CHAPTER 15: CHAPTER 15: PUBLIC HUMILIATION

The video in Eleanor Sterling’s hand was a recording from the auction.

On the stage, inside the glass case, was the Medicine King Vine Bracelet. This was the footage before the bracelet was auctioned.

The auctioneer shouted out prices, as the fame of the Medicine King Vine was widespread, everyone was eagerly bidding for it. Finally, a mysterious person bid fifty million, and the bracelet was sold.

Seeing this, the people started whispering among themselves.

"What’s Eleanor Sterling trying to do? Is there something wrong with this video?"

"Yeah, when the paddle was raised, I saw it was a woman. It should be Faye Sterling, right?"

"Haha, this is too funny. Eleanor Sterling can’t possibly be saying that she was the one who bought this item, right?"

"Exactly, Faye Sterling is Mrs. Faulkner. Wouldn’t she be able to afford a fifty million bracelet?"

...

The moment these mocking words dropped, the screen changed.

A woman stood up from the shadows, walked over to the payment area.

As she walked, her entire face was revealed to everyone, and it turned out to be someone completely unexpected.

It was Eleanor Sterling!

She even smiled at the camera.

Faye Sterling felt a ’boom’ in her mind, her whole body frozen in place.

How could this be? How could the person who bought the bracelet be Eleanor Sterling? She clearly had someone help her buy it!

And her person had clearly told her they had successfully purchased it.

Everyone was also shocked, and immediately began to discuss.

"No way? Really? Was the person in the video who bought the Medicine King Vine Bracelet Eleanor Sterling?"

"Doesn’t that mean the bracelet Faye Sterling gifted is fake?"

"Oh my god, it’s truly shocking that the dignified Mrs. Faulkner would gift a fake."

"Maybe she thought no one would suspect her?"

...

All sorts of disdainful voices and mocking glances were hurled toward Faye Sterling, her face turning pale again and again.

Rosalie Ray came over, grabbed her, and asked, "Faye, what the hell is going on? Didn’t I tell you to prepare properly?"

Faye Sterling shook her head in panic, "I... I don’t know."

Suddenly, as if she remembered something, "That’s right, it was Lily! She was the one who bid on it, there must have been some problem on her end."

Since the company had been quite busy lately, she couldn’t get away, so she entrusted the task of bidding on the gift to her assistant.

Faye Sterling quickly pulled out her phone and dialed her assistant Lily’s number. Soon, a cold mechanical female voice came from the phone.

"Sorry, the number you dialed is powered off. Please try again later."

Powered off! Lily’s phone was off.

Faye Sterling’s face turned pale, a bad premonition rising in her heart. Her hand trembled as she continuously dialed her assistant’s number.

The first time, the second time, the third time...

A few minutes later, Faye Sterling could only give up.

Lily didn’t answer the calls, she must be the one behind this!

She’d been set up by her assistant, who took her money but didn’t bid on the bracelet, and let her make a fool of herself at The Sterling Family’s birthday banquet.

That was fifty million!

How could that bitch Eleanor Sterling possibly have so much money? She had practically invested all the company’s money.

And Eleanor, having been exiled abroad, how could she have so much money to bid on the bracelet?

But with the video there, there was no room for her to argue.

The crowd’s gaze at her changed, instead, they were surprised at Eleanor Sterling’s capability; after all, being able to produce fifty million wasn’t simple.

In an instant, the positions of the two switched, Eleanor Sterling shone brilliantly, while she was utterly humiliated!