Heart Hunting novel Chapter 114

The Bailey Law Firm was functioning normally.

Knock, knock, knock!

The knock on the door interrupted Poppy's work.

“Come in”

Wythe Lynn's assistant, led by a secretary, walked in Poppy’s office. Seeing that it was him, Poppy raised the corner of her mouth and put down her pen, "Did Mr. Lynn ask you to come over?"

The assistant nodded and placed a file bag in front of her, "This is what Mr. Lynn asked me to send over to you."

"Didn't he have a message for me?"

This made Poppy a little surprised.

"He said he'd reach out to you. Miss Green, since I have done what I should do, I'll be off."

Not long after the assistant left, Wythe Lynn called. Having the a million RMB check in her hand, she answered the call, "Mr Lynn, what do you mean by giving me the check?"

Wythe Lynn said in a straight forard manner, "Miss Green, that check represents my sincerity to you with regard to the bet we got. I am willing to admit I lost the bet. The check is considered to be the stake in our bet, because I am not going to make an imprsssion by immitating pig squealing. Always give people an out and don’t push them too hard. I believe Miss Green should understand such a simple truth."

Poppy placed the check on the table and leant back, "Since Mr. Wythe is so sincere, of course I'll accept it. I hope we'll still have the opportunity to discuss cases with each other in the future."

"We surely will have many such opportunities. Goodbye!"

Poppy got a windfall from Wythe Lynn, which was out of Poppy’s expectation. But his ability to creep as well as soar was indeed admirable.

A million RMB!

Poppy flicked the check and the crisp voice made her delightful. She glanced at the clock and it was nearly lunch time, so she dial the in-line, "Claire, I have just gotten a windfall. I'll buy you lunch today!"

"Okay, Miss Green!"

After tidying up the things on her desk, Poppy and Claire picked up their bags, and left the office.

While reaching the parking lot, she quickened her pace when she saw something wrong with her car from afar. Claire saw it too and quickly followed Poppy.

A big “DEAD" in red paint was written on the front of her brand-new car.

Even the back of her car was splashed with a big puddle of red paint.

Poppy was calmly observing the whole car and stood there, thinking. Her eyes looked calm.

Claire understood that it was inevitable for a lawyer to offend people. But pouring red paint so blatantly indicated the culprits were bound not to be weak.

Poppy cleared her mind and asked Claire not to touch the scene. Then she called the police and called the security office to retrieve the surveillance video.

Police came quickly, took pictures and collected evidence. They even brought back several red-painted tissues next to the car for testing.

"Miss Green, we'll take the surveillance video back and watched it. We'll call you first if we find out anything."

The policemen said to Poppy before they left.

"Thanks."

When the police left, Poppy called some people to take the car to get cleaned.

Only after all this had been dealt with, did Claire ask,

"Miss Green, what should we do now?"

"Go for lunch, and wait for news. Do what you should do, and don't be affected by this.” Poppy replied

She acted calmly throughout, not showing a bit of panic.

Poppy clearly knew who did this.

Claire couldn't help admiring Poppy. If this kind of things happened to any other women, they may be too panic to know what to do. But Poppy was able to stay calm and handled all of thisproperly. She really was courageous.

Poppy chose a nearby Michelin restaurant. They chose the table next to the curved French window with excellent sunlight. The incident did not affect her good mood. She handed the menu to Claire, "Order whatever you want to!"

"Goddess, can we eat whatever we want?"

Noel saw Poppy from afar, so he quickly folllowed her, and pulled out the chair unceremoniously to sit down.

Claire saw the two of them, Noel and Ives, greeted them and looked down at the menu.

Poppy looked at Noel with rare generosity, "Yes, order whatever you want."

Ives sat down, and said,

"Noel, it looks like your firm is treating Miss Green very well." Ives said.

Noel hadn't answered yet, but Poppy replied,

"I have just gotten a windfall out of the lawsuit."

"No, no, Goddess, it's thanks to you that we, Navi, have been able to regain our reputation in the business industry, but where did you get your windfall from?"

"From the bet between Wythe and I."

She said, handing them two menus.

“I see.”Noel said

Noel looked at the menu and suddenly glanced at the clock, "But Goddess, why are you so late for lunch?

It's almost 1:30 p.m. now, long past lunch time.”

Ives also raised her head and looked at Poppy.

Poppy’s smile turned cold and she turned on her phone to show them the 'new look' of her car, "Isn't it handsome'?"

"What the fuck!"

Noel grabbed the phone and looked at a few pictures of the car, "Who did this?"

In the meantime, Ives frowned, "It is hard to clean a car splashed like this!"

"Goddess, tell me, who, the son of a bitch, did this?"

Noel was furious, and acted like that he wanted to protect Poppy.

Ives teased him, “Forget it. I trust Miss Green more. I believe she can handle this herself."

Poppy looked at Ives who was way smarter than Noel.

Ignoring Noel on purpose, Poppy turned to Ives, "What do you think of these pictures?"

A dark light flashed in Ives's eyes, "Don't you have any idea at all?"

Poppy smiled. Ives was not simple!

Noel was awfully ignored. Then he looked at Clair next to him, "Is she usually treating you this way?"

Claire looked at Poppy and shook her head, "No."

"Then how come she always so ......?" Noel asked

Nole felt quiet sad.

Claire said seriously, "Normally Miss Green would only ignore people who are unimportant and irrelevant!"

‘Unimportant and irrelevant?’ Noel thought

“What?

Was that referring to him?”

......

The red paints on the car was difficult to get cleaned at the moment. A policeman called in the afternoon, telling Poppy that their tests showed the tissue got fingerprints on them, but the fingerprint database did not find a match, and the case was under further investigation.

Poppy now cared more about her safety because of what happened .

At nightfall, twilight lingered everywhere.

Poppy knocked off and left the office building. As she was about to cross the street, she was stopped by a handsome Maybach.

In the entire City H, only Kenny dared to ignore the traffic rule on the road. He stopped his car there, ignoring the grumbling glare of drivers passing by.

The Maybach stopped like a crab on the side of the road, forcing the cars passing along the road to line up one by one and to leave slowly for the other lane.

Kenny arrogantly stepped out of the car and came towards her, "May I give you a ride?"

Poppy nodded, and he opened the car door for her like a gentleman.

After they got into the car, the traffic finally returned normal. Poppy casually turned the music on, Kenny asked,

"I have heard that you got a windfall and invited them all to a Michelin restaurant this afternoon?"

"It’s true!"

"But you haven’t invited me.

Isn't it time for you to make it up to me?"

Poppy gave him a side glance and generously responded, "No problem, just go to whichever restaurant you want to go."

"This is rare. Then I'm definitely going to the most expensive restaurant."

Kenny’s car blended into the stream and headed for the Commercial Avenue.

Poppy had been watching the scenery outside the window, but when she unintentionally glanced at the rearview mirror, she found a suspicious van was following them all the way along, no matter they were changing the lane or turning around.