Coolest Girl in Town

Chapter 504 Consider It Charity

As his eyes were bloodshot and the veins on his face were pulsing due to his anger, Ziggy growled, “You must have colluded with them to play a trick on me! Well? Explain yourself. Why didn’t you look for the red jade?” He looked somewhat savage as he spoke.

“Can you be reasonable? You’re the one who said I could only choose from the inner hall; I didn’t even have the chance to head to the outer hall. How can you blame me now? Besides, I’m not a god. I’ve never seen a blood jade before. How would we be able to find it just because I’m here?” Tina stood up for herself.

“‘Reasonable’? Hah—”

“Why don’t you be more reasonable?”

Slap!

By the time he was done sneering and the audience could react, Tina was slapped so hard that her head had been turned to the side. There was a clear palm print on her cheek and a trail of blood running down from a corner of her mouth.

Never did anyone expect Ziggy to hit a woman. While most people were aware of the Carnegie Family’s bad reputation, they were shocked to personally witness Ziggy slapping a woman and making fun of her.

Meanwhile, as her nose started to itch, Tina cupped the cheek he had slapped and finally let out a sob. Her tears fell drop by drop and blended in with the puddles that the rock grinder left on the ground and disappeared.

Like her sob, her tears lasted only a moment. She couldn’t cry—not at an occasion like this. Crying at a place like this would only serve as entertainment to indifferent onlookers. She was the daughter of the Baker Family; she couldn’t appear weak in front of others. Yet, even as she told herself that, her tears continued to well up.

Of course, careless to propriety and feeling like he hadn’t managed to enjoy that slap to his heart’s content, Ziggy lifted his hand once more and prepared to vent all of his anger on her.

Unexpectedly, Tom rushed over at this moment and stood in front of Tina. The previously timid and weak-willed man was now aggressively waiting for Ziggy.

“Who do you think you are to be worth acting like a knight in shining armor in front of me?” Ziggy prodded Tom so hard on the chest that Tom’s body swayed.

Planting his feet firmly on the ground, Tom answered with insistence, “Don’t blame her for your inferior skills. What right do you have to hit her?”

see you’ve been working together. No wonder you’re always out by yourself these days. From the looks of it, you’ve been acting

didn’t you choose your own stones? Are all of the Carnegies a bunch of good-for-nothings who can only

infuriated Ziggy shouted, “Shut your

your promise. Frostine Murray—the designer from

he didn’t dare to make any moves. After all, everyone at the venue knew the terms of their bet. However reluctant he might be,

I’m paying her debts today. From today onward, the Baker Family will no

certain customs that were not in the lawbook yet. Human trade was one of them. Although the law did

one such contract that Tina entered the Carnegie Family since she had no other way to pay her parents’ debts. That was how the world worked—after the happy childhood her parents gave her, it seemed right for

belongs to the Carnegies. Even when she dies, she’ll die in the Carnegie Family!” Ziggy snapped in an insufferably arrogant manner before eyeing Tina sinisterly. Once they arrived home,

own fate, she pushed Tom aside and said

wouldn’t like to work with

me to sell her.” Ziggy spread his hands and challenged

vexed Tom asked, “What are we going to do,

her fingers. In the next second, a man in leather shoes and a suit squeezed out from the crowd to pass a stack

to locate a piece of top-quality imperial jade. The Carnegie Family attempted to buy it at a low price but sent people after it when the Bakers declined their offer. As a result of the grievous wounds they sustained during the assault, Mr. and Mrs. Baker passed on. Following that, the Carnegie Family fabricated some debts as an

talk, so much emotional pain had overwhelmed her that she swayed on her feet.

How dare you frame the Carnegie Family! I’ll come for everything

seized. Do you think you’ll be able to afford

for less than five seconds, Ziggy was the first to admit defeat.

tossed the document folder onto the nearby table before continuing calmly, “As long as you produce Tina’s contract, you’ll be able to leave with that evidence. Otherwise, I can have someone from the

at his assistant, receiving the contract the assistant produced, and tossing it onto the ground. “You can have it for free. Consider it charity!” With that, he went to pick up Elise’s document folder himself

the audience’s attention returned to the red

you prepared to sell