He Is Just An Actor In This Show

“Did you see that? Ms. Wallace will outbid everyone!” the auctioneer said enthusiastically. “Congratulations on winning the bid for ‘The Ocean’s Tears,’ Ms. Wallace!”

Right then, Amanita felt the anger in her chest dissipate. She finally felt better.

However, when she was going to pay, the auction house staff told her that her card had been frozen.

“That’s impossible.” Amanita frowned. “My card is limitless. It won’t get frozen no matter how much I spend.”

She had the auction house staff try the card again. Still, the transaction would not go through.

Dennis gallantly strode over. “Didn’t I say I would pay today? Use mine.”

He smiled and handed over his card. Yet, the transaction did not go through either.

“How can this be?” Dennis frowned, and his expression turned disbelieving.

There was a commotion in the crowd, and someone laughed openly. “Has the Wallace family gone bankrupt? Can’t you even pay for a set of jewelry?”

“If you don’t have the money, don’t say that you want to outbid everyone. How embarrassing!”

The wave of jeers made Amanita’s face go red.

After enjoying watching this play out, Marcus finally stood up languidly.

He took out a black bank card and gave it to the auction house staff. “Use mine.”

This time, the transaction went through. The auctioneer gave “The Ocean’s Tears” to Marcus.

Then, in view of everyone, Marcus took the necklace and put it around Risa’s neck.

In that instant, Amanita became the laughingstock of the auction house.

Her eyes stung and became red-rimmed. However, Amanita tried her hardest not to cry a single tear.

“That cad!” Dennis called lowly. “Marcus must have done something so our cards couldn’t be used. He’s a top hacker. I saw him use his laptop earlier. He must have blacklisted our accounts, so our cards would be frozen!”

Amanita let out a laugh. At that moment, she could no longer hold back. Her tears started flowing.

So that had been Marcus’s doing. He had intentionally humiliated her.

Marcus was so powerful. With a wave of a hand, he could manipulate so much. With a push, he could send her to the depths of despair…

After putting the necklace on Risa, Marcus turned his cold eyes to Dennis. “If you’re incapable, don’t go playing the white knight.”

Then, he looked at Amanita. His tone was icy as he said, “You should have taken my car.”

Amanita let out an abrupt laugh. “You already had someone else in your car.”

After saying that, she turned to leave without a single glance back at Marcus.

After embarrassing herself at the auction, Amanita spent the next few days locked up in her room. She did not want to go outside at all.

Dennis had been by a few times. He had brought her favorite desserts.

But Amanita never responded to him, because she knew that he did not really like her.

He had said it himself that night. To get her to keep her distance from him, he had even been willing to throw himself off a building.

“Amanita has shut herself in her room for days. We have to think of a way to coax her out. If Mr. Wallace finds out about this, we’ll be in trouble.”

“How annoying. I don’t want to go. I want to spend time with Risa.”

“You think I don’t want to spend time with Risa? Let’s do this how we usually do it. You have to spend time with Amanita before you can go see Risa.”

Amanita’s prospective husbands were gathered in the living room. Each suggested that the other person should do the dirty work. No one wanted to go upstairs and tease Amanita out.

What they did not know was that Amanita could hear everything they were saying.

Ever since the last time, when she had accidentally found out their secret, Amanita had hidden mini cameras and listening devices in all corners of the house.

She did not want to be an ignorant fool. She wanted to hear everything they said about her behind her back.

“Well, I’m not going.” Dennis looked furious. “Every time Marcus upsets Amanita, we're the ones forced to talk to Amanita. How’s that fair?”

“Whoever made her upset should go talk to her!”

Just then, Marcus’s tall figure showed up in the surveillance feed.

“You don’t have to go,” Marcus said coldly. “I’ll deal with my woman. You don’t need to worry.”

After saying this, he turned to head upstairs. He was holding a gift box.

Amanita hurriedly shut off the feed, so she did not see that all her prospective husbands looked enraged.

“He’s much too arrogant.” Felix’s fists were clenched. “Amanita hasn’t even picked him. How can he say that she’s his?”

When he heard this, Dennis let out a dejected laugh. “Does it make a difference that Nita hasn’t said anything? She will definitely choose him. We’re all just… here to round out the numbers.”