Chapter 16: Jiang Family Banquet
When this man became proud, Zhou Yan couldn't help showing off and started bragging.

"Of course. Not only do I know Jiang Xinglan, he's also my classmate, and our two families have business dealings."

But she couldn't even talk to Jiang Xinglan at school. The other party didn't know her, and her business dealings were only with a small company under the Jiang family.

But Zhou Yan felt that Yun Jiao didn't know these things and had no experience, so naturally she could make up whatever she wanted.

"Not only can you take a photo with Jiang Xinglan and get an autograph, but introducing you to each other is not a problem either." Zhou Yan cooed.

Anyway, the Jiang family's banquet is so big, there will definitely be many dignitaries coming. Jiang Xinglan is a big star who is always surrounded by people wherever she goes. She can make up any excuse to fool Yun Jiao.

Yun Jiao listened to Zhou Yan's happy performance on the other end, then sighed and said regretfully.

"I really want to go to the Jiang family's banquet, but if I go to a banquet, I need a formal dress, and I don't have one, so I can only disappoint Miss Zhou's kindness."

The regret in her words was real to Zhou Yan's ears. When she heard that Yun Jiao intended not to go, and thought of Qiao Xianxian's instructions to bring Yun Jiao to the banquet, she hurriedly tried to persuade her.

"There aren't many opportunities to meet Jiang Xinglan. It's just a dress, isn't it? Can't you just not buy one?"

Yun Jiao frowned, "That may not work. I'm living in a villa, and I don't feel at ease using Mr. Shen's money, so I invested all my money in the stock market. I heard that Mr. Shen also plays stocks, so I should be able to make a lot of money by then."

"It's just that I have no money now. If Miss Zhou invites me so kindly, why don't you give me a dress?"

Zhou Yan rolled her eyes and thought to herself, who is Shen Jinyan? He was a famous trader when he was studying abroad in college. How could Yun Jiao, who only knew the word "stock", compare with Shen Jinyan.

You dare to spend all your money on stocks? You're investing so much money that you won't even hear the sound of water.

Zhou Yan was gloating on the side, thinking that when Yun Jiao lost all his money and some word got out, Shen Jinyan might despise Yun Jiao for being as stupid as a pig and kick him out.

Zhou Yan said proudly while making plans in her heart.

"Wait a minute, let me see if I have a dress that suits you."

Yun Jiao opened a game and replied in surprise.

"I heard you say that the rich daughter's closet is full of brand new designer dresses and gowns. Why, don't you have any new ones?"

Zhou Yan, who hadn't bought a new dress for a year, closed her smiling mouth.

She never imagined that the boomerang that she had persuaded Yun Jiao to spend a lot of money on would one day stab her and cause her so much pain.

Seeing that there was no sound from the other end, Yun Jiao seemed to hear the sound of the other party vomiting blood. She moved her fingers and built a milk tea shop in the game, and said.

"Miss Zhou, why are you silent? Don't feel inferior if you don't have a new dress. Just go to the mall."

Zhou Yan, who had no new dress and little money in her pocket, felt the pain in her heart again.

But she didn't want to wear her old dress to the Jiang family's banquet. Not only would she be laughed at by the rich daughters, she also wanted to make friends with the powerful.

A wealthy family like the Zhou family, which was on the verge of falling into decline, had long planned to marry their daughter off to a wealthy and powerful man. If she didn't make plans for herself in advance, she would have to do what her cousin did and marry a greasy, divorced middle-aged man who could be her father with an order of five million.

Zhou Yan bit her lip, found Qiao Xianxian's profile picture on her phone, and sent a message. At the Qiao family, Qiao Xianxian was preparing her dress and jewelry for the banquet. Just as she was about to leave the most expensive one, she saw a new message on her phone.

When Qiao Xianxian saw the message Zhou Yan sent her, the first half of the message about Yun Jiao's foolish behavior of using all the money to buy stocks made her feel a little happier. She planned in her mind how to take advantage of this matter.

In the second half, we see Yun Jiao saying she doesn’t have money to buy a dress and she says she won’t go to the party, and Zhou Yan secretly asks for a new dress.

Qiao Xianxian snorted coldly. She had spent nearly ten million yuan in the mall last time. She was really being taken advantage of.

If Yun Jiao could hear it, she would definitely ask her back.

"you are not?"

Qiao Xianxian replied to the message and said that for the sake of the plan, she only intended to pay for Yun Jiao's dress. As for Zhou Yan, she could just appease her with a cheap piece of jewelry.

It just so happened that she didn't like the jewelry given by the rich second generation. If she could push the rich second generation to Zhou Yan, it would be a good use of the things.

Besides, although that rich second-generation guy is not that great, his family background is much better than the Zhou family. Zhou Yan has to thank her for being able to have a relationship with him.

Thinking of this, when she saw the message was sent successfully, Qiao Xianxian still breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the money in her bank card rapidly decreasing.

The strategy system was even more speechless. Qiao Xianxian's last action in the equestrian club was not successful. Now she was cheated of a sum of money by Yun Jiao, and Yun Jiao had to send her a new dress. The strategy system even suspected that Qiao Xianxian had lost her brain.

[What do you know? This is a necessary investment. The more greedy and materialistic Yun Jiao becomes, the better it is for me. It's just a dress. If I can make Yun Jiao embarrassed in front of Jiang Xinglan and make it impossible for Jiang Xinglan to like her, it will be a success. It can be regarded as revenge for my broken nose.]

Thinking about having to use all of He Yuzhang's favorability points to exchange for a quick healing of her nose in order to be able to attend the Jiang family banquet, Qiao Xianxian felt so heartbroken that her teeth itched, and she was even more angry with Yun Jiao.

Only she knows how difficult it is to win over these four men. It took her so long to gain that little bit of favorability, and now it's all reset to zero. How can she not be upset? She really wants to put Yun Jiao's beautiful nose on her face, okay?
Unfortunately, the strategy system doesn’t seem to be very advanced and there is no such prop.

The strategy system didn't know what Qiao Xianxian was thinking in her heart, but seeing how confident she was, and that Jiang Xinglan did have a good impression of her, the strategy system did not intervene without authorization.

"Ms. Qiao, do you want to keep this necklace?" The salesgirl waiting there saw Qiao Xianxian standing there without saying anything, and felt something was wrong, so she asked carefully.

Qiao Xianxian came back to her senses and looked at the necklace that best matched the dress. She said with some difficulty.

"I thought about it and decided that this dress would be more suitable for me."

When the salesgirl saw that Qiao Xianxian picked up the cheapest necklace among the jewelry they brought, the perfect smile on her face froze for two seconds.

After picking out the things, several salesgirls left Qiao's house. Qiao Xianxian only felt that the way they looked at her at the end was as if she was a poor girl who had asked them to come for the sake of face but actually had no money to pay the bill.

Qiao Xianxian felt like there was something stuck in her throat. She threw the necklace back into the box with a cold face, asked the servant to clean it up, and went upstairs.

Yun Jiao, upon hearing Zhou Yan suddenly become confident and ask her to go to the mall to buy a dress, agreed with a smile.

After hanging up the phone, Yun Jiao was almost certain that there was someone behind Zhou Yan, otherwise no one would be so cruel as to pay for it one after another.

(End of this chapter)