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.

an incense burner

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 been lost over

gestured to the usher beside him to light

usher in a fitting silk gown carefully lit

smoke began to drip down the incense burner as though it was liquid, bringing out the detailed carvings

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nostrils of the guests, chasing away their fatigue and brightening their moods.

burner. That’sgenuine ambergris made from a sperm whale’s digestive system, coupled with the fact that the item

knocked it against the table a couple of times. “The starting bid

longed to have it. Several members of the crowd began to raise their

was made, and a collector managed to snag it with a price of one million six hundred

artifacts were

guests bid on them eagerly, while

meant nothing to him, no

then, an usher walked onstage carrying a porcelain plate that had a string of purple pearls that shone under the light in the room

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

hundred thousand, and this

so that he could make a necklace for Stanley since he knew that the pearls have

enough sleep is essential for Stanley since he’s a

hundred thousand!” Alex

contested him, since they did not see the value in

a voice rang from the other side of

“Six hundred thousand!”

Alex whirled around.

family. Desmond stared at him with a nasty grin as he said, “Sorry, Mr. Jefferson! It seems

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just days ago? Has he forgotten about that? Naturally, the events of that day were still fresh in Desmond’s mind.

great of a geomancer Alex was, it would never change the fact that he was a