The Rise of a Master: It Starts With Rejection

Chapter 26

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Seeing that Ivan was about to leave, Sasha hurriedly clung to his arm and cried, "Do you suddenly hate me so?"

Her high-pitched voice drew the attention of the people around them. Ivan decided to just go along with her one last time. He'd yet to get a taste of her, but with Felix around now, none of that mattered anymore. He said, "No, of course not. I've just been busy because of my mother. Don't be mad, okay?"

Sasha knew about Cheryl's condition and immediately settled down at Ivan's words. "When are you going to introduce me to your mother?"

"Let's see how things go. Do you want to stroll around the antiques market?"

Sasha nodded, her good mood restored. "It's my dad's birthday today. He likes antiques, so I decided to try my luck. It's fine if I can't find anything, though. I've already asked someone to prepare something else for me."

Felix stopped before a stall in the antiques market and appraised the things strewn across the stall. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say the stall owner wouldn't need to worry about money for years if he could sell any of the items there. Even experts in appraising antiques would miss out on precious treasures sometimes, let alone ordinary people or those who constantly dreamed of hitting the jackpot.

antiques market, you know. I guarantee I'll give you a reasonable price," the stall owner,

antiques. It'd be a shame not to

is this porcelain teapot, mister?"

most valuable thing I have here already. This porcelain teapot was crafted by Henry Davies, a famous teapot maker from the Clearwater era. I

knew Mike was making the teapot seem more important than it was to hike the price. So, he said, "Just tell

like he couldn't bear to give such a low price. "Since you're being so straightforward, I'll sell it

more, no less. I'll pay you right now if you agree. If you

been around for a couple of centuries. That was why Felix wanted to buy it. It was more than enough as

you even thinking? That's not the way to haggle, kiddò," Mike

to leave without saying anything else, catching Mike off

and dense? Why hadn't he offered

margin. It was too bad it wasn't easy to trick people nowadays. He'd sold many of his items, yet this porcelain teapot remained