Chapter 204 A Cunning Person Arrives
Ye Wanxi and Feng Tianyu went up to the second floor under the guidance of the host. At first, it was fine. They walked through a spacious and bright corridor and occasionally saw a few staff members dressed in the same clothes.
However, after going up to the second floor, Ye Wanxi and her companion found that the place the host was leading them to was getting more and more remote.
Especially when they saw that many other customers who had also won the bid were still downstairs, while they were the only ones upstairs, the two of them couldn't help but become wary.
"May I ask where you intend to take us?"
The young host paused, then smiled slightly and said, "Naturally, we'll escort you two to collect the two treasures you just won at the auction."
"If we're going to get our treasure, why are we getting further and further off course? And I see other customers picking up their things downstairs, why are we upstairs?"
"Since both items you won are from our boss's private collection, their placement is naturally different from that of other people."
Feng Tianyu's eyes narrowed slightly: "You're going to take us to see your boss?"
"yes."
Feng Tianyu sensed something was wrong, but before he could say anything, Ye Wanxi asked first, "Where is he now?"
“We’re already here.”
The young male host took two steps forward and stopped at the door of a conference room with double-leaf doors.
He pushed open one of the doors forcefully and gestured to the two of them, "Please, both of you."
Feng Tianyu tightened his grip on Ye Wanxi's hand and asked in a low voice, "Shall we go?"
"Go!" Why shouldn't she take the photos she finally managed to get?
The private rooms arranged for guests by the auction house were already incredibly luxurious, not to mention the conference room used by the host himself.
When Ye Wanxi entered, she looked around and felt that the room was at least half the size of a house.
The key point is that there isn't much stuff inside; it looks... very empty.
The door behind them closed again, and the man sitting at the desk with his back to them finally turned around, revealing his somewhat exotic face.
His overall face shape is quite similar to Feng Tianyu and others, but his features are noticeably more defined than those of the locals, his eye color is relatively lighter, and his skin is even whiter than some female celebrities.
Beneath his slightly upturned phoenix eyes was a small beauty mark. Whenever his eyebrows curved slightly, everyone's eyes would unconsciously focus on it, and then be drawn into his excessively deep eyes, unable to look away.
Ye Wanxi was stunned when she saw the man's face. Among her senior brothers, the one with the most distinctive features was undoubtedly her third senior brother.
Because her third senior brother had half foreign blood, his appearance and features were different from everyone else in the sect.
Legend has it that he was once a prince of a powerful border country, and his mother was a princess of a small vassal state who married into the royal palace through a political marriage and gave birth to his third senior brother.
Because of this bloodline, the third senior brother was excluded from the list of candidates for the throne early on, and his mother was murdered shortly after giving birth to him.
The third senior brother was sent out of the palace by his mother's former subordinates with all their might. Before he died, he met Ye Wanxi's master and was adopted by him.
In Ye Wanxi's memory, her third senior brother didn't seem to have much affection for that country. Even after the country was destroyed, he never went back to see it.
Compared to Ye Wanxi's surprise, Feng Tianyu felt a familiar sense of crisis the moment he saw the man's face.
Sure enough, the next second the man put down his wine glass and opened his arms to Ye Wanxi: "It's been so long, won't you come and let your third brother give you a hug?"
Ye Wanxi seemed to wake from a dream, and she ripped off her mask. Like a bird breaking free of its cage, she joyfully threw herself into the man's arms: "Third Brother!"
Feng Tianyu: "..." Despite all the precautions, we couldn't prevent it in the end!
Jun Wuduan gently patted Ye Wanxi's shoulder, and then felt a cold gaze fall on her.
As if sensing something, he looked up and, unsurprisingly, met someone's chilling, deathly gaze.
Jun Wuduan smiled slightly, ignoring his threatening gaze, and said softly, "Xiao Xi has grown taller, grown up, and become even more beautiful."
Like a child blushing slightly from being praised by an elder, Ye Wanxi muttered, "What? It's the same as before?"
"Yes, yes, just like before. Xiaoxi used to be a famous beauty in our family, and many of our senior and junior brothers secretly admired you. If it weren't for us older brothers stopping her, she would probably have been kidnapped by some audacious beast long ago."
A certain audacious beast: "..."
"Third Brother!" Ye Wanxi was completely taken aback by Jun Wuduan's words. Her face flushed red, and she glared angrily at Jun Wuduan. "How can you be just like Fifth Brother, spouting nonsense!"
What senior and junior brothers secretly admire her? She lived there for more than ten years and no one ever confessed to her, not even a single suitor. Where did all these admirers come from?
"Shy? Okay, okay, I won't say anymore, I won't say anymore, don't be angry." Jun Wuduan looked helplessly at this little guy who was too well protected by them and was also too oblivious in some ways, as if he were coaxing an unreasonable child.
After saying that, he seemed to have just noticed that there was another person in the room, and asked in surprise, "Who is this...?"
Ye Wanxi was stunned. Her first reaction was that if her third senior brother recognized her, there was no reason why he wouldn't recognize her eldest senior brother.
This moment of hesitation prompted Feng Tianyu to speak first: "My surname is Feng, and I am Yuanyuan's boyfriend."
"Boyfriend?" Jun Wuduan raised an eyebrow. "Xiaoxi, you have a boyfriend?"
"……Um."
Jun Wuduan sighed and said softly, "If Senior Brother finds out about this, he'll probably be heartbroken."
These words caused different reactions from the two people present. Ye Wanxi was puzzled. Her third senior brother knew all along... so why did he say this? What was he really up to?
Feng Tianyu's face suddenly darkened. What second, fifth, and third senior brothers? It turns out he's been guarding against the wrong person all along. This eldest senior brother is the real rival he should be wary of!
Jun Wuduan noticed the changes in their expressions and smiled like a fox: "After all, he liked you so much back then. Everyone, including me, thought you two would end up together."
Ye Wanxi was stunned. It turned out that everyone knew about her senior brother's feelings for her, except for her, who was completely oblivious.
Feng Tianyu misunderstood Ye Wanxi's silence at this moment, and the consequences of his jealousy were quite serious.
Feng Tianyu stepped forward, forcefully separating Ye Wanxi from him: "You've been disappointed. The person with her now is me."
"Is that so?" Jun Wuduan smiled, but his words almost made Feng Tianyu explode on the spot, "Being together now doesn't mean you'll be together in the future. There's a saying, 'Those who are near the water get the moon first.' These days, the idea that childhood sweethearts can't beat those who fall from the sky is no longer popular."
(End of this chapter)
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