Relentless Pursuit After Divorce
Chapter 846. This is awkward.

Chapter 846: 846. This is awkward.

And Elly Campbell realized it suddenly after Jeny Chapman finished admonishing George Parker.

Buying a fake inkstone purported to be from the Huizong era for ten dollars and passing it off as genuine, what was she thinking?

Even vanity should have some limits, right?

She knew Dragon Pavilion was selling the real thing, yet she had the gall to bring a fake to challenge them.

Fine, buying a fake is one thing, but to flaunt one’s supposed knowledge by claiming it was used by Emperor Huizong when he invented the Slender Gold Script...

Isn’t that just deliberately sabotaging her own exit strategy?

And now she’s foolishly shouted out the actual amount she paid, does this "drag-along" have any brains at all?

Even if her father were inclined to help her bluff her way out of this, he simply wouldn’t have the means to do so now, and he would likely drag Old Mr. Green into this mess as well.

The more Elly Campbell thought about it, the angrier she got. She didn’t care whether this "drag-along" embarrassed herself in public, no matter how much, she simply didn’t care—she’d rather her face be utterly lost.

But she cared about Old Mr. Green; she didn’t want his reputation as a great musician to be ruined by such an idiot, to become the laughing stock of high society.

In the future, because of this fool’s mistake today, she wouldn’t be able to hold her head high.

"What... what do you mean?"

Jeny Chapman seemed to vaguely understand something, looking at Cam Green incredulously, eyes widening, "Old Mr. Green, did your daughter buy this?"

Cam Green’s face was grim, and he didn’t speak. His expression alternated between red and green as if he were constipated.

Today, this foolish daughter of his had completely thrown away his face.

He knew she had been provoked by Adam Jones’s treatment of Elly Campbell, but she had been too rash, daring to pass off a ten-dollar item as one worth two hundred thousand dollars.

If she hadn’t blurted out the price of two hundred thousand, he might have been able to spin it that she was deceived by someone, yet it was indeed purchased for two hundred thousand and would not have been a lie.

But unfortunately, she had no brains to speak of and had shouted out the actual price she paid.

Even if Cam Green tried to cover for her, he had no idea where to begin.

Cam Green clenched his jaw tightly, pinching the bridge of his nose without a word.

Jeny Chapman looked at George Parker’s almost-smiling expression and finally understood completely.

George Parker, that scoundrel, was fooling him; this fake inkstone wasn’t his at all, but belonged to Sophia Green.

But the Green Clan’s daughter had really gone too far, attending a birthday banquet bearing a mere ten-dollar gift while pretending it was an inkstone worth hundreds of thousands.

Now, the atmosphere at the birthday banquet was incredibly awkward, coupled with a hint of strange eeriness.

The guests looked at Sophia Green either with irony for her laughable vanity or, out of respect for Cam Green, with eyes filled with unspeakable discomfort.

Seeing George Parker nonchalantly waving his folding fan, he brushed past Sophia Green’s dark and gloomy face to look at Cam Green and said:

"Well, how about it, the great musician Cam Green? The appraisal master was your contact, and just now Professor Chapman also thought this inkstone was mine. From start to finish, I’ve only stood here. Whether I conspired with Professor Chapman is crystal clear. I wonder if your precious daughter has any further explanations?"

George Parker’s words came off as polite, but his eyes carried not a trace of respect.

Cam Green, on the surface, appeared to be an upstanding and talented individual, but in reality, he was nothing but a thoroughgoing scoundrel, someone whom George Parker could not stand in the slightest.

Upon hearing this, Cam Green’s expression darkened, and he glanced awkwardly at Sophia Green as if trying to create a distraction.