[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-pampered-by-my-three-brothers-the-return-of-the-":3,"chapter-pampered-by-my-three-brothers-the-return-of-the--pampered-by-my-three-brothers-the-return-of-the--chapter-249":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","PAMPERED BY MY THREE BROTHERS: THE RETURN OF THE NEGLECTED HEIRESS",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},424446,686,"Chapter 249: Penny’s literal headache","pampered-by-my-three-brothers-the-return-of-the--chapter-249",249,"\u003Cp>\"Are you sure you didn’t try to screw me over through Sven?\" Atlas held the driver’s door before Penny could get in. \"I won’t get angry.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Penny studied his face and could almost see the horns sprouting from the top of his head.He’ll definitely get angry. He seemed ready.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That cousin of yours is lying through his teeth,\" Penny scoffed. \"Why would I do business with someone like that?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Penny helped Haines and Charles resolve an issue in the company, she learned a valuable lesson that day: if she was going to do something, it was best to keep it private. That’s why only a few people knew the person behind Prime Group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s a lot of nerve on his part.\" Atlas shook his head, pleased that his sister wasn’t trying to give him a headache. \"If you say so, then fine.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"First Brother, do you want me to screw him up?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No. Sven is crucial to the company. Let him be.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Penny frowned. \"Are you going to let him get all the credit?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The company’s success is also ours.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What a bummer.\" Penny pouted, clicking her tongue with a sigh. \"Fine, fine. But I’m not doing business with him. The only reason Global Prime Logistics is at the top of my list is because of you. I’m not negotiating with him.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I understand,\" Atlas nodded. \"Go now. Do you have plans today?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m going to the building. Nina’s there.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Penny turned to leave but paused, looking back at him. \"First Brother, you’re Charles Bennet’s eldest son. Don’t let that cousin of yours push you around.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He’s not just my cousin, but also yours. And I’m not letting him push me around.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m not in the Bennet family anymore.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Atlas arched a brow. \"What did you say?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Kidding! Kidding! Ha ha!\" Penny faced him squarely while smiling sweetly. \"First Brother, prepare your proposal for Ito Motors. That Sven is going to rip you off.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Grandpa already said...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Raise our rates.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Atlas frowned. \"Are you kidding me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The main purpose of the engagement was to foster a good relationship between the two families and ensure mutual benefit. But since marriage was no longer an option, the Bennets would have to compensate the other party.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, they had to lower their rates by a few percent to continue doing business with that company.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Penny was a businesswoman herself; she should understand this without anyone explaining it to her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The corner of her lips curled up into a smirk. \"Raise your price and don’t bend.\" She winked at him. \"Otherwise, tell them to find other logistics services that can match our price and quality. Trust me on this one.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"At least tell me the reason,\" Atlas frowned. \"Penny, our elders and relatives are annoying, but I don’t want more internal strife that could potentially tear down our company.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I care about your business as much as you do. So, you’ll know,\" she smirked confidently. \"Anyway, I’m off~!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that, Penny got inside the car while Atlas closed the door for her. Taking a step back, Atlas watched the car move in reverse before it made a turn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Seriously,\" he sighed while watching her speed away. \"What is she planning this time?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Atlas shook his head and pondered. \"Well, Ito Motors has been leeching off the Bennets for a long time now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He shrugged and turned, strutting toward his car to head to work as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Atlas might be the head of the family, but he had a high regard for Penny’s advice and judgment. She was, after all, the smartest and most successful Bennet of their generation—perhaps even the previous generations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>********\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Penny idled in the parking lot outside the building because Nina had told her she needed to run a quick errand. She didn’t complain; Nina had a prior commitment before Penny reached out to her for this project. She was already glad Nina was working on her office before anything else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is a fireplace too much to ask for in an office?\" she wondered, her eyes falling on the marriage certificate in the vacant front seat. \"This marriage license again.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Picking it up, Penny studied it once more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Registering a marriage means both parties should be aware,\" she whispered. \"Did this other man register the marriage? But without me, that’s still impossible.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What a headache.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Penny told herself to be patient until Yugi reached out to her again. If not for this, she would have confronted Sven today.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And we got married in this country,\" she murmured. \"I haven’t been here in the past five years.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The trip from where she was five years ago to this country took almost a day by plane. Penny would definitely remember making such a long trip to marry a stranger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is giving me a literal headache.\" She placed the certificate down and leaned back, tapping her fingers on the steering wheel. \"I do not like this twist.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the past twelve years, Penny had taken a lot of action to turn her life around. However, all those actions also required a lot of thinking and consideration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Penny had a theory about why she and Haines experienced such an incident when it didn’t even happen in her previous life: it was because Haines never stopped investigating the baby swap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Assuming in her previous life Haines stopped investigating because he left the country almost immediately, but Charles didn’t, it would explain Charles’s accident.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I wonder if Uncle Haines managed to get information from Dad,\" she frowned slightly. \"This marriage... it has nothing to do with that, right? But why?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having an enemy whose identity they didn’t know had always been a headache for Penny and Haines. However, it compelled her to move forward cautiously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amid her solemn private time to rethink the situation and this unexpected marriage, Penny’s phone buzzed. Seeing the caller, she raised a brow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dean.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What?\" Her voice was cold and uninterested when she answered. Her arched brow slowly furrowed as she listened to Dean’s words. \"Fine. I’ll come now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having said that, Penny hung up on him and sent Nina a quick message before speeding off to where that man was.\u003C\u002Fp>",1034,"2026-05-30T08:19:01.097Z","2026-06-01T04:30:44.597Z",1,"novelbin.me","370b89c43e7c2fc55514844cddfa6917f1942b25dba058b3c11cc4745d8f8c37","pampered-by-my-three-brothers-the-return-of-the--chapter-250","pampered-by-my-three-brothers-the-return-of-the--chapter-248",1865,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fpampered-by-my-three-brothers-the-return-of-the--cover.jpg"]