Chapter 2641 — The Final Auction Item
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If it was the first case, then it was only natural, and Wang Xinyan could understand it. But if it was the second—at this thought, Wang Xinyan could not help but blush.
Toward Wei Zhao's feelings, Wang Xinyan found it harder and harder to refuse. Some things were beyond her power to control, no matter how she wished otherwise. Yet she also feared that Wei Zhao and Kang Jinglong would come to blows—at least for now, it seemed unwise for Wei Zhao to make an enemy of the Xuandan Sect.
Last time at the school gate, when Wei Zhao fought Little One, it had been perilous beyond words. Had Bai Lingtou not stepped in in time, the outcome would truly have been impossible to predict. So Wang Xinyan was deeply afraid that Wei Zhao would clash with an even more formidable power, and thus, whenever she was with him, she was always cautious, as if treading on thin ice.
Hearing that it was Wei Zhao who had bid, Kang Jinglong felt a sting of shame and anger—but the more so, the less he could give up. If the jade bracelet really did go to Wei Zhao, where would he put his face?
"Two million!" Desire clouded his judgment. However shrewd Kang Jinglong might be, when it came to competing with Wei Zhao over a woman, he grew hot-headed and doubled the price outright!
Kang Jinglong's manner of bidding made the several bosses who had originally been interested in the bracelet give up the contest altogether. It seemed Kang Jinglong was determined to have it, and there was no point competing with him.
"Five million." Wei Zhao raised his paddle placidly.
Wang Xinyan was startled. Though she did not object to Wei Zhao driving the price up, raising it so much would inevitably earn him Kang Jinglong's enmity. She did not want Wei Zhao and Kang Jinglong to clash, yet she had no idea how to stop it.
"One—" Kang Jinglong was about to bid ten million when he snapped back to his senses, realized ten million was far too much, and hastily corrected himself: "Six million!"
"Ten million," Wei Zhao said, still utterly calm.
The corners of Kang Jinglong's mouth twitched twice. Ten million—he had not said it, but Wei Zhao had. He was trembling all over with rage! Wei Zhao, just you wait. One day, when my brother Kang Jingming is cured, I will finish you off!!!!!!
"Eleven million!" Kang Jinglong drew a deep breath and said.
Fortunately, the Kang family was no longer the Kang family of old. Having taken over the Xuandan Sect's and part of the hidden You family's sales of low-grade pills, the Kang family was raking it in hand over fist!
Do not look down on low-grade pills. Such pills had little effect on cultivation, but they possessed a unique efficacy for strengthening the body and prolonging life, and so they were extremely popular at high-end auctions in the secular world. Just as at the auction the secular Yu family had once held, a single life-prolonging, toxin-expelling pill of Wei Zhao's could fetch a sky-high price of several hundred million—yet the price of a second-grade pill in a cultivators' market was only around ten million.
This time, however, Wei Zhao did not bid. The price was about right; it would be no good to push past what Kang Jinglong could bear.
Wang Xinyan breathed a sigh of relief as well. The bracelet meant nothing particularly significant to her—it was merely a gift. If it could be exchanged for so much money to donate to orphans in need, she was quite happy, so it did not matter to her if Kang Jinglong won it.
"Congratulations to gentleman number 73 on winning this item..." Zhen Huanzi announced the ownership of Wang Xinyan's bracelet. The next item up for auction was something He Meiyue had donated—also a piece of jewelry, though made of gold.
Judging by market price, this gold jewelry was worth roughly several thousand to ten thousand yuan, not especially precious, so the starting bid was set at twenty thousand yuan.