Chapter 37 Madeline Embarrassed The Scumbag
“Old lady?” Madeline looked at Benjamin with an even more disgusted gaze.
If she had known he was so uncultured, she would have stopped Annalise from falling in love with that man in the first place.
Benjamin was also unhappy in his heart. He secretly thought that since he couldn’t do anything to Julian, he could have vented his anger and bullied the old lady sitting in the back row
He replied unceremoniously, “You look the same age as my mother. Should I call you ma’am if not calling you old lady?”
At first, he didn’t know why that old lady looked at him with hostility. Now, he realized that it was because the old lady had a good relationship with Annalise.
He guessed that it was Annalise who complained to her, so the latter picked on him everywhere.
“Call me Grandmal” Madeline snorted,
“What a fool!” she sneered inwardly.
She glanced at the painting in Benjamin’s hand again and said contemptuously. “Tsk! What a squanderer indeed to spend more than 75 million dollars for a piece of trash!”
Benjamin knew that he had bought the painting and the pot at excessive prices.
Now that he was scolded as a squanderer, he instantly exploded as if he had been stepped on the tail. “How could you say it’s trash? How dare you comment on Ezra’s painting?”
In order to make the public angry at that ignorant and self-conceited woman, he raised his voice deliberately.
Sure enough, many people gathered around, and some people began to discuss.
“Who is this woman? It’s ridiculous of her. How dare she comment on Ezra’s paintings casually?”
“That’s right. A nouveau riche is indeed a frog in a well who knows nothing. How ignorant and self-conceited she is to think that she can comment on the master’s work as she pleases just because she has a little money.”
“Haha! How funny!”
Seeing that everyone had come to gossip about Madeline, Benjamin secretly triumphed.
Nonetheless, Madeline looked at him as though she was looking at a fool as she commented, “This painting. you bought is a sketch drawn by Ezra during a trip one day. While waiting for her friend who went to the toilet, she took some time to sketch this painting casually.”
“Pfft!” Annalise couldn’t help but laugh. Madeline was harsh in her words indeed.
Hearing such disgusting words from Madeline, Benjamin was so angry. “You are spouting nonsense!”
The people next to her also felt that Madeline had gone too far, and they started rebuking her, “Even if she doesn’t like someone, it’s needless to drag Ezra into it. That is such a good painting, looking refreshing, refined, and elegant. How could it be drawn casually while waiting for her friend who went to the toilet?”
“It’s really funny. Who does she think she is? She even heard that Ezra traveled and waited for her friend as if she knew Ezra herself.”
“Pfft! I bet later she will say that she is Ezra’s fourth wife. Haha. Her imposing aura looks like one, though.”
“Haha!” Everyone laughed loudly as they discussed.
It just so happened that Madeline saw Mr. Zimmerman, the organizer of the event, come out. They knew each other, and she had asked Mr. Zimmerman to keep her identity a secret.
She said to Benjamin, “This is my own painting. Don’t I know myself what kind of situation was there when I drew it?”
Whoosh!
The onlookers were shocked. “Her own painting? Is she Ezra?’ they wondered.
Someone immediately laughed wildly. “Pfft! I can’t hold back anymore! This is so funny! It seems like because Ezra never accepts any interviews and does not appear in public, she thinks that Ezra will not expose her in
person. That’s why she comes out with such a big lie.”
“Hahaha! You have to disguise as a man if you want to claim yourself as Ezra’ Who doesn’t know Ezra is a
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