"What's the rush? We haven't even placed our bids yet!"

Gu Momo looked up and saw the owner of the hands, a woman with a very aggressive appearance, and two women behind her who seemed to be friends but were actually her followers.

Gu Momo frowned slightly and looked the woman up and down. She did not recall ever seeing this woman before.

"Do we know each other?"

"You don't know us, but we know you very well!" The man stood up and circled Gu Momo. "You've been doing quite well in the capital lately, haven't you? You shone brightly at the design competition and then you beat up Fu Jinyan. Although I don't like you, I'm actually quite happy that you beat up Fu Jinyan!"

Gu Momo finally understood. These women were just ordinary socialites who had no prior connection with her. They were only hostile towards her because her story had been widely circulated.

"What? Do you want to end up like Fu Jinyan?" Gu Momo had no time to waste with them. She turned her head and saw that the piano had already been offered for 1.8 million US dollars.

"You! Gu Momo, what are you so arrogant about? I'm not Fu Jinyan! You can't just bully me! My uncle is Huang Qingzhi, a wealthy businessman in the capital. If you dare to touch me, you're making an enemy of my uncle! Gu Momo, you may be impressive, but the Huang family isn't someone you can easily mess with!"

Huang Qingzhi? If this woman's uncle is Huang Qingzhi, then she must be Xu Leyan, the eldest daughter of the Xu family.

Gu Momo found it ridiculous. Huang Qingzhi, as a veteran business leader in the capital, had always been diligent in his business and had never abused his power for personal gain. Yet, he had such a niece who acted arrogantly and domineeringly in his name all day long!

"Does your uncle know that you're embarrassing him by using his name in public?"

Xu Leyan's face darkened. "What nonsense are you spouting? Embarrassing? Do you even know who I am?"

The lackey beside her quickly chimed in with flattery, "Le Yan is a student of the founder of the Alice Music Foundation! She became famous in the capital eight hundred years earlier than you, Gu Momo. In the entire music scene of the capital, who doesn't know our Miss Xu!"

"Of course! You think you can take this piano from Le Yan? Le Yan is a well-known piano prodigy in the capital. She's won so many awards since she was a child. Many pianists in the capital say that she's one of the few geniuses who will be noticed by the Alice Music Foundation in the future! This piano is much more useful in her hands than in yours!"

Xu Leyan listened with satisfaction to everyone's praise, and raised her eyebrows triumphantly, saying, "Did you hear that, Gu Momo? You think you can compete with me? You'd better give up now and watch how I play this piano and create unparalleled music!"

Gu Momo couldn't help but burst out laughing.

As the founder of the Alice Music Foundation, how come she had never heard of such a musical genius in the capital?

It seems that Xu Leyan not only likes to use her uncle's position to intimidate people, but also likes to indulge in wishful thinking!

Besides, everyone in the Beijing music industry should know that she is the behind-the-scenes president of the Alice Music Foundation. However, because she requested secrecy, people in the middle and lower levels of the music industry are completely unaware of her identity.

So now she knows exactly what kind of person Xu Leyan is!

"What are you laughing at?" Xu Leyan's face darkened as she glared at her.

Gu Momo toyed with the bidding number in her hand and said nonchalantly, "I laugh at you, you frog in a well, unaware that there are always people more capable than you, and that there is always something beyond your understanding! Just because you think you've mastered some piano skills doesn't mean you can't help but be arrogant and swaggering, but you don't realize how utterly despicable your ugly face is in front of truly capable people!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Gu Momo raised her bidding number and immediately called out a bid of 5 million US dollars for the piano.

"Gu Momo! Are you crazy?!" Xu Leyan gritted her teeth. The piano had only been bid up to 2.4 million yuan, but Gu Momo's bid more than doubled the price!

Seeing Gu Momo's determined attitude, the other wealthy people who participated in the auction quickly put down their bidding paddles.

Damn! President Gu is personally auctioning it off here, how dare they compete with him?

Only someone as brainless as Xu Leyan could do something like that!

"Miss Xu, would you like to make another offer?" Gu Momo asked quietly.

Xu Leyan's face turned extremely ugly. 5 million US dollars was completely beyond her budget!

But with so many people watching, she couldn't afford to embarrass the Xu family! So she gritted her teeth and raised the sign: "5.5 million!"

"5.5 million! It seems the Xu family is indeed extraordinary!"

"Anyone could come up with this amount of money, but it's enough to show how much the Xu family dotes on Xu Leyan."

"Exactly! I don't think anyone will bid higher at this price."

Gu Momo remained calm. Just as the host was about to strike the gavel, she raised her paddle again, bidding "10 million."

The guests at the scene and the host on stage were almost petrified.

10 million, in US dollars, what does that mean?

Ten pianos like this would be enough, but Gu Momo just had to have this one!

Xu Leyan had heard rumors that Gu Momo had a powerful background, but no one expected that she would be so rich!

"Ms. Gu has bid 10 million. Is there anyone bidding higher?" The auctioneer raised the gavel. "10 million once, 10 million twice, 10 million..."

Before she could even utter the third sentence, a deep, resonant male voice came from behind Gu Momo—

"30 million!"