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.

stage. It was an incense burner made out of red copper, with a stick of incense

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

the usher beside him to

gown carefully

as though it was liquid, bringing out the

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

coupled with the

against the table a couple of times. “The starting bid is eight hundred thousand, and every increment for the bid must be a hundred

longed to have it.

final bid was made, and a collector managed to snag it with

were all top–notch, freshly–unearthed artifacts.

them eagerly, while

kinds of collectibles meant nothing to him, no matter how

a porcelain plate that had a string of purple pearls that

“These are natural purple pearls from the Eastern seas that only manifest once in every one thousand clams! Each pearl is identical to the other, which is extremely rare.”

the string of pearl was only four hundred thousand, and

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

for Stanley since

thousand!”

him, since they did not

to raise his gavel, a voice rang from the other side

“Six hundred thousand!”

Alex whirled around.

at him with a nasty grin as he said, “Sorry, Mr. Jefferson! It seems like I’ve

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Isn’t this punk pleading for mercy at my feet just days ago? Has

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