My Spacetime-Traversing Smartphone
Chapter 716

Auction Item: An You

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An Yang and the other two immediately looked astonished.

This included Ji Weiwei, who had called it boring earlier.

The term might have been unfamiliar to the students, but people in business had definitely heard it countless times.

Charity lunch auctions were generally more common among celebrities.

The most famous was undoubtedly Stock God Buffett's annual charity lunch auction, which often fetched astronomical prices of hundreds of thousands of dollars. China had plenty of similar examples as well. For instance, the afternoon tea with a famous economist****** had sold for 259,000 yuan, while three hours with Giant Network's founder, Shi Yuzhu, had fetched more than two million yuan, with most of the proceeds going to charitable donations.

That was because these big shots' time was valuable enough. What people were really paying for was their knowledge, connections, insight, and so on.

This was clearly entirely different from celebrities charging people to dine with them.

An Yang had once heard that dinner with a handsome, sexy male doctor from Russia had sold for the shocking price of 600,000 yuan. In that case, people were probably paying for his looks. But unlike many celebrities, the biggest difference was that the doctor had donated every penny of the proceeds to charity and taken nothing for himself. It had nothing to do with lust and could even be called noble and kindhearted.

But this lunch auction was different. An Yang had no idea whose lunches were being auctioned, or what people were really paying for.

Could it be the beauty of female students?

Or perhaps the professors' talent?

An Yang smiled.

This activity had not actually been invented by Yizhou University. Many schools in the United States and Europe had held charity lunch auctions before. Usually, handsome male students were auctioned to other female

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