He won or lost?

It was a sealed bidding therefore, everyone has already submitted their sealed offer and was waiting patiently to find out who has won the land. Henry Tang's people started to open the sealed documents one by one and eliminate the lowest price until two quotation was left on the table. Henry was over the moon seeing the price that was offered for his land, it was beyond his expectation but what was more interesting was that the two companies offered the same amount of 800 Million. At this point, it was up to him whether he wanted to sell it to one of them or raise the bidding. Obviously, someone greedy like Henry would like to raise it so he motioned for the organizer to announce it.

"Ladies and Gentleman, we have a situation here, there are two companies among all of you who have offered the same price for the land, which is 800 Million, therefore we would like to do an open bidding to finalize the price and the new owner of the land. The two company that will bid against each other is Knight International and the A&D group. Please start the bidding.

Ava became very tense, she was against bidding for 800 million because Daniel has already exceeded his limit for this project now if they raised the price then it will financially affect the A&D group with their other projects. They will definitely be in trouble since it's just been only a few days since they went public. This huge burden can easily crash their financial condition, so she said reasonably, "Danny, don't raise it. Let Oliver have the land."

"Ava, it's OK. We can make it I must have this piece of land today." Daniel said arrogantly as he looked at Oliver.

Ava went silent, she was not pleased by Daniel's sudden obsession to have the land at such a high price when its market value was way below the offered price. She was well aware that it was not about the land at all, it was about winning against Oliver. Daniel has always regarded Oliver as his biggest competitor and enemy but she has never seen Daniel being so unreasonable before, she was really surprised and also worried. However she still chose to support him, no matter what Ava believed the A&D was the outcome of Daniel's hard work, he won't let it fall only to satisfy his ego so end the end, Ava sat there quietly praying one of them would stop the bidding before it gets out of hand.

Daniel raised his hand and said "850"

Oliver spoke out, "900"

Daniel: "920"

Oliver: "950"

Ava looked at Daniel and whispered, "Danny please stop, don't raise it. A&D can't afford it, we won't be able to find investors to pay such a huge amount for the land beside this piece of land is not worth so much money." However, Ava's words made Daniel feel like he was not capable of winning against Oliver which made him angry and frustrated. The more Ava asked him to stop bidding, the more he was determined to have this land, he must win against Oliver. He clenched his fist and angrily said, "A billion"

The whole auditorium went silent as everyone was waiting for Oliver to raise the price but he never did, Instead, he just smiled looking very uninterested as he shook his head to indicate he won't be raising it anymore.

"Congratulations Mr. Daniel Sherman. You have won the bidding for the land today." The organizer declared Daniel the winner wiping the beads of sweat from his forehead. What an exciting bidding it was!

Daniel was elated, he hugged Ava happily and walked toward the stage but his happiness fled the moment he saw Oliver's smile. He got played, he got played by Oliver. Daniel closed his eyes at the realization and started to breathe heavily, Oliver never intended to win the land he just wanted to provoke him and make him lose more money. Daniel clenched his fist, he was very angry. Well done Oliver, you won this round. Even though in front of everyone he won against Oliver but he and Oliver both knew Daniel has lost to him once again.

On the other hand, Ava's face turned completely pale, she couldn't feel happy for Daniel for winning the land. 1 billion was a too high price to pay for satisfying his ego. She has no idea how Daniel was going to settle the money for the land and start to develop it. She thought Daniel was a wise businessman, she always trusted his judgment when it comes to business but today his desire to win against Oliver got the better of him. Now she just prayed they could get through this.