"To be honest, it's not a big deal... It's just that I received an invitation to an antique auction. I don't have the time, and I was hoping you could go in my place... Help me acquire a jasper hairpin from Tang Dynasty. I wonder, could you do that for me, please?" Sharon Lindt asked with a smile.

"When is it?" Xyla Quest asked.

"A week later, eight o'clock in the evening," Sharon said before retrieving the invitation from her handbag and pushing it over to Xyla.

Xyla had heard about this antique auction before. She was told that all antique items auctioned there were extremely rare and valuable. In fact, all antique items would start with a bidding price of at least ten million dollars.

It wasn't an auction just anyone could attend because they had money.

Not only was wealth necessary, but a very prominent status was needed too.

"Okay," Xyla answered with little hesitation.

"Make any offer you'd like. Somebody will pay for it," Sharon said as she gently patted the back of Xyla's hand. She treated Xyla with extreme affection.

in 1950. Get that one too while you're at it... The

Lindt," Xyla said and

can buy it too. I'll pay for it,"

I will buy it with my money," Xyla said. How

more than enough. Xyla wasn't

gently rubbed Xyla's head with

slightly as she turned around to look at the

was standing behind Xyla with a grim expression on her face. Her arms were crossed over her chest as she looked down at Xyla's face. It was an arrogant posture, almost as if

realized that

want?" Xyla

before casually sitting down next to Xyla. She was completely ignoring Sharon, who

at Mary plainly without saying anything. Instead, she silently sipped at a glass of

there anything to talk about between the two

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