“Good girl…”
His voice over the phone was lower than usual, carrying a tingling warmth through the static.
Zhou Suisui lay on the bed, clutching her phone, her palm-sized face burning.
She glanced at her still-dripping hair. After hesitating for a few seconds, she threw back the covers, jumped out of bed, slipped on her slippers, and hurried toward the bathroom to fetch the hair dryer from the cabinet.
She stood in front of the mirror.
With the hair dryer in one hand, she gathered her hair with the other.
The dryer hummed and crackled as its warm air gently brushed across her scalp.
The surroundings seemed unusually quiet.
She had the distinct feeling that something was wrong, as though she had overlooked something extremely important.
Right—where was her brother?
She paused slightly. Her eyes flew open, and even her breathing instantly grew rapid.
Oh no!
Ever since she had returned home from the airport, she had not seen her brother again.
Just then, hurried knocking sounded from outside the door.
“Miss!”
Zhou Suisui switched off the hair dryer almost immediately and went over to open the door.
“Sister Wu…”
Before Zhou Suisui could say anything, Cui Wu anxiously blurted out, “Miss, this is bad! Young Master has already left for the auction! I couldn’t stop him!”
“He’s already gone?”
“Yes!”
Cui Wu had tried to stop Zhou Sui'an just now, but he had claimed that there was something going on at the company.
Cui Wu didn’t believe a word of it. He was obviously rushing to the auction to buy something for Su Wan.
But he was the boss, and she was only an employee. How could she possibly stop him?
“I’m sorry, Miss. I couldn’t stop him…”
Zhou Suisui had specifically instructed her about this the moment she returned home, and she had failed to carry out her orders.
Zhou Suisui silently clenched her fists. Her voice remained relatively calm as she comforted her, “Sister Wu, this isn’t your fault. His legs belong to him. If he wants to leave, there’s no way you can stop him.”
“Then… what do we do now?”
Cui Wu was so anxious that she had no idea what to do.
After clashing with Su Wan face-to-face several times, Cui Wu’s understanding of shamelessness had been completely overturned.
Su Wan was an utterly shameless villain—a white lotus, a low-grade green tea.
Nothing good ever came from Young Master listening to her.
Zhou Suisui was clearly even more worried than Cui Wu. Her entire body was tense.
Because of her forceful intervention, the events of this life had already begun to diverge from those of her previous life.
For example…the matter of Su Wan drugging her brother.
In her previous life, Su Wan had succeeded.
The reporters had swarmed in and captured “evidence” of her brother “molesting” her.
As a result, her brother had been thrust into the eye of the storm. This set off a chain reaction, eventually causing the Zhou family to be destroyed and leaving them with nothing.
In this life, because she had learned of the plot in advance and warned her brother, he had escaped by jumping from the building, preventing Su Wan’s vicious scheme from succeeding.
She tried hard to recall what had happened.
She was certain there had never been an auction in her previous life.
So…because of her rebirth, the course of events had changed.
Zhou Suisui’s breathing grew hurried.
She took a deep breath and forced herself to calm down.
She immediately turned on her computer and searched online for information.
Short videos were all the rage these days.
A house cat giving birth to a litter of kittens, or someone finding mushrooms in some remote wilderness—either one was enough to dominate the internet for three whole days.
Not to mention an auction of such magnitude.
Sure enough, this auction had attracted enormous attention, and the internet was flooded with detailed information.
There would be Paraiba tourmaline rough stones, a Ru ware sunflower basin with a sky-blue glaze from the Song dynasty, a sapphire necklace once worn by a British princess…
The auction had no shortage of treasures.
But the most eye-catching item was undoubtedly the South African royal diamond printed in the most prominent position on the promotional brochure—the “Pink Heart.”
This fancy vivid pink diamond weighed a full 29.8 carats and was internally flawless.
Pink diamonds required extreme geological conditions to form. Their production was only one ten-thousandth that of white diamonds, and stones reaching the “fancy vivid” grade were rarer still. They were the ultimate goal of jewelry collectors.
The starting bid was three hundred million yuan!
Zhou Suisui clicked her tongue in astonishment.
Yet she also found it utterly ridiculous.
Even as the Zhou family's eldest daughter, she wouldn’t dare casually buy a diamond worth hundreds of millions.
A very bad feeling rose in her heart.
Her brother liked buying houses and collecting gold. The one thing he had never been interested in was diamonds.
Her brother had once told her that diamonds were nothing more than a scam designed to fleece women—a tax on stupidity.
But based on what she knew about Su Wan, she was greedy to the extreme and wicked to the extreme, yet still arrogant and ambitious.
Normally, she put on an act in front of her brother, pretending to be an “independent woman” who was “pure and kind.” Whenever he gave her anything, she would coyly refuse several times.
Even when her brother transferred money to her, she was extremely cautious, insisting that he add the words “an automatic gift” to the transfer before she would accept it.
Since she had taken the initiative to ask her brother for something this time…
It had to be the most expensive and valuable item of all!
Her target was definitely the auction’s crown jewel—the “Pink Heart.”
Zhou Suisui suddenly thought of something else. She hurriedly took out her phone and opened Weibo.
In the search bar, she typed in “Wanwan Sees Through It All.”
That was Su Wan’s Weibo name. Her profile picture was a huge, dazzling crown.
She tapped it open.
Sure enough…
The top post had been pinned, and the pink diamond stood out vividly.
Above the picture was a line of text:
“My LOVE.”
Several trending hashtags followed the word “LOVE.”
#Did you receive a gift for 520?#
#Sorry, I’m going to show off first this time!#
#Have you ever seen a pink diamond worth 300 million yuan?#
#I didn’t want it—he insisted on giving it to me!#
The post had been up for less than two hours, yet it already had thousands of comments.
At this point, Su Wan was still only a third-rate actress. With her brother’s help, she had paid for a few supporting roles, but those dramas had not yet aired.
Oh, why weren’t they leading roles?
Because the directors had refused. No matter how much her brother offered, they still wouldn’t agree.
Su Wan had undergone plastic surgery, and her expressions while acting were extremely unnatural. No director with any real standards would cast her as the female lead.
She didn’t have many followers yet, either.
Last month, she had thirty thousand followers. This month, she had a hundred thousand.
Those seventy thousand new followers had come because of Young Master Zhou’s grand public confession, drawn in by the spectacle.
It was proof that in the entertainment industry, traffic was king. Even being infamous counted as being famous.
At that moment, the comment section exploded.
The screen was filled with sour yet envious remarks from fans and passersby alike:
“Oh my god! Three hundred million! I thought it was three yuan for a head of cabbage—how can you spend that kind of money so casually? I’m going to riot against you rich people!”
“Wahhh, she’s been so fiercely favored. I’m perfectly happy to watch her show off!”
“Ugh, I’m so insanely jealous. I’ll never get to see jewelry that expensive in my entire life.”
“Guys, does anyone understand? Just one simple ‘my LOVE,’ and I’ve already played an entire sweet romance drama in my head.”
“Other people get flowers and lipstick for 520. She gets a billion-yuan pink diamond.”
“It was Young Master Zhou who gave it to her, right?”
“Our Wanwan is just too charming. Young Master Zhou is more than happy to throw money at her. The eldest daughter of the Zhou family can die of anger for all I care.”
“Haha, don’t you find this strange? Young Master Zhou publicly confessed to Wanwan last time, only to stand her up at the last minute. If he’s no longer in love with her, why would he spend three hundred million on a diamond ring for her? I think there’s definitely something fishy going on.”
【Isn’t it all because his little sister was stirring up trouble between them! She thinks she can do whatever she wants just because she’s the eldest daughter of the family… Shh, never mind, never mind. The eldest daughter has boundless powers—careful, or you might get a lawyer’s letter.】
“…”
When Zhou Suisui saw the comment, she was so angry that she nearly laughed.
Did she know this netizen, whose username was “Pig Hero Isn’t Called Pig”? The person made it sound as though they knew the whole story.
(Just putting on a helmet here—if anyone happens to have the same username, that’s purely coincidence. Please don’t read too much into it.)
Since they wanted a lawyer’s letter so badly, why not send them one?
Zhou Suisui curled her lips into an evil little smile, then turned her limpid, shining eyes toward Cui Wu.
She raised her slender, snow-white finger and pointed at the account.
“Sister Wu, they want a lawyer’s letter. Make a note of it and send them one.”
The internet was not beyond the reach of the law.
These days, the Internet Civilization Office explicitly stipulated that reposting something more than five hundred times constituted online defamation.
And this Weibo post had already been reposted far more than five hundred times.
Writer’s block, writer’s block~ There’s still one more chapter—read it tomorrow morning~~ Good night~~
