Spoiled By The CEO: Why The Wife Is Kinda Sweet? novel Chapter 396

Natalia looked at him and muttered, “If I take a fancy to anything, I can buy it myself.”

She wasn’t as she’d been before. With Star Entertainment and her own filming, she’d made plenty of money.

No match for a full aristocrat like Archie, but she could still accord to buy things she wanted for herself.

Archie smiled faintly. “That’s right. If you want anything, you can get them yourself.”

Natalia blinked and looked at him. There was a smile on his brow. She recalled that she basically had all his cards and land rights.

That was equivalent to having all of this man’s properties in her hands. If he wanted to buy her anything now, he’d probably have to ask her for money.

Her face burned, and her heart swelled with contentedness.

Max, though, didn’t know their situation, and his eyes widened with shock.

“You’re not that stingy, are you, Archie! Not even buying your wife a gift.”

His eyes darted to Natalia and he beamed, “How about this, Natalia! Introduce a girlfriend to me, and I’ll buy you anything you like. How’s that?”

Natalia rolled her eyes at him and scoffed, “I’m not so heartless as to push some poor girl into a fire pit.”

Max was outraged. “Just how am I a fire pit? You know how many women up and down the country want to marry me?”

Natalia chuckled. “Wait until you get rid of the playboy title. I’d actually be impressed if that was the case.”

Max was getting an ulcer.

At that moment, an item on auction caught her attention.

It was a hairpin of white jade, snowy pale, introduced as a marriage gift for a noble lady a millennium ago, symbolizing fair fortune.

The hairpin itself, in fact, was called the hairpin of fair fortune.

Natalia wasn’t superstitious, but for some reason, she took a shine to the hairpin.

It started at three hundred thousand.

It was just an accessory, after all, and other than how delicate it was, the noblewoman wasn’t anybody important, so the starting price wasn’t high.

Archie had been paying attention to her expression in secret, and seeing her stare at the stage, he asked, “You like it?”

Natalia nodded.

The man pressed his buzzer.

“For the hairpin of good fortune, number 32 – one million!”

Natalia jumped. It was just a hairpin for three hundred K. No one had even called it yet, and he’d raised it to one million.

She tugged the man’s sleeve, signaling for him not to go so hard.

Archie smiled down at her and murmured, “They’ll raise.”

Just as he’d said, from the front row, someone raised. “Number 16 – one million and one hundred!”

“Number 32 – two million!”

“Number 16 – two million one!”

“Number 32 – three million!”

“Number 16 – three million one!”

“Number 32 – four million!”

“Number 16 – four million one!”

“Number 32 – five million!”

“Number 16 – five million one!”

Seeing the man was about to raise again, Natalia hurriedly stopped him.

She’d just noticed that the person competing with them at the front row was also a woman.

If someone else liked it, then forget it! There was no need to spend five million on a hairpin. She knew that Archie was rich, but money wasn’t supposed to be spent this way.

She lowered her voice and hurriedly said, “Forget it, let’s let her have it!”

Archie looked at her. “Don’t you like it? Five million is nothing to me.”

Natalia smiled at him. “I only like it a little. I might take a shine to something else going on. Let’s take another look?”

Seeing her say that, the man chuckled. “You only like it a little, hmm?”

“Yeah, really, just a little.”

Afraid he wouldn’t believe it, Natalia hurriedly pinched her fingers together to show just how little it was.

The host had started calling it. “Number 16, five million one, going once! Number 16, five million one, going twice! Number 16-”

“Number 32 – eight million!”

At that price, everyone looked towards the second row.

Natalia’s heart jolted, but it was too late to get the buzzer from the man’s hand.

His arm circled behind her and hugged her to him. The people there only saw a young couple, but because their heads were tilted and the woman’s face was hidden by her hair, they couldn’t tell what they looked like.

Archie held her hand and chuckled, “Your husband’s rich, Natalia, so if you like it, just call for it. Don’t worry about anything else, okay?”

Natalia felt a burst of emotion.

She wasn’t moved because of how much money he was spending, but how much he wanted to make her happy.

She couldn’t help but smile as she berated, “You’re making me sound like a wife trying to leech off her husband!”

“A wife trying to leech off her husband is still my wife.”

At that, her heart throbbed, and she only just reacted to what she’d said.

Her face blushed red from her cheeks to the roots of her ears. She was stammering for an explanation, but found she didn’t know how.

The man had released her, and at this moment, everyone had turned back around. After all, at a scene like this, it was rude to stare.

“Number 32 – eight million, going once! Number 32 – eight million, going twice! Number 32 – eight million…”

“Wait!”

A voice suddenly interrupted the host. It was the lady on the first row.

She stood and asked, “May I have some time to discuss it with that gentleman over there?”

The host looked at her, then at Archie in the second row, and finally nodded.

“Very well. Five-minute break.”

The woman turned around and walked over to Archie’s spot.

It took her fully turning around for Natalia to see her appearance.

She was a radiant beauty.

In her scarlet dress, she was low-key but elegant, her features well-defined, with a voluptuous figure and a smile on her face, she sashayed in front of them.

“Hello. My name is Nadia. I’m the daughter of General Naran of Tacitus. It’s a pleasure to meet you.”

Archie looked up at her.

“Did you need something?”

Nadia blinked, not expecting the cold treatment.

After all, she was confident in her appearance. Even though the man before her was handsome, and she could just tell from his posture and aura that he wasn’t a small fry, but she thought she’d been polite enough not to get talked to so bluntly.

But she didn’t quibble over that and simply smiled. “Sir, I really like that hairpin. Could you let me have it?”

Archie said mildly, “Sorry. The highest bidder gets the prize. Most importantly… my wife likes it too.”

With that, he took Natalia’s hand.

Nadia only then seemed to notice Natalia, and looked her up and down.

Her first impression was one of wonder.

She had to say, the girl before her was incredibly pretty.

In a purple dress, with delicate features, a bit of sensuality mixed in with her purity, she was a catch.

She giggled softly. “This madam doesn’t look too old. Would this hairpin really suit her?”