Our Love Story: Hard to Guard Against the Sudden Love Strike-Chapter 487 - 465: An Imperial Proposal (Part 3)

The Thorne family guests were astonished!

Even though these guests were worldly and far from ordinary folks, they had never seen such lavish engagement gifts from the groom’s side.

Based on the most expensive gift boxes available on the market, priced at three to five hundred dollars each, even sending out five hundred of them would cost only around ten to twenty thousand dollars. In some cases, affluent families preferred to avoid the hassle and simply give the bride’s side a cash equivalent of a hundred to two hundred thousand dollars worth of engagement gifts to manage on their own. However, they had truly never seen the Forrester Family giving out gift cards like this, especially with such a high value of twenty thousand dollars each, and the possibility to cash them out...

Those curious about the value of these engagement gifts pretended to check their phones, secretly using calculators, and realized... these Forrester Family gifts were worth $17,760,000...

Everyone started to understand the Forrester Family’s intentions.

The Thorne family isn’t particularly large, and although Quentin Thorne holds a high position, his circle of friends isn’t as vast as business people, so why would they need 888 gift boxes?

The Forresters were simply using the guise of engagement gifts to send money to the bride’s parents, as these gifts are typically organized by them.

Sienna Thornton also figured out the Forrester Family’s intent. She secretly observed Quentin Thorne’s reaction, wondering if he would accept or not.

She thought that the upright and clean Quentin Thorne would refuse, but unexpectedly, Quentin Thorne just smiled, nodded, and said, "This makes it convenient," without further comment.

Old Master Forrester gestured, and Thomas Reed brought up a red briefcase with a combination lock.

"Click" twice, and Old Master Forrester opened the briefcase, taking out several file folders and photos, continuing to present the gifts for the bride—

A total of 58 shops in several bustling commercial streets in Brimfield, a super five-star hotel, a mega department store, several Qing era antique jewelry pieces, gold accessories, diamond jewelry...

Apart from the ownership transfer agreements and various property certificate documents in the folders, there were no physical pieces of jewelry, but there were photos and keys and credentials for a bank safety deposit box.

Thomas Reed, who was holding the suitcase, explained, "The antiques, gold, and diamond jewelry were not convenient to bring here; they’re all stored in a safety deposit box at XX Bank."

The Thorne family guests were absolutely stunned, thinking that these bridal gifts must be worth tens or hundreds of billions. Besides privately admiring the extravagance of the Forrester Family, they were full of envy toward Quentin Thorne.

Everyone felt that such bridal gifts were already extraordinarily extravagant, and then, Old Master Forrester, after rummaging in the briefcase a few more times, pulled out a stack of what seemed to be checks.

While everyone speculated on how much the checks might be worth, they saw Old Master Forrester crack the checks in the air with a crisp sound: "These are deposit notes from several banks, Quentin, go ahead and count them later. If you find any discrepancy in the total amount, let me know, and I’ll make it up to you."

Quentin Thorne just started to ask about the total amount when he suddenly realized that Old Master Forrester hadn’t mentioned the total in front of everyone, suggesting it was a sizable amount that wasn’t convenient to disclose in public; thus, he didn’t press further and just nodded with a smile.

Old Master Forrester placed that stack of account notes back into the suitcase, said, "Alright," and then Thomas Reed locked the suitcase and handed it to Quentin Thorne.

Quentin Thorne stored it away, stacking it together with the box containing the engagement coupons.

Old Master Forrester seemed very pleased, clapping his hands with a laugh, "These are the bridal gifts our Forrester Family is giving to Annie, Quentin, you can discuss them later, if there’s any dissatisfaction, let me know anytime, and I’ll immediately fix it!"

Quentin Thorne quickly waved his hand, "That’s more than enough!"

Old Master Forrester had been talking non-stop, and now, feeling parched, he took a sip of tea, signaling the end of the Forrester Family’s gift-giving ceremony.

Unexpectedly, Simon Forrester, who hadn’t spoken much since earlier, suddenly produced a document from somewhere and solemnly handed it to Quentin Thorne.

Everyone held their breath, watching Quentin Thorne handle the brown paper envelope.

Old Master Forrester smiled as he looked on, "Jules, have you prepared a gift for Annie yourself?"

Simon Forrester chuckled, lowered his eyes to look at Sienna Thornton, and earnestly said, "I want to give my wife twenty-five percent of my shares in the Forrester Group."

While speaking, he picked up Sienna Thornton’s hand and placed a kiss on its back.

Sienna Thornton was greatly shocked, her eyes wide open, whispering, "Are you crazy?"

Simon Forrester just smiled, taking her hand back into his own, holding it.

Sienna Thornton was slightly flustered and looked at the expressions of the Forrester Family members.

Old Master Forrester was visibly surprised, Zane Forrester had a cold sneer, Sylvia Langley gave an awkward smile, and Grandma Forrester’s face had fallen.

She didn’t have time to notice the expressions of Bianca Fordham’s family, turning instead to Quentin Thorne. Quentin Thorne had already opened the envelope and briefly reviewed a stack of documents inside, one by one.

After reading, he put the documents back together, coolly saying, "While gifting shares this way can avoid triggering other shareholders’ preemptive rights, it still requires the consent of all Forrester shareholders."

He looked up at the still-shocked Old Master Forrester and asked, "Are all of the Forrester Group’s shareholders present today? Has everyone agreed? Because I noticed these documents lack a signature from all shareholders consenting to the gift."

Old Master Forrester didn’t respond immediately; after a while, once he’d calmed down, he glared harshly at Simon Forrester. He wanted to question why he hadn’t discussed it with him first, but there were too many family and friends from both sides present, making it inappropriate to bring it up, as it might disgrace his grandson.

The elder was deeply conflicted, but knew he couldn’t hesitate too long, or it would become a joke, so steeling his heart, he decided to leave the decision to the other shareholders.

He looked around at the Forrester Family, asking, "My dear, Zane, Bianca, you’re all here. If you agree, then sign now!"

Although Old Master Forrester had previously transferred all his shares in the Forrester Group to Simon Forrester, Grandma Forrester and his two children each still held a small portion of the group’s shares. Though small, they were still shareholders.

Simon Forrester had anticipated this scenario.

Yet, there was no better way; if he had brought it up with Old Master Forrester in private, Old Master Forrester would have definitely refused, leaving no room for negotiation.

But now, since he had brought it up in front of so many people, Old Master Forrester, proud as he was, faced difficulty. Simon had foreseen he would pass the decision to other shareholders, so he had already spoken with everyone except Grandma Forrester.

Thus, Simon Forrester was confident in victory.

Old Master Forrester, seeing everyone had remained silent, asked loudly again, "Do you all agree? Speak up!"

After a while, Zane Forrester finally said plainly, "I agree."

Bianca Fordham also said, "I agree as well."

Old Master Forrester was flabbergasted and surprised! He could never have anticipated his son and daughter, who usually valued money above all else, would agree to Simon Forrester’s reckless generosity of giving away a quarter of the Forrester Family’s wealth!