After entering Auction Hall No. 1 and finding a secluded seat, Xiao Yan noticed a figure he knew very well sitting at the very front of the auction hall.
"Father?"
Xiao Yan raised his brows, his voice full of surprise. "He came to the auction house too?"
Sweeping his gaze around again, Xiao Yan was startled to discover that the Clan Leaders of the Jia Lie Family and the Ao Ba Family, the other two great families on par with the Xiao Family, were also here.
A thought stirred in his mind. His brows lifted slightly as Xiao Yan blinked curiously.
"Perhaps they're here to buy something unusual."
With so many people in the auction hall, Old Yao instinctively lowered his voice.
Before Xiao Yan could say anything else, he saw a beautiful woman in a red dress standing on the spacious, luxurious stage. In a soft, seductive voice that made one's bones go weak, she explained the functions of the item in her hand to everyone present.
Amid the woman's crisp, alluring voice, the price of the item—which was not particularly rare to begin with—rose steadily at a feverish pace.
As Xiao Yan looked at the beautiful woman in the hall, he naturally understood that most of the people here had come for her.
Ya Fei, the chief auctioneer of the Mittel Auction House in Wutan City—a beauty known to nearly everyone in the city. Her mature, seductive charm had made countless men fall at her feet.
"Women... beauties bring trouble."
Watching the atmosphere in the auction hall surge higher and higher like waves under Ya Fei's lead, sending the prices of the auction items soaring again and again, Xiao Yan could not help sighing before shaking his head.
Who would have thought that his old-fashioned tone and solemn