"Why bother queuing? Let those poor bastards from Luoyang squeeze in with them. Let's go home and sleep, and we'll just buy it tomorrow!"

"Yes, yes, go back to sleep!!"

Chen Xing and the others then headed straight for the inn. For them, there was no one willing to put in the effort to do something that could be done with money.

On the third day, Chen Xing and the others, having had a good night's sleep, arrived together at the square outside the Nangong Palace and headed straight for the ticket booths at the front.

"Brother Chen, do you think those poor bastards started lining up before dawn?"

"Yeah, I think so. Look at how haggard they look, tsk tsk tsk, so pitiful!!"

"I see they're standing so far back in the line, how are they even going to be able to buy anything?"

Looking at the people queuing to buy tickets, Chen Xing and his companions stood aside with amusement, pointing and commenting.

Soon, ticket sales officially began, and the long queue in front of the ticket booths slowly began to move forward.

About half an hour later, Zhang She, a son of a powerful family who was in the middle of the queue, saw that he was getting closer and closer to the ticket booth and a smile appeared on his face.

"It's almost my turn! It was worth getting up early to queue!"

Soon, after seeing a burly man in front of him buy a ticket and leave, Zhang She hurriedly stepped forward as well.

"Give me three tickets!"

As he spoke, Zhang She took out a gold ingot from his sleeve and slapped it in front of the ticket seller.

"Oh, you're too late, all the tickets for today are sold out!"

The ticket seller merely glanced at Zhang She before starting to tidy up.

"What? How could they have sold out so quickly...?"

Zhang She stared wide-eyed at the ticket seller who had already started packing up her things, looking completely incredulous.

"Why not? There are only 5,000 tickets for the first row. With so many people in front of us each getting three tickets, it's not surprising that they're sold out."

As they were talking, the ticket seller had finished packing up and then turned and left.