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.

female ushers of the 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 incense that comes with it was used exclusively in the palace, and the common folk had no access

usher beside him to light

usher in a fitting silk gown carefully lit the

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

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

system, coupled with the fact that

“The starting bid is eight hundred thousand, and

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

bid was made, and a collector managed to snag it

artifacts were

bid on them eagerly, while Alex

him, no matter how valuable they were.

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

only manifest once in every one thousand clams! Each pearl is identical to the

was only four hundred thousand, and this prompted Alex to

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

is essential for Stanley since

thousand!” Alex

not see the value in the pearls.

as the auctioneer was about to raise his gavel, a voice

“Six hundred thousand!”

Alex whirled around.

Jones family. Desmond stared at him with a nasty

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mercy at my feet just days ago? Has he forgotten about

would never change the fact that he was a live–in son–in- law of