A Vengeful Ex-Wife
Chapter 185 Beautiful Women Are Vicious

On the other end of the line, Jonathan was convinced by Maria that she only wanted his money, so he relaxed his vigilance. It was never too late for a man like him to take revenge. He believed that there would be a chance that he would catch Maria and make her spit out the twenty million dollars in double.

"Okay, I will do my best to convince my wife. Ms. Song, I hope you will abide by the rules of the game."

"Of course, Mr. Jiang. Thank you!"

"Not at all, Ms. Song. I'm busy, so I have to go. See you." Jonathan swore that he would never touch Maria again.

He had proven that the more beautiful a woman was, the more vicious she would be.

After hanging up the phone, Maria couldn't wait to ask James, "What are you laughing at? Did I say something funny?" "You owe tens of millions of dollars?"

"Oh, that..." Maria put her phone away and took her mug from his hand. "James, are you going to pay it back for me?"

"No problem as long as you are willing to trade yourself with it."

Maria couldn't help wondering what he took her for. She raised her mug, pretending to hit him. But of course, she could only frighten him. She then sneered, "I don't care about your stinky money. Get out of here if there's nothing else."

"Well, you were very happy when you received the money I transferred to your account."

Maria stopped and glared at him. She tried to recall if she really acted so obvious at that time.

When James stood up and passed by her, he said, "It's not right to say yes and mean no." He then tidied up his suit, returned to his usual appearance, opened the door, and walked out.

Maria was left inside the room, speechless. She cursed in her heart, 'Son of a bitch!'

In YL Group, Jonathan sat in his office worriedly.

His secretary knocked on the door, entered, and reported to him, "Mr. Jiang, I've already sent someone to investigate on that land. Two years ago, a small company won the bid for that land. But now, that company is facing bankruptcy, so they are planning to sell the land to other companies."

'That's why. Big shots are really big shots. James and Norman are sure well-informed,' Jonathan thought.

He wanted to make a quick move before James or Norman did something. "Ask them to prepare for the bidding. Then go to the place personally and inspect the surrounding environment. Bring a surveyor with you to check the quality of the soil."

"Yes, Mr. Jiang," the secretary answered at once.

He then rushed to the location of the land. When he arrived there, he was surprised to see a woman. He told the surveyor not to get out of the car first. He got out of the car and walked over to the woman alone. "Good day, Summer," he greeted.

Summer turned around and saw the man who greeted her. Smiling a bit awkwardly, she asked, "Fisher from YL Group, right?" It was James who asked her to wait here, saying someone from YL Group would come. Indeed, they really came.

"Yes, I am. How are you?" Fisher Feng looked quite friendly. "Why are you here, Summer?"

Summer deliberately put on a hesitant look. Then after a while, she pointed at the orphanage not far away and said, "I brought some supplies to the children." She did deliver some supplies to the orphanage. It was a part of James' order.

Fisher studied her expression and mistakenly thought that HL Group really took a fancy to this land. He believed that HL Group used the excuse of delivering supplies to the orphanage to investigate this land. I was just that she was not willing to tell him the truth.

Summer then asked, "How about you? What are you doing here?"

Fisher smiled and replied, "Just like you, I'm here to give some donations to the orphanage."

"Fisher, you are such a kind-hearted person. Well, I won't take so much of your time. Go ahead, please," Summer said.

"Okay, I'll leave now. See you later, Summer."

"Okay."

Since Fisher was forced to make an excuse of giving some donations to the orphanage, he called Jonathan and told him about it. Of course, he didn't want to use his own money to donate. Jonathan said, "Donate one million dollars under the name of YL Group."

"Okay, Mr. Jiang."

Summer was talking with someone on the phone when Fisher came back to the location of the land. He happened to overhear her conversation. Summer said, "Once we get this land, we can develop this. We can build some villas and even create an artificial lake. This is a great prospect. A bright future awaits this land."

Fisher got a little excited with what he heard.

"The day before yesterday, a feng shui master visited this land. He said that the feng shui here is quite good. As long as the buildings will be built facing north with doors facing the south, it will bring good luck," Summer continued talking on the phone as if she hadn't known that Fisher had come back. Upon hearing that even a feng shui master had already visited the land, Fisher got even more excited. Summer got in the car while still talking on the phone.

And soon as she left, Fisher asked the surveyor to get out of the car to start exploring the land.

When he grabbed a handful of soil from the ground, he found out that it was hard enough to build houses there.

While the surveyor was working, Fisher visited some residents nearby to investigate. He was told that there was a plan to construct some high-rise residential buildings, but they didn't know why the project had stopped.

'You don't know why? Of course, because that small company doesn't have the money to start the construction,' Fisher thought inwardly.

After examining the land, the surveyor said that there was no problem with the soil quality. It was suitable for building construction.

Jonathan was so happy to know that the land had no problem in all aspects. Overwhelmed by joy, he immediately called for a board meeting to discuss this matter.

The land alone cost almost two billion dollars. If they added it up to their later investment, it would cost more. Eventually, the board of directors agreed reluctantly.

Maria knew that Jonathan had totally taken the bait. So she arranged several more people to spread the news until it reached Judy's ears. Over the years of being Mrs. Xi, Judy had gotten a lot of money in her hands and had done all kinds of investment and financial management. However, before she made any investment, she would always ask Lorenzo to ask for James' opinion. If he agreed, she would believe in him and invest.

Judy heard about that land in the south of the city from her best friend. The profit of the project that she had invested in previously was declining day by day. She had long wanted to change projects. So after learning about the land, she immediately asked Lorenzo to ask James about it.

Lorenzo didn't make her wait for too long. He took the time to ask James. "Excuse me, Mr. Xi. Many companies in H City are currently taking a fancy to that land in the south of the city. Is our company really interested in acquiring it?"

As he met James' questioning gaze, he hurriedly explained, "I just casually asked because I heard a lot of people talking about that land."

James nodded and answered, "Yes, I'm a little interested." No. Actually, he was forced to be interested.

Lorenzo understood. "Okay, Mr. Xi."

As soon as Judy heard that James was also interested in the land, she immediately prepared fifty million dollars for the project. She then asked some people to replace out which company was more likely to win the bid so she could invest in them at once.

Several invisible hands were secretly pushing the land in the south of the city, making it extremely popular in the business circle.

Right now, Maria was in the study in Fairview Villa, calmly looking at the calendar on her phone. James' birthday was approaching.

If she had known it earlier, she wouldn't have given him all the gifts she had bought for him in France. She would have kept them until his birthday.

After finishing her work, Maria opened Weibo on her laptop. Her post a few days ago about meeting James was still on the top of the search list.

It already got millions of likes and hundreds of thousands of comments. The netizens were all wondering how there could be such a handsome man in the world.

Maria sneered. She was also beautiful, so she couldn't help wondering if the netizens would also wonder how there could be such beauty in the world. If she posted one of her photos using a different account, would she also get positive comments?

'Forget it. I'd better not be so smug. If someone replaces out that it's my own account one day, won't everyone in the world think that I'm narcissistic?' she thought to herself.

She saw that someone in the comment section mentioned Lawrence and Ethan unexpectedly.