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.”

position, knowing that even though the items were forgeries, their total 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 three hundred

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 a

of eighty million – that’s not right. Since you wanted to buy antiques,

claim that I’m trying 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

smile steady. He was confident in his stance with Jessica, knowing that if she tried to offload these items elsewhere, no one would be willing to buy them. The risk associated with such forgeries was

auction houses might not offer more than one hundred thousand because the

are difficult to

it even harder

the premier auction house in Delvin Hub was its vast network of clientele. In the whole of Delvin Hub, only Nicholas

antiques.

put it that way, Smiley

away and commanded Daniel, “Pack them up.