Chapter 102: It’s Simply Heart-Killing. Not appraising treasures, but appraising his own Yao…
Practice requires someone to be present.
And everything must be done step-by-step; achieving success overnight is never a good thing. The people they found could only be few and refined, and preferably those they knew inside and out.
Yuan Cheng & Liang Yusheng & Xie Jun: “…”
So, is this your reason for luring the dogs in just to slaughter them? Huh?!
The youth with peach-blossom eyes leaned lazily against the man beside him. He half-lidded his eyes and glanced at the three people opposite him with their strange expressions, not feeling a shred of guilt.
Instead, amidst their resentful gazes, Le Can’s brow arched, and his amber eyes revealed a playfulness akin to a successful prank.
[Oh my, you guys found out.]
Beside the youth, a certain man whose aura had been cold and manic a while ago hadn’t spared them a single glance since they met.
Afterward, this person kept his head down, his expression focused as he fondled… the other long, fair, white-jade-like hand in his own.
Yuan Cheng and Liang Yusheng would still slightly modify their inner thoughts, but Xie Jun, who had completely lost in love not long ago, couldn’t take it anymore.
The corner of her eyes, traced with high-arched eyeliner, twitched twice. Then, she rolled a huge white eye. “What are you doing? What are you doing?”
She spread her hands and pointed at herself, her tone full of condemnation and heartbreak. “Showing off your love in front of a beauty who is heartbroken and disappointed—does your conscience not hurt, you two?!”
This was simply “shrimp-people-pig-heart”! Killing the heart!
Le Can leaned back against Xi Yun’s shoulder, looking composed and unhurried with his reliance, and replied with a smile: “Oh, it doesn’t.”
“Because… I don’t have a conscience, Sister Jun~”
Xie Jun knew that Le Can was cooperating with her banter not only to liven up the recent dead atmosphere but also to ease her tensed nerves.
The tension was eased, but… Xie Jun clutched her heart, feeling like she had suffered a severe internal injury. This little brat’s skill at biting remarks was even greater than before.
If one path didn’t work, then change to another!
Xie Jun took two deep breaths to calm herself, then turned her face toward Xi Yun, who was still silently playing with his wife’s hand, with the heartbreak and disappointment one would show a faint-hearted monarch.
“Do you know about the rumor circulating in the antique appraisal world recently?”
The person addressed didn’t react, but Le Can raised his eyebrows, curiosity showing between his brows. Seeing that Xie Jun wouldn’t continue if she didn’t get a response, he nudged the person beside him with his elbow.
[Give some reaction, I want to hear what the rumor is.]
Only then did Xi Yun sluggishly lift his eyelids to give the person opposite him a glance.
It was a plain, ordinary glance, without a single word added, yet it made Xie Jun, who sensitively perceived danger, tighten her face. She immediately sat up straight, her eyes resentfully peeking at the “faint monarch’s” “sultry concubine.”
“That rumor, or rather, it should be called an unwritten law of appraisal.”
Hearing this, Le Can raised his eyebrows in surprise.
[Law of appraisal? It’s even dragged in something as high-sounding as a ‘law’?]
Although Xie Jun also felt it was outrageous, the truth was indeed so.
She tilted her chin toward Xi Yun beside Le Can. “This law of appraisal is: anything your husband has fondled and appraised in his hands is a good treasure.”
Guaranteed authenticity, a genuine item with no deception for young or old!
Beside them, the smiling Liang Yusheng also added a sentence: “Also, the longer he plays with it, the more precious and sought-after it is.”
Generally, if something could stay in Xi Yun’s hands for more than a day, it would be bought by someone the moment it arrived at Wei Yuanjing. Similarly, if there was something he wasn’t sure about, anything Xi Yun touched and immediately let go of was definitely a fake.
When this rumor was first proposed, many people only took it as a joke, listened to it, and forgot it. After all, there were countless “appraisal masters” every year who boasted about themselves and created personas to scam people, only to be debunked and slapped in the face.
Especially when they learned this person was a young man not even thirty, it gave off a feeling of being fake and flamboyant. Everyone shook their heads and sighed; indeed, he was too young and impetuous. If he had the mind for these things, he might as well study more.
Then… everyone was slapped in the face!
Ten out of ten were real. Occasionally, once or twice, a collector whose item was appraised as fake didn’t believe it and went through great pains to find other methods to verify it—all without exception ended with them slapping their own faces.
After slapping their faces, they still had to come begging at the door, bringing their most proud collection, only asking that the treasure could stay in Xi Yun’s hands a little longer. Then, after taking back the great treasure, they would go to an old friend or a rival to show off grandly!
The person being shown off to had to get their dignity back, and other onlookers couldn’t help but get involved. Thus, after a few rounds of pulling hatred like this, Xi Yun became completely famous in the circle.
After listening, Le Can: “…”
He hadn’t expected that under the targeted cooperation of Ya Yun Gu Fang and Yong Xin Auction House, Xi Yun had broken the deadlock with Wei Yuanjing in this… well, humorous way.
He wanted to say something but hesitated, hesitated but wanted to speak, tried to raise his right hand only to find it gripped in someone’s palm, which eventually led to the failure of raising his hand.
During the series of movements, everyone’s eyes couldn’t help but converge on—the interlaced hands of Le Can and Xi Yun.
Le Can’s left and right eyelids twitched subtly one after the other.
Outsiders might not know the inside story of this miraculous law of appraisal, but he did!
The more precious and rare, and the older the antique, the stronger the unknown energy inside it that could offset the side effects of Xi Yun’s ability.
Therefore, the longer the energy in an item was absorbed—in short, the longer it stayed in Xi Yun’s hands—the higher its value.
But that was before.
Facts proved that Xi Yun, who seemed to be in a period of ability chaos, found that just absorbing these mysterious energies was useless. Now, only the closer he was to Le Can, or even having physical contact with him, would he not be impacted by the large amount of noisy inner voices from the outside world.
So, a certain person stopped playing with treasures and changed to playing with his own Yao Yao’s hand.
And if the outside world saw the scene at this moment… Le Can’s eyelids hopped even more joyfully.
Xie Jun didn’t have so many scruples. She gave an incredibly deliberate “tsk” and boldly and mockingly spoke her mind.
“Oh my, if the people outside knew that President Xi is so ‘unable to let go’ of his wife at home that he doesn’t even take treasures anymore, how many people would have their glasses fall off?”
[Good, Xie Jun is still the same person who doesn’t like to suffer losses that he knows.]
Le Can ignored his twitching eyelids and looked at Xi Yun beside him with dead eyes. “Did you hear that? President Xi, where is your lofty pride? Can you let go of me?!”
Xi Yun fiddled with the slender, bone-defined fingers in his hand, not even sparing a glance for anyone this time.
Thus, Le Can instantly changed his expression and looked at the three people opposite him helplessly, intentionally speaking in a “green tea” manner: “You see, he’s the one unwilling himself. It’s not that I haven’t tried to persuade him.”
On the surface, he was clean and innocent, but in reality, he didn’t even bother to hide the big fox tail wagging behind him.
The instantly choked Liang/Yuan/Xie: “…”
Sultry concubine, a country-ruining sultry concubine!
Watching the three people’s amusing reactions, Le Can instantly lost his composure. He laughed until he was leaning back and forth, unable to maintain the persona he had just set up.
“Hahahahahahaha…”
Xi Yun, who had been secretly asked to cooperate, had a helpless expression on his face. He used one arm to embrace the youth who was flopping like a live fish, while the hand holding the other party never let go.
After laughing, Le Can leaned against Xi Yun’s shoulder, using one hand to wipe the tears from his eyes as he asked the person beside him.
“How is it? Are there results?”
Hearing this sentence, the Xie Jun trio, who still didn’t realize they were being used as testing tools, had a layer of confusion rise in their eyes and faces simultaneously.
The three of them looked at each other, confirming that none of them knew, before turning their gazes toward the couple opposite them, who were being mysterious.
Xi Yun had been silent the whole time, and Le Can had been laughing and joking with Xie Jun the whole way—not just to check on her psychological health after her breakup.
They had never forgotten the original purpose of bringing the three of them here.
Xi Yun pondered for a moment, then shook his head and nodded again.
Seeing this reaction, Le Can instantly sat up straight and turned to face the man beside him. “Okay, but there are limits? Or it doesn’t work for now, and we need to try more times?”
Xi Yun pinched the joints of the youth’s fingers, which were curled due to nervousness, and answered succinctly: “It works, with limits.”
“First, constant skin contact must be maintained.”
He lifted their interlaced hands into the air and shook them slightly. The amplitude wasn’t large, but Le Can’s heart grew strangely calm. “And then?”
Xi Yun continued down. “And then, the chosen target for mind-reading—for now, there can only be one.”
The youth’s inner voice flowed to him naturally. But for others, he needed to select them first and then focus all his attention on capturing them.
After listening, Le Can let out a long sigh of relief, feeling much more relaxed.
“It’s already much better than what I expected,” Le Can held Xi Yun’s hand back. “We still have five days; let’s take it slow.”
[If we can add one more mind-reading slot after five days, that’ll be a pleasant surprise. If not, we still won’t lose out.]
[When the time comes, you just keep a close eye on Jian Yu, and we’ll dig him up until he’s clean!]
Xi Yun looked intently at the person beside him and gave a slight nod with an “Mhm.”
On the other side, the slowest-reacting Yuan Cheng was in a fog, his eyes already turning into swirls. Liang Yusheng and Xie Jun, who more or less had some guesses in their hearts, keenly captured the time point of five days.
Liang Yusheng quickly pulled up the itinerary for that day in his mind and soon locked onto the target. He reached out and pushed his glasses. “The charity auction in five days—will Mr. Le be accompanying President Xi?”
It wasn’t something that couldn’t be said, so Le Can immediately nodded.
Liang Yusheng didn’t ask the reason either. Instead, he quickly unlocked his phone and rescheduled all the tasks Xi Yun had already finalized and other potential tasks for that day to other times.
Le Can rubbed his nose somewhat guiltily.
Originally, Xi Yun had only arranged for others under him to go and hadn’t intended to attend this charity auction personally. After the two of them finished their discussion yesterday, they had been so caught up in their passionate reunion until morning…
[Cough, cough, I completely forgot to notify Assistant Liang about this.]
Instantly understanding what Le Can meant, Xi Yun leaned into the youth’s ear and whispered a few words. After listening, Le Can nodded with satisfaction.
Assistant Liang, who didn’t yet know he was about to receive a pay raise, silently slowed down his pace of handling matters, pretending that his peripheral vision didn’t see the small actions of the two people opposite him.
Xie Jun suddenly clapped her hands, her face filled with intense interest.
“Since you’re all going, how can I be missing from the scene?”
Le Can glanced helplessly at the glowing person. “Eating gossip—of course, the freshest ones are on the scene, right?”
Xie Jun brushed the hair at her temple, not feeling at all embarrassed by her true thoughts being exposed.
She put on the most elegant smile of a Xie family heir and half-covered her mouth with her hand. “Oh my, you caught me.”
The only honest person on the scene, Yuan Cheng: “…”
Asking for a friend: all the friends around you are drama queens, and you’re the only honest person—how do you escape?
T/N: “Shrimp-people-pig-heart” (蝦仁豬心) is an internet slang pun on the phrase “Killing people and condemning their hearts” (殺人誅心). “Pan” (盤) refers to the act of rubbing and playing with collectibles to create a patina, but here it refers to Xi Yun constantly playing with Le Can’s hand.
Recommended Reads
![The League’s Hei Yueguang Has Fought His Way Back [E-sports]](https://beereads.space/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/hei-214x300.jpg)
