Lost and Found: Return of My Mysterious Fiancee

Jared’s grip was strong, causing Walter to grimace in pain. “Ah! It hurts, it hurts!” Jared looked at him coldly, his voice icy. “What did you just call her?” “I-I didn’t insult her, I called myself a fool!” Walter quickly said. He had no other virtues, but compared to Nathaniel, his greatest strength was his ability to adapt.

Jared released him without expression and said in a deep voice, “From today on, all your galleries will be closed. You have one day to do it. If you can’t, I’ll personally tear them down!” Copying Tina’s most cherished work-her painting dedicated to her mother-was something he could not tolerate. Walter felt a surge of resentment but dared not show it on his face as he looked at Jared and Tina’s murderous gazes. “No matter what, I’m still your cousin. Treating me like this in public doesn’t just disgrace me; it disgraces the Farrell family. Have you thought about that?”

“It’s you who are disgracing yourself. What does that have to do with me or Tina?” Jared casually adjusted his slightly messy clothes, completely indifferent to the family’s reputation. If not for the fact that the Farrell family was built up by his grandfather, did these people think he would stay? Jared never needed the Farrell family’s halo to survive.

“But you’re also part of this family!” Walter shouted indignantly. He had never been able to compete with Jared since childhood and thought that once Jared was out of the picture, no one could stop him. But he was wrong; Jared was never useless-he had been pretending!

“So?” Jared raised an eyebrow, looking at him with eyes devoid of warmth. Walter was furious. Why could Jared remain so detached? How did his disgrace benefit Jared? But clearly, Jared was determined to shut down his galleries. These galleries were his investment for smoothly taking over the Farrell family in the future. If they were closed, how could he compete with Jared? No way! The galleries must stay open!

Thinking of this, Walter suddenly shouted, “Vivienne! Where are you? If you don’t come out now, I’ll be forced to death by Jared!” Vivienne, who had been watching coldly from the crowd, showed a hint of disdain in her eyes.

Fool! Don’t you know your own limits? Causing trouble for Tina at the gallery! With how much Jared protects Tina like she’s his heart and soul, do you think he’ll let you off?

Vivienne composed herself and stepped forward. She glanced at Walter and then at Jared, asking in confusion, “What’s going on here?”

“Vivienne, you’ve been close with Jared since childhood. Help me out here; I don’t want to close my galleries!” Walter grabbed onto this lifeline urgently.

In the entire Farrell family, besides Orson, only Vivienne had a good relationship with Jared. Everyone else had their own agendas.

Vivienne frowned slightly. “What did you do? Why does Jared want you to close your galleries?” Walter was exasperated but had no choice but to explain the situation since he needed Vivienne’s help.

After hearing it all, Vivienne scolded him, “You’re really muddle-headed! If you want to be an artist, focus on creating your own work. Why copy? Tina said she painted that piece in memory of her mother. How could she not be angry when you copied it?”

Walter was furious and wanted to curse! I asked you to help me, not scold me!

Vivienne glared at him before turning to Tina. “Tina, I’m sorry; I didn’t know about this. If I had known earlier, I would’ve advised my brother against it. Can you give me some face and let this go?”

Tina looked at her with a half-smile. “You mean I should just let it go after being plagiarized?”

“No,” Vivienne replied after thinking for a moment. “My brother is indeed wrong and should be punished.” She paused before continuing, “How about this? I’ll give you a set of jewelry I recently designed; it’s not yet showcased. Can I use it as an apology on my brother’s behalf?”

Tina smirked. “Cousin, do you think I’m short on jewelry?”

Vivienne hesitated before saying again, “Then how about compensation? Name your price; as long as we can afford it, we’ll try our best to meet it.”

Tina glanced at her briefly before replying sarcastically, “Do I look poor?”

Cole: Very poor!

Jayden: Extremely poor!

Her nine brothers from Serenity Ridge: No! Our Serena is the richest in our country; if she lacks money, we are here for her!

A cold light flashed in Vivienne’s eyes.

So stubborn.

“Why don’t you name your terms?” Vivienne continued in a gentle tone.

Tina turned to Jared and asked sweetly, “Uncle, what do you think?”

Seeing Tina seek Jared’s opinion made Vivienne quickly interject, “Jared, please consider we’re family and persuade Tina not to hold a grudge.”

Jared looked at her impassively without speaking.

Vivienne persisted, “Or please consider my face? As long as Tina lets this go, we’ll compensate.”

Hearing this, a faint smile appeared on Jared’s thin lips as he turned to Tina. “Shall we give our cousin some face?”

Tina smiled back. “Alright! Let’s give cousin some face!”

Vivienne was somewhat surprised; she hadn’t expected her face held such weight with Jared.

She smiled gratefully and said, “Thank you both. Tina if there’s any compensation you’d like, just let me know.”

Tina propped her chin with one hand and thought for a moment before saying lightly, “Then just give me money!”

“Alright!” Vivienne agreed readily. “How about one billion dollars?”

Tina gave her a look as if she were being insulted.

Vivienne paused before asking again tentatively, “Too little? How about three billion?”

They had saved nearly ten billion over the years; giving away three billion wasn’t an issue.Content © NôvelDrama.Org 2024.

Mainly because gaining more trust from Jared would make things easier in the future.

Tina remained silent.

Seeing this reaction made Vivienne frown almost imperceptibly before asking again softly: “What amount do you think is appropriate?”

“One hundred billion,” Tina replied calmly!

“What!!” Walter suddenly screamed out loud: “One hundred billion? Why don’t you go robbing banks instead? Even robbing banks won’t get that much money! How big is your face anyway? For copying your lousy painting-you demand one hundred billion?”

Vivienne’s face also darkened visibly!

They only had around one hundred billion total assets; how could they possibly give all of it away?

This damn girl must have calculated their wealth when making such demands!

Jared cast an indifferent glance at him before taking Tina’s hand and turning away: “Tina let’s go tear down those galleries.”

Walter immediately fell silent.

These two bastards!

“Wait!”

Vivienne suddenly called after them: “Fine-one hundred billion!”