Chapter 48: Not Someone Important (Don’t go to ophthalmology, go to neurology…)
“Xi Yun, the item…”
The item, unsurprisingly, was taken away by Xi Ziyu.
Le Can withdrew his gaze from the unhappy back of the stinky younger brother and turned to look at Jian Yu, who had walked up to him and Xi Yun.
The head of Yayun Ancient Workshop adjusted the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose slightly awkwardly, then slowly looked up.
The person who could usually turn the tide with a single sentence was now full of guilt and disappointment, unable to speak a complete sentence.
The subject of the sentence wasn’t him anyway, so Le Can leisurely moved two steps to the side.
However, the gaze hiding inquiry didn’t move away.
Looking closely this time, Le Can discovered that compared to Xi Yun’s unforgettable, sharp, and noble phoenix eyes, Jian Yu also had phoenix eyes, but they were “sleeping phoenix eyes”—gentler and more elegant overall.
The addition of gold-rimmed glasses added a trace of scholarly aloofness to this non-aggressive gentleness. That natural scholarly aura added a sense of intellectual stability that customers would like in this Boss Jian.
Le Can clearly remembered that in the limited 100,000 words of the original novel he had read, Jian Yu did not appear.
But a character with such an extraordinary background and wisdom, who had a suspected alumni relationship with Xi Yun and helped the male lead when he was in trouble…
He shouldn’t be a nobody.
An auction house owner and an antique shop owner. Could it be some strong-strong alliance, a drama of mutual appreciation and friendship?
Xi Yun calmed the waves in his heart caused by Le Can and looked calmly at Jian Yu.
“Yaoyao was right. Our current liquid capital is only two hundred million. The rule of the auction is that the highest bidder wins. We were mentally prepared before we came.”
Le Can was a little surprised.
Not because of the nickname “Yaoyao.” The male lead had a good memory; he wasn’t one of those humanoid creatures in real life who couldn’t understand human speech.
It was because after Xi Ziyu left, he continued to play along with Le Can’s words, admitting his “financial constraints” in front of others.
One must know that “face,” for a large portion of people, was something even more important than their lives…
After hearing the nonsense spouted by his unreliable younger brother Jian Minglang, Jian Yu still didn’t act quite naturally when facing Le Can.
He first nodded at Le Can, then continued: “I will keep an eye on the information reported by all the shops under my control recently. If there is…”
Xi Yun shook his head: “Jian Yu, the preview is scheduled for a week from now… thank you.”
A three-day preview. Immediately after the preview ended, the formal auction would begin, also lasting three days.
The auction catalog had actually been sent out earlier.
The Ru Kiln Sky-Blue Glaze Lotus Leaf Brush Washer was the final attempt. With that attempt failed, unsurprisingly, no more lots would be added to Wei Yuan Jing’s spring auction.
Although Jian Yu was the boss of Yayun Ancient Workshop, receiving an auction-grade collection and negotiating the price to transport it to Xi Yun within a week…
They were just nodding acquaintances. The uncertainty and risks involved were not something the other party should bear.
Moreover, with someone obstructing from the shadows, the probability of success was less than ten percent. So, why waste manpower and resources?
Xi Yun didn’t like making losing trades.
Jian Yu was silent for two seconds, then slowly exhaled. After doing this, he put on his usual calm smile again.
“Then you wouldn’t mind giving me a few more auction catalogs, right?”
“I was just worrying about how to appease the customers who didn’t win anything. The items at Wei Yuan Jing won’t disappoint them.”
Wow…
Le Can sighed at the big boss’s EQ while inadvertently shuffling outward again.
Suddenly feel a bit superfluous, what to do?
He hadn’t moved two steps when suddenly, a force grabbed the hood of his coat from behind. Caught off guard, Le Can felt like he was on roller skates; whoosh, he crashed into something hard.
A voice carrying a chill rang out from above his head: “Liang Yusheng, the catalogs.”
Liang Yusheng, being named, popped up instantly: “Yes! Arranging it right now!”
“Boss Jian, hearing the name is not as good as meeting the person. Hahaha, I am an employee of Wei Yuan Jing. Thank you for your strong support. How many auction catalogs would you like in total? Purchase three hundred copies? Should we add more?”
“…”
Leaving Yayun Ancient Workshop, Le Can realized the daylight had already dimmed.
Warm lights lit up on the classic architecture. The light was visible but the source was hidden; soft and not glaring, it didn’t look abrupt but added a poetic and artistic atmosphere.
However, beautiful as it was, the few scattered figures on the roadside meant it was as quiet—or rather, deserted—as it was during the day.
Le Can turned his head to look at the person beside him.
The light hitting from the side divided Xi Yun’s chiseled face into bright and dark halves. His excellent brow bone cast a small shadow, hiding those mysterious double pupils in darkness, so Le Can couldn’t see them clearly.
Perhaps he stared too long, and too brazenly.
Xi Yun couldn’t ignore the gaze that lingered, and those eyes that were being thought of silently looked back at the young man walking beside him.
Inexplicably, the sentence “sleeping with him plan continues,” which seemed like a joke, suddenly rang again in Xi Yun’s mind. The words he prepared to say vanished before he could speak.
“Hm?”
Since elementary school, Le Can understood a piece of knowledge. If you don’t want to answer the teacher’s question, never make eye contact with the teacher.
Conversely, if you want to answer, actively create eye contact. So, Xi Yun had something to say.
“What is it? What did you want to say?”
Not knowing he was the culprit causing the other’s loss of speech, Le Can thoughtfully opened his eyes wide to show encouragement, leaning his body forward slightly to imply he was listening.
The cool evening breeze rushed gently toward the person in front of him along with the young man’s movement. The fresh, cool wind mixed with a unique scent invaded Xi Yun’s breath.
Different from the elegant ink scent in Yayun Ancient Workshop, different from the fragrance of any fresh flower in the South District Flower and Bird Market… it was a scent difficult to describe or summarize with anything in the world.
Every night, this scent, just like its owner during the day, eroded toward Xi Yun bit by bit in his dreams.
Xi Yun’s breathing paused quietly for a few seconds in an instant unknown to anyone.
Before Le Can could ask again, those silver-gray pupils, which seemed to be dyed with warmth by the lights, lowered and then looked into the distance.
Le Can looked in the same direction with puzzled eyebrows.
A young brain not yet squeezed dry by work was useful; Le Can immediately recognized this was the direction they came from.
“Are you hungry?”
The pleasant voice rang in his ear simultaneously.
The confusion dissipated into a daze. Le Can stood there doubting his ears for two seconds, then spent another second wondering if there was a blue food delivery app here.
After confirming there wasn’t, and confirming Xi Yun was indeed asking if he was hungry, Le Can hesitantly raised his hand, touched the location of his stomach, and narrowed his eyes to feel it for two seconds.
“Hungry, or… not hungry?”
At times like this, Le Can really wanted to borrow Jian Yu or Liang Yusheng’s brain. One was good at figuring out people’s hearts, the other good at figuring out the boss’s intentions. Unfortunately, Xi Yun was both his boss and someone he couldn’t see through.
Actually not very hungry.
Lunch was late, and the portion Xi Yun shared with him was extremely generous. Crucially, the noodles and toppings at that place were delicious, so Le Can had been greedy and overeaten.
In the afternoon at Yayun Ancient Workshop, it was purely a war of words.
A certain not-very-smart younger brother contributed little to digestion, resulting in Le Can still not feeling hungry at all.
“I…”
“If you’re not hungry, do you want to stroll around other areas?”
Le Can swallowed the remaining “not hungry.”
He faintly sensed something was off, but the male lead’s insight was superb; it was normal for him to understand a person’s true thoughts through subtle words and expressions.
“Other areas?”
The stopped steps moved forward again.
Le Can recalled the division of the Helin Flower, Bird, and Antique Market on the map. Actually, he was most interested in the Antique Miscellaneous District in the West and the Flea Market in the North.
Both sides were very lively, day and night.
The excitement at night was even greater than during the day. That kind of vitality and fun was something Le Can had never allowed himself to stop and experience before.
“Let’s go to the West District.”
Logically, the probability of Le Can choosing the latter was higher because the North District was closer to the world he understood.
However, sometimes the less understood something is, the greater its attraction. Mystery can attract a large number of believers at any moment.
Moreover… Le Can’s eyes curved, the raised corners revealing pure happiness.
He looked up and down at Xi Yun with a secretly expectant and nervous look. “I just feel that going West, we’ll encounter something happy.”
No one understood Xi Yun’s identity and ability better than Le Can.
—Child of Luck and X-Ray Vision.
The previous Northern Song Ru Kiln Sky-Blue Glaze Lotus Leaf Brush Washer was beautiful. Although it was a pity it wasn’t real, its final destination was pretty good.
What satisfied Le Can the most was that this item buried a massive landmine for Xi Ziyu that no one knew when would explode.
But just him, a cannon fodder from the original book, being satisfied was useless!
For the last vacancy in Wei Yuan Jing’s spring auction, Le Can had a premonition that the result would be found in the fake-infested Antique Miscellaneous District in the West…
Le Can smiled at Xi Yun.
These were things beyond the first 100,000 words of the original book; they were things unknown to Le Can. Missing out before was out of necessity; looking back, it became regret.
This regret wasn’t just missing out on understanding Xi Yun and the flesh-and-blood characters around him, but also Le Can’s regret for his previous life…
The past could not be mended, but he could still see the former with his own eyes.
The young man smiled without speaking. The person who had been watching him suddenly spoke: “What are you thinking?”
Le Can mischievously raised one eyebrow at Xi Yun: “What do you think I’m thinking?”
The inner voice that usually sounded didn’t appear this time.
Xi Yun was silent for two seconds. “I can’t guess.”
The person in front of him was lively and free-spirited inside, often popping out some shocking words, and at other times so calm that only a white noise remained, quieting Xi Yun’s soul.
Even with the cheating ability of hearing inner thoughts, Xi Yun often couldn’t read Le Can.
To him, the other party was like a magnificent and mysterious forest.
Although there were places sunlight couldn’t reach, if one explored carefully, every corner of this forest was always full of vitality and surprises.
No one would dislike such a place. Or rather, some people spent their whole lives searching for and returning to such a place…
“So there are things you don’t know.”
This sentence was strange, and Xi Yun was also a bit puzzled.
“I am not all-knowing; I also just have mortal eyes and a body that will age, get sick, and die.”
Hearing this, Le Can seriously sized up the person in front of him. A gold and jade appearance, outstanding temperament—even standing there without speaking, one could see he wasn’t an ordinary person.
Finally, his gaze stopped between Xi Yun’s deep brows and eyes.
“If these count as mortal eyes, then there are no good-looking eyes left in the world…”
Silver-gray irises, unnatural yet exceptionally mysterious double pupils instead of weirdness—it was as if at the beginning of his birth, he had declared his extraordinary nature to the whole world.
“Is it good-looking,” Xi Yun’s voice was light, “and not ominous?”
“Bullshit! Which ignoramus said that? You tell me, I’ll curse them to death!”
Le Can’s fist hardened, almost unable to hold back from rolling up his sleeves to hit someone.
Please, those are Double Pupils!
Not to mention the legends of how many double-pupiled figures in history, with Xi Yun’s face paired with those killingly beautiful double pupils, which divine (lunatic) person said it was ominous?
Stop going to ophthalmology, go to neurology and get that brain checked!
The heart voice that was calm just seconds ago set off a monstrous wave, crashing one after another against Xi Yun’s cold, hard heart. Crash—it was the sound of ice shattering and melting.
On a dimly lit section of the road, the moonlight pouring down from overhead fell into a patch of silver-gray, reflecting a gentle lunar glow.
“Not someone important.”
Le Can turned his head suspiciously: “Stranger?”
Xi Yun, with most of his body walking in darkness, spoke in a flat tone, “Yes, just a stranger.”
Le Can saw the distance between them had widened a bit. He reached out and grabbed randomly. Coincidentally, the hand at Xi Yun’s side swung forward, and their cool, slender fingers entangled.
“Then ta [he/she] is a bit too idle. Ta can go into a factory for some further education.”
Xi Yun chuckled aloud. He reached out and tightened his grip on the hand in his palm bit by bit.
“So what were you thinking just now?”
Le Can, who had just started feeling that holding hands was a bit awkward, was suddenly distracted.
“Which ‘just now’? Turning screws or finding an electronics factory to work in?”
Le Can was just thinking about this. Those two types of factories used to be famous “Big Factories” on the internet back home.
The smile on Xi Yun’s face deepened. His usually cold and distant features completely relaxed, making Le Can stare in a daze.
At this moment, he truly felt the reality that the male lead was twenty-six years old.
“The thought I couldn’t guess.”
Le Can thought: You don’t have mind-reading skills, there are plenty of thoughts you can’t guess.
But on the surface, he pretended to frown in distress. “Oh~ that just now. Let me think… Oh right! I was thinking…”
“Thinking what?”
Xi Yun repeated the same question.
The young man instantly threw away the large hand he was holding and sprinted towards the West District. “Hahahaha, I won’t tell you!”
I was thinking… you will definitely be able to give me a surprise.
The tall figure stopped in place for a moment, then strode to follow the joyous back ahead, stepping from the darkness into the brightly lit front, step by step.
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