Chapter 87: Gathering
"Xiang Zhuang's sword dance: worth the price, or just a gimmick?" Su Can read the headline in the business newspaper and thought, It's finally here.
Now, people in Shanghai's financial circles, some in fashion circles who followed Zhan Hua's news value, junior office workers at foreign companies, senior executives who knew him, and his friends from all walks of life-everyone following the matter-felt that those three hours of Zhan Hua's were worth quite a lot. A million yuan! Three hours with Zhan Hua were worth a million? The comparison still left many people feeling rather miserable about themselves.
At the same time, everyone began following the clues to discover just what company, and what sort of mysterious figure, had won the dinner with Zhan Hua.
Su Can began looking through several magazines for photographs from the auction. Without exception, however, aside from individual portraits of Zhan Hua in financial and fashion magazines, none had published photographs of the auction itself.
There were no auction photographs, even though the media had been there. That made it quite clear: given the circumstances at the venue, perhaps at Zhan Hua's instruction, or perhaps through the Zhongshan Charity Association's intervention and various considerations within the industry, no photographs from the event had been released.
Generally speaking, photography and filming were prohibited at auctions. This was an unwritten rule, and Article 21 of the Auction Law also stipulated that, if consignors or buyers requested that their identities remain confidential, the auctioneer was obliged to keep them confidential. The Zhongshan Charity Association had always handled public relations well, and the media admitted with the appropriate credentials were cooperative. Zhan Hua had probably requested that the photographs not be published, perhaps to add a little more mystery, so none of the pictures from this