Son-In-Law Gets an Upgrade by Mr. Adeel

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.

Two 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 inside emitting a fragrant white smoke.

The auctioneer, Frederick began his introduction. “This is a backflow incense burner from a thousand years ago, 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 incense has been lost over time, but its aroma has the ability to make one more alert and happier!”

gestured to the usher beside him to light the

usher in a fitting silk gown carefully lit the incense with a lighter.

as though it was liquid, bringing out the detailed

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of the guests, chasing away their fatigue and brightening their

whale’s digestive system, coupled with

couple of times. “The starting

crafted yet affordable, and most people in the crowd longed to have it. Several members of the crowd began to raise

while, the final bid was made, and a collector managed to snag it with a price of

few artifacts were all top–notch, freshly–unearthed

guests bid on them eagerly, while Alex

nothing to him, no matter how valuable they

plate that had a string of purple pearls that shone

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

four hundred thousand, and this prompted Alex to

a necklace

Stanley since he’s

hundred thousand!” Alex

did not see the

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

“Six hundred thousand!”

Alex whirled around.

none other than his nemesis, Desmond Jones of the Jones family. Desmond stared at him with a nasty

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just days ago? Has he forgotten about that? Naturally, the events of that day

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

the humiliation he felt when he was forced to kneel

but hatred for

gave the black card to Alex, it only