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.”

thousand dollars. If he could get

you going a bit too far? You scammed me out of eighty million, gave me three forgeries, and still, that’s 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

you say I scammed you out of eighty million – that’s not right. Since you wanted to buy antiques, there’s always a risk involved! If you failed

to scam you again, 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 that, so my offer of one hundred eighty thousand is purely self- defense. Of course, the choice is yours – you can simply choose not to sell. Auctiq has been operating for over three hundred years, and up to

no one would be willing to buy them. The risk associated with such forgeries was high. Even with

one hundred thousand because the sale of

Genuine antiques are difficult to match with the

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

antiques.

you’ve put it that way, Smiley Nick, I won’t sell

and commanded Daniel, “Pack them up.