The Fake Heiress Turns Out to Be a True Tycoon!-Chapter 345: How come you don’t have any?

Azura Loomis’s words, when first heard, had no issue at all—Ismeria Jennings subconsciously nodded and echoed, "Exactly, exactly!"

However, Old Lady Jennings suddenly furrowed her brow upon hearing this.

Although she didn’t like Scarlett Jennings engaging in all those superstitious matters and never believed in them herself, family members always said that Scarlett had that ability.

She could reluctantly accept that.

But... if Scarlett had anticipated Ismeria’s kidnapping without saying anything, that would be far too cold-hearted.

After all, Ismeria was her own cousin!

Even if Scarlett had provided Ismeria with protective talismans, Ismeria was so young, what if something really happened when faced with kidnappers?

Could she compensate for that?

With this in mind, Old Lady Jennings’s displeasure towards Scarlett deepened, even carrying a hint of aversion.

Azura Loomis, who understood Old Lady Jennings best, saw the aversion flash across her eyes and knew she had succeeded in instilling doubt.

Unexpectedly, Donovan Jennings had just finished a phone call and happened to hear her words.

The originally smiling peach blossom eyes suddenly frosted over, as he simply looked at her and said,

"Who told you that Scarlett knew in advance about Ismeria being kidnapped? Did she tell you that?"

Azura’s heart skipped a beat upon hearing Donovan’s words.

Her comments might fool the rest of the Jennings family, but they were nothing in front of Donovan; it seemed as if he could glimpse her underlying intentions in an instant. Whenever those peach blossom eyes looked at her with a smile, she felt as though he saw her as a clown.

Azura’s face trembled as she hurriedly explained,

"No, Brother Donovan, it was Ismeria who said that just now, and I subconsciously thought so. I really do think Scarlett is amazing, to be able to foresee... such things..."

Donovan looked at her, then suddenly let out a cold laugh.

Azura instantly hung her head, looking as if she didn’t dare to say anything more, while Old Lady Jennings, seeing this, felt somewhat heartbroken. But as Donovan was her most prideful grandson, she couldn’t bring herself to utter words of reprimand.

In her hesitation, Ashton Todd’s voice suddenly interjected,

"Within the Sycamore Sect, there indeed exists an ability to glimpse into the past and future, but those who can truly do so are few and far between. Not to mention that this young friend is also Donovan’s cousin; to foresee that she would be kidnapped is almost impossible."

The Jennings family, now aware that Ashton Todd was Scarlett’s classmate at the Taoism Academy and had played a key role in promptly tracking Ismeria’s location, couldn’t afford to underestimate him and asked subconsciously,

"Why is it even less possible for a cousin?"

Ashton Todd glanced at Adam Jennings, displaying an expression that said how could you not know this, but considering the million-dollar favor, he still patiently clarified,

"As everyone knows, fortune tellers cannot clearly see the life prospects of those who are kin to them. Forcing a glimpse can only reveal imminent difficulties, but what exactly they are is hard to say."

So Azura’s earlier statement that Scarlett knew in advance about Ismeria’s kidnapping was completely baseless.

At most, Scarlett might have sensed some upcoming misfortune or danger for Ismeria and to provide her with life-saving talismans and protection in advance was already commendable.

Adam, initially swayed by Azura’s words and believing that Scarlett’s failure to warn had nearly caused Ismeria harm, now understood after hearing Ashton’s explanation and thought there was nothing wrong with Scarlett’s actions.

He even felt that Azura’s previous words were indeed somewhat misleading.

[System: Adam Jennings’s goodwill value -2, current goodwill value 71 points.]

Azura, hearing the system’s announcement, couldn’t help a twitch at the corner of her eyes, and her dissatisfaction with Adam escalated.

What’s going on with him lately?

Why does he keep losing goodwill points?! The points she had so hardly accumulated were almost gone.

Unable to control her dissatisfaction, she retorted,

"If she didn’t know in advance, how could she have prepared the talismans and the protective jade token beforehand?"

No sooner had the words left her mouth than Azura felt regret, as Donovan and the other members of the Jennings family, including Adam, all turned to look at her with evident scrutiny.

Although Old Lady Jennings felt that Azura’s tone was somewhat different from usual, she didn’t find anything wrong with what she said.

Indeed, those immobilization talismans, protective jade tokens, they all seemed quite targeted.

If she hadn’t known in advance, how could she have placed so many chaotic talismans on Ismeria Jennings?

Then listen, with a hint of chill in Donovan Jennings’ voice, he retorted,

"Is it really that strange to prepare these in advance?"

As he spoke, he suddenly stretched out his hand at a leisurely pace, pulling out the jade token hanging around his neck.

Seeing this, Lucas Jennings’ eyes lit up and he hurriedly followed suit,

"Yeah, is it really that strange?"

While talking, he also casually yet boastfully pulled out his new jade token and fished several pieces of messy, triangular-folded talisman paper out of his pocket.

"These are protective talismans, you know. My sister gives me a few every now and then, don’t you guys have any?"

The words were full of Versailles-like condescension, practically hitting everyone in the face.

Well, although the talismans were bought with money, this new jade token was given for free!

As they showed theirs, Ismeria Jennings also held up her own jade token high, afraid that her grandmother and others wouldn’t see it.

Flora Xalvadora also smiled and pulled out her own jade token.

It was a gesture of affection from her niece.

For a moment, the VIP hospital room fell into an eerie silence.

It was just that Old Sir Jiang and Luca Jennings were not present.

Otherwise, they would have them, too.

Mrs. Jiang stared at the nearly one-per-person jade tokens, somewhat dazed.

Her first reaction was, why didn’t she have one?

Everyone else had one, so why not her, the grandmother? What was the reasoning behind that?

She felt inexplicably irked for a moment.

Looking again, she realized that wasn’t quite right—neither Adam Jennings nor Azura had one.

Adam Jennings: ...

Although he didn’t have a jade token, he would soon have a Benedict Jade, which was even more expensive!

And it would be unique.

He didn’t care for jade tokens at all, Adam Jennings thought sourly.

...

Having observed in the hospital for half a day, around past seven in the evening, Michael Jennings and Odessa rushed over. Odessa cried as she hugged her daughter, and it took Michael a long time to pull her away from the child.

Didn’t she realize her string of bad luck?

Clinging to her child like that, was she worried her daughter wouldn’t continue to be plagued by her misfortune?

On the way there, they had already received the preliminary investigation results from the police.

According to one of the kidnappers’ confession, today’s kidnapping wasn’t specifically targeting Ismeria Jennings.

They just knew that the private school Ismeria attended had a schedule to visit the technology museum today, and planned to just nab any unlucky kid who was alone.

After all, any child who could afford that school came from a family that was essentially either rich or noble—snatching any one of them would rake in a large ransom.

And Ismeria Jennings, the little miss of the Jennings family who should have been closely protected, became that unlucky kidnapped victim due to consecutive issues with her bodyguard, driver, and teacher.

Michael Jennings had to believe now, even if he didn’t want to.

Although he didn’t understand why Odessa had suddenly become so unlucky, it didn’t interfere with his decision.

In a couple of days, once the kidnapping storm passed and Ismeria’s emotions stabilized,

He was going to formally divorce Odessa.