Jiang Xueqi's expression darkened as she turned an angry glare towards Qin Luo.
She saw him leaning on the table with one hand supporting his cheek, his gaze fixed on her.
Judging by his mocking eyes, he was doing this on purpose!
Furious, Jiang Xueqi raised her placard and shouted, "31 million!"
But soon after, Qin Luo's voice rang out again.
"31.01 million."
!!
Jiang Xueqi's eye twitched as she continued, "35 million!"
"35.01 million~~"
"You!!!"
Jiang Xueqi glared at Qin Luo with rage, standing up and berating him, "What exactly are you playing at?! Are you deliberately only raising by 10,000 each time?!"
Hearing this, Qin Luo shrugged, a hint of sarcasm on his lips: "You figured it out? Good for you."
He turned to the auctioneer with a light chuckle, "Whatever price Miss Jiang bids, I'll outbid her by 10,000."
As soon as he said this, the entire venue erupted in commotion.
They looked at each other in disbelief. Was he really being this disrespectful to Jiang Xueqi?
Not to be outdone, Jiang Xueqi shouted at the auctioneer, "Fine! I'll do the same! I'll outbid him by 10,000 every time!"
Hearing this, the auctioneer was at a loss. He looked frantically between Qin Luo and Jiang Xueqi, saying with difficulty, "This... you two are making this very hard for me..."
As his words faded,
"Heh... hard..."
Qin Luo's cold laugh echoed through the room.
"If it's too hard, then let's not do it at all!"
Everyone turned to look.
They saw Qin Luo stand up and walk step by step towards the auction stage.
Then he took the microphone from the auctioneer.
Jiang Xueqi angrily slammed the table, shouting, "What are you trying to do?! Are you trying to ruin this auction?!"
"Ruin it? No, no, no..."
Qin Luo held the microphone, first sweeping a contemptuous gaze over everyone below the stage.
Then... he laughed arrogantly, "I just want to let everyone here know."
"Anything my young mistress sets her eyes on will eventually be hers!"
"This auction is now exclusively for the Su Family!"
As his words fell, everyone's expressions were shocked.
Outrageous! Presumptuous! Arrogant!!
How dare this lackey be so brazen?
On what grounds?
Just because he had Su Muwan backing him?
Jiang Xueqi was also shaking with anger at Qin Luo's declaration.
Su -- Mu -- Wan!!!!
This isn't over between us!!
She cursed, "This auction is organized by the president of the Antique City Association!! Everyone bids according to their own ability!"
"What right do you have to claim exclusivity here?!"
Hearing these words, everyone came to their senses.
That's right!
The Antique City Association isn't controlled by the Su Family!
How can a mere lackey of Su Muwan throw his weight around like this??
Everyone's expressions gradually returned to normal.
That's right, there's still President Long Dingtian!
With his countless connections, even Su Muwan...
To avoid offending Long Dingtian, she surely wouldn't protect this lackey!
However.
"Heh, on what grounds?"
Qin Luo seemed to have heard something extremely amusing.
He cleared his throat, raised the microphone, and his next words left everyone dumbfounded. They heard him say calmly, "Long Dingtian, hurry up and get your ass over here."
Boom--!
As his words fell, the scene descended into chaos.
"This is outrageous! A mere lackey dares to disrespect President Long Dingtian like this!"
"Security! Where's the security!"
Everyone was completely enraged.
Where did this madman come from?
The person in charge of the auction venue finally arrived. Seeing Qin Luo causing trouble on stage, he was almost speechless with anger. This was the Antique City Association, President Long's territory.
How could it be disrupted by this youngster?!
Thinking this, he hurriedly walked up and shouted angrily at Qin Luo, "You insolent brat!! How dare you cause chaos here..."
Before he could finish,
Another figure ran even faster than the person in charge of the auction venue.
"Silence!!!"
Slap!
He quickly stepped forward and raised his hand, slapping the face of the person in charge hard.
The person in charge was slapped to the ground, clutching his face in a daze. Everyone else was stunned, and Jiang Xueqi was even more bewildered.
Because the person who had hurriedly come forward to slap his own man was none other than...
The president of the Antique City Association! Long Dingtian!!!
Long Dingtian approached Qin Luo with a panicked expression. Under the incredulous gazes of everyone present,
He bowed and apologized, "Please forgive me, Master Qin!!!"
But it didn't end there.
Everyone heard Qin Luo say calmly, "I came here on my young mistress's orders, originally to treat you and casually acquire some antiques, but..."
He swept his gaze over the crowd below, saying disappointedly, "This auction has greatly disappointed both me and my young mistress."
Everyone drew in a sharp breath. How dare this lackey speak like this?
However, Long Dingtian's reaction was even more unbelievable to them.
They saw,
Whoosh!
Long Dingtian broke out in a cold sweat, his voice trembling, "Please calm your anger, Master Qin. I will personally deliver all the antiques from this auction to the Su Family later."
"I only beg for Master Qin's forgiveness!!"
Hearing this, Qin Luo pretended to relent, nodding, "Very well, then... let's go to your place for treatment. This time I should be able to cure about 70% of your condition, allowing you to circulate true qi."
As his words fell,
Circulate true qi?!
Long Dingtian looked up, his expression wild with joy, "There's no need, Master Qin! We can do it right here!"
??
Qin Luo was taken aback, then looked at him suspiciously, "Here? Are you sure?"
"Yes!"
After nearly twenty years of being known as useless, Long Dingtian couldn't wait any longer.
Thinking this, afraid that Qin Luo might change his mind, Long Dingtian bowed deeply and shouted, "Please, Master Qin, bestow upon me your palm strike!!!"
Boom!!!
As Long Dingtian's words fell,
The minds of everyone present were struck as if by lightning.
Wait a minute?
What did they just hear?
Bestow a palm strike??
Who was bestowing a palm strike on whom??
The esteemed president of the Antique City Association was actually begging a young man... to strike him???
No, everyone shook their heads.
It couldn't possibly mean what it sounded like, there must be some deeper meaning.
Bestow a palm strike... was this some kind of foreign idiom?
Jiang Xueqi also stood dumbfounded, looking incredulously at Qin Luo and the groveling Long Dingtian on stage.
Brother Long... why have you become like this as well...
Her heart was filled with disappointment and disbelief.
Brother Long, you've disappointed Xueqi too much.
And just as everyone was trying to decipher the meaning of "bestowing a palm strike",
The next scene made everyone realize that their initial guess wasn't wrong.
They saw,
After Long Dingtian finished speaking,
Qin Luo quickly raised his hand.
Slap!!
A hard slap landed on Long Dingtian's face.
Thud!
Long Dingtian was slapped to the ground, his whole body trembling.
And just when everyone thought Long Dingtian would explode in anger,
They saw him suddenly stand up from the ground.
Then he laughed maniacally, "Hahahahahaha!!!!"
"It worked!! It worked!!"
"I've succeeded!!! I can cultivate now!! I can produce true qi now!!!"
How many years has it been! How many years!!
I've endured for so many years!!!
Mom! Just wait!! I'll definitely return to the Long Family! And then!! I'll get revenge on that heartless bastard!!!
Long Dingtian no longer hesitated. Covering his face, he was as happy as a child, shouting respectfully to Qin Luo,
"Thank you for bestowing your palm strike, Master Qin!!!!"
Buzz--!
Everyone's minds went blank.
Wait, what did they just witness?
Long Dingtian... thanking someone for slapping him?
Huh?
What kind of surreal scene was this???
Everyone was dumbfounded. Were they living in the real world?
Are they sure they didn't get something wrong?
......
......
Su Family Villa.
In Su Muwan's bedroom.
The sleeping Su Muwan's brows furrowed slightly.
She murmured,
"Don't... don't provoke them, Qin Luo..."
"Don't provoke the Dragon King... don't provoke the Ghost Immortal... don't provoke the War God... don't provoke the young miss whose bone marrow was extracted... don't provoke the jilted fiancée..."
But as she continued, it changed to...
"Hehe.. Qin Luo's hands are so nice..."
"Pervert..."
"Say something I like to hear..."
Heart] Chen Yi traversed the cultivation world for eight hundred years, charging his way to the Tribulation Transcendence stage. Just as he was outwitting his 81st Heavenly Tribulation to ascend to immortality, he was suddenly pulled into a chat group called the "Multiverse Transmigrators Support Group." To his surprise, the group was filled with nothing but fresh-faced newbies who had just transmigrated. [Help! I transmigrated into a disgraced concubine in the cold palace, and the tyrant emperor is about to execute me!] [I ended up as a cannon-fodder villain, and the protagonist is still chasing me—WTF!] [I woke up as the protagonist’s father, but I’m about to be sacrificed in a ritual! What do I do? Urgent!!!] Chen Yi stared at the chaotic flood of desperate pleas in the group and fell into deep thought. "Seriously? You drag me into a newbie transmigrator chat group… only after I’m one step away from becoming an immortal?"
and couldn't return to the real world. Finally, I gave up and decided to go with the flow, only to discover that writing a diary could make me stronger. Since no one could read it, Su Luo wrote freely, daring to pen anything and everything. Female Lead #1: "Not bad. This diary helped me steal all the protagonist's opportunities. I just want to get stronger." Female Lead #2: "I don’t care about reaching the peak of the cultivation world. Right now, I just want to enjoy the chaos." Female Lead #3: "What? Everyone around me is a spy? I’m the Joker Demon Lord?" ... It’s so strange. Why is the plot completely off track, yet the ending remains the same? Are you all just messing with me?!
d intelligence to keep the plot moving, and sometimes even the protagonists are forced into absurdly dumb decisions. Why does the A-list celebrity heroine in urban romance novels ditch the top-tier movie star and become a lovestruck fool for a pockmarked male lead? Why do the leads in historical tragedy novels keep dancing between love and death, only for the blind healer to end up suffering the most? And Gu Wei never expected that after finally landing a villain role to stir up trouble, she’d pick the wrong gender! No choice now—she’ll just have to crush the protagonists as a girl!
+【Epic Battles!】 "Your Highness, they say Linxi Temple is miraculous. Won’t you make a wish?" "A wish? It should be making wishes to me." "That may be so, but since you’re already here..." "..." "Fine. Then grant this princess a consort to play with." "He must be obedient, devoted, and utterly infatuated with my body—so much so that he’d kneel and kiss my feet." "Your Highness, that’s not a consort. That’s a dog." "Then add clever, witty, heroic, ambitious yet pragmatic..." "Hmm, that’s enough for now. I’ll add more later." After tossing out these words half in jest, Princess Anle departed the temple—only to catch a fleeting glimpse of the Bodhisattva statue smiling at her. Meanwhile, Yang An, fresh out of university, was having a very bad day. Good news: He’d transmigrated into another world with a cheat granting tenfold combat power. Bad news: He’d immediately fallen into the clutches of a certain villainess. Good news: Said villainess possessed peerless beauty and royal status. Bad news: She was absolutely monstrous!!! In the frozen wilderness, Yang An knelt beneath Qin Guo’er’s feet, drenched in sweat despite the cold. Desperately clutching her porcelain-perfect foot—the very one poised to crush his throat—he could only think: How do I survive this?! Need answers NOW!
