Transmigrating Into a Book, the Villain Becomes the White Moonlight!

104: Chapter 14 A Game Within a GameHe had gone to great lengths to investigate the Su Family, found the seemingly perfect breakthrough point in Mu Xue, and meticulously arranged all of this—wasn’t it all just to lure the Su Family, especially this legendary spendthrift Su Bai, into the trap?

This blood diamond, this high-profile return to the family, this auction specifically arranged in front of the younger generation—every step, from the very beginning, was a trap tailor-made for the Su Family!

”Fifty-one billion!”

The voice of the man behind him rang out again, slightly more high-pitched than before, even carrying a hint of a tremor. However, under a forced sense of calm, he still clearly called out the new price.

This shout was like a massive boulder dropped into a stagnant pond. In an instant, all eyes—whether overt or covert, curious or shocked—snapped away from Su Bai and toward the mysterious bidder.

Just who was this person?

Did they have a death wish? To go head-to-head with the Su Family like this until the bitter end?

Immediately afterward, everyone’s gaze seemed to be pulled by invisible threads, quickly shifting back to Su Bai, waiting for an even more shocking increase or some other reaction.

However, it was beyond everyone’s expectations.

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Su Bai not only stopped bidding but actually let out a low, clear laugh.

There wasn’t a hint of irritation at being provoked in that laughter, nor was there any desperate anxiety to win. There was only a sense of relaxed, faint mockery, as if he had seen through all the tricks.

The deliberately feigned playboy arrogance on his face had long since vanished, replaced by his usual laziness. It was as if the person who had just stood up and thrown down fifty billion wasn’t him at all.

Fifty billion? For a rock?

Or... for Mu Xue on the stage, whose identity had suddenly changed?

If his old man were sitting here today and said he liked it and wanted to buy it, Su Bai wouldn’t find it strange even if the price was a hundred billion.

Even if the fathers of these young guests below were present and bid this price for strategic layout or deeper exchanges of interest, it would be normal.

But the problem lay exactly there—the Nangong Family, or rather, the person behind the scheme, had made a fundamental mistake.

They had carefully chosen this occasion where young talents gathered, but they forgot the most crucial point: the personal financial authority of these rich second-generation heirs was a completely different matter from the wealth owned by the families behind them.

Asking them to dig into their own pockets or mobilize tens of billions to buy a diamond without an emergency request for instructions?

How would they explain that to their families when they got back?

Say, ”Dad, Mom, I spent fifty billion on a pretty rock, and it might come with a candidate for a wife”?

They’d be lucky if their legs weren’t broken.

This scheme was wrong from the start, right down to the target audience.

It might filter out a tiny minority of heirs who truly held power or were pampered enough to act recklessly, but it certainly didn’t include the majority who needed to follow conventional business logic and family rules.

Most importantly, the Nangong Family hadn’t distinguished who the prey actually was.

During Su Bai’s two and a half years abroad, besides studying, there was an even more important purpose...

”Alright, I’ve seen enough of the show.” Su Bai turned around, no longer looking at the auction stage. He didn’t even bother with the figure of the shill behind him, who had instantly frozen and was starting to show panic. He spoke to the still-dazed Lin Wan, ”Let’s go, time to head home.”

”Huh?” Lin Wan was indeed a bit confused.

She had just been rapidly thinking about the deep meaning behind Su Bai’s move. Was it a strategic investment?

Was it to establish the Su Family’s prestige?

Why did he suddenly... stop playing?

To just pull out so cleanly and decisively?

She looked at Su Bai’s calm, expressionless face. There was no regret or resentment in his eyes, only the dullness of a finished game.

At this moment, Mr. Nangong’s expression behind the scenes changed drastically. It was as if the most crucial piece of a meticulously built tower of blocks had been pulled out, making it teeter on the verge of collapse. He stared fixedly at Su Bai’s departing back on the surveillance screen, the veins on his forehead throbbing slightly.

How could he... not follow up?!

Impossible!