"Damn it! You're still playing hard to get with me?"
Liu Hao gritted his teeth. The resentment and desire to conquer in his heart grew like wild grass. "Fine! Let's see how long you can keep this up! When the final lot comes out, I'll make a huge move!"
Second by second, the auction finally reached its most thrilling climax.
The lights in the banquet hall suddenly dimmed, leaving only the brightest spotlight shining on the bulletproof glass case at the center of the display platform.
Inside lay an incomparably exquisite pink diamond ring, as large as a pigeon's egg and radiating a dreamlike pink glow.
"Distinguished guests!"
The auctioneer drew a deep breath, his voice trembling slightly with excitement. "Tonight's final lot is this exceptional pink diamond, Love That Conquers The City! Not only does it weigh twenty-one carats, but it was also hand-carved and set over three years by a top European master! It symbolizes 'a love that conquers the city, for a lifetime'!"
"The starting price for this pink diamond is—three hundred million! Each increase must be no less than ten million!"
At that starting price, the entire room immediately erupted in gasps.
A starting bid of three hundred million was enough to deter ninety percent of the wealthy businessmen present...
But Liu Hao's eyes instantly lit up, like a starving wolf spotting fresh meat!
He knew that the ultimate moment he had been waiting for—the one that would shock the entire hall and make Lu Xinyi completely fall for him—had finally arrived!
"ONE BILLION!"
Before anyone else could even make a tentative bid, Liu Hao abruptly rose from his seat!
He held his bidding paddle high and, in a booming voice powerful enough to pierce the entire banquet hall, directly called out an astronomical figure that