A Vengeful Ex-Wife

Chapter 181 A Huge Sum Of Money

At that moment, a little girl's voice came from behind them. "Uncle, you made Aunt cry. You're not good to her!"

James and Maria turned at the same time and saw a little girl running out of nowhere with braided hair. She stared at them with her doe eyes.

Maria looked quite wronged. Choking a sob, she complained, "Look! Even a child can see that you aren't good to me. You mistreat me!"

James was speechless. Seeing the aggrieved look on her face, his anger disappeared.

The little girl's mother rushed after her. She apologized to James and Maria as she dragged her daughter away.

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"No! You aren't good to me!" Maria kept weeping.

James sighed helplessly. "What do you want?"

Maria took a deep breath. Holding back her tears, she looked around. Finally, her gaze fell on the milk tea shop. It wasn't far from where they were, but there was a waiting line. "I want to have my first cup of milk tea in autumn. Go and buy it for me to warm up my heart."

She hadn't had a single cup of milk tea the whole summer, let alone in autumn. She just wanted to see how sincere James was.

'A cup of milk tea will warm up her heart? I don't think Einstein could understand a woman's cravings,' James thought.

Looking at the milk tea shop nearby, James noticed that over a dozen people were waiting in line. With a slight frown, he asked, "How much is a cup of milk tea?"

Since he never had milk tea before, and there was no such shop under HL Group, Maria picked a number of her own choice. "Five hundred and twenty-one dollars." The pronunciation of the number sounded quite similar to "I love you" in Mandarin Chinese.

James pulled the phone out of his jacket pocket and transferred 5,210,000 dollars to her. Then he said, "The money has been transferred. Take it and buy it yourself.

As she heard the message alert, Maria took out her phone and looked at it in astonishment.

It wasn't a big deal that James gave her the money, but he transferred millions of dollars to her in the blink of an eye. He was indeed rich!

Once again, Maria had her theory proved right. Wiring someone a big sum of money was a more effective way to make them happy than caring for her verbally.

In any case, her broken heart was mended immediately.

"Are you leaving or not?" the man asked again.

Maria nodded decisively. "Sure."

The two then got into the car together. Once the door was closed, the car started and roared away.

It was not until James looked out of the window that he realized something important.

There was no reason for him to treat Maria well.

He was hasty to give in.

He frowned, wondering if Maria had deliberately sent that cute little girl to soften him.

"I want to go back to my hotel room," said Maria. She had things to deal with at night.

James glanced at her and replied, "No, let's go to Fairview Villa."

"I must go back to the hotel. I'm not in the mood tonight."

As their eyes met, it was clear neither of them wanted to give in. But in the end, James compromised and didn't force her. After dropping her off at the hotel, James asked the driver to take him back to the company.

In her room, Maria spent the night working. It was quite late when she went to bed.

Early the next morning, Lawrence left H City. James couldn't help but feel at peace knowing this.

Although he realized that Lawrence and Maria were in a fake relationship before, he still didn't like it one bit.

In the villa

Furious, Maria kicked James' table and said, "Why are you so arrogant? You know what? It doesn't matter because one day, I'll make you kneel and admit you were defeated by me!"

As he heard this, James answered listlessly, "I didn't mean to be arrogant."

"Well, then you'd better remember this conversation so it won't happen again! Ha-ha!"

The next moment, she woke up laughing.

Once she opened her eyes and saw the hotel room ceiling, Maria's grin disappeared.

Sitting up on the bed, she looked at her surroundings and exhaled in frustration.

It turned out that she was dreaming just now. What a pity! Whenever she thought of how James apologized to her in the dream, she wished it could be true.

Then Maria checked the time on her phone, and it was eight in the morning.

From her dream, it could be said that she didn't have a good night's rest.

However, despite feeling a bit tired, she didn't go back to sleep. After she got up, she washed up and got dressed to go to the coffee shop.

As the day ran smoothly, at noon, she took a nap on the sofa in the establishment's private room.

It was getting dark when Maria left the cafe with her handbag.

Yet, before she could take two steps away from the place, a man in a suit walked towards her. "Good evening, Ms. Song."

Maria looked him up and down. She didn't recognized the man.

He explained politely, "I work for Mr. Jiang. He asked me to invite you to meet with him now."

Apparently, Jonathan had made his move. It just came later than she had expected.

Maria glanced at the queue of cars behind him and saw other men sitting in them. It seemed Jonathan was determined to take her away this time.

Considering this, she answered with a smile, "Oh, Mr. Jiang? Okay, let's go!"

As Maria followed the man into one of the cars, she pulled out her phone and sent a message to someone. "Notify Jonathan's wife. I'll send you the location soon."

Maria only found out where she was going to meet

Jonathan once she arrived at a private club.

Before getting inside, she sent another message with her location.

In the club, Maria followed the man who accompanied her there straight to the second floor.

Coincidentally, she met a familiar face-Elaine.

The woman was alone this time. She wore a suit and black trousers while carrying a green handbag. Her face didn't show any sort of emotion at first, but as soon as she saw Maria, her features hardened.

Maria looked away as if she didn't know Elaine.

At this moment, Jonathan's subordinate pushed open the door to a private room for Maria. Elaine took a few steps towards her in time to see a man standing inside with his back to them.

Elaine looked at Maria again, even more disgusted.

The next moment, mother and daughter brushed past each other as if they were complete strangers. While one headed out of the club, the other stepped into the room.

Maria put her handbag on the table and greeted the man with a smile. "Mr. Jiang, you've finally made time to see me!"

Smoking a cigarette, Jonathan turned around and looked at her coldly. "Ms. Song, you came!'¹

Maria sit on the sofa, blinking innocently as she asked, "Why are you calling me Ms. Song? Mr. Jiang, please call me Maria."

This time, Jonathan was more careful with the woman in front of him. He kept reminding himself that Maria was too cunning. He couldn't let his guard down around her.

Stubbing out the cigarette in the ashtray, he made his way towards her. He only stopped when he was close enough to touch her.

He then raised her chin and looked into her almond-shaped eyes. "Maria? Okay. Could you please explain to me what happened at the hotel last time?"

Maria felt her stomach churn. Taking the man’s big palm away from her chin, she held his arm. "Why are you asking me this? I thought you weren't coming back.

I didn't dare to ask around about you for fear that your wife might find out. Mr. Jiang, I'm here with you now, right?"

Jonathan would be a fool to believe this woman's words again. He pressed her against the sofa and suggested with a blank face, "If that's so, how about we do it right here right now?"

"Right here?" Maria looked around. "I don't think that's a good idea. How about we get a room?"

Jonathan sneered and asked, "What tricks are you playing this time?"

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