The Legendary Man

The Legendary Man Chapter 433

Jade Pendant

“Two hundred million going once!

“Two hundred million going twice!

“Two hundred million going trice!

“Sold!”

When that word was uttered, the auctioneer raised his gavel and slammed it to the table. This signified that the guest in Room 9 now owned The King’s Portrait, having offered two hundred million for it.

Logan’s eyes widened when he saw the figures flashing brightly on the LCD screen. The King’s Portrait was valued at a whopping two hundred million!

Shocked, he turned around and asked, “Mr. Goldstein, is this painting really worth that much?”

Although he was the commander-in-chief of the Durbaine Special Forces, his yearly salary was only in the millions.

After tax deductions, he was only left with a few hundred thousand.

He used two hundred million! All of that just to buy a painting? Wouldn’t it be better if he dropped all this cash on raising a few hundred more troops?

“Two hundred million is nothing, really,” said Jonathan coolly. “Drake has a similar painting that fetched five hundred million on the black market abroad. There’s a price for this kind of thing, but it’s not necessarily something money can buy even if you have that much lying around.”

“Surely, this is ridiculous!” Logan was flabbergasted. He scratched his head, unable to imagine how a silly painting could be worth hundreds of millions. With this amount, he could’ve easily bought a brand new helicopter.

“That can’t be helped. There are too many rich people around,” Jonathan said. “Also, the painting isn’t the important thing here. Haven’t you heard?”

flourish, he continued, “The best way to launder money is by purchasing antiques and dealing in art! But it’s too complicated to explain. I can’t possibly tell you

asking questions, so he stopped the latter immediately by saying those words. He was barely interested in paintings and antiques, nor was he interested in explaining

money!” said Logan, breaking the silence. After hearing what Logan said, Jonathan burst out laughing. “Have you fallen victim to capitalistic thinking? Speaking of which, I noticed that Ms. Haberly seemed to be quite interested in you. How about you consider marrying into the

immediately shook his head. “I want nothing to do with them. Besides, why would she be interested in someone like me? It’s obvious she’s interested in my station as the commander-in-chief of the Special Forces. Aren’t they just going to use my rank as an excuse to expand their territory? I’m not dumb enough to

rid of me, their family would kick me

help but laugh when he heard Logan’s outburst. “Why don’t we test out that theory? I’ll pretend to fire you, and we’ll see if they actually kick you

think we should tempt fate.”

kidding. Let’s watch

decided to

in full swing. Given how intense the bidding of The King’s Portrait went, one could say that the auction was going

lot was not lower than a hundred

piece priced at more than five hundred million. This came as a shock to Logan, who could not fathom how a mere vase could be more expensive than

know how to

through the auction, Logan

even know what the true value of ten million was. Yet somehow, there were rich people here spending up to five hundred million

the point

a tray covered in red cloth made its way

handed to the auctioneer, it seemed

our penultimate lot for tonight! It’s a dragon-patterned

moment this was announced, the

silver tray, a crystal clear, dazzling red jade pendant suddenly

as if it had been

body of the jade pendant was a lifelike carving of a giant dragon

eyes lit up when he saw the dragon pattern jade

His moment had come.

attended this auction because he had been eyeing this

are. All I was told is that its origins are shrouded in mystery, and it is deeply rooted in myths and legends. However, what secrets it holds, nobody is