Mr. CEO Your Wife Has Wanted a Divorce for a Long Time

---- Chapter 378 As soon as Maggie spoke, it wasn't just Janice, Lauren, Rex, and Levi were all stunned. Lauren was speechless, that went without saying Rex had done a bit of research on Maggie before and knew that her family background was relatively average. While the Miller family's business had improved this year, it still seemed unlikely that they could casually pull out several hundred million to buy a single diamond. Levi believed he understood Maggie's situation inside and out.

With the Miller family's current financial standing, even pulling out one hundred million in cash would be a stretch, let alone five hundred million. sure, Franklin had once prepaid twenty billion to Maggie as a thank-you, allowing her to use it for the Miller family's cash flow. And yes, the family business had picked up since, and Maggie likely still had a substantial amount of that money left. But still, casually dropping that kind of money on a diamond? That felt... insane.

---- With that thought, Levi immediately pulled out his phone and. fired off a message to Franklin: [When I first saw your wife enter the venue, I was wondering what she was doing here. Now I get it... This diamond up for auction, you know the one? Starting bid was 400 million. She just bumped it straight to 500 million. She's really trying to win this?! My god, she's lost her-] Levi was still frantically typing when someone else raised the bid to 550 million.

Maggie calmly raised her paddle again: "Seven hundred million." He didn't even bother finishing his sentence and just hit send. Though everyone attending tonight's auction had guessed the final bid for the rare diamond wouldn't be under a billion, Maggie's bidding style, raising by 100 or even 150 million at a time, was so aggressive that in just three rounds, the price had

Janice, Lauren, and Levi who were shocked, now even others in the room were turning to look at her. ---- The audience was packed with the wives and daughters of the world's wealthiest families. Even if

around money like it was nothing, people around her began whispering: "Who is she?" "Do you know her?" "Where did she come from?" The bidding continued. Maggie followed nearly every new offer without hesitation. When she raised her paddle once more, the

was in a bit of a daze. Franklin still hadn't responded to any of his messages. But Levi couldn't resist. Once he snapped out of his shock, he messaged Franklin again: [Your wife just pushed the bid to one billion. Holy crap, she's seriously going for

for most of them, it was a mix of passion and investment logic, once the price exceeded a certain threshold, they had to consider whether it