Chapter 105: It will only ever be worth it. His heart and eyes are full… of only him…
What did they find?
Le Can felt a sentence Xi Yun wrote in his palm and smiled meaningfully toward Jian Yu at the other end of the same table.
When the other party retracted all expressions on his face and looked over, Le Can turned his head to look at the auctioneer on stage, leisurely raising his paddle to participate in the bidding.
Coincidentally, what they found weren’t just small, insignificant things…
Sure enough, after this move, whenever Le Can raised his paddle to bid on something later, Jian Yu would closely follow, calling out his own price for every item Le Can showed interest in.
Le Can knew Jian Yu was testing him. But he also knew the initial back-and-forth was just an appetizer.
After the other party raised the price several times, Le Can, who actually wasn’t very interested in the initial surrealist paintings, cleanly gave up on further bidding.
Le Can grew quiet amidst the increasingly heated bidding around them. He noticed that Jian Yu’s actions of raising the paddle would also stop, without exception, after one or two more rounds.
Smiling at the person from a distance, the youth acted as if he hadn’t noticed anything. The upward curve of his eyes and the angle of his lips were perfectly innocent.
[I guessed correctly; he’s doing it on purpose.]
While the auctioneer introduced the donor information for the next few items, looking at the items which were different from paintings, Le Can leaned in close to the man beside him and asked in a small voice.
“Are there any you like among the next few watches?”
A certain wealthy watch manufacturer had specially customized and donated a series of watches for this charity auction. Considering the guest demographics, they had thoughtfully prepared equal numbers of men’s, women’s, and unisex watches.
These watches were made with lavish materials. Their designs were either simple and grand, exquisite and elegant, or low-key and luxurious. They weren’t sloppy just because they were donated items. Instead, each model was unique and held extraordinary significance.
Le Can calculated his little treasury—from his monthly pocket money to the sale of jadeite raw stones, and then to the occasional commission and custom orders he took online… buying a watch for Xi Yun should be more than enough.
Xi Yun listened to the fragmented inner voice chattering in his ear, and his grip on the youth’s hand slowly tightened.
In the darkness, the silver wedding rings set with colored gemstones on their interlaced ring fingers sparkled with dazzling light.
Because she looked down out of curiosity and was quite “stuffed” by the display of affection, Xie Jun regretfully clutched her chest. When a woman’s wristwatch appeared on the large screen, she hurriedly diverted her attention and raised her paddle to double the price.
Xi Yun ultimately chose an astronomical watch said to be inlaid with meteorite fragments.
The mystery of astronomy and the order of mechanics were combined, creating a unique romance. Crucially, the name of this watch was “Day and Radiance” (Ri Yu Yao).
Le Can curled his fingers to hook the hand interlaced with his own and shook it, nodding with a very good mood. Xi Yun’s choice was exactly as he had predicted.
The “707” that had disappeared for a while appeared once again in the auctioneer’s sight.
This time, Jian Yu didn’t follow the bidding early on. Instead, when the bidding entered the white-hot stage and fewer people were adding to the price, he joined in, as expected.
Le Can gave the paddle raised in the air a faint look. This time, he didn’t choose to give up. Instead, he followed closely behind Jian Yu, doubling the bid.
Jian Yu was silent for two seconds before raising his paddle again for a normal follow-up bid.
Le Can didn’t spare the other person a glance this time; he simply doubled the bid again. However, this time it wasn’t just double, but triple.
The other scattered bidders between the two of them immediately put down their paddles, giving up on the astronomical watch. Only Jian Yu raised his auction paddle again.
Le Can continued to increment the bids unhurriedly, moving from triple to quadruple, and finally quintuple.
Until the auctioneer, his face flushed red, called out forty-eight million five hundred thousand, Jian Yu finally gave up on raising his paddle again.
It wasn’t that Jian Yu couldn’t afford the money, but in a businessman’s eyes, this was an absolute losing deal.
It was just a watch.
It wasn’t worth this price.
Forty-eight million five hundred thousand was enough to make the not-so-well-off Le Can feel the sting, but it wouldn’t hurt Xi Yun’s foundation. Stopping here was enough.
As for Le Can’s true feelings?
On the surface, he was as steady as a rock, but in reality, the hand placed under the table had been trembling with “financial pain” for quite a while.
Forty-eight million five hundred thousand accounted for more than half of Le Can’s current net worth. He indeed felt the pain Jian Yu expected, but he never felt even a shred of regret.
Shortly after, when a staff member came forward to confirm the information, he smiled and rejected the black card Xi Yun handed over, pulling out his own bank card to make the payment.
Mhm, his hand was steady this time.
Taking the voucher, he didn’t even look at it much, directly stuffing it into the pocket of Xi Yun’s suit.
[I said it’s a gift for you.]
The gift for Xi Yun was successfully obtained and delivered. Although the amount was a bit beyond expectation, the forty-eight million five hundred thousand would ultimately flow into the hands of those in need.
From any angle, in Le Can’s view, spending this money would only ever be worth it.
However, after buying this watch, Le Can’s original thought of bidding on some jewelry was temporarily shelved.
[Clutching his nearly empty little treasury.JPG]
“Forget it, forget it” (Suan niao suan niao).
He’d bid on at most one more item and then stop.
Thinking this, Le Can nudged up to Xi Yun’s side and whispered: “By the way, you haven’t said what you want to bid on.”
The main purpose of a charity auction wasn’t like a regular auction to find something to collect, but rather centered on charity, raising funds for public welfare from the general public.
At this time, the buyer’s requirements for the lots were usually different from usual. Most either lowered their standards or simply had no requirements.
Le Can asked Xi Yun this mainly because he didn’t know how low his standards could go.
[Just buy something randomly, or does President Xi have a specifically designated category?]
Xi Yun reached out to spread the auction catalog in front of the youth, turning precisely to a certain page.
In the silver-grey double pupils, the youth’s figure was quietly reflected. “This entire page.”
His bone-defined finger pressed firmly on a certain spot in the catalog, as if he had known what was on this page for a long time.
Then, the black card that had been rejected once was pushed gently in front of Le Can.
“Also the three pages after this page. I’ll have to trouble Yao Yao.”
“There are quite a few things inside, so there’s no need to work as hard as you did for the watch. Remember to only raise the paddle at the very end.”
Xi Yun gave Le Can the confidence of a “no upper limit” bid, yet worried there were too many items, as raising the paddle too much was tiring. So, he should just raise it at the very end to take the item in the easiest way possible.
If he was worried about him working hard, then why did he ask for one page plus three more?
Because on those four pages, the items printed were all the jewelry from the static exhibition area that Le Can had passed many times and scrutinized closely.
Of course, among the numerous pieces of jewelry, not every single one appealed to him.
Aside from a few stunning designs and the creative ideas from different gemstone pairings, most of his pauses were just for the purpose of observation and learning, not because he liked them.
Le Can turned his face to look at the man beside him, a shallow confusion rising in his peach-blossom eyes. “Really… all of them?”
He thought Xi Yun had “heard” him.
All his thoughts.
[Four pages, is it really necessary?]
Others might misunderstand, but Xi Yun, who occasionally touched the back of Le Can’s hand and understood all his inner thoughts, couldn’t possibly be unaware of the various creative ideas that popped into his head from time to time.
Xi Yun lowered his head halfway, sincerely admitting his mistake to the youth beside him:
“I know, but I didn’t remember.”
[How could…]
He reflexively denied it in his heart.
But soon, Le Can suddenly thought of something.
Xi Yun’s memory wasn’t bad; in fact, it was very good. The only reason he wouldn’t remember was that he hadn’t focused on memorizing them.
At that time, perhaps, possibly, probably, his heart and eyes were full… of only him…
The confusion in his heart no longer needed to continue. Le Can was silent for two seconds, then gave a light cough, reaching out to cover the black card under his hand.
“Then there’s no need to buy them all.”
In a household, whoever controls the financial power holds the right to speak. Xi Yun nodded submissively. “I don’t know much about jewelry. Will Yao Yao help me choose?”
The man in front of him was probably talking serious nonsense right now.
Young Master Xi, who was pampered by his mother when she was alive. Eldest Young Master Xi, who grew up under Old Master Xi’s influence after his mother passed away. He was, essentially, the alternate-world version of “It’s different from the things at home.”*
[You’re telling me you don’t know jewelry?!]
Le Can nearly choked on his own saliva. He grabbed the fresh water Xi Yun timely handed him and, with red ears, whispered a low scolding: “I get it, I get it. Shut up.”
If others heard this, what would they think of them? Le Can couldn’t even imagine the scene.
Xie Jun, who had overheard out of curiosity: “.”
She was just one person too many in this curiosity!
Because of this small interlude, when it came to the page of jewelry in the auction catalog, despite it being a legitimate auction, Le Can felt a heavy sense of guilt as if he were being a thief while raising the paddle.
Fortunately, this “thief-like” feeling was only known to Le Can and Xi Yun.
In the eyes of outsiders, the “707” paddle repeatedly took numerous items with higher prices at the last moment. Immediately, gazes from all directions flooded toward where the two were sitting.
Who were they?
Everyone couldn’t help but have the same thought.
Watching all the changes, the pair of phoenix eyes behind Jian Yu’s silver-rimmed glasses couldn’t help but darken.
The focus of everyone’s attention, the lucky one favored by fate, the center around which the whole world revolved…
Why was it Xi Yun?
Why was it always Xi Yun?!
It wasn’t that Jian Yu hadn’t stepped in to stop Le Can, but it seemed that from the moment he gave up bidding on that watch, he had lost the best opportunity.
Just as after the other party returned alive from his plan, everything—even if Jian Yu intervened—still progressed toward the worst direction at an unrecoverable speed.
[No, I must do something.]
The sense of urgency and frustration screaming in his brain made Jian Yu’s mental state increasingly unstable. The veins on his forehead bulged, and bloodshot streaks gradually filled his eyes…
Jian Yu once again cast a dangerous gaze on the biggest variable.
And in a corner ignored by Jian Yu, there was also a pair of eyes fixed on him…
T/N: “It’s different from the things at home” is a reference to Puyi, the last emperor of China, who could tell an antique was fake simply because it didn’t look like the genuine ones he grew up with. “Suan niao suan niao” (蒜鳥蒜鳥) is internet slang for “Forget it” (算了算了).
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