Chapter 357 : Green Plum Meets Wine 8 (1/2)

The auction was going to start at 9. Since it was currently 8:30, they still had to wait another half an hour.

People slowly made their way into the hall.

Since Shi Sheng and Yu Jiu both looked underage (though in truth one of them was already of age) and were seated closer to the front, they couldn’t help but draw attention.

“Xiaoxia-meimei, do they think I’m very handsome or something?” Yu Jiu moved closer to Shi Sheng and asked a narcissistic question.

Shi Sheng replied coldly, “They’re afraid you don’t have the money to participate.”

Yu Jiu, “…” ‘Lil green plum isn’t cute at all.’

The auction began at 9 sharp. Shi Sheng was completely uninterested in this, so she stared at the ground the whole time.

“Xiaoxia-meimei, can you cause money to appear by staring at the ground?”

Shi Sheng turned to look at him. “Can I ask something of you?”

As the light reflected in her eyes, it was like he was looking at the slightly rippling surface of a lake. But when he looked closer, it was as calm as usual.

He blinked and nodded while smiling. “Do tell.”

“Shut up.”

‘So fucking noisy! Are you really a man with how chatty you are? Villains die from talking too much, y’know?’

Yu Jiu, “???”

‘What does she mean?’

After shutting him up, Shi Sheng propped up her jaw and gazed at the auction stage.

The item currently on auction right now was a jade hairpin. The auctioneer praised it to the point where you’d think it was a unique, one-of-a-kind artefact before telling a sob story about its history. Soon, some idiots started taking the bait.

“1 mil.”

“1.2 mil.”

“1.4 mil.”

Being an auctioneer is truly inhumanely taxing—not only do you need to be a fast speaker, you also need sharp eyes and a fast reaction to call out the numbers every time someone raises their bidding plaques.

“3 million, going once! 3 million, going twice! Sold!”

The auctioneer brought the hammer down, and an emcee immediately brought the jade hairpin away.

Shi Sheng turned to look at the idiot who’d bought the thing…and unexpectedly found the FL.

Shen Jiayin was with the two male supporting leads she’d been with in Curio Street. They flanked her on either side.

“Xiaoxia-meimei, what are you looking at?” Noticing that Shi Sheng’s gaze had been fixed at a certain one spot for an abnormally long amount of time, he followed it there. “Wen Jingxuan…Xiaoxia-meimei, you know them?”

Shi Sheng could hear that he was displeased. She turned back. “And how does that concern you?”

An unnameable emotion flashed in Yu Jiu’s eyes. “Xiaoxia-meimei’s business is my business, so naturally it concerns me.”

‘Crazy.’

That was the label Shi Sheng pasted on Yu Jiu.

The last item being auctioned was a piece of blue-and-white porcelain.

Shi Sheng didn’t really have a clue how much these kinds of stuff were worth from a glance, but she had used the Treasure-Hunter’s Phone while they were strolling amongst the exhibits before and noticed that it was being valued in the hundreds of millions.

Usually, only the FL sold these kinds of rare items, though it was unknown where exactly she’d gotten it.

The appearance of the blue-and-white porcelain caused a lot of commotion.

Of course, there weren’t many present who could actually afford to buy it. So the majority could only get excited, but not actually bid for it.

As expected, after the auctioneer declared the starting price, the crowd quietened down. The bidders were pretty much all from the first two rows.

In the end, it was won by an old man seated in the front row. From everyone else’s respectful attitudes, he was a pretty big deal.

After the auction ended, the people who had made a bid for collector’s items had to go to the backstage area to pay.