Lu Xunji neither agreed nor disagreed. Xie Ji soon set up his stall, putting the whitening pills and Hair-Growth Pills he had drawn from the system shop into exquisite little bottles.
Their looks were simply too eye-catching. Even though the vast square was packed with stalls, Xie Ji's stall drew a large crowd of onlookers almost as soon as he set it up.
"What's this? Hair-Growth Pills?"
"They're fake, right?"
"No idea if the stuff is fake, but these two young men sure are handsome."
Soon, a middle-aged woman stepped forward. She didn't buy anything, but went straight up and took Xie Ji's hand. "Young man, I just got my pension for the month. Not much, just fifty thousand. At my age, it's not easy to meet someone I like. As long as you're willing to be with me, I'll give you ten thousand a month and buy you a BMW."
Seeing Xie Ji's eyes light up in an instant, Lu Xunji caught his wrist, somewhat speechless, and turned to the woman. "Thank you, ma'am, but he likes men."
The woman's face fell, but her cheeks flushed when she saw Lu Xunji. She looked at him expectantly and asked, "What about you, then? If it's you, I'll add another ten thousand to your allowance."
Xie Ji: "!!!"
Lu Xunji smiled faintly. "I'm the man he likes."
The woman: "..."
She shook her head. Seeing that Xie Ji remained expressionless and didn't object, she accepted Lu Xunji's claim, looking deeply regretful.
"Are these pills of yours real, then?" another middle-aged woman beside them asked. "I've got a mark on my face. Can this stuff get rid of it?"
At that moment, only one sentence circled through Xie Ji's mind: Why the hell is he worth more than me!?
Seeing that he was still in a daze, Lu Xunji frowned and poked the soft flesh at his waist, leaning over to whisper in his ear, "She's asking you a question. Can this stuff remove marks?"
"Ah." Xie Ji flinched back at the sensitive touch, landing right in Lu Xunji's arms. Only then did he register the question and hurriedly nod. "Yes, but these pills have a time limit. Each one lasts six hours."
"How much is it?"
Xie Ji considered it, then held up five fingers. "Five thousand star coins each."
For something this dimension-defying, practically a cheat, charging a little more was reasonable, right!
He was risking getting his legs broken by urban enforcement to sell these pills!
The middle-aged woman raised her eyebrows. "Pretty cheap. Give me one, then."
Xie Ji and Lu Xunji exchanged a look.
Shit, that readily? Had he set the price too low?
Xie Ji took out a red agate jar and handed it over. "You can try it right here. It works instantly. Full refund if it doesn't."
The crowd's chatter immediately grew louder.
In the Star Calendar era, with technology advancing at a rapid pace, oral medication had long since been phased out. Even the most expensive whitening injections at high-end beauty salons took three days to show results. These unbranded, unlicensed, uncertified pills that supposedly worked immediately upon swallowing looked even less reliable.
But this pretty young stall owner actually dared to say something like that. Could these pills really be so miraculous?
"What whitening pill works instantly? Isn't this just some dodgy chemical concoction?"
The middle-aged woman clutched the pill bottle, seemingly unable to wait.
A huge red scar stretched from her brow bone down to beneath her eye, making her whole face look rather odd.
As soon as she got the pill, she swallowed it.
Everyone stared nervously at her face. The next moment, that blood-red mark actually began to vanish bit by bit, as if by magic!
Her formerly sallow skin also became smooth and snow-white, and she instantly looked more than twenty years younger.
After an eerie three-second silence, the onlookers erupted.
"Young man, however many whitening pills you have, I'll take them all!"
"What's wrong with you? Think you're so great just because you've got money? I'll pay six thousand each. Save one for me!"
"We're bidding now, are we? We're all getting on in years. Who doesn't have some savings? I'll pay seven thousand. Give them all to me!"
"Eight thousand! I want three beauty pills and two Hair-Growth Pills. I'll get those for my old man!"
"Then I'll pay nine thousand. I only want the Hair-Growth Pills!"
Within just a few minutes, Xie Ji's limited stock of whitening pills and Hair-Growth Pills had sold out. Toward the end, it had practically turned into a small auction, with a single pill fetching as much as twenty thousand.
Just over twenty pills had sold for a full three hundred thousand.
Transfer notifications rang out one after another from the light-brain chip implanted in his arm.
Xie Ji was stunned by this enormous windfall and couldn't quite process it.
Perhaps because he had been blessed with exceptional looks since birth, he had never given appearance much thought, nor could he understand why these older men and women were willing to spend so much money for six hours of satisfaction.
Unfortunately, before he could recover, urban enforcement officers in black uniforms pushed through the crowd. With a stern expression, one of them kicked over the little stall in front of Xie Ji!
Lu Xunji stepped forward, shielding Xie Ji behind him.
"Someone reported you for selling counterfeit and substandard products here. Come with us."
Several nearby stallholders turned their gazes toward Xie Ji, some disgusted, some jealous, and some gloating.
Lu Xunji narrowed his eyes. Xie Ji had asked around before setting up his stall. This area was very run-down, and urban enforcement almost never came here. They had arrived so quickly this time that someone had probably reported him.