Chapter 577
Ava Bennett Gets Humiliated
As soon as Landon West's words fell, the air around them suddenly turned heavy.
The reporters who had still been taking pictures of Ava Bennett were also stunned, completely unable to react.
After a long moment, Olivia Lawson finally muttered, "Manager Song, this..."
Hadn't Mr. West come because he accepted their invitation? So why was he saying this now? And he clearly had invested in them.
Ava Bennett gradually came to her senses. She thought that since she knew Jason Chang, and Jason Chang had agreed to invest in her, Landon West must not know about this matter.
She smiled and reminded him, "Mr. West, your manager Jason Chang and I are friends. We entered into an investment partnership, and perhaps Jason Chang didn't tell you, which caused this misunderstanding. It's really unfortunate."
That was how Ava Bennett convinced herself too. She was even thinking that later she would go settle accounts with Jason Chang. He actually hadn't told Landon West about her matter and had almost made her lose face in front of the reporters.
As Ava Bennett explained, the awkward atmosphere around them gradually eased.
By saying this, Ava Bennett also wanted to remind the reporters why Landon West had denied the investment.
Sure enough, after the reporters nearby heard what she said, looks of sudden understanding immediately appeared on their faces.
"So it was an investment approved by a manager. No wonder Mr. West just said he had never invested in Ava Bennett."
"I thought there was some misunderstanding."
"Looks like it was all just a misunderstanding."
Just as Ava Bennett let out a sigh of relief, Landon West suddenly let out a cold laugh and said, "You're talking about Jason Chang?"
Ava Bennett nodded repeatedly, the corners of her lips curling into a light smile as she said softly, "Yes, Jason Chang from Hudson Capital. He and I are very good friends, and he personally made this cooperation happen. I'm sure our future collaboration will be very pleasant."
Hearing that, Landon West let out a cold laugh.
He said flatly, "Jason Chang abused his position and caused the company to lose quite a bit of money. He was fired a week ago. Second Miss Song, you didn't know?"
Ava Bennett froze abruptly, staring at Landon West with wide eyes.
What... what did he say?
Jason Chang had been fired!
At that moment, Ava Bennett felt like she was falling apart. After all, Jason Chang had only gone to see her yesterday and taken plenty of advantage of her. Since she wanted to rely on him for help, she had half-reluctantly endured it and let him take advantage.
She had never expected that Jason Chang had already been fired long ago!
Then hadn't he been lying to her the whole time?
When Olivia Lawson heard this, she was so shocked her eyes widened too. She had never expected something that big to have happened at Hudson Capital. Why had she never heard about it?
In fact, when Landon West dealt with Jason Chang, he hadn't announced it publicly. That was also Julian Sterling's idea. After all, he wanted to help Claire Bennett, and Landon West had simply done him a favor along the way.
Ava Bennett stood there with a deathly pale face, her expression looking exceptionally awful, as if she couldn't suppress it no matter how hard she tried.
At that moment, the assistant beside Landon West quickly said, "Mr. West, sorry about that just now. I got it mixed up. The Maison Verne we're investing in is across the street. Let's hurry over."
Landon West nodded, then turned and left with his assistant.
After Landon West and his assistant left, Ava Bennett and everyone around her were all dumbfounded.
The reporters looked even more stunned. Once they came back to their senses, quite a few of them hurriedly grabbed their cameras and started snapping frantically at Ava Bennett.
After all, this was big news!
Hudson Capital's Landon West had invested in Bennett Group, but what he invested in was Bennett Group's Maison Verne, not Ava Bennett's brand!
"Oh my God, what exactly is going on? Didn't they say Hudson Capital's Mr. West invested in Ava Bennett? How did it suddenly take such a sharp turn for the worse?"
"Who could have imagined this? Just now I thought Mr. West came here because he had a partnership with Ava Bennett. I never expected it to be like this."
"Then when Ava Bennett ran up to Mr. West just now and said she had some kind of partnership with him, that was really humiliating!"
"This is hilarious. Could it be that Mr. West invested in Maison Verne, but Ava Bennett thought he'd invested in her?"
Amid the chorus of whispers, Ava Bennett's expression was almost impossible to hold together.
Only after quite a while did she force a stiff smile and say to everyone as if nothing had happened, "I knew about Mr. West investing in Maison Verne. Maison Verne is also part of Bennett Group, so when I said Bennett Group was working with Hudson Capital, there's nothing wrong with that. Please don't overinterpret it."
When Olivia Lawson heard that, she also helped smooth things over from the side.
Only through the two of them forcing an explanation did the matter finally seem to pass.
Although Ava Bennett explained it that way, everyone still felt that she had shamelessly tried to cozy up to Landon West, only to get slapped in the face by him instead. It was humiliating to the extreme.