The Fake Heiress Turns out to Be a True Tycoon!
Chapter 265 Adam Jennings’s Opportunity

Chapter 265: Chapter 265 Adam Jennings’s Opportunity

Fortunately, even though Adam Jennings was always blindly self-righteous, he could still understand when the time came to read someone’s expression.

Seeing her give him a sidelong glance, he didn’t dare to mention anything like "I’m your cousin" or "you must help me" anymore. Instead, he said,

"You can name your terms, as long as you’re willing to help, as long as I can do it."

Clearly, his attitude made Scarlett Jennings find him more agreeable.

Finally, she didn’t have to listen to any more nonsense.

"Five million, you provide your own jade."

Scarlett Jennings was concise, adding, "I’ll get it to you within three months, no prodding me."

Adam’s eyes shifted initially, then he felt her asking price was a bit steep.

"Can’t it be cheaper?"

Five million, plus good jade material, would cut his savings right in half!

Scarlett gave him a sidelong glance, silently stating, "When you approached me before, you said the price was up to me."

Adam: ...

When he asked her for help to connect with Grant for a custom jade piece, he did say that.

But wasn’t that because he thought Grant was a real master?

Now, the imagined old artist turned into a younger cousin, and he felt the quoted price was deliberately ripping him off.

Even though he thought this way, Adam knew he couldn’t say it out loud. After all, given Scarlett’s vindictiveness, she might just refuse to help him if she got upset.

Though Adam said nothing, his unwillingness was still slightly betrayed in his expression.

Scarlett then said,

"If you think it’s expensive, I can give you a piece of advice."

Adam looked up at her, only to hear her solemn suggestion,

"I heard that Uncle picked a three-million-dollar sports car as your school gift, you could ask him to give you cash instead, then you’ll have the money."

Adam: ...

"Don’t even think about it."

It was just five million, he could afford it himself.

There’s no way he’d let anyone touch his sports car!

Reaching for his phone, just as he was about to transfer the money, he suddenly thought of something and asked her, "How much did you charge Lucas Jennings for the Jade Token?"

Even though Lucas had always boasted that Scarlett gave it to him, Adam instinctively felt Scarlett wasn’t that generous.

Sure enough, Scarlett raised two fingers.

At this, Adam felt slightly balanced. Two hundred thousand for one Jade Token, so his jade piece for five million wasn’t too bad.

Then Scarlett leisurely quoted the price, "Twenty thousand."

At the sound of twenty thousand, Adam was immediately taken aback.

Twenty thousand?!

"Why do you only charge Lucas twenty thousand, and it costs me five million?!"

This wasn’t fair!

Scarlett was unmoved, coolly saying,

"Lucas calls me sis. If you call me sis too, I could lower the price for you."

The corners of Adam’s mouth twitched suddenly.

Him, calling her, his younger cousin, sis?

In his dreams!

He’d rather spend the money!

He quickly got the account details and transferred the five million over to her.

He remembered the jade materials in her room and thought of asking her for a piece for himself. However, before he could speak, Scarlett had already rudely hung up the call after receiving the money.

Adam’s face turned dark.

Was this the attitude she should have toward a customer who just made a five-million-dollar order?

He sent another video request, but this time, it couldn’t get through again.

With a darkened face, Adam opened the door, threw the phone back to Lucas standing outside, and closed the door before he could explode.

Soon, Lucas’s highly aggrieved roar came from outside the door,

"Adam! What did you do with my account?! Why did my sis block me?!"

...

Meanwhile, at the Taoism Academy, Scarlett Jennings, having blocked someone to clear her mind, finally settled her thoughts and reviewed the drawing that Adam had sketched.

As he mentioned, the depiction of Benedict Beast on the drawing—from the curve of the turtle shell to the smallest lines—was incredibly detailed.

Even the mountains on Benedict’s back were distributed finely, though a careful comparison revealed some distinctions between these mountains and those on Benedict Stone Body in the academy.

She believed Adam wasn’t lying.

If he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes, it would be impossible to draw such a detailed image of Benedict.

But Benedict was supposed to be a mythical Divine Beast, not to mention it had been extinct for years—if it even existed, it wouldn’t reveal itself easily.

Why would it appear for eight years in Adam’s dreams, showing him its true form?

Unless,

Adam had once received an opportunity from Benedict.

It’s said that dreams are a patchwork of our subconscious memories.

If Adam had indeed received a chance from a Divine Beast but, being an ordinary person, couldn’t remember that memory, it would appear continuously as dreams, which explained everything.

If it was just about carving a jade piece for Adam, Scarlett wouldn’t be interested, but if it came to exploring any past connection between Adam and Benedict, Scarlett was indeed intrigued.

In modern times, with Spiritual Energy sparse, the once-present Divine Beasts had vanished. No one knew whether they still existed.

If they did exist, would they feel forlorn due to humans gradually forgetting them?

That night, Scarlett went to bed with such thoughts.

She slept without dreams.

The next day marked the last day of the reality show’s guests experiencing early training at the Taoism Academy.

Perhaps to give the guests a fresh experience, today’s morning class was not meditation but mountain climbing.

Led by Gregory Xander and Nathan White, a group of more than thirty people set off along the mountain path upwards.

After yesterday’s competition, Gregory kept his promise and didn’t target the reality show crew or the guests any longer.

But even so, the guests still lagged far behind everyone else.

They were also young guys in their twenties, but they couldn’t keep up with the new students from the Taoism Academy when climbing the mountain.

Could this really be a difference between the sun at eight or nine and the sun at ten?

Seeing the large group ahead disappearing out of sight, Ariel Zimmerman and the others almost felt like crying.

"The next time... if the next episode still makes me climb a mountain, I’m quitting this show."

Since the second episode, it seemed like they constantly had a hard time with mountain climbing!

Listening to Ariel’s teary complaint, Director Clark, in front of the monitor, sheepishly touched his nose.

Other than in the second episode, the show hadn’t specially arranged any climbing activities.

It just so happened that in the following episodes, they couldn’t escape the fate of mountain climbing.

Especially for this Taoism Academy episode, he really hadn’t expected the university to be halfway up a mountain...

And now it seemed the summit was also within their academy’s boundary...

As the guests huffed and puffed their way up, Amber Livingston found it particularly strenuous, given that he was the oldest and heftiest among the group.

Besides, having started as an online influencer, his most demanding exercise would be performing for his viewers...

Perhaps momentarily distracted, Amber suddenly slipped, his somewhat hefty body plummeting toward the cliff’s shrubbery.

The audience in the live streaming room and the staff nearby all gasped.

Before anyone could react, a hand suddenly appeared from behind Amber, effortlessly supporting him.