With the auctioneer's hammer falling.
In the end, Ouyang Yushan bought the watch Ye Yuan had provided for the high price of fifty million.
And with the watch sold, the auction officially came to a successful conclusion.
Just as some people stood up and prepared to leave.
They discovered that apparently, it was not over yet. Although no more items were brought out.
More than a dozen children walked onto the stage.
They stood in the middle of the stage, and many people saw something different in their young faces.
As the host introduced them, those who had been preparing to leave obediently sat back down in their seats.
As the host began the introductions.
Everyone gained a deeper understanding of the children standing onstage.
Every child who had come onto the stage today had lost relatives in the tsunami.
Some came from remote fishing villages.
Others had previously lived in Blue Island City, leading happy lives like little angels.
But this tsunami had taken the lives of their loved ones.
The host particularly introduced the pretty girl standing in the front row among all the children, wearing twin ponytails and a white princess dress.
The girl's name was Liu Zixuan.
When she was eight years old, her parents had left this world in a car accident.
And at the time, Liu Zixuan had been only eight.
Her only remaining relative, her older brother, had been just twenty years old at the time.
In other words, that brother, who was still attending university, had suddenly needed to shoulder the burden of the entire family.
And the nightmare had not ended there.
When Liu Zixuan was ten, she was diagnosed with leukemia, what people commonly called blood cancer.
For the siblings, whose household had already been supported by an older brother