Su Qingqing saw Huo Sining’s face looked relaxed, even with a smile, and felt puzzled: "Ningning, how can you still smile? These things happened, aren’t you anxious?"

Huo Sining laughed: "What use is anxiety? I expected something like this would happen. Don’t worry, I actually wish it would get even bigger. If Clayflo easily gave up, it wouldn’t be interesting at all."

Speaking, Huo Sining looked at Zhou Shitao and the other old gentlemen:

"Master, I have already communicated with Chief Lu, and soon this matter will spread domestically, Grandfather Lu will also take action. Even if Clayflo doesn’t act, we must fan the flames to make it tumultuous."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Shitao and a few others exchanged glances and showed understanding expressions.

With Huo Sining’s temper, she wouldn’t take the loss at Clayflo’s hands lying down.

Clayflo thought he had her weakness, but didn’t know it would turn into Huo Sining’s weapon against him.

News exposure and media frenzy are often the fastest, especially with Clayflo behind the scenes. Thus, Huo Sining’s bidder information was quickly fully exposed, and many domestic media joined the uproar, practically tagging "foolish and rich" on her forehead.

Even domestic media comments aren’t polite; it’s even worse with those foreign capitalist-driven media, clearly ridiculing Huo Sining’s stupidity—spending so much on her own country’s treasure.

Some auction details were exposed, with foreign media seizing one explosive point after another, including her agent’s auction bids of four billion, her thirty-billion RMB donation for earthquake relief, and her zero-dollar donation of her assets to charity foundations. After exposure, people gradually felt something was off.

If a month ago, Huo Sining suddenly spent two to three billion dollars buying antiques, it was nothing—she has money, and rapid growth in her industries. But after the donation incident, she was nearly penniless; where did she suddenly get those billions to buy twelve zodiac animal heads?

This doubt quickly spawned widespread questioning and backlash, with large-scale suspicion posts appearing in domestic forums, questioning Huo Sining’s assets and the funding source for buying the twelve zodiac animal heads.

Since Huo Sining had already informed, the domestic propaganda department received top instructions to let the incident ferment—without suppression, deletion, or concealment strategies, allowing the situation to escalate.

Soon, Huo Sining became labeled as a con artist and hypocritical philanthropist; keywords like her fraudulent charity occupied hot-topic searches on websites like Weibo and Baidu. Before returning home, she was already being criticized like a besieged rat, forcing Jade Beauty and other companies to shut down, and Jade Beauty Foundation’s website was directly hacked, plunging into collapse.

All this was naturally reported to Huo Sining, while the culprit behind it all, Huo Sining, unhurriedly stayed in Philadelphia with a calm demeanor, seemingly unconcerned.

Of course, she’s not really as relaxed as she appears—Jade Beauty’s closure and Beauty Group’s tarnished reputation—all these she attributed to Clayflo.

She has always been clear-cut with grudges, thinking she’s polite towards Clayflo; since he wants to play dirty, she’s not afraid to tear his face apart, aiming to get even with Clayflo.

Clayflo naturally noticed the situation, expressionless but inwardly satisfied, especially hearing that Huo Sining’s group was surrounded by reporters at the hotel entrance, nearly unable to return to their rooms; he was elated, imagining those Orientals being harassed to chaos by reporters.

"How about it? I told you I’d avenge you, didn’t break my promise, right?"

Clayflo asked Semiya beside him with a smile.

Semiya nodded, eyebrows revealing schadenfreude: "Now I want to see how that Huo woman copes, American reporters are experts at digging news inside stories—even fake can be made real. I bet Huo Sining will suffer greatly this time!" 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

Clayflo’s mouth curved: "Wait, there’s worse coming, those Huaxia people aren’t easy pickings. They’ve now viewed Huo Sining as a laundering pest; returning will be even harder for her, I’ll wait to see her panic!"

Huo Sining guessed right, Clayflo appeared gentlemanly but was actually cunning and insidious. When plotting this situation, he had already connected with Huaxia’s networks and discussed strategy in detail, ensuring his plan covered all developments, leaving him unworried about the situation escaping his control.

However, he couldn’t foresee that no matter how thoroughly planned, exceptions always exist; any supposedly perfect plans fail if opponents defy norms. Huo Sining was that deviant exception.

If Clayflo had studied Huaxia’s Sun Tzu’s Art of War and Thirty-Six Stratagems, he’d know strategies like veiled operations, loosening grasps, counterstratagems...

In essence, as a Huaxia saying goes, "Man proposes, God disposes."

Unfortunately, Clayflo was unaware, thus complacent, believing he held the advantage and had suppressed Huo Sining, even contemplating recruiting this woman after her downfall.

But he didn’t realize he was but a pawn in someone else’s game.