Chapter 117 - News Of Home?
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Huli Ruo could see all this, yet she handled it with grace and a smile as she announced, “The starting bid is at 70,000 spirit sto—”

“Two hundred thousand spirit stones.”

A voice, lazy in bearing and apathetic in nature, rang out. Everyone turned to look at a particular private box with incredulity in their eyes.

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Silence, silence was all I heard when I called out my bid. I gotta say, it’s the first time in a long time since I heard silence and I wasn’t paid a visit by the omnipresent rolling bundle of profundity, also known as… tumbleweed.

Then again, because it only ever appears when there’s a recounted silence, its absence could be attributed to the near-silent shuffling sounds that everybody’s making as they stare at my box.

“Stop lying!” Xiao Yanshi refused to believe that anybody could afford to be rich.

“Excuse me?” I asked.

“You expect me to believe you’re that wealthy!? Dream on!” he asked, unable to accept the reality of me walking away with the beast skin.

“That’s your statement?” I didn’t look in his direction as I asked this. My attention was focused solely on that beast skin.

However, since this Xiao Yanshi is bereft of logic and void of the substance measured in IQ points… I decided… I’m going to wreck this man’s whole career.

“You refuse to believe I’m that rich? Why?”

“You don’t know!? Because you cann—”

“I took out 50,000 gold coins when I told you to bite me.”

“Hmph! I know that, howeve—”

“Which you haven’t refused by the way. Not only that, I bought most of the stuff here without batting an eye.”

“W-Well… yes, I saw that, bu—”

“Do you know of me?”

“U-Uhm, no I d—”

“Then why do I need you to believe whether I have that money or not? Who are you to tell me that I cannot have that money?”

“I just thoug—”

“Who is Xiao Yanshi?”

“I a—”

“A rhetorical question, you uncultured cur. Do you not tire of being a scathing disappointment to your parents?”

“…”

“Cannot is a word that denotes an impossibility. When you say I ‘cannot’ have that money, what it does is seal your fate as

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