18 No Plot?

Right after Ye Fan watched Li Wanruo disappear from his sights, he got up out of his seat and quietly left his booth to go find somone.

He wanted to find Iris and ask her what she was doing and why she didn't follow accordingly to his original plan while making sure that she hadn't actually betrayed him.

"Iris, tell me what's going on here. Why did you defend Ronald all of a sudden, do you perhaps have a better plan in mind?" After finding Iris at the backstage of the auction house, Ye Fan asked in a contemplative tone.

He was almost certain that Iris would never betray him, and so he had thought that she came up with a better plan for him and was willing to hear her out.

"Master, I believe that if I lurk by the side of the Young Master of the Kuangge family, I will be able to obtain more valuable information for you." Iris tried her best to surpress the disgust that she had felt for Ye Fan and came up with a plausible excuse in order for Ye Fan to not get suspicious of her actions.

She knew how cruel Ye Fan can be to his subordinates, as long as he has even a slight bit of suspicion towards someone, he won't hesitate to eliminate them.

"Haha, I was actually just thinking the same! As expected of my right hand woman!" Ye Fan was actually thinking about sending Iris to Ronald's side after hearing about how he wanted to buy Iris.

"Okay, I'll allow you to lurk besides him then, make sure to notify me about everything he does." Ye Fan didn't doubt Iris at all, after all he also considered this western beauty to be his woman, but he hasn't laid his hands on her yet because he still wanted to maintain a boss-subordinate relationship with her until he was certain that she had fallen in love with him.

He wanted to maintain his image as a great figure infront of all of his subordinates.

After confirming that Iris hasn't actually betrayed him yet, he quickly left the backstages, still completely oblivious to the intense killing intent that was being thrown at his way.

***

'I would rather do anything else than complete this shitty plot.' Ronald couldn't help but inwardly complain to himself while waiting for the auction to start.

Ronald had remembered that the original plot of the auction house could be categorized into two sections.

In the first section of the auction house plot, he was suppose to be slapped in the face by the protagonist Ye Fan after troubling Iris, the fake maid that Ye Fan had implanted.

Then on the second section, Ronald wanted to buy the 'The Scorching Phoenix' for Luna.

Ye Fan, who knew what Ronald originally came to the auction house for, had maliciously started a bidding war against Ronald for the painting with no actual intentions of buying it.

And of course, Ronald, being the brainless dog licking villain he was, started placing bids much higher than its market value, making him eventually become the laughingstock of the entire public.

Afterwards, he started complaining about how the auction house had scammed him, and threatened to take the entire auction house down, which caused Li Wanruo to intervene and beat him up after she had kicked him out of the auction house during the auction.

Clearly the first section of the auction house plot didn't develop properly accordingly to the original plot, so Ronald was determined to at least make a redemption and sucessfully complete the second section.

There's no way he won't be able to make a fool out of himself this time around, right?

Questioning the legitimacy of the auction house coupled with the fact that he had actually already offended Li Wanruo, even if she had no bottom line, there was no way she'd actually be able to keep a straight face after this.

Just as Ronald was think to himself about the plot, he heard footsteps headed towards his booth and saw Iris holding a teapot.

"Young Master Kuangge, please have some tea." Iris then started to lean closer to Ronald and poured tea just like an obedient maid, while secretly huffing in Ronald's scent.

Every time Iris had sniffed in Ronald's scent, she couldn't help but get more and more addicted to his scent, and it had gotten to the point where she wasn't even trying to hide it anymore.

'Do you have a stuffy nose or something?' Ronald looked at Iris supiciously. He had noticed the sniffing from Iris ever since she came over to his booth, but he didn't think much about it at the time until the sniffing had sounded louder.

Oh well, that's not any of his concerns right now.

He just wants the plot to continue normally and then go home.

After waiting for a while, an auctioneer had came on stage and the auction had officially started.

***

"Today's auction is over, thank you distinguished guests for attending this auction today, and we hope to see you later in the future!" The auctioneer enthusiastically shouted.

Hearing this, both Ronald and Ye Fan was completely stunned.

Ye Fan was stunned because he remembered seeing on the catalog that a magical weapon was suppose to be showing up at the auction today, but it didn't.

Ronald was also stunned because the 'The Scorching Phoenix' had not showed up during the auction even though he remembered checking the catalog this morning and clearly seeing it there, coupled with the fact that it had showed up during his previous life.

'...'

'The auction ended, just like that?'

'WHERE THE HELL IS THE GOD DAMN FUCKING PAINTING?'

'JUST AS I THOUGHT THE PLOT DEVIATING FROM THE ORIGINAL PLOT WAS THE WORST IT COULD GET, THEY JUST HAD TO FUCK ME OVER AND REMOVE HALF OF THE ENTIRE UPCOMING PLOT COMPLETELY!'

'WHAT NEXT? I BECOME THE PROTAGONIST AND EVERY HEROINE ENDS UP FALLING IN LOVE FOR ME?'

'DAMN THIS PLOT.'