Reborn with Nothing but My Farm and Vengeance in the Apocalypse Chapter 87: Zhao Huifeng

lody Sumrs sat up straight and looked ahead. She was surprised the Sutton Family still had the spare cash to attend an auction.

lody rembered that around this ti in her past life, the Sutton Family’s entire cash flow had gone to propping up the Lancaster Group. For that, Ethan Sutton had even called lody a jinx.

The thing was, the Sutton Family had made that investnt willingly, and lody hadn’t seen a single cent of it. The Lancasters took the money, but lody was the only one who had to endure the Suttons’ insults and complaints.

Next to Ethan Sutton was a long-haired girl in a dark purple dress. Ethan kept turning to the side, lowering his head to say sothing to her. For so reason, his posture seed almost deferential.

lody assud the girl in the dark purple dress was Sylvia Lancaster. She smiled. ’They seem so in love,’ she thought. ’Look at the way Ethan is so carefully fawning over her, as if Sylvia is truly his Princess.’

But then, the girl in purple turned her head, and lody saw her face clearly.

She froze. It wasn’t Sylvia Lancaster. It was a girl she had never seen before.

lody couldn’t process it for a mont. She stared at them, stunned, not even registering that Zane Simmons, who was beside her, was speaking to her.

Zane Simmons noticed sothing was off with lody. He followed her gaze and imdiately understood.

He chuckled softly, leaning close to lody’s ear. "Next to Ethan Sutton is Miss Walsh, Zara Walsh," he whispered. "You know the Walsh Family, right? They own several private hospitals and have shares in quite a few pharmaceutical companies. For the past few days, Ethan Sutton has been trying everything to get on this young lady’s good side. He’s trying to woo her."

Zane Simmons’s mother, Paige Walsh, was from the Walsh Family, so he knew Zara Walsh. An elder in the Walsh Family had once tried to set the two of them up, but Zane, startled by the idea, had quickly refused.

’Ethan Sutton is pursuing Zara Walsh?’ lody thought in surprise. She had never even heard of Zara in her previous life. It seed her rebirth had really thrown things into disarray.

lody said in surprise, "But isn’t Ethan Sutton already engaged to Sylvia Lancaster?"

’What’s this all about, then? Have high-society circles always been this ssy?’

Zane Simmons knew she would bring that up. He smiled with a hint of schadenfreude. "They’ve been engaged for half a year, but they never, ever ntion marriage. Can’t you see the Sutton Family’s attitude? The key thing is that the Sutton Family is about to go under. They held onto a few projects they should have abandoned, and now they can’t pay back the hole they’ve dug with their loans."

’I can’t believe Ethan Sutton’s father has lost his nerve in his old age,’ Zane thought. ’He’s not as decisive as he was when he was younger. He doesn’t even have the courage to cut his losses.’

Zane shook his head and added, "The Sutton Group’s situation is no better than the Lancaster Family’s right now. Ethan can’t keep up his ’love as deep as the ocean’ act anymore. He’s left his fiancée at ho while he’s busy sucking up to Miss Walsh every day."

lody thought back. Around this ti in her past life, Ethan Sutton had been busy proclaiming his love for Sylvia Lancaster to the whole world. She never expected that at the sa point in this life, he’d be chasing after another girl.

Just as lody was lost in thought, a voice ca from above—

"Well, if it isn’t Mr. Shepherd. Long ti no see."

In an instant, lody felt the blood freeze in her veins. She knew that voice all too well. It was Flynn Adler!

In her past life, after the Lancasters had drugged her unconscious, they had handed her over to Flynn Adler.

Back then, lody had woken from the darkness to find herself lying on a cold floor, her hands and feet bound. She struggled to lift her head and saw Flynn Adler and Sylvia Lancaster wrapped in an embrace. Both of them were looking at her as if she were garbage.

A cloth had been crudely stuffed into lody’s mouth, preventing her from making a sound. All she could do was watch as Sylvia whined coquettishly to Flynn Adler, "Darling, this woman bullies every day. She uses the fact that she’s my parents’ biological daughter to look down on and always cause trouble for . She even gets her group of shady friends to bully . Darling, you have to get revenge for !"

Flynn Adler smiled and gently patted Sylvia’s fair cheek. "Don’t worry, baby," he said with a nod. "I’ll have my n send her to my uncle’s bed right now. My uncle has his ways with won like her. I guarantee he’ll make her wish she were dead."

Hearing this, lody felt a wave of fury surge through her. She was so angry she wanted to get up and take them both down with her, but her hands and feet were tied. She struggled for a long ti but couldn’t move an inch.

Sylvia Lancaster watched lody’s futile struggles and said with a triumphant smile, "Sister, don’t struggle. You should save your energy for the bed later. And rember, you owe this. Who told you to co back to the Lancaster Family? It’s all your fault for insisting on competing with . You brought all of this on yourself."

Flynn Adler added lazily, "You little bitch, rember to serve my uncle well later. If you please him, maybe he’ll let you live a few more days. But if you don’t know what’s good for you and dare to resist him, he’ll tear you apart and sell you piece by piece to Southeast Archanea!"

Then, with a lift of his hand, a group of his underlings ca over, hoisted lody up, loaded her into a truck, and drove away.

After a bumpy ride, the truck stopped. lody was carried out, still blindfolded, and thrown into a room.

Before long, a man walked in. This man was the notorious leader of a criminal organization from the apocalyptic era. They robbed and murdered, trafficked won, sold people, illegally harvested human tissue and organs, hijacked state supplies, and colluded with foreign powers... There was no evil they wouldn’t do!

No one knew that lody had a small blade hidden in her hair for self-defense.

Faced with the inevitable, lody beca terrifyingly calm. She feigned compliance, coaxing the man into untying the ropes around her hands.

The man saw that lody had already been stripped naked. He figured a little girl, bare and waiting to be played with, wouldn’t have the strength to resist. Besides, he thought it wouldn’t be as fun if she was tied up like a dead pig, so he let his guard down and untied her hands.

The mont the man was off guard, lody stealthily pulled the blade from her hair and slashed it across his throat!

Thick blood instantly sprayed from the man’s throat!

It all happened so suddenly. While the man was still in shock, lody lunged forward and viciously stabbed him several more tis in the sa spot. Before long, the man stopped moving, having bled to death.

The commotion in the room alerted the goons waiting outside. As they burst through the door, lody, knowing there was no escape, unhesitatingly slashed her own throat with the blade. Warm blood stained her vision red...

When she woke up again, she had been reborn to the ti she was supposed to return to the Lancaster Family and be acknowledged by them.

「...」

Zane Simmons looked up at Flynn Adler and replied with a smile, "Mr. Adler, long ti no see. Business seems to be booming lately."

Flynn Adler also smiled and exchanged pleasantries. "Sa to you. We all have Mr. Shepherd to thank for our good fortune."

Then, Flynn Adler noticed the silent, head-bowed lody Sumrs beside Zane Simmons. He sized up her attire and saw she was dressed very plainly. ’She’s probably not the daughter of so wealthy family,’ he thought.

So, he chuckled and teased Zane Simmons, "Is this your new girl? Mr. Shepherd, you sure are lucky with the ladies."

Hearing this, the smile on Zane Simmons’s face stiffened. He said sternly, "Don’t talk nonsense. This is Miss Sumrs, a friend of mine. I happened to run into her at the hotel and, being bored, I invited her to co check out the auction with ."

Flynn Adler’s suggestive, teasing smile vanished. He extended a hand to lody. "My apologies, then. I didn’t realize you were an acquaintance of Mr. Shepherd’s. My na is Flynn Adler. And you are, Miss Sumrs?"

lody had already composed herself. She looked up, her expression blank. Ignoring Flynn Adler’s outstretched hand, she replied coolly, "Don’t ntion it. My na is lody Sumrs."

Now it was Flynn Adler’s turn to be surprised. He blurted out, "You’re the Lancaster Family’s biological daughter?"

A while ago, his aunt, Mrs. Lawson, had entrusted him with investigating lody Sumrs. He was even planning to help Mrs. Lawson kidnap lody and force her into a consummated marriage with her ntally disabled younger son.

But to his surprise, lody was an extre hobody. She never set foot outside, just staying at ho all the ti.

The doors and windows of the Sumrs Villa were fortified, topped with an electric fence, and the area was constantly patrolled. The n Flynn Adler had sent never found an opportunity to make a move.

lody said flatly, "I don’t understand what you an, Mr. Adler. My surna is Sumrs. I have nothing to do with the Lancaster Family."

Flynn Adler gave lody and Zane Simmons another thoughtful look, then shrugged and smiled. "Well, I won’t disturb you two then. Have fun."

After Flynn Adler left, lody looked up and quietly asked Zane Simmons, "That Mr. Adler... does he have an uncle?"

Zane was taken aback. He shook his head. "Flynn Adler’s father, Kenneth Adler, is an only son. In fact, his family has only had one son for three generations; his grandfather was also an only son. Where would Flynn Adler get an uncle?"

lody frowned. She rembered Flynn Adler telling Sylvia that he was going to send her to his uncle’s bed. How could he not have an uncle?

Zane thought for a mont and continued, "He does have a maternal uncle, though. He’s always been very close with his uncle’s family. But... why do you ask?"

Facing Zane’s suspicious gaze, lody could only vaguely claim that she’d heard Robert Lancaster and Elaine Hughes ntion it.

Just as lody was puzzling over this, the auction began.

The first few items were antiques, paintings, and calligraphy. lody didn’t know anything about them and wasn’t interested.

But many people in the audience were bidding. As the saying goes, "Antiques in tis of peace, Gold in tis of chaos." She was surprised that in such chaotic tis, there were still so many wealthy people with the inclination to play around with antiques.

"The next item up for auction is an antique sapphire necklace."

lody looked up and froze slightly. She recognized that necklace.

It was part of Elaine Hughes’s dowry.

Elaine Hughes had always treasured that necklace. lody rembered that in her past life, Elaine had given it to Sylvia Lancaster.

After Sylvia got the necklace, she’d worn it and run over to show it off to lody. "Mom said this necklace was passed down from her great-grandmother to her grandmother, and then from her grandmother to her. Now, Mom has passed it to . lody, you’re not mad, are you?"

lody didn’t say anything. Beside them, Elaine Hughes explained awkwardly to lody, "lody, don’t mind it. Sylvia isn’t my biological daughter, after all. She already feels wronged, so Mom is just trying to find ways to compensate her."

Elaine then said to lody with apparent sincerity, "Even though Mom gave the necklace to Sylvia, I will give you more of my love. Between you two sisters, one gets money, and the other gets love. It’s very fair. lody, be a little more understanding. You can understand Mom’s difficult position, can’t you?"