From Runaway Bride to Global Queen

Chapter 78: Chapter 78: Splash Sulfuric Acid

“1.5 million!”

The light in Booth No. 3 flickered, and Qiao Yi recognized Gong Ting’s voice. She looked puzzledly in that direction.

“Isn’t Taikou Villa put up for auction by the Gong Family? Why are they bidding to buy it back?”

“Take another look at the description in the brochure.”

Surprise flashed in Lu Yanchuan’s eyes. It was only when his gaze fell on the brochure on the table that he began to understand.

Qiao Yi took up the brochure again after hearing Lu Yanchuan’s words and scrutinized it carefully. Only after a long while did she put it down with a sigh of exasperation.

“They’re actually playing word games like this? Isn’t this blatantly exploiting a legal loophole? And they’re deliberately scheming against you. They must have guessed that you would bid, so they intentionally set a trap for you!”

Qiao Yi pointed at the word ‘investment’ on the brochure, the more she looked, the angrier she became.

The brochure detailed the current status of Taikou Villa and its potential for future appreciation, but only a single, fleeting sentence mentioned the investment rights, which could have been easily overlooked without Qiao Yi’s careful rereading!

It turns out that the auction wasn’t for the entire Taikou Villa, but for the investment rights to the villa!

No wonder, after all, even if Taikou Villa was cashed out, it would be worth at least ten million. How could it possibly start at an auction price of one million!

Xing Yue on stage did not clarify this point either. Could it be that someone had deliberately planned this to bait Lu Yanchuan?

Instinctively, Qiao Yi thought of the Gong Family and turned to look at Lu Yanchuan, but his expression was so calm that one couldn’t decipher his thoughts.

Poker faces are the most annoying!

Qiao Yi rolled her eyes. Since Lu Yanchuan was aware of this, he must have a countermeasure, so there was no need for her to worry.

After Booth No. 3 placed their bid, no one else offered a higher price. Xing Yue on stage called for bids twice again, her large eyes eagerly looking towards Booth No. 1. It was evident that she was really anxious.

However, neither Lu Yanchuan nor Qiao Yi had any desire to bid anymore.

If it was Old Madam Gong’s villa, let Lu Yanchuan win the bid; an investment right wasn’t worth fighting for.

Faced with this silence, Xing Yue on stage started to panic, hesitating whether to hammer down the final bid.

Although the Gong Family had paid her to use some embellishing words during the auction of Taikou Villa, the Gong Family had also specifically instructed to make sure that Lu Yanchuan ended up with the lot!

But now, with the Gong Family themselves placing the bid and snatching the lot, she was torn whether to hammer the sale down or not!

Xing Yue was hesitating and struggling, while inside Booth No. 3, Gong Ting was close to being scolded to death by Gong Zhe.

“What are you doing! You’ve ruined the whole plan! You go straight home now, and you’re not allowed to step out of the door without my permission!”

Gong Zhe was truly angry this time. He hadn’t settled the score with Gong Ting for her last attempt at abducting Qiao Yi. Fortunately, afterwards Qiao Yi didn’t turn to the Qiao Family or the Lu Family for retribution, so the incident had passed.

But this time, Gong Zhe had everything planned out perfectly, to make Lu Yanchuan suffer a setback and buy the investment rights of Taikou Villa at the auction. Although it wouldn’t cause Lu Yanchuan much loss, it would vex him, achieving Gong Zhe’s purpose.

However, Gong Ting was unaware of the plan. With her interference, not only did his plan not succeed, but he also had to incur additional costs of hundreds of thousands in handling fees and commissions!

Even risk startling the snake and making Lu Yanchuan vigilant!

If Gong Ting weren’t his daughter, Gong Zhe would definitely teach her a severe lesson!

Xing Yue on the stage dragged the time a bit too long, although some auctioneers deliberately prolong the auction to attract more bids, but now it seems that no one else is bidding, Xing Yue’s behavior is a bit too contrived.

Having no choice, when people started to discuss below, Xing Yue finally dropped the auction hammer in her hand.

“Bang bang bang!”

The door of the private room was suddenly knocked, Lu Yanchuan and Qiao Yi exchanged glances, and Qiao Yi cleverly picked up a pillow from the sofa. With a serious face, she looked at the auction item brought up again, clearly indicating that she definitely did not want to answer the door.

Lu Yanchuan hooked the corner of his mouth inconspicuously, and went to open the door when the knocking sounded again.

“Ah!”

Qiao Yi screamed, dashed past Lu Yanchuan, ran out of the room, and chased after the flustered fleeing figure.

The long corridor was carpeted with plush, Qiao Yi in high heels was about to lose sight of the person when she suddenly stopped, took off her high heels, and threw them at the person’s silhouette.

Qiao Yi was lucky; the sharp heel hit the person’s head hard, causing him to stagger forward.

As the person was about to regain his balance, another shoe flew over and hit his neck.

Taking advantage of the momentum, Qiao Yi jumped up as she got close to the man and kicked him in the back, both of them tumbling to the ground in the corridor.

There was a lot of commotion outside, and many people from the private rooms came out to watch. When their gaze fell here, they saw Qiao Yi clutching a hairpin, stabbing it forcefully into the thigh of the man on the ground amidst everyone’s shocked stares.

The man howled in agony, and Qiao Yi, ensuring that the injured man could no longer run away, quickly got up and walked back.

Looking up at the shocked and surprised stares of the people in the corridor, Qiao Yi’s expression was stern. After sweeping a glance through the crowd, she raised her head to locate the surveillance cameras.

“Keep an eye on this man for me. If anyone dares to let him go, that would be offending both the Capital City Lu Family and Capital City Qiao Family!”

Qiao Yi left these words behind without paying any further attention to the wailing man on the ground and walked toward private room number one barefoot.

The two hadn’t run far, and Qiao Yi quickly returned to private room number one. The private room’s bathroom light was on, and Lu Yanchuan was inside rinsing sulfuric acid off his arm.

That’s right, just as Qiao Yi turned her head to see who was knocking, she saw the man at the door holding a cup of sulfuric acid, splashing it straight at Lu Yanchuan!

Had it not been for Lu Yanchuan’s quick reflexes using the door to block, that cup of sulfuric acid would have splashed right onto his face!

Although Lu Yanchuan does not rely on his face to make a living, still! Getting splashed with sulfuric acid is an extremely malicious act!

Qiao Yi even felt that the sulfuric acid in that man’s hand was very likely meant for her!

After all, according to common logic, with both her and Lu Yanchuan in the private room, the person to answer the door when someone knocked would definitely not be Lu Yanchuan, it should have been her!

However, this was just Qiao Yi’s own speculation, not evidence.

Hurriedly rushing back to the private room, Lu Yanchuan had also come out from the bathroom.