Chapter 148
After opening the door and walking in, Veronica waved at Xavier, who was standing across the door. “Come on in.”
Xavier glanced around the living room, which had a minimalist design. Nevertheless, because the area wasn‘t too spacious, it actually made the space look more warm and cozy with the dim, yellow light in the living room.
“It‘s pretty cozy here,” Xavier commented while walking into the living room to sit on the couch.
“Please make yourself at home.”
Veronica closed the door and took out a bottle of red wine from the wine cooler with a chuckle. “I stole this wine from Matthew‘s place. He said this is an aged wine.”
In fact, Veronica saw this aged wine on Matthew‘s wine cooler back when she was at Twilight Condominium, so she secretly kept it in her bedroom as she planned to devour it.
However, she got into an argument with Matthew later on, so she took it away together when she left the club.
Veronica shook the wine bottle in her hand and said, “Let‘s finish it.”
She loved drinking because when she was with Crayson back then, the latter loved bringing her around for drinks, so as time passed, she gradually got better at holding her liquor.
Nevertheless, Veronica did not realize that she had been drinking quite a lot in the last few months due to the pressure from various sources.
Xavier then took the red wine from Veronica‘s hand and smiled in spite of himself after checking the label. “I‘m afraid we can‘t drink this wine,” he said.
“Huh? Why? Is it because it‘s an aged wine? I can hold my drink, so that‘s not a problem.”
“This is not just any ordinary aged wine. This is a 1945 Romanée–Conti that was bought by someone at an exorbitant price of 3.9 million at New York‘s Sotheby‘s auction. I reckoned the buyer gave this to Matthew as a gift later on.”
Hearing thai, Veronica widened her eyes and was left dumbfounded. “What?! 3.9 million? What kind of wine would cost this much?!”
She knew aged wines were generally more expensive, but she did not expect this one to be so pricey.
in Domaine de la Romanée–Conti after World War II, and there were only 600 bottles worldwide. The historical value
guessed Veronica was surely not aware of the background of this red wine, so he explained
just so happened to have attended the New York‘s Sotheby‘s auction
That‘s f*cking expensive!” Veronica
out her hand to grab the wine back from Xavier. “A
possibly be so expensive? No wonder the bottle looks so old. It‘s okay, I’ll leave it alone. Maybe
a minute... This is not the
sudden realization–she merely stole a bottle of wine from Matthew and had not expected that its value was actually sky–high. Will Matthew the
Xavier instantly and asked, “What‘s the
well, Xavier glanced at the red wine in her
he answered, “Since the wine is worth almost 4 million, it‘s counted as an extremely valuable item. The minimum punishment is 10 years of imprisonment. In a more serious case, one could be sentenced
Veronica freaked out and gulped. “Oh my goodness! Thank
getting late, so you should get going too. I also have some… I plan to
stuff to attend to, but she did not say it directly in order to not embarrass
a
see if Veronica was actually staying here. With that, he was surprised to discover the truth as he did not
to this, Matthew was standing in front of the French
series of numbers that belonged to Veronica‘s phone
not call
opened a bottle of wine to fill his glass.
the moment he lifted his head, he inadvertently realized the expensive red wine
he paused his movements as his eyes
it was as if he had found a reason
and dialed Veronica‘s number, but the call was instantly disconnected after the numbers were pressed. After hesitating for a while, he decided to call
was connected, a voice emerged from the other end
like to lodge a case. Someone
What wine
Romanée–Conti
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