Son-In-Law Gets an Upgrade

Chapter 284 I Want It Too

“Are his talismans a gift from the gods or something? Why is it so expensive?” Alex blurted out.

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He had kept his voice down, but it was enough for Damian to catch what he said. Damian looked up and trained his eyes on Alex and his brows furrowed into a deep frown.

Pushing the crowd aside, Damian strode over to Alex and studied him from head to toe. “Do you have something against my talismans, my friend?”

“I just don’t think that it’s worth two hundred thousand,” Alex said flatly.

“What nonsense!” someone shouted. “Don’t you know that two hundred thousand is only the starting price?”

“That’s right! Even if it’s two million, there are still many people dying to get one.”

“I bet he’s the kind that could only afford those cheap charms from the temples!”

Damian glanced at Alex and scoffed. “Watch your mouth and use your brain. Don’t act smart when you’re clearly not!”

At that, he turned around and walked into the venue on his own.

Alex’s expression was impassive as ever, he did not see Damian as someone worthy of his attention.

Maggie, however, was a little embarrassed. “My apologies, Mr. Jefferson. Mr. Kline’s temper tends to act up.”

However, what she said was a lie since she was not close to Damian at all; she was just trying to make Alex feel better.

Alex shook his head nonchalantly. “Let’s go in.”

After the guests took their seats, Fabian walked onto the stage and spoke a few words as the master of Breezeworth Hall, before commencing the start of the auction.

“Let the auction begin!” he announced.

Due to the last–minute cancellation of the previous auction, the items to be auctioned off as well as the number of guests doubled this time around.

first item onto the stage. It was an incense burner made out of red copper, with

from a thousand years ago, gifted to a talented artist by the emperor of that era. The incense that comes with it was used exclusively in the palace, and the common folk had no access to it. The manufacturing process of this incense has

to the usher beside him to light

carefully lit the incense with a

cloud of thick white smoke began to drip down the incense burner as though it was liquid, bringing out the detailed carvings of a crane on the surface of the

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fragrance wafted into the nostrils of the guests, chasing away their fatigue and brightening

ambergris made from a sperm whale’s digestive system, coupled with the fact that the item was handmade, it’s almost impossible to buy something like

auctioneer picked up his gavel and knocked it against the table a couple of times. “The starting bid is

people in the crowd longed to have it. Several members of the

a collector managed to snag it

next few artifacts were all top–notch, freshly–unearthed

guests bid on them eagerly,

nothing to him, no matter how valuable they were.

had a string of purple pearls that shone

natural purple pearls from the Eastern seas that only manifest once in every one thousand clams! Each

hundred thousand, and

hands on it so that he could make a necklace for Stanley since

for Stanley since he’s a growing child.

thousand!” Alex

him, since they did not see the value in the

gavel, a voice rang from the

“Six hundred thousand!”

Alex whirled around.

of the Jones family. Desmond stared at him with a nasty grin as he

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just days ago? Has he forgotten about that? Naturally, the events of that day

would never change the fact that he was a