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.

hall pushed a cart that carried the first item onto the stage. It was an incense burner made out of red copper, with a stick of incense

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 aroma

to the usher beside him to light

fitting silk gown carefully lit

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

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

ambergris made from a sperm whale’s digestive system, coupled with the

starting bid is eight hundred thousand, and every increment for the bid must be a hundred thousand.”

was beautifully crafted yet affordable, and most people in the crowd longed to have it. Several members of the crowd began to raise their paddles immediately.

and a collector managed to

next few artifacts were all top–notch,

guests bid on them eagerly, while Alex remained uninterested.

of collectibles meant nothing to him,

walked onstage carrying a porcelain plate that had a string of

manifest once in every one thousand clams! Each pearl is identical to the other, which is

of pearl was only four hundred thousand, and this prompted Alex to raise

his hands on it so that he could make a necklace for

is essential for Stanley

thousand!” Alex hollered.

did not

raise his gavel, a voice rang from the other side of the room.

“Six hundred thousand!”

Alex whirled around.

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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mercy at my feet just days ago? Has he forgotten about that? Naturally, the events of that day were still fresh in

a geomancer Alex was, it would never change the fact that he was a live–in son–in- law