<h4>Chapter 178: Leah’s Poison Acting Up</h4>


    <strong>Trantor: </strong>EndlessFantasy Trantion <strong>Editor: </strong>EndlessFantasy Trantion


    For his final move, Mr. Cooke took off his underwear and tossed it to rence before walking out of First Pavilion, looking humiliated.


    Everyone around them was stunned.


    rence tossed everything to Gunther. “Go back and sell it. Deposit the money into Thirteen Hall’s bank ount.”


    Peony’s eyes lit up as she rushed over and snatched the Patek Philippe diamond watch.


    “What are you doing?” Gunther’s face darkened. He was about to strike her.


    Peony held her head high. “What are you doing?


    “Are you going to hit me again?


    “You’re only rence’s staff. Are you going toy a hand on me?”


    Gunther was furious. “You...”


    Miranda looked helpless. “Mom, what are you doing? It’s rence’s stuff.”


    Peony spoke confidently, “rence just won one hundred billion dors. This is nothing.


    “Why would rence care about ame watch?


    “I haven’t had a decent watch in my life. I don’t even have something to tell the time with.”


    Miranda said, “Mom, don’t you have a phone?


    “Why would you need a watch?


    “Besides, it’s a men’s watch. How are you even going to wear it?”


    Peony put the watch in her pocket. “Even if I can’t wear it, can’t your dad wear it?


    “Besides, rence isn’t a stingy person. He wouldn’t say anything about me taking a watch. Right, rence?”


    rence did not want to argue with Peony. “Miranda, forget it. Give it to her.”


    “That’s more like it.”


    Peony smiled at rence with a triumphant look on her face. “rence, I knew you were special.


    “Everything I said to you was meant to inspire you! You didn’t expect that, did you? You’re going ces, and it’s all because of the inspiration I gave you.


    “You’ve even gotten so good at stone gambling that you can earn more than ten billion dors in one breath.


    “You’re so much better than those losers Kaysen and George.”


    Kaysen and George looked embarrassed.


    Belle whispered, “Mom, what are you talking about?”


    “What’s the matter? Am I wrong?” Peony looked back at her eldest daughter. “Look at how disappointing you are. You’ve got yourself a useless husband. Thepany hasn’t grown in years since you took over.


    “All you know is how to indulge in pleasure. When are you going to get as good as rence?”


    Peony beamed at rence. She was satisfied with him.


    rence had taken a ten billion dor treatment fee from Selina.


    Now, he had cut out jade worth more than ten billion dors from raw stone.


    How intriguing.


    She made rence an offer. “rence, why don’t you remarry Miranda?


    “Everything at the hospital was a misunderstanding.


    “But if you remarry Miranda, all your assets must be transferred to the Murphy family and ced in my custody.


    “It’s the only way to prevent you from being unfaithful!”


    Peony looked as if it was a done deal. “All men go bad when they have money.”


    rence ignored Peony, but Kate was infuriated. “Lady, is your horoscope a wall?”


    “What do you mean? I’m a Leo.” Peony was stunned.


    Kate taunted, “Because your skin is thicker than a wall.


    “First, you looked down on rence and made him divorce Miranda. Now that you’ve seen that rence has twenty billion dors, you shamelessly tell rence to go back?


    “How can you be so shameless?”


    Peony red at Kate. “Excuse me? Who are you to use me?


    “That’s not what I meant...”


    Armstrong suddenly roared, “Alright, that’s enough.”


    Peony looked at Armstrong in surprise before fuming. “Armstrong, how dare you talk to me like that?


    “You...”


    p...?Armstrong pped her.


    “Shut up!”


    “How dare you p me?” Shocked, Peony looked at her husband in disbelief. “Did you just p me?


    “Good job, Armstrong... You’re simply heartless. I’ve been married to you for decades. I’ve worked so hard andmitted myself to our family, yet you’ve just pped me!”


    Armstrong snapped, “Do you think it’s not humiliating enough already?


    “rence came here to help our family today, yet all you care about is his money!


    “You’ve indeed been married to me for decades, but working hard andmitting yourself to the family? Not quite. Have you ever done any chores around the house? Hasn’t it always been the maids who do them?


    “You’ve never cooked a meal or a dish at home. Do you call that working hard andmitting yourself to the family?


    “Do you know why rence got a divorce? You forced him to, yet now you want him back. You’re even coveting the twenty billion dors he has. What’s going on inside your head?”


    Armstrong was exasperated.”Can’t you set a better example for the children in front of all these people?”


    “You...” Peony wanted to defend herself.


    Armstrong interrupted. “What?


    “If you have something else to say, discuss it at home. If you’re still coveting rence’s twenty billion dors, I’m going to p you again.”


    Peony winced in fear.


    She was the type who bullied the weak but feared the strong.


    Armstrong never bothered to argue with her before, letting her do whatever she wanted.


    Today was thest straw for him.


    No one in the Murphy family spoke up for Peony. They all thought Peony had gone too far.


    Armstrong looked at rence awkwardly, already filled with regret.


    He had never expected rence, whom he had always looked down upon, to turn the tables on them today.


    His favorite Kaysen had been mediocre and had not achieved much.


    Armstrong sighed. “rence, I apologize.


    “I hope you don’t mind what was said in the hospital parking lot the other day.


    “If you want to start over with Miranda, I won’t object.


    “But I won’t ask you to return to the Murphy family. I appreciate what you’ve done for us today. I’ll sell Dragon Soar Heights’ Vi One to pay back the debt of one billion dors.”


    rence smiled. “Ol’ Murphy, that’s not necessary.


    “I promised to help Miranda today, and since I made a promise to her, I won’t take your money.”


    Armstrong froze. He looked back at his daughter before nodding at rence. “Thank you.”


    rence smiled and said nothing.


    After all, the Murphy family was just like a stream.


    After leaving the Murphy family, rence had broadened his horizons and seen more people and things. He was now facing a sea of stars.


    rence saw the humiliation he had suffered while in the Murphy family as a form of discipline for himself.


    He was now indifferent to others’ opinions.


    Just then, Carrie walked over with a smile. “Congrattions on winning the bet, Mr. Howard.”


    “You’re too kind, Ms. Houston,” rence replied lightly.


    Carrie covered her mouth as her ivory legs took two steps forward, her dress and its slit dancing in the wind. “Mr. Howard, what are you going to do with the raw jade stones worth 10.5 billion dors?”


    rence frowned. “Well...”


    He had no idea what to do with them.


    Carrie suggested with a smile, “If you can’t think of a better solution, First Pavilion can help you handle them.


    “Taking into ount the one billion dors Armstrong spent at First Pavilion, I can take the 10.5 billion dors and give you ten billion in cash if you let me deal with this batch of raw jade stones.


    “And the remaining five hundred million dors can be Armstrong’s stone gambling fee. What do you think?”


    Carrie disyed a lot of sincerity.


    She had given him a discount of five hundred million dors.


    Of course, since she was taking rence’s 10.5 billion dors worth of raw jade stones, she would be making much more than five hundred million dors from them.


    However, rence knew nothing about jades, so he could not be bothered to handle them himself. “Okay, I’ll let you handle these raw jade stones. You can transfer the money to my ountter, Ms. Houston.”


    He looked at Miranda again. “Everything’s settled. I should go now.”


    Miranda bit her lip. “Thank you. I was impulsivest night.”


    rence shook his head and said nothing. Then, he turned around and walked away with the people he had brought with him.


    As soon as rence stepped out of First Pavilion, his phone rang.


    “Hello, who’s this?”


    A middle-aged man’s voice came over. “Dr. Howard, where are you?”


    “What happened?” asked rence.


    He sounded like Leah’s middle-aged bodyguard.


    The man exined anxiously, “Master Sanders suddenly fainted after having dinner just now.”


    “She’s bleeding from her ears, eyes, nostrils, and mouth. Her lips have no color. It’s as if her poison has acted up....”