Remorse After Breaking Up



"Indeed. The powerful Strauss family has produced many talents. That's why they're called the fifth Great Immortal Sect. If they're joining the bid, it means they're determined to get the script."

Everyone nodded in agreement.

Lana started pitching, "The guest in lounge No. 1 bidded five billion dollars. Any counterbid? "She added, "Think carefully. We're talking about the Aether Script now. The returns are endless if you unlock the secrets..."

Her enthusiastic and exaggerated speech was met with a lukewarm response as the bidding price was too high for most.

The elite families might be wealthy, but they'd have to be out of their minds to splurge billions of dollars on an auction item. If Phaedra Island failed to unearth the secrets within the script after holding it for years, everyone believed that they did not stand a chance.Upstodatee from Novel(D)ra/m/a.O(r)g

Besides that, no one would want to get on the bad side of the Strauss family.

Lana, seemingly noticing the issue at play, finally stopped marketing the script.

"Five billion dollars! Going once... Going twice..."

Right when Lana was about to seal the bid, she heard a deep, firm voice from the back of the hall. "Six billion dollars!"

Everyone turned to look at Sebastian, who offered six billion dollars. Joseph and Zia gaped at him as they did not expect him to participate in the bidding all of a sudden.

"That dude certainly has deep pockets. No wonder the Sanders selected him as their son-in- law."

"The script is useless if you can't decode the secrets. He'd be spending billions on nothing. That's the action of a spendthrift," someone remarked with a sour grapes attitude.

"Seven billion dollars!" Before Lana could say anything, the bidder in lounge No. 1 topped Sebastian's bid with one billion dollars.

"Eight billion dollars!" Sebastian did not back down. He was willing to spend a fortune on the Aether Script, which he vowed to own.

"Nine billion dollars!"

"Ten billion dollars!" Finally, Sebastian shouted an astronomical figure. It was not an overstatement to describe his bid as the highest ever in auction history.

The crowd was deeply shocked by Sebastian's bid, which they considered the behavior of a truly rich man who would not bat an eye at spending billions.

The bidder in lounge No. 1 hesitated. Sebastian's bid had gone over the maximum that they were comfortable with.

It took Lana a while to recover from the shock. She quickly announced, "Bidder 6697 put in a bid of ten billion dollars. Any counterbid? If not, I'll announce the results."

Although Lana wanted to wrap up the auction to save Sebastian some money, she had to follow the standard procedure as an auctioneer.

"Ten point one billion dollars." After some hesitation, the bidder in lounge No. 1 countered with a higher sum.

Joseph frantically stopped Sebastian, who seemed eager to offer a higher sum. "Mr. Wilder, I'm sure the Aether Script is a treasure, but it'll be tough to unlock the secrets. Otherwise, Phaedra Island wouldn't have auctioned it. Please think twice."

"Mr. Wilder, my dad is right. Please don't be rash," Zia chimed in.

"I know my limits." Then, Sebastian countered, "Ten point two billion dollars!"

"Ten point three billion dollars," the bidder in lounge No. 1 immediately followed suit with an icy tone. He appeared angered at Sebastian's doggedness.