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.

carried the first item onto the stage. It was an incense

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 been lost over time, but its

to the usher beside

usher in a fitting silk gown carefully lit the incense

as though it was liquid, bringing out the detailed carvings of a crane on the surface of the burner.

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the guests, chasing away their fatigue and brightening

with the

couple of times. “The starting bid is eight hundred thousand, and every increment

affordable, and most people in the crowd longed

managed to snag it with a price of one million six hundred thousand.

few artifacts were

on them eagerly,

nothing to him,

onstage carrying a porcelain plate that had a string of purple pearls that shone under the light in the room on

are natural purple pearls from the Eastern seas that only manifest once in every one thousand clams! Each pearl is identical to the

was only four hundred thousand, and this

a

is essential for Stanley

thousand!” Alex hollered.

they did not see the value in

about to raise his gavel, a voice rang

“Six hundred thousand!”

Alex whirled around.

of the Jones family. Desmond stared at him with a nasty grin as he said, “Sorry, Mr. Jefferson! It seems like I’ve taken a liking to those pearls too.”

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

change the fact that he was