The CEO’s Substitute Wife Is A Genius
Chapter 279: Madam, She Resembles the Deceased Miss (Happy May Day)

Chapter 279: Chapter 279: Madam, She Resembles the Deceased Miss (Happy May Day)

Seeing him bid, Chen Anna’s competitive spirit was instantly ignited, "What are you doing? Competing with me?"

"22 million!" She immediately raised her hand.

Hu Ming was speechless, "Big sister, we’re on the same team, why are you competing with me?"

"The same team? Who’s on your team? If you get these earrings, will you give them to me?" Chen Anna rolled her eyes dismissively.

Hu Ming felt like vomiting blood, "If I don’t give them to you, who will I give them to? Would I, a grown man, wear these pink earrings? Am I sick?"

"Ah?" Chen Anna was momentarily at a loss for words, her mind not yet catching up.

Hu Ming quickly grabbed her hand, "Madame, stop fooling around, just watch me bid."

Luckily someone called out ’23 million’.

Jiang Man stood behind the two, watching this spectacle unfold.

Lu Xingzhou gazed at her, his eyes unwavering, filled with deep affection, "Here for the Thousand-Year Spirit Jade?"

"Yeah, I want to see what it actually looks like." Jiang Man nodded, her arms crossed in front of her, adopting the posture of a spectator.

She wasn’t wearing a single piece of jewelry on her.

But she didn’t need the enhancement of jewelry; she brought a powerful aura all on her own.

At this moment, on the railing of the second floor, a lady dressed in a black evening gown and wearing black elbow-length gloves was leaning forward, observing the crowd below.

Her gaze was fixed on a cool-looking young girl in the crowd.

"How’s the investigation going?" Her voice was gentle, but could not hide the noble air in it.

Around her neck she wore an emerald necklace worth hundreds of millions, and on her fingers, she wore a sapphire ring as large as a pigeon’s egg.

Her hair was done up, with a red gemstone hairpin adorning the black bun.

There were only three gemstones on her, yet these three gemstones would take an ordinary person 2,000 years to afford.

She had an air of simplicity shifting to extravagance; the black evening gown had no adornment and looked plain.

But a closer look at the three gemstones worn revealed endless luxury.

"Madame, that girl’s name is Jiang Man. She is the daughter of Hu Fangqin from the Hu family. She was abandoned at birth due to a heart condition and only recently recognized her ancestry. As for Lu Xingzhou next to her, it’s said they might be already married," said an attendant.

Lan Xiang Madame listened to her subordinate’s introduction, her long eyelashes trembling slightly.

She rubbed the gemstone ring on her ring finger with a bitter smile.

If her daughter were still alive, she would probably be about the same age as this girl named Jiang Man, right?

What a coincidence, her Nannan also had a weak heart and didn’t survive after birth.

Perhaps because Jiang Man shared a similar fate to her daughter, Lan Xiang Madame felt a strange fondness for her.

"Madame, this girl looks a bit like you. When I first saw her, I really had some unrealistic thoughts," the attendant said softly, not voicing the most crucial part— I thought she was your daughter.

But it was said that the lady had died not long after she was born, and Madame had personally buried her daughter’s body, crying all night, almost crying herself to death.

"Nannan had a short destiny," Lan Xiang Madame said with a bitter smile, not dwelling on the topic any further.

Instead, she looked at Jiang Man leisurely.

As she watched, she couldn’t help but smile.

She really did resemble her when she was younger!

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"32 million!" Hu Ming was still fervently calling out bids.

He gave a disdainful glance to the Caucasian who kept opposing him, grinding his teeth in anger.

The Caucasian gave him a wicked smile, "37 million!"

"38 million!" Hu Ming was defiant, determined not to let the other have the last word.

Little did he know, the Caucasian abruptly stopped and flashed him the middle finger, and after giving the finger, he also gestured a ’3’ and an ’8’.

The cheek of it, blatantly cursing at him!

The auctioneer onstage hammered down the gavel, and with three strikes, the first auction came to an end, the item belonging to Hu Ming.

Hu Ming, cradling the earrings he had purchased for 38 million, gingerly approached Chen Anna with the jewelry box, "Here, for you."

As casually as if it was something worth 38 dollars.

"Really for me?" Chen Anna couldn’t believe it, even overjoyed.

"A gentleman’s word, swift as a horse cannot pursue."

"Hu Ming, you’re so cool!" Chen Anna happily took the jewelry box.

The moment she opened the box and saw the pink gem emitting a dazzling light, a knowing smile spread across her face.

As she smiled, her lips pursed, finding herself ridiculous.

"Hu Ming, I’m sorry, these two years, you must have been the butt of jokes, right?"

Chen Anna tilted her head to look at the tall man beside her.

He was also a handsome young man.

"Why apologize out of the blue?" Hu Ming looked at her, "Do you want the second collection item?"

"No need."

"All right, let’s wait for the third item."

Chen Anna nodded, said no more, and began to reminisce about her childhood.

Back then, she, Hu Ming, and Hu Hao were classmates in the same class.

As a child, Hu Ming was very popular with the girls, being the captain of the school basketball team, surrounded by a group of girls watching and cheering every time he played.

But her, dark and skinny as a child, she lacked confidence.

She had a crush on Hu Ming and wrote him a love letter, asking her best friend to deliver it.

But who would have thought, the next day her love letter was posted on the school bulletin board, subjected to public execution.

Later, it was rumored that it was Hu Ming who spread it, and the whole school knew the letter was hers.

What was once a budding affection became a source of ridicule and shame.

From that moment on, she loathed Hu Ming.

Even though Hu Ming came to apologize and explain afterwards, saying it wasn’t him, he didn’t even know about the letter.

But she didn’t believe a word.

She thought Hu Ming was so outrageous, his one act of seeming indifference had resulted in her own years of introversion, unable even to lift her head.

Finally, the chance to get back at Hu Ming arrived.

The Hu family and the Chen family were considering a marriage alliance, thinking she and Hu Ming were childhood sweethearts.

Heh, what childhood sweethearts.

It just so happened that at this time she met Xu Chengzhou, and she spent a lot of money to promote their relationship, making it very high-profile.

She made Hu Ming wear a ’green hat,’ a subject of ridicule in the elite circles.

But no matter how outrageous her actions were, Hu Ming never troubled her about them.

Latter, Hu Ming was also involved in continuous scandals.

They were like a pair of bitter seeds, becoming a joke within the elite circles.

Outsiders said they were a good match.

As Chen Anna was lost in thought, the second collection item was finally auctioned off to an African businessman for 52 million.

At last, the third auction item was presented.

When two workers pushed a trolley up and uncovered the red cloth, the lights dimmed with a ’click’.

An oval jade stone, about the size of a palm, lay quietly in the glass case, radiating an incredibly dazzling light.

The luminous green glow was bright and gorgeous, shining and stunning.

The whole venue was instantly abuzz.

"It really is the Divine Jade!"

"What an eye-opener, quite an experience!"

The crowd was abuzz, with many showing the determination to win the jade no matter the cost.

Chen Anna felt the same.

"Wait," Jiang Man held her hand.

"What’s wrong?" Chen Anna asked, puzzled.

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