CHAPTER 192: CHAPTER 192: PLACING THE RING ON HER FINGER

Damien Lancaster frowned, "Thank for what?"

Rachel Shaw shyly pursed her lips and smiled, "This ring..."

Damien glanced at the hand she extended, his expression indifferent, raised an eyebrow, and put away the ring, "Who said it was for you?"

"Wha...what?" Rachel’s spine stiffened, the smile on her face froze, staring blankly at Damien.

Damien said the ring wasn’t for her.

Then who was it for?

Ivy Summers?

But they’re already divorced!

Their conversation was overheard by people nearby, and Rachel heard several mocking laughs, making her feel like a clown.

She thought Damien’s lavish purchase of the ring was for her, but it turned out she was just being delusional.

If the ring wasn’t for her, then it must be for Ivy Summers.

But Damien stood up just then, and walked forward under everyone’s gaze.

"Damien?" Rachel still tried to stop him.

Even Ivy on the stage was staring at Damien, unsure of what he was going to do, when a breeze blew, the man was already beside her.

Ivy looked up, and found herself locked in his pitch-black eyes, suddenly, a hand grabbed her wrist.

Damien’s face was calm, lowering his eyes to put the ring on her finger.

There was an uproar from the audience, Rachel stood up in shock.

Damien was unmoved by the commotion below, holding Ivy’s hand tightly. The ring on her finger looked just as beautiful as he expected.

Ivy snapped out of her shock, frantically pulled back her arm, looking at him as if he were insane.

This ring was auctioned for her? He actually put it on her in front of everyone? Ivy tried hard to pull it off, but the ring seemed welded to her finger, it wouldn’t come off no matter what.

Ivy stared at Damien, lowering her voice, "Are you crazy?"

Damien held her hand, curling his lips as if content, "Don’t take it off, it’s very beautiful."

"Beautiful my foot." Ivy whispered, amid the sounds of the scene, she could also hear her own heartbeat pounding.

The more she anxiously tried to remove the ring, the more it wouldn’t come off, and soon her finger turned red.

Damien looked at it with some sadness, forcefully holding her hand to stop her, "Enough, Ivy, if you keep pulling your finger will be hurt. You just introduced that this is a ring that only true love can wear, now you can’t take it off, does it mean we’re true love."

"Nonsense." Ivy directly told him, "The ring won’t come off because it’s not my size, it doesn’t fit me!"

"I think my explanation makes more sense."

Ivy was shaking with anger, her gaze turned to the audience below and she met Rachel’s eyes directly.

At that moment Rachel was furious enough to want to kill. She could never have imagined Damien would personally put this ring on another woman’s hand.

This woman wasn’t her, nor was it Ivy.

It was another woman who suddenly trespassed into Damien’s world.

This woman was an ugly freak!

Rachel was so mad her chest was heaving, the surrounding gazes stabbed her like needles, those eyes mocking and ridiculing her, all mocking her as the future Mrs. Lancaster, who couldn’t compare to a mere auctioneer!

The auction had to continue, Ivy calmed herself down, Damien returned to his seat.

The next auction item was already up, Ivy steadied her breath, trying hard to treat the recent happenings as a small episode, continuing to introduce the next auction item.

But Rachel had arranged reporters early on who recorded the whole scene.

At that moment everyone’s thoughts were not on the auction items, but on Damien and the woman on stage.

Everyone was speculating about their relationship, Damien publicly auctioned a two billion ring for her and put it on her.

This was even more shocking than Lancaster Family announcing Damien and Rachel’s engagement.

Damien’s recent actions were like announcing her identity, telling everyone that the woman on his mind is her, Zinnia on stage!

The engagement news still hanging online seemed like a gigantic joke.

The bigger joke is Rachel, now sitting beside Damien, her eyes flushed, sitting like on pins and needles.

She really wanted to question Damien why he did that, wanted to ask him what he felt about the woman on stage.

But the cold aura emanating from the man made her unable to open her mouth.

Although she was nominally Damien’s fiancée now, she had no say at all beside him.

Rachel knew very well, this was the difference between caring and not caring.

When Damien cared, he could pamper and protect her.

But as soon as the man didn’t care, she wouldn’t be worth mentioning.

Rachel wanted to cry, but when tears were about to fall, she held them back, crying now would be even more embarrassing.

She fiercely gripped her skirt, watching the woman in the auction seat, she blamed all she had suffered on Zinnia.

She swore tonight she would let everyone see her true face.

This clown hiding behind a veil, she would definitely reveal her under the spotlight, making her have nowhere to hide.

...

Ivy was affected by the diamond that could blind people, whenever she lowered her head, she could see the presence of the ring, burning, scorching...

She wanted to take it off, but the more she tried, the tighter it clung to her finger.

She couldn’t believe that only true love could wear it, it was simply a smaller size than usual, easy to put on, hard to take off.

Upstairs, the mysterious person who had just bid slowly walked to the railing, looking at the woman downstairs, with the subordinate beside him saying, "Sir, you came specially for this ring, how could you let Mr. Lancaster have it?"

"Just a ring, why compete with young people like them."

"The young lady is about to cause a scene."

"Just find her something better." The man raised his hand holding the wine glass, signaling to the people downstairs, "Who is that girl?"

"An auctioneer, named Zinnia, quite mysterious. I heard someone once offered Ten Million just to see her true face, but she refused. Sir, are you interested in her?"

The man turned back, his face cold, "Interested?"

The subordinate immediately lowered his head.

"I’m already of age, still interested in young girls?"

"I spoke wrongly."

"The voice just sounded nice." The man put down the wine glass and turned to leave.

Came especially for that ring, as the ring already had a master, he had no time to stay longer.

...

After the auction, although Ivy was thrown off rhythm by Damien’s actions, she still stabilized the situation, as the last auction item was hammered down, Ivy simply said the ending words and wanted to leave.

The people below were still buzzing with discussions, the ring clearly made Ivy the center of attention.

In the dark, Nina Summers narrowed her eyes viciously, she pressed a switch, the next second.

"Crash" sound.

A huge stream of water poured down from the ceiling, directly drenching Ivy, her hair bun was undone, Ivy fell embarrassingly to the ground, and instantly the veil on her face was washed away.

Someone exclaimed, everyone looked over.