Chapter 478 Are You Trying to Be Annoying or Pleasing?
Throughout the entire auction, Elise only bid for that piece of ore. She did that not because there were no better gems, but she just did not want to go up against Kenneth, the scheming man again.
She reckoned this man, who controlled the pulse of the city’s economy, might have set up more traps for her. As such, she could only restrain her temperament lest Kenneth seized another chance.
However, Elise was distressed as she was not able to act as she pleased. At this thought, she couldn’t help shooting a fierce glare at Kenneth when she saw him stand up at the end of the event.
Perceiving the sharp glare from the opposite side, Kenneth instinctively glanced in that direction and was innocently stunned upon seeing Elise’s fierce look. What?
After walking out of the private room, Kenneth did not leave immediately but stayed at the entrance.
Elise bumped into Kenneth the moment she came out, and her beautiful eyes were filled with murderous intentions at once.
“Why are you staring at me like this, Miss Sinclair?” Kenneth asked with a half-smile.
“How else should I look at you then?” Elise continued with a straight face, “A gentleman would not steal the apple of someone else’s eye.”
Kenneth looked down and smiled faintly while Elise was completely pissed off.
He’s already at this age. Don’t tell me he thinks he looks handsome by smiling like this!
“Why don’t you understand it as I’m doing so to please you?” Kenneth blurted suddenly.
“Because I’m already engaged, and I don’t need anyone besides my fiancé to please me. If there’s anyone who does, I’ll deem him as an idiot,” Elise retorted with a strong attitude.
An idiot?
Should I be happy or angry?
Kenneth inhaled deeply in resignation while lifting his brows and recklessly eyed Elise up.
“Good job, Elise!”
Just then, Danny walked up and clapped in front of Kenneth.
Kenneth seemed to have thought of something. Then, he closed his eyes with a sullen look and walked toward the staircase.
When the shrewd woman who was following behind Kenneth walked past Elise, Elise couldn’t help glancing at her.
Right at that moment, Kenneth paused out of the blue and turned around. Coincidentally, his eyes met hers.
At that moment, the corner of Elise’s mouth twitched as she felt awkward. Thereafter, Kenneth teased her with a cunning and smug smile. “So you can’t bear to see me leave?”
“Uhmm… You’ve misunderstood…” Elise attempted to explain.
“You don’t have to explain. I understand what’s going on. Don’t worry, we’ll meet again soon.”
After saying this ambiguous statement, Kenneth directly walked downstairs without giving Elise a chance to finish her sentence.
With that, Elise was rendered speechless as she thought that the majority of men were narcissistic and snobbish no matter how well-educated they were.
But to give that more thought, Alexander did not seem to have this problem. Nonetheless, he was extreme on another level—he overly distanced himself from both men and women.
Elise’s mood finally lightened up as she thought of Alexander. But following that, she started worrying about him as she wondered how things were at his end.
And so, she took out her phone and sent Alexander a message on WhatsApp. ‘Have you finished your work?’
On the other hand, Kenneth’s phone rang the moment he got into the car.
He took out the phone and wore a sweet smile immediately when he saw the notification.
The woman beside Kenneth cast a glance at him while confusion flashed through her eyes.
“Melody, I know you were disdaining me just now,” Kenneth said with his eyes fixed on the phone screen.
“You’ve mistaken, sir. I’m just wondering whether all men like to tease their girlfriends by showing a sudden change of emotions,” the woman named Melody answered with a poker face.
“You don’t understand. To humans, this is known as romance,” Kenneth replied.
“Indeed. I don’t understand,” Melody said in a cold voice.
Kenneth’s enthusiasm decreased upon being poured cold water by Melody. Putting away his phone, he said in a calm manner, “Melody, do you know you’re such a wet blanket?”
“Now I do,” Melody answered robotically.
Kenneth still wanted to continue arguing with Melody but was quick to realize that he would only be finding trouble if he debated with this subordinate who did not need a relationship. As such, he laughed it off.
Only those who were in a relationship would taste the goodness of it, so it was unnecessary to force others to understand what he was feeling.
After typing ‘I’ll be right back’ in the chat box, Kenneth put away his phone and signaled Melody to begin to report.
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On the other hand, after the auction was over, there was still a big crowd who stayed in the hall with one sole motive—to witness the extraction of minerals from the ore.
Most of the ores which were bid at the auction would have their mineral extraction performed right on the spot to fulfill the curiosity of the buyer and spectators.
Of course, besides the spectators, a small group of the crowd would be jewelry sellers who aimed to purchase high-quality jades. Once a desirable mineral was extracted, they would buy it unhesitantly. Because of that, some would even make a ton of money before even walking out of the auction center.
The extraction of minerals from its ore was an interesting process as that was the key event of betting on the ore. Once the mineral was extracted, the truth of whether it was a valuable mineral or a useless one would be revealed. Heaven and hell were merely one step apart.
Elise too wanted to join in the fun, so she asked Danny to carry the ore that she had bid and spectate the results of the other bidders first.
At the extraction event, the first mineral being worked on was the first ore that was bid at the auction. The bidder had spent 40 million to purchase the ore, so if its content was not a valuable one, he would not be able to recover the cost.
The technician who performed the extraction was extra careful when handling the jade ore and only dared to manually polish its surface in a gentle manner.
Everyone held their breath as they observed the technician’s action closely with their gazes fixed on his hand.
However, Elise shook her head and started feeling sorry for the buyer even before the jade was revealed.
True enough, when the technician finished polishing ten percent of the ore, the green color disappeared.
Only one-tenth of the outer layer was jade, let alone the inner layer. Since the volume of jade did not even reach ten percent of the ore, the content would not possibly be a valuable jade, and the real value would be far less than 40 million. As such, the buyer pulled a long face at once.
Truth was, the buyer was an owner of an old jade shop. In recent years, diamonds became the latest craze all over the world, so the business of his old shop had been deteriorating and could hardly be sustained. Because of that, he decided to bet all his fortune on the ore, hoping that it could revive his dying business.
Unfortunately, his old business was completely doomed now.
The family business of the Shaw Family was going to be ruined in his hands!
While the people around him were consoling him, he could not hear anything anymore despite whether the consolation was genuine or not.
His mind was running wild in a buzz, and it seemed as if he would collapse at any moment.
Elise gazed toward Tom Shaw calmly, took a deep breath, and walked toward him. “Hi, Mr. Shaw.”
The man lifted his eyes to glance at Elise and lowered his head again in dejection. “Even you’re here to laugh at me?”
After all, he was a man in his thirties and could have been Elise’s uncle at his age, so he thought Elise, as a junior, should at least preserve some of his dignity.
“I’m a daughter of the Andersons of Athesea.” Elise thought this identity would sound more credible.
Sure enough, it was only then did Tom stare at her properly, but his eyes were still filled with confusion. “I don’t think we’ve met, Miss Anderson.”
“It’s not too late to meet now.” Elise went straight to the point. “I would like to acquire Shaw’s Jewelry Co.”
