Chapter 404: Heart of Romance
Nikki put a fake smile on her face and pretended to be aggrieved. “Cheyenne, I’m just doing this for your own good! Kenneth has specially invited his friends here for your sake. I just thought that if you sit next to Kenneth, you two can communicate better! If you don’t want to, we can just forget about it. Why do you have to be so fierce to me?!”
Cheyenne glanced at her coldly. Anyone can tell what your intentions are, Nikki. Don’t try to fool me with those high-sounding words!
But Nikki was a little frightened by Cheyenne’s outburst of anger, and she was afraid that she might drive Cheyenne away by angering her. So she suddenly started behaving properly and remained seated obediently without deliberately provoking Lucas.
While waiting for the food to be served, one of the young men sitting at the dining table suddenly exclaimed, “Shit!”
His exclamation immediately caught everyone’s attention.
“What’s wrong, Harry? Did something happen?” someone asked concernedly.
Harry raised the phone in his hand and said excitedly, “Have you guys seen the news? Just half an hour ago, something big happened in the Golden Eagle Commercial Building opposite the LA amusement park! An ultra-wealthy scion spent close to a million bucks to rent out the entire atrium of the Golden Eagle Commercial Building and decorated the venue with countless balloons and flowers to set up a romantic proposal for his girlfriend!”
He even tapped on the video attached to the article. But the camera was rather far away from the couple, so their faces couldn’t be seen clearly. Still, the camera had caught an excellent shot of the gorgeous proposal scene.
Cheyenne immediately looked up at Lucas. It was the scene of him proposing to her just now. She didn’t expect someone to take a video of it and even uploaded it to the internet.
Fortunately, the proposal venue was decorated with thousands of decorative balloons and a plethora of fresh flowers. Moreover, the person who had taken the video was standing quite far away, so the figures in the video were rather blurry. Even their silhouettes and faces couldn’t be seen clearly.
After watching the video, a few of the scions present were clearly disgruntled, and they even remarked sourly, “Pssh, what’s the big deal? Didn’t that guy just spend around a million dollars on a marriage proposal? Who among us can’t afford that?!”
“Haha, of course all of us can afford it, except for a certain good-for-nothing here,” said one of them, making sure to take a jab at Lucas.
“Hah, you guys, don’t think of this as a matter that’s as simple as spending a million dollars on a proposal. According to the news, this young man who proposed isn’t a simple man, and he might be someone from one of the eight wealthiest families in DC. You know the diamond ring that he proposed to his girlfriend with is the legendary ‘Heart of Romance,’ a superior-quality pink diamond that weighs thirty carats!” Harry said exultantly.
“Damn! The Heart of Romance? I’ve heard of it. A few months ago, this pink diamond ring was auctioned off in Orange County to an extremely mysterious tycoon for a staggering price of thirty-five million dollars!”
“My god! I only know that pink diamonds are really expensive, but a pink diamond ring was actually auctioned for thirty-five million dollars? That’s so exaggerated!”
“Damn! He spent thirty-five million dollars on a diamond. He must have too much money to spare! I take my hat off to him. I feel really ashamed!”
The scions of wealthy families in LA began lamenting and clucking their tongues against the roof of their mouths in awe.
They didn’t know much about jewelry and diamonds. At most, they would just spend a few tens of thousands of dollars on a ring for fun. Now that they heard that someone actually bought a diamond ring for thirty-five million dollars, they were stunned to realize how terrifyingly expensive jewelry was!
Indeed, the young man who proposed in the Golden Eagle Commercial Building had to be the son of one of the eight wealthiest families of DC. Otherwise, no other family would have such a large amount of money to allow a young member of the family to spend on a proposal.
Most of the wealthy families in LA these scions belonged to had only a few hundred million in total assets and tens of millions in liquid funds. Spending thirty-five million dollars on a diamond ring was impossible!
“I wonder which one of the eight richest families in DC he’s from and why he’s suddenly here in LA. Why don’t we go check out his background and see if we can get in touch with him?!” one of them suggested.
Kenneth shook his head and said resolutely, “Are you stupid? If that person is really a scion of one of the eight richest families in DC, how can people like us check his whereabouts? I think you guys are just looking for death. Once someone finds out, even your whole family will be eradicated!
“Hmph, don’t think I’m scaring you! We don’t even dare to provoke the top families in the state, let alone the eight most wealthy ones in DC. We might be doing well in LA, but with a lift of their finger, they can render us powerless. Think about how the Hales were destroyed overnight. Do you know who actually destroyed them?”
Kenneth’s words immediately caused many to break out in cold sweat.
In particular, the person who just said that he was going to check out that young man from the eight richest families in DC was almost scared to the point of peeing himself.
He just wanted to find out the identity of that man and get closer to him, but he didn’t consider how dangerous the investigation could be!
The slightest mistake could bring about his family’s downfall!
“Yes, Kenneth, I… I was just making a casual remark. I won’t get up to any nonsense! He’s not someone we can afford to mess with!” the person who spoke earlier said frantically.
“Yes, we’re not qualified to ask about those people. Forget it. Let him be. That type of ring has nothing to do with us either!” Kenneth said in displeasure.
He didn’t like the scions from families in San Francisco and DC at all because their families were far more powerful than his. In front of them, he didn’t feel a sense of superiority as a scion at all.
At this moment, Cheyenne was extremely astonished after hearing what they said, and she secretly looked at the large pink diamond ring on her finger!
Due to the lighting previously, she couldn’t take a careful look at the diamond ring and merely thought that it was one with a large diamond that cost a million dollars or so.
Only now did she know that this big diamond ring that Lucas gave her was an extremely rare pink diamond that had a resplendent and beautiful tinge of purple mixed among the romantic pink color. Under the dazzling light, it reflected an extremely radiant and gorgeous light.
This beautiful diamond ring called the Heart of Romance was worth thirty-five million dollars!
Cheyenne then remembered that the first time Lucas had proposed to her was shortly after the auction that caused a huge uproar in Orange County. At the time, he had proposed to her with this exorbitant diamond ring called the Heart of Romance!
Cheyenne’s heart began pounding wildly, and she turned her head to the side to look at Lucas beside her, only to see that he was smiling at her with a tender gaze as well.
Cheyenne blushed, hurriedly picked up the cup of water in front of her, and took a sip out of it to hide the fact that her heart was racing.
At this moment, Nikki pointed at Cheyenne’s hand and said, “Cheyenne! When did you get that ring on your finger? It seems to be a huge diamond too. I didn’t see you wearing it this morning!”
When Cheyenne raised her hand just now, Nikki immediately noticed the bright light flashing on her finger.
Most women had an unfathomable sensitivity to jewelry, especially ones like the one on Cheyenne’s hand, which was extremely eye-catching in terms of size, color, and luster.
What Nikki said made everyone in the room cast their gazes at Cheyenne’s hand, and they all saw the shiny diamond ring on her ring finger.
In particular, the diamond ring was emitting an alluring purplish-pink hue.
“Holy shit! It’s the Heart of Romance!” Harry sprung up in astonishment and stared at Cheyenne’s hand, completely unaware that he had even knocked over the chair behind him.