Miles was being showered with compliments from Frederick, much to Jonathan’s satisfaction and Lesley’s astonishment. She still had trouble digesting what had just happened.At that moment, Miles caught sight of two men in suits walking into the venue, not too far away from him and his group. He soon recognizes these two men as his former classmates back in college. One was August Leonard, the man he had health with about a week ago during their class reunion. As for the other one, he recalled that his name was Joseph Rutherford. He didn’t have much relationship with this guy either. In Joseph’s hand, he found a sizeable but flat object wrapped in Brown paper. Miles could immediately tell that this item was a picture of some sort.Miles watched both Joseph Rutherford and August Leonard walk towards a man with a poised demeanor and a lean build. They shook hands with him before Joseph brought the flat object in his hand forward. All three men conversed with one another, and it was at th

Once August saw this he sneered. Due to his past few encounters with Miles, at the restaurant, and also at the class reunion, he was quite convinced that Miles was a hidden Tigger pretending to be a weak sheep the whole time. Now though, he felt like his earlier perspective of Mikes, as a lowlife scum who didn’t deserve Lola as a wife, is the reality.“What the hell is your problem, Miles?! You still want my father to pay for you?” Lesley couldn’t hold in her resentment towards her brother-in-law any more. “Look, just because you can shamelessly poach on my sister’s money doesn’t mean that….”“Enough, Lesley!” Jonathan suddenly stopped his daughter from uttering another word of insult at Miles. He then grabbed Miles away from the crowd to talk to him privately. “Look, I hope you’re aware that I trust your capabilities. You’ve done nothing but show me that you’re a survivor despite the heavy challenges you’ve been dealing with. But I don’t understand why you want to buy that painting s

Miles smiled ominously as he handed the painting over to Caleb. “Sure thing, Mr. Autumn.”Caleb frowned slightly before gathering himself. He had expected some snarky words from Miles, but he was thrown off by the man’s tactical obedience. Miles, on the other hand, didn’t feel any animosity from Caleb right now, and thus, he simply didn’t feel the need to make a snarky remark against the man. Plus, Caleb was one of the organizers, and Miles was more concerned with getting to the bottom of this painting revelation rather than getting in trouble with a major member of the organizing committee, which may then ruin his plan.Once the painting was in Caleb’s hands, he began inspecting this antique item along with the other organizers. They could only later confirm that this painting was indeed much more authentic and older in comparison to the painting that Miles had ripped away. The organizers had to call in the appraisal experts as well, including Frederick and Alexander, to inspect and

After the professional intervention by the organizers of the event, Joseph really had no other choice than to give up on trying to get back the painting he had sadly lost to Miles’s trickery. Worse, by the time he gave up, he found that the most notable member of the organizers had actually bought the painting from Miles’s father-in-law without wasting time at all. At this point, he was certain that there was no hope of him getting that antique painting back.Meanwhile, Jonathan kept staring at his phone in a daze, particularly at the bank credit alert displayed on his screen. He still couldn’t believe that an antique had actually brought him tens of millions of dollars, and it was all possible because of the hidden genius who he was more than lucky enough to have as a son-in-law. He wished Lola had also been here to witness what an amazing man she was married to. It didn’t matter though; he would be more than happy to tell her later. Hopefully, she would no longer listen to her mothe

August Leonard was still trying to calm Joseph down. As they kept going through the antique fair, picking out items they liked, Joseph had not completely calmed down yet. He would occasionally glare at Miles in the distance.August placed a soothing hand on the man’s back. “You need to forget about that incident, Joseph. Don’t worry, Miles will eventually get what’s coming to him.”Joseph sighed with a brooding. “It still won’t change the fact that I got swindled by that fucking bastard!” He kept his voice at a low register while still glaring at Miles occasionally. “That $50 million could have been mine if Miles hadn’t fucking cheated me. I regret showing Professor Alexander in the first place. That expert was useless. Someone like Miles could actually decipher that there was a more precious painting hidden beneath it, which is just annoying.”August didn’t want to hear about Miles for a while honestly. Because of this same man, he had lost his contribution to the Jettex Industrial L