Reborn As Super Heiress

Chapter 200: Chapter 197 Unlucky Ye Zixin Chapter 200: Chapter 197 Unlucky Ye Zixin Ye Zixin had never expected such a turn of events. According to her plan, shouldn’t it have been that bitch Su Qingqing who ran into these scammers? How could things have turned out this way?

While Ye Zixin would normally plot and scheme against Su Qingqing behind her back, those schemes were all verbal battles. Even if someone caught on, an apology was all that would ensue.

But these scammers were not Su Qingqing; this was the first time Ye Zixin had encountered such unruly and unreasonable lowlifes. How could she fend them off?

Hearing the middle-aged woman sitting on the ground shouting nonsense that the porcelain was from the Kangxi period, Ye Zixin’s face instantly turned the color of liver.

At that moment, she realized she had completely forgotten all the treasure appraisal knowledge she had learned in school. Her mind went blank, and she didn’t know where to start with a rebuttal.

“Don’t just stand there, go!” Seeing Ye Zixin still standing dumbfounded in the middle of the road, someone in the crowd whispered a kind reminder.

Ye Zixin immediately snapped out of her shock and turned to run towards the edge of the crowd.

But, just as she was about to make her escape, the scammer closest to her saw her intention and quickly grabbed her arm with a swift side movement.

Dragged by the man, Ye Zixin screamed in terror. She turned around to see the scammer staring back at her with a fierce and hideous expression.

The man angrily scolded, “Damn little bitch, you think you can run away without paying after crashing into my stuff?!”

This was not Ye Zixin’s first visit to Antique Street, so she was naturally aware of how formidable these scammers could be.

Once these scammers targeted out-of-town tourists, few ever managed to get away without paying compensation.

In fact, Ye Zixin was also well aware that most of the porcelain the scammers claimed was damaged were actually imitations from the Hutian area.

However, once the porcelain was smashed, whether it was real or fake became irrelevant. In the hands of these scammers, unless you could outdo them in aggressiveness and dominance, you were just prey for their extortion.

To the discerning eye, it was obvious that the pierced porcelain was fake, but how could Ye Zixin, a student, have ever seen such a spectacle? She was at the mercy of the male scammer, forced to swallow her bitterness, tears streaming down as she watched the tragic scene unfold, utterly helpless.

The two scammers were also seething inside. Antique Street only got crowded on weekends, and they had waited a whole week, eagerly anticipating the weekend, hoping to bump into some rich person for a big score.

Everything was going according to plan, but now it was ruined by Ye Zixin, the little girl! With the porcelain already broken, a second attempt was impossible. Fortunately, judging by the way the girl was dressed, she seemed to have money, so they decided to cling to Ye Zixin, trying to delay her so that her family would send money. They were determined to extort as much as they could.

While the two scammers were putting on a convincing performance, they were inwardly cursing: Damn unlucky, messing with my business!

By this point, even the foolish Ye Zixin sensed that something was wrong. She lifted her head and looked towards where Su Qingqing was standing. Su Qingqing was watching her with an ashen face.

Ye Zixin turned her head; beside Su Qingqing stood her cousin, watching her with a sneer and a look of schadenfreude in her eyes.

Ye Zixin saw it very clearly, at the moment Su Qingqing collided with the scam artist, it was Su Qingqing’s cousin Qingqing who had grabbed her, bringing her fully into range.

Su Qingqing was shocked, she realized that her trick had been completely seen through by her cousin, yet every time this woman exposed her, she would turn the tables on her, checkmating her with her own strategy.

Hiding amongst the crowd, Huo Sining was like a scorpion lying in wait, fixing her gaze tightly on her. The more Ye Zixin thought about it, the more she felt guilty and afraid, causing her to shiver involuntarily, as tears of grievance and fear quickly filled her eyes.

Seeing Ye Zixin entangled by the scam artist, Su Qingqing stood in the crowd and watched silently, showing no intention of helping.

She wasn’t a saint; this entire situation was the result of Ye Zixin’s own doing. If it weren’t for Huo Sining, she would be the one standing in the middle, facing this predicament.

Su Qingqing sneered inwardly. Ye Zixin always presented herself as a pitiful ‘little white flower’ to others, and many boys and girls fell for her act. But this time, she wanted to see if the scam artist would fall for it too!

Su Qingqing waited to see how Ye Zixin would resolve this crisis, but she had clearly rejoiced too soon.

The world of scoundrels is always full of shameless acts, harboring the noble morality of ‘let the brothers die before me’, ready to let those around her sacrifice everything for her at any moment.

“What are you crying for? You’ve smashed my coffin capital, and I haven’t even cried yet! I’m telling you, if you don’t compensate me with an identical piece of precious porcelain today, I will definitely find someone to cripple you!”

“It wasn’t me, I didn’t do it on purpose…” Tearfully, Ye Zixin stammered out her explanation, then suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck her, and she looked in the direction of Su Qingqing. Her lips curved slightly and she spoke haltingly, “I just saw my best friend and wanted to greet her. I didn’t expect to be pushed from behind and accidentally bump into you. If you don’t believe me, ask my best friend, she can testify for me!”

With that, she extended a frail finger and pointed toward the crowd, which immediately parted, revealing Su Qingqing, who had been amongst the onlookers, in full view of everyone.

“Is this girl really her best friend? She looks totally indifferent to the situation.”

“I saw it clearly just now, this girl really did approach her best friend. I don’t know what happened but then she lost her footing and bumped into someone else.”

“You can tell by the indifferent look of that ‘best friend’ that she may not even consider this girl a friend. Maybe it was her ‘best friend’ who deliberately set her up!”

“…”

The onlooking crowd is always easily misled by rumors. Hearing someone speak with certainty and seeing Ye Zixin looking pitifully tearful, even showing a look of aggrieved restraint, they immediately felt a prior sense of sympathy overflow.

Comparing that to Su Qingqing’s cold indifference, standing on the periphery and enjoying the spectacle, everyone’s minds spontaneously conjured up a melodramatic storyline of a best friend setting up her sister for a scam, and they began to look at Su Qingqing with a degree of strangeness.

Su Qingqing hadn’t expected Ye Zixin to be so shameless as to deflect the disaster towards her, immediately shaking with anger; she was barely able to restrain herself from rushing over and slapping Ye Zixin hard across the face.

The two scam artists didn’t care about any best friend dramas or clever schemes; in their eyes, extorting as much money as possible was all that mattered.

So, the scam artists looked in the direction Ye Zixin had pointed, and their eyes instantly lit up.