Eleven sent Jiujiu a bunch of apologetic messages, doing all sorts of cute acts and imploring forgiveness. But none of this worked. Grandpa JiÇ was mad, and the situation was severe!
Jiujiu coldly ignored Eleven.
All she can do was hold her mobile phone, crying bitterly in the empty room.
How was she to know that they were not joking about the 30 million necklace? She thought they were surely joking about it!
Eleven paced back and forth in the room, wondering what to do.
She realized how kind Feiâer and Ye Mo had been to her and her son, but for her, 30 million was astronomical. How could they possibly give Jiujiu such an amount?!
Even if it was an early investment on Jiujiu, wasnât it too early?
She called Gu Liancheng, but he was on another call. She was almost driven crazy by this father-son duo!
She kept dialing repeatedly until he finally answered.
"Whatâs up, I just left..."
"Gu Liancheng, you bloody scammer!!" Eleven yelled furiously.
Caught off guard by her sudden roar, Gu Liancheng was slightly startled, the shout from his Bluetooth device making him frown. "Shang Qianxun, whatâs going on?"
"Give me back that necklace! I wonât sell it!!"
Hearing what the matter was, a grin spread across Gu Lianchengâs face.
This foolish girl, she finally realized?
For the first time, she addressed him by his full name, which surprisingly made him a bit happy.
"Oh, you mean that necklace? Youâve already sold it to me. How can you say youâre not selling now? You have to follow some rules."
"I donât care! In any case, youâre unethical! Youâre a scammer!"
"Where have I behaved unethically? Where did I deceive you?" Gu Liancheng laughed, "I didnât coax you into selling the necklace. Didnât it start when you offered a price of 30,000? And I generously paid you an additional 20,000. If this was someone else..."
"..." Eleven was so enraged she stomped her feet, but couldnât refute even a single word.
Everything Gu Liancheng said was correct; she had done it voluntarily!
After holding it in for a long time, she finally blurted out, "You shameless! You clearly knew the worth of that necklace, yet you bought it for a mere 50,000. Isnât this stealing?"
As she spoke, she felt increasingly wronged and her voice began to tremble.
Gu Liancheng calmly said, "I never said I didnât know its worth. You insisted on selling it to me..."
"All because of you! Little Treasure is going to cut ties with me! Can you compensate for that?"
"Little Treasure?"
Overwhelmed by anger, Eleven inadvertently let slip something. With wide eyes, she was terrified.
But when she thought about it, she was glad that at least she mentioned Little Treasure...
"My little cousin! He said he wonât acknowledge me as his cousin anymore. He said Iâm too stupid, and has run away from home and will never come to see me again. Can you take responsibility for this?"
Oh... the little kid. Indeed, heâs kind of fun.
"No problem, I have little cousin too. Iâll take him to visit you someday."
"...Thatâs not the point! You capitalist! Bloodsucker! Devil! Give me back the necklace!"
"Business is heartless, I bought it, I didnât rob it."
"Iâll tell you, tomorrow Iâm going to put up a banner at your company, sit at the door crying about how you tricked me out of my necklace! You, as the president of Liancheng Group, are bullying a defenseless little girl. Your story will probably be on the headlines. Do you believe that?"
"I believe it," he found the thought amusing, "you can come. When you do..."
Suddenly, there was a sound of heavy breathing from the phone, and he didnât continue his sentence.
Then, the next second, there was a mixture of sudden steering and crashing noises, the ear-piercing sound of brakes screeching, and so on...