Chapter 891

The winner always liked to look down on the loser. And now, she, Jian Huan, was the winner.

However, when Jian Huan turned around, she realized that Melody Fox did not seem to care about who the Green Velvet medicine belonged to at all. She stood up from her seat with a faint smile on her face.

‘Where is she going?’

Didn’t she want the Green Velvet medicine? Why did she look like she didn’t care at all?

Not long after, Jian Huan saw that after Melody Fox left her seat, a tall man behind her also stood up.

The man had his head lowered just now, so she did not notice that person’s existence. It was not until the other party stood up that Jian Huan suddenly realized that it was Ken Swanson!

Ken Swanson was the first to extend his hand to Melody Fox. The two of them did not care about the gazes of the surrounding people and interlocked their fingers. Then, they walked to the empty seat in the last row and sat down.

From the beginning to the end, the two of them did not even look at her.

Damn it…

Could it be that her guess was wrong? It was not Ken Swanson who asked Melody Fox to buy the Green Velvet medicine, but… Melody Fox wanted to buy it herself?

However, since she wanted to buy it, why did she stop bidding at this point in time?

Jian Huan thought about it but could not get an answer.

At that moment, Mother Jian tugged at her sleeve.

When she turned around, she heard Mother Jian whisper, Xiao Huan, how much cash do you have on you?”

Jian Huan was stunned and said, “I have about 2 million dollars on my card. What’s wrong?”

Mother Jian’s expression changed drastically.

“Then we don’t have enough money!”

“What do you mean?” Jian Huan asked in shock, “Didn’t you bring money? Didn’t I remind you to bring more money over first?”

Mother Jian gritted her teeth and said, “How would I know that we could raise the price to 40 million dollars6 million dollars tonight? I only brought 20 million dollars over. Together with your 2 million dollars, we don’t have enough money to pay! I originally thought that 20 million dollars was enough.”

Jian Huan’s face turned pale.

Although they had already negotiated with Taylor’s, the Green Velvet medicine would eventually be sold to them for 4 million dollars.

However, according to the rules of the auction, they had to pay the notary backstage first. After the auction ended, the notary would transfer the money to the Taylor family.

The original plan was that once the money was transferred, Chairman Lou Taylor’s would use his private account to transfer the extra 4,539,17 dollars back to them. However, the money on hand was not enough to pay the 4,624,424,531,80 dollars. In this way, everyone would know that they could not afford to pay at all and would become the “malicious bidders in everyone’s eyes.

“W-What should we do now?” Mother Jian was panicking. Her lips were turning blue.

The people who came tonight were all famous figures from Insterimond.

If they lost face in such a place, the entire upper-class circle of Halcyon would treat them as a joke after dinner.

Jian Huan calmed down and said in a low voice, “Hurry up and find a private place to call Dad and ask him to think of a way for us.”

Mother Jian’s face wrinkled with worry.

“But even your father doesn’t have that much cash on hand.

He invested all his money. I asked the main family for this 20 million dollars…”

“Then let Dad go to the main family again!”

“B-but what if the main family feels that we can’t even handle such a small matter and blames us? Who knows if they have received the news that Ming Haotian has been abandoned by the Mont family?”

“No.” Jian Huan took a deep breath and said, “Even without the Mont family, they’re still counting on me to rope in other connections. They won’t give me up just like that. There are only two girls of suitable age in the family, Jane and I. They can’t let Jane sell them, right? I can do such dirty things, but Jane won’t.”

Mother Jian gritted her teeth and said, “Then I’ll make a call.”

With that, Mother Jian found an excuse to go to the bathroom and left quickly with her phone.

Jian Huan panicked, but she forced herself to remain calm.

She quickly flipped open the introduction book for the auction items. When she saw that there were still four more items to be auctioned and the payment process was about to arrive, the calmness on her face began to show.

Hopefully, he could make it in time…

Mrs. Taylor, who was standing at the side, noticed the mother and daughter conversing in a low voice. He looked flustered. When he saw Mother Jian get up and leave, he could not help but frown and ask, “What’s wrong?”

“It’s fine. My mother’s stomach isn’t feeling too well. Perhaps the food she ate at night wasn’t too clean.” Mrs. Taylor didn’t believe her, but she didn’t ask further. She did not care about what happened to this mother and daughter. All she cared about was her husband and her eldest son’s lives.

Seeing that Mrs. Taylor quickly left them alone, Jian Huan heaved a sigh of relief.

However, she also vaguely felt that something was wrong. It was as if she was in a trap set by someone else.

Jian Huan turned to look at the last row again.

Coincidentally, Melody Fox also looked at her. When their eyes met, Melody Fox smiled faintly. The smile in his eyes seemed to carry a hint of ridicule. The feeling of falling into a trap in her heart instantly became stronger.

It was so strong that she did not dare to look at Melody Fox. She quickly turned around.

“What are you looking at?” Mrs. Taylor could not help but ask again.

“No…”

“Really… (baffled)”

Mrs. Taylor swallowed the ridicule in his mouth and simply got up to sit beside her husband, ignoring Jian Huan.

After all, she was afraid of the Murphy family’s main family, not this daughter from the side family.

As long as she confirmed that the other party would not break the contract, she did not need to deliberately curry favor with them.

After about 20 minutes, there were only Fox minutes left until the last auction item. Mother Jian finally returned. After Mother Jian sat down, Jian Huan hurriedly asked, ” How is it?”

Mother Jian shook her head gently.

Jian Huan’s brows immediately furrowed.

“What do you mean by shaking your head? Mom, hurry up and explain!”

Mother Jian looked like she was about to cry. “The main family doesn’t care about us.”

Jian Huan’s eyes widened.

“What do you mean?”

“They said that they’ve already given us 20 million dollars. We’ll have to figure out the rest ourselves. And from your father’s tone, they’re planning to abandon our branch after knowing that Minghao was cut off from the Mont family.” “What?! Aren’t they afraid that no one will replace their daughter to sleep with others in the future?!”

Because of her anger, Jian Huan subconsciously raised her voice, causing the people sitting nearby to look at her in confusion.

Jian Huan quickly lowered her head. When the other party no longer paid attention to them, she lowered her voice and continued, “I gave up so much for them and got sick. They actually don’t care about me? They’re not like this!”

“They seem to have… found a more reliable backer than the Mont family.”

“Who?”

“Even your father doesn’t know about this. But your father, we don’t have to return 20 million dollars to the main family in the future.”

Jian Huan’s eyes were dark.

“Are they trying to send me away with 20 million dollars? It’s not that easy!”