack of funds.
Yan Zheng looked over in disbelief.
The man frowned displeased,
“You were so diligent calling me ‘husband’ earlier. Why aren’t you calling me ‘husband’ now and begging me to buy it for you?”
Yan Zheng: This… works too?
If he had said so earlier! Would she have had to sit there agonizing for so long?
Gu Jiusi had promised to buy it for Gu Yingxin; this time, he absolutely couldn’t go back on his word!
“28.8 million!”
“40 million.”
“41.99 million!”
Si Yueting chuckled mockingly, looking teasingly at Gu Jiusi, who was clearly struggling to keep up,
“Director Gu, why are you getting more conservative with your bids? Even starting to bid with odd numbers now?”
Amid the surrounding laughter, the man calmly raised his paddle,
“50 million.”
Yan Zheng held her face adoringly, her heart buzzing with admiration,
[I used to only think Si Yueting had a handsome face, but now I think every part of him is handsome! The way he spends money is the handsomest! Just like a male Bodhisattva, radiating a sacred golden aura all over!]
Gu Jiusi threw down his paddle, glaring angrily at Si Yueting.
“Everyone knows this piece of red jade isn’t worth this much! President Si deliberately inflated the price by over thirty times because you saw I wanted to buy it, didn’t you?”
Si Yueting maintained an unruffled demeanor.
“In terms of intrinsic value, this jade indeed doesn’t warrant such a price. But since my wife likes it, that makes it worth every penny.”
The envy in the eyes of the women present was practically overflowing.
Who exactly started those ridiculous rumors claiming Mrs. Si was some country bumpkin that President Si looked down upon?
Mrs. Si’s appearance and figure clearly outshone everyone in the room, and President Si had personally come this time precisely to splurge thousands for his beloved wife!
Si Yueting’s expression remained calm yet carried an air of arrogance.
“As for Director Gu’s accusation of ‘deliberate’ action, I’m not quite sure what you mean. Could it be that Director Gu is intentionally using money to humiliate your own biological sister while helping this so-called ‘Miss Gu’ beside you? Since Director Gu isn’t embarrassed by such behavior, then I must regrettably inform you that not everyone is qualified to disrespect Mrs. Si!”
He knew in his heart that although she had only mentioned lightly how Gu Jiusi found her embarrassing, given how openly Gu Jiusi treated her, what had been said behind the scenes must have been even worse.
Si Yueting’s dark eyes turned cold and heavy. Since Gu Jiusi didn’t know what embarrassment felt like, he would help him find out today.
Gu Jiusi never expected to have kicked an iron plate – Si Yueting actually exposed their family’s private matters publicly for everyone to see!
Hearing people around him whisper about how he was helping a fake young mistress without blood relations to snatch things from his own sister, they must think he’s completely insane!
Gu Jiusi’s face turned green with rage!
He tried to assert his status to pressure Si Yueting.
“After all, President Si is my brother-in-law. Is this how you treat your wife’s second brother?”
Si Yueting let out a scornful laugh.
“So Director Gu has finally reset to factory settings and remembered you have a biological sister? If Director Gu has the money, feel free to bid higher. Why act like a sore loser, getting angry over such a small amount?”
Gu Jiusi hadn’t received the box office earnings from his previous film yet, and he had invested all his money into this new production.
At most, he had 50 million left.
Meanwhile, Si Yueting was the head of the Si family, controlling all their financial power – how could Gu Jiusi possibly continue competing with him!
The only way to save face now was to storm off in anger!
“Hmph!”
Gu Jiusi threw down his bidding paddle and left immediately.
Gu Yingxin awkwardly clicked after him in her high heels, quickly following.
Watching the two flee as if their pants were on fire, Yan Zheng couldn’t help but chuckle.
After receiving the crescent-shaped red jade pendant, Yan Zheng signed to Si Yueting:
“Thank you, husband!”
[If I’d known that sweetly calling him ‘husband’ would get me such benefits without spending my own money, I could go to Si Yueting’s bedside every day and call him that!]
[Caressing this jade, I can almost feel the infinite power my master bestowed upon me! I must work hard to divorce Si Yueting soon and complete my mission! Then I can return and reunite with my master!]
Si Yueting’s expression stiffened. He gave her a gift, and her reaction was to happily think about divorcing him?
And who was this ‘master’ she mentioned? Could it be the mastermind behind her plot against the Si family?
At this thought, a cold sharpness flashed through the man’s eyes.
As the auction ended and everyone moved toward the exit, distant exclamations could be heard from afar.
“Someone fell from the building!”
Yan Zheng’s heart sank as she forcefully pushed through the crowd.
She saw Jiang Mingyan standing at the stairwell with a grim expression, while Shen Mengyu lay at the bottom of the stairs, clutching her stomach.
Continuous streams of blood instantly soaked through her white pants.
“Mengyu!”
Si Hanche, who had just entered from downstairs, rushed over with a livid expression and gathered her in his arms, pulling out his phone to call an ambulance!
Shen Mengyu trembled as she wept bitterly,
“Hanche, I only came to apologize to Miss Jiang, begging her not to separate us and leave the child in my belly without a father. But she flew into a shameful rage and told us to die…”
Witnessing firsthand that Shen Mengyu was carrying his child, Jiang Mingyan clenched her fists, her face pale,
“I didn’t push her! She jumped on purpose to frame me!”
Just moments ago, Shen Mengyu had suddenly appeared out of nowhere, sneering eerily as she asked:
“Jiang Mingyan, guess what expression Si Hanche will have when he sees you kill his child with his own eyes?”
Before Jiang Mingyan could even process the word “child,” Shen Mengyu had grabbed her hand and pretended to be pushed, tumbling down the stairs.
“Mengyu would use herself and her child to frame you? Jiang Mingyan, you’re truly a venomous woman—you won’t even spare a child!”
Si Hanche’s gaze was as sharp as a scalpel, as if he wished he could skin her alive and pick her bones clean!
When he had received Shen Mengyu’s call and learned that she was pregnant, he had been shocked.
They had never been intimate—except for that one time at his teacher’s retirement banquet when he had gotten drunk.
Afterward, he had no memory of it at all. Who would have thought…
Knowing that Shen Mengyu was coming here to find Jiang Mingyan and apologize publicly to calm her anger, Si Hanche had rushed over from the hospital, fearing something might go wrong.
But what he witnessed was Jiang Mingyan pushing Shen Mengyu down the stairs!
There happened to be surveillance in the stairwell, and the people around had indeed seen Jiang Mingyan push Shen Mengyu.
Jiang Mingyan felt as if she had fallen into an icy abyss, her hands and feet so cold they were nearly frozen stiff, when a warm little hand grasped hers.
Yan Zheng glanced at Shen Mengyu’s pained expression and thought to herself,
[Is Si Hanche such a blockhead that he actually believes Shen Mengyu is pregnant? That night he was drunk as a log—he never laid a finger on Shen Mengyu. What’s she pregnant with—thin air?]
[Shen Mengyu stuffed a fake blood pack in her pants and just sat on it to burst it. The edge of the plastic bag is even peeking out from her lower back! If Si Hanche just pulled it out, he’d see the truth!]