The Understated Dragon Lord

Chapter 28 Deal is Deal

“Two million is definitely out of the question! For these three items you have, Jessica, I can only offer two hundred thousand.”

“One million eight hundred thousand!”

“One hundred eighty thousand.”

Nicholas’s counteroffer left Jessica stunned.

“Smiley Nick, what do you mean by this?”

“Jessica, I wasn’t particularly interested in your items to begin with. Since you’re calling out random prices, it’s only fair I can too! I never planned on buying them. However, I can totally accept if you want to sell at the price I offered.”

value was around five hundred thousand dollars. If he could get them for a mere one hundred eighty thousand, he’d essentially be pocketing a profit of

not enough for you? You want to keep scamming me? As the owner of Auctiq, you can’t possibly fail to recognize that even as forgeries, these antiques have

Jessica, you say I scammed you out of eighty million – that’s not right. Since you wanted to

that’s even less correct. You’re aware these forgeries are valued at five hundred thousand in the market, yet you called out a price of two million, clearly aiming to deceive me for my money. I naturally can’t accept

offload these items elsewhere, no

might not offer more than one hundred thousand because the sale of antiques is

antiques are difficult to match

it even harder to

what made Auctiq the premier auction house in Delvin Hub was its vast network of clientele. In the whole of Delvin Hub, only Nicholas could find

antiques.

that way, Smiley Nick, I won’t sell these

and commanded Daniel, “Pack them