As soon as Celeste spoke, not only Lilian, but Lennox, Jorge, and Miles were all visibly stunned.
Lennox's reaction was expected.
As for Jorge, he had previously looked into Celeste a little and knew her family background was relatively ordinary.
While the Rodriguez family's business had recently picked up, it still wasn't at the level where they could casually fork out several hundred million to buy a diamond, right?
Miles, for his part, believed he knew Celeste's situation inside out.
Given the Rodriguez family's current strength, even producing 100 million in spare cash would be difficult—let alone 500 million.
Although Trevor had once paid Celeste two billion in advance as a thank-you gift, the money had been used to help the Rodriguez family with capital turnover.
But even if the Rodriguez family business was doing better now, and even if she still had a large chunk of that two billion left, wasn't it a bit "too much" to casually spend this much money on a single diamond?
Thinking of this, he immediately whipped out his phone, excitedly messaging Trevor.
"When I saw your wife just now at the auction, I was still wondering what she was doing here. Now I get it…
"You know about the diamond being auctioned, right? The starting bid was 400 million, and she immediately raised it to 500 million. Is she seriously trying to buy that diamond? My god, she's gone cra—"
Before Miles could finish typing his message, someone bid 550 million.
Then Celeste spoke again. She directly said, "700 million."
Miles was speechless.
Even though he hadn't finished what he wanted to say, he still hit send and fired off the message to Trevor.
Tonight, everyone attending the auction more or less guessed that this rare diamond would end up going for no less than a billion.
But Celeste, every time she spoke, it was in leaps of 100 million or 150 million. In just three rounds, the bidding had already reached 700 million.

Trevor hadn't replied to his earlier message. But Miles couldn't hold it in anymore and quickly messaged him again.
"Your wife pushed the bidding to a billion. Damn, I think she actually wants to win that diamond. Does she like diamonds that much?"
This time, Trevor replied not long after. But it was just a single period character.
Miles wondered what the hell was that period supposed to mean.

Some were truly obsessed with diamonds. Many of them were even far wealthier than Celeste.

So, even if they wanted to compete, due to various considerations, by the time the bidding price reached 1.6 billion, almost no one else remained in the game.

Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: The Breaking Point of Love
While waiting for the next chapters,,,, I still wish that Trevor will leave his mistress and pursue his wife Celeste. Marriage should not be broken by a third party. They have a beautiful daughter Jordyn who dotes on them, her future is their future too . Why destroy their future by divorcing....
This book was published in September. I don't understand why they're taking so long to update here....
Celeste admirers: Caleb Kieran . Next chapters please!...
Updates plss😭...
Introducing the favored mistress in wife’s special occasion. How clueless! He is wrap around the mistress fingers….....
I hope the book is nearing the end and the truth about everything comes out soon. Who drugged Trevor, Celeste's accomplishments and then Cel gets together with Beck or Caleb....
Chapter 518: I am glad Celeste ignore snub her husband’s mistress. They are not officially divorced yet. Please hold on to your grit Cel, don’t break apart, you are still the Mrs Fleming even for this moment don’t let the mistress and friends look down on you....
Chapter 510 : No change on my decision that I will still support celeste divorce with Trevor. Jordyen really need to understand her mom view. I really hope Isabelle, Celeste mom will get well soon. Maybe both mother and daughter will fight and help each other coping through life. With Trevor realising that, he really miss her and soon he have to break the news to Jordyen. Now that they went to dinner in the same place. I hope they don't meet each other and finalise their divorce without any issues....
Trevor is already so thick skinned. He chuckled and laughed off when jibed. He seems oblivious and unfazed with all those animosities shown to him especially from Betty, Matthias and Celeste. Hope he breaks down one day and regrets for the mistakes and hurt he has caused to Celeste. I wonder who drugged him which he ended up by marrying Celeste and despising her along with his friends. The Shawn and Locket families are evil and despicable; with that kind of mentalities. Trevor is indeed blind....
This book needs to be ignored for 2 weeks in order to get something out of it when you read. The chapters are too short and you come out with nothing when reading one chapter. If this book wasn't so nice and I wasn't so far with it, I would have quit reading....