The Fake Heiress Turns Out to Be a True Tycoon!-Chapter 326: Unlucky things will pass if you just endure them

Chapter 326: Chapter 326: Unlucky things will pass if you just endure them

Scarlett Jennings suddenly turned her head, looking left and right at the distant mountains that encircled them.

"Who’s there?!"

Who was speaking?

However, just like the sigh she heard before, her question remained unanswered.

Scarlett Jennings was certain she wasn’t hallucinating.

That meant... there was something wrong with the Academy.

The Academy had rules against students secretly keeping ghosts on its grounds.

The existence of such strange rules meant that someone must have done it before.

So... could it be that someone had once kept a ghost in the Academy, and that ghost had stayed there ever since?

Scarlett Jennings thought this possibility was very likely.

If it were an ordinary ghost, she wouldn’t be interested.

But if it could utter the surname Wenren...

Then she had to investigate.

...

While Scarlett Jennings was preoccupied with the thought of catching the ghost, she promptly pushed the matter regarding Odessa to the back of her mind.

In the following week, one could say that Odessa was utterly plagued by misfortune.

It was to the point where even drinking cold water would make her teeth ache.

"Mom, I think there must be something wrong with you."

Inside the bedroom, Odessa lay on the bed looking as frail as an ailing beauty, with an ice pack on her head.

Ismeria Jennings was propped up beside her bed, her large, bright eyes staring intently at her mother, seriously concluding the statement above.

Upon hearing this, Odessa was almost infuriated to death by her own little ’bundle of warmth.’

She was ill, but she wasn’t crazy!!

She opened her mouth to correct her daughter’s words but then heard her continue,

"I think we need to find Sister to help you. You’re just too unlucky."

Even a child could see it.

Mom has really had terrible luck recently.

So unlucky that even the beautiful Princess would turn and run on sight.

She couldn’t ignore her mother, so lately, the beautiful Princess hadn’t been playing with her either.

Ismeria Jennings felt very gloomy, hoping her mother would get better soon.

When Odessa heard the mention of ’Sister,’ a fleeting complexity crossed her somewhat pale face.

Of course, she knew which sister she was referring to.

Ever since that time when the Gibney Family and Silva Family came to visit together, Ismeria Jennings had "exposed" in front of the guests the bad things Odessa said about Scarlett Jennings in private.

After that incident, the two sisters seemed to have "reconciled."

If Odessa hadn’t known her daughter did that inadvertently, she might have even suspected that it was for the sake of righteousness over kinship that Ismeria made up with Scarlett Jennings.

But her Ismeria wasn’t that sort of person.

If it had been in the past, she would have been happy to see them getting along like real sisters.

After all, when Scarlett Jennings seemed willing to interact with someone, Luca Jennings obviously became more amiable as well.

However, Scarlett Jennings seemed to see through her from the start, maintaining the same attitude whether Odessa was nice to her or not.

Just like her own brother.

Impossible to please.

And when Odessa gave up on trying to be seen by Scarlett Jennings as a mother, she actually became closer to her own daughter.

She previously mocked Lucas Jennings for changing his ways, sticking to Scarlett Jennings like a shadow day in and day out.

Now her own daughter was almost the same.

Odessa felt a bit upset.

Just as she was suffocating from her younger daughter’s "filial piety," Michael Jennings walked in.

Having heard that she fell ill, he specially finished work early to come back and see her.

Now, looking at her frail figure, Michael Jennings furrowed his brows and finally, after a long while, let out a sentence,

"Ask Scarlett about it."

That one sentence almost made Odessa lose the breath she had struggled to catch.

What’s with this father and daughter today? Did they plan this or what?!

"I thought you didn’t believe in these things?"

Odessa couldn’t help but give him a sideways glance, even though she was sick and weak, the look seemed rather faint.

After sharing a bed for so many years, she knew him well.

This man simply didn’t believe in any sort of metaphysics.

If not for that, when Scarlett wanted to attend the Taoism Academy, he was the first one to oppose it.

Even when later on the family acknowledged Scarlett’s abilities and accepted the existence of metaphysics, Michael Jennings still thought of it as something from the Evil Gate.

Therefore, he had never been close to this niece of his.

Even though he disapproved,

And even though he thought it was something from the Evil Gate.

If it could help his wife, he was willing to reach out to the younger generation.

Odessa had indeed been experiencing a streak of bad luck recently.

"Tomorrow’s the weekend, I’ll talk to my big brother and have him ask Scarlett to come back and take a look at you."

Michael Jennings was about to act on his words.

Odessa’s expression changed as soon as she heard him, and she quickly interjected, "Don’t!"

Michael Jennings’ hand, holding the phone, paused as he looked at her strangely.

Odessa knew she had overreacted, so she softened her tone to explain,

"Big brother went on a business trip yesterday, don’t bother him or Scarlett, and besides, I have work tomorrow and won’t be able to see Scarlett even if she comes back."

Hearing this, Michael Jennings furrowed his brow even more,

"You’re already like this, and you still want to attend that variety show tomorrow? I’ll call off for you! Don’t worry, they wouldn’t dare to make things difficult for you on my account."

Odessa immediately became anxious when he talked about cancelling the variety show for her. It was an opportunity she had been waiting for so long, how could she let it go?!

Ignoring her weakness, Odessa tried to get out of bed, but her legs gave out, and she collapsed back down to the floor.

Fortunately, there was a thick carpet on the ground, so Odessa wasn’t injured, but the fall made her look really unlucky.

Seeing her fall, Michael Jennings couldn’t care less about making the call; he set the phone aside and came over to help her back onto the bed,

"You’re already in this state, stop messing around."

Odessa took the opportunity to grab his hand tightly, "Don’t cancel my variety show; it’s a chance I’ve been waiting for so long!"

Plus, just as she had hoped before, the director had already said a few days ago that the actress who had been suppressing her status had dropped out due to some reasons.

The replacement was just a third-tier actress, which meant that she would be the highest-profile star on the show.

With things having come this far, how could Odessa possibly give up?

She must go!

Luca went on a business trip just yesterday!

Odessa insisted on participating in the show as scheduled, and no matter what Michael Jennings said, she would not give up.

Michael Jennings didn’t understand how someone who had been the wife of a wealthy family for so many years suddenly developed such a strong ambition for her career at her age.

But when his wife spoke to him about her dreams, Michael Jennings couldn’t bring himself to stop her anymore.

"Alright, if you want to go, then go."

At worst, he would assign her two competent assistants who could bring her back promptly if anything happened.

Seeing his agreement, Odessa’s face lit up with joy, and she embraced him affectionately, a rarity for her.

Michael Jennings hugged her back, unaware that Odessa felt a flash of disgust when she felt his belly against her waist and abdomen.

Among the Jennings brothers, both Luca and Blaise had maintained good figures even at their age, especially Luca, who at fifty still looked like a handsome uncle in his thirties.

Only Michael Jennings, only he started to put on weight in middle age!

Before, she could at least enjoy his looks, but now there was nothing left to admire.

It was precisely because of this contrast that Odessa found it increasingly hard to let go of Luca.

With these thoughts, Odessa became even more determined to pursue her plans!

As for the bad luck...

She could endure it; it could be overcome.