Guest house.
Ethan Coates came out of the bathroom and saw Len Hawthorne dressed up and walking out of the gate. He was just about to call out to him when he saw the girl standing quietly outside the door.
"Damn! She took the bait so quickly!"
He hurriedly hid and peeked at them.
Len Hawthorne threw the cigarette butt at his feet and crushed it with his military boots.
His eyes were filled with laughter, "Are you willing to talk now?"
Chloe Stephens realized he was talking about the mutated dog incident and reached out her hand expressionlessly, "I need to borrow money."
"..."
Len Hawthorne's handsome smile seemed a bit frozen.
After a while, the wicked smile reappeared on Len's face, "How much?"
"USD 500,000."
"..."
Quite a bold request.
"Don't have the money?" Seeing that he didn't react, Chloe turned to leave.
The little girl looked at him with a "poor ghost" glance and left, which was quite a blow to his pride.
"Wait a minute, you need to tell me what you're going to use such a large sum of money for if you're borrowing it."
"Do you have it?" Chloe asked for confirmation.
"I do."
He was curious about what the girl wanted to do with this amount of money.
Not USD 500 or USD 5,000, but USD 500,000.
Chloe said, "To buy medicine, rent a house, and cover living expenses."
Len Hawthorne stared at her up and down, "Didn't the Stephens family give you any money?"
It was not difficult to find out about Chloe being from the Stephens family in Sheffield City, not even needing the effort to inquire.
"My mother doesn't want to use the Stephens family's money."
"Is she sick?" Len Hawthorne was quite concerned about the girl.
"Prevention is better than cure."
Len Hawthorne raised his eyebrows, "Are you cursing yourself?"
"I saw on the Internet that money can make even demons work for you."
"...Little girl, don't believe everything on the Internet."
"Will you lend it or not?"
The little girl didn't have much patience.
"Wait a moment."
Len Hawthorne returned to the guest house and quickly brought out a card.
Chloe took the card.
"There's USD 1,500,000 in it."
Chloe paused, "I'll pay you back."
"I have a condition." Len Hawthorne squinted his eyes and moved closer to the girl's face.
Chloe looked into his eyes as the person leaned close.
From a distance, the two under the night lamp looked like they were about to kiss.
"Damn! Damn! You beast!"
Ethan Coates, holding onto the door, bulged his eyes in shock.
*
As soon as the little girl left, Ethan Coates rushed out and stared at Len Hawthorne with disdain.
Len Hawthorne glanced at him.
"You're crazy."
"Pah, you're the crazy one. Young Master Hawthorne, you're such a beast, taking advantage of a little girl!"
Len Hawthorne's mouth twitched, "When did I take advantage of her?"
"What were you doing just then?"
Who would believe that he didn't take advantage of her with that posture?
Len Hawthorne raised the corner of his mouth with a delighted smile, "What's going on between me and the girl is none of your business."
Ethan Coates: "..."
Is there something wrong with Len Hawthorne?
*
After Yvette Foster suggested moving out, the family's attitude towards the mother and daughter changed as well.
Fred Foster didn't know about this yet, but he would find out sooner or later.
Wilbert Foster thought of using Fred to keep Yvette and her daughter in the family.
Not in the mood to work during the day, he decided to take the day off and go to his partner's office to gather some information.
During the noon break, Chloe Stephens searched for nearby housing options on her mobile phone.
Having USD 1,500,000 in her hand, renting a place was less reasonable than buying one.
She went to the sales office of Elegant Garden, the top-class residential area in the county town.
When a young saleswoman who was filing her nails inside heard the door, she glanced at Chloe and went back to her conversation, dismissing the underage girl.
Chloe found a rack with advertising brochures and briefly scanned them.
Although it was just a county town, the housing prices in the mountain county were outrageously high.
Without money for monthly installments, Chloe could only randomly buy a house.
Yes, she wanted to buy a house.
A detached small villa.
Living in a high rise, people were defecating and urinating overhead, which was bad luck.
Most of Elegant Garden consisted of villas, with only a few high rise buildings.
"Excuse me... Do you need any help..." A stuttering salesman brought her a glass of water.
Chloe took a brief look at him and pointed at the smallest villa in the brochure in her hand. "What's the price for this?"
"This, this small villa, the total price comes to... almost USD 4,000,000..."
Four million - nowhere near what she had on hand.
After putting the brochure away, Chloe nodded to the salesman and turned to leave.
A group of salesgirls laughing at their failed colleague let out teasing snickers.
As Chloe left, she brushed shoulders with a beautiful girl who entered.
Another girl in a plaid shirt followed behind her, and they passed Chloe one after another.
The beautiful girl stopped and looked at Chloe as she walked away.
"Kate, who are you looking at?"
"I think I just saw Chloe Stephens."
"That braindead one?"
"Sandra, don't talk about her like that. Although she's not very smart..." Kate Williams defended Chloe.
Sandra Griffin disdainfully said, "She is simply braindead. And she even dared to chase Oliver Gordon. Her brain must be broken. Kate, you're too kind, defending anyone. You're the real campus belle.Some people even said that Chloe Stephens was the top campus belle recently - how could she be? I bet she used some means to make people think she deserves Oliver Gordon."
Kate gently said, "Let's go in first. My sister is waiting for us."
"Kate, your sister is amazing - she got promoted to manager in no time..."
Kate's mouth curved into a smile, somewhat proud.
*
Unsuccessful, Chloe chose a restaurant by the roadside to eat.
As she was halfway through her meal, she caught a glimpse of someone.
A figure came down from the second floor and passed in front of her.
A white ribbon slipped from the young man's hand and fell into hers.
The man wore a baseball cap and a mask. Chloe saw a pair of slender peach blossom eyes under his sword-shaped eyebrows. When hez looked sideways at others, he had an attractive sensuality that could unintentionally make people fall for him.
The man was about to take back his white silk ribbon when his friend hurriedly pushed him outside.
Suddenly, a huge commotion erupted both inside and outside the dining hall!
"My God! It's William!"
"William, I love you!"
"Hurry up, get the mobile phone..."
"Davin, can we take a picture with you?"
"Don't push, give Davin some space!"
Some fans spontaneously kept the out-of-control scene under control.
Chloe didn't pay attention to the commotion.
When the white ribbon floated to her arm, her eyes flickered with a silvery-white flash.
It felt like a distant memory.
She wished to see the face next to the silver-white flash once more, but something prevented her.
She could only glimpse the sudden, breathtaking silver-white strands from the corner of her eye.
The only thing she knew for certain was that it belonged to someone's hair.
Who was it?
She couldn't remember this particular memory.
Chloe got up and quickly walked out, opposite the excited crowd.
The man who had just gotten in the car noticed that the end of the white ribbon was still sticking to Chloe's arm, and he frowned slightly.
Chloe walked away and noticed the annoying white silk ribbon hanging on her hand.
She tore it off and let it fly away with the wind.
She walked straight to school, unable to forget the sight that she was forced to see earlier.