'One hundred thousand?' Mrs. Gao thought. Her family could accept that, though it would be painful. A bride price of a hundred thousand... if this were the Gao family of old, they wouldn't have batted an eye. But for the family now, a hundred thousand was the most they could bear.
"One million," Jie Jingchen stated flatly.
Qin Mei shot Jie Jingchen a sidelong glance. 'One million was the same amount she'd extorted from that German Merchant, only she had demanded it in US Dollars. It felt like Jie Jingchen was copying her.'
Mrs. Gao's pupils constricted sharply. Mr. Gao was stunned for a moment, and Gao Qiang's face was a mask of shock. In that single, stunned second, the Gao family's true feelings were laid bare.
"Jing Chen," Xu Jiali spoke up. "The Gao family can't possibly come up with one million right now."
"Shut up," Jie Jingchen snapped, humiliating Xu Jiali without a second thought.
