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.”

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

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 market value

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

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

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 high. Even with a genuine value

might not offer more than one hundred thousand

are difficult to match with

harder

Hub was its vast network of clientele. In the whole of Delvin Hub, only Nicholas could find buyers for

antiques.

Smiley Nick, I won’t

and commanded Daniel,