Xiao Yunmei opened her red lips slightly: "I want a backer."
"You?" Zhou Chen asked, "You mean the Yunmei Auction is not owned by a family, but by you alone."
At first, Zhou Chen thought that the Yunmei Auction was managed by the family behind Xiao Yunmei, but he didn't expect that this was her own business.
If that's the case...
A smile appeared on Zhou Chen's face.
In this day and age, if one practices alone in the city, it is unknown how long it will take to successfully form a pill.
Moreover, if one's cultivation level encounters shackles and needs elixirs to break through, one has to search aimlessly for elixir materials by oneself.
So Zhou Chen thought about establishing an industry in the future to find various natural treasures and cultivation resources for himself.
However, Zhou Chen has no experience in this area, nor does he have the energy or time to be a boss and manage the business.
Zhou Chen had thought about cooperating with those cultivation families, but after witnessing the open and secret struggles of the Cai family, Zhou Chen knew that the internal relationships of these big families were complicated and it was not suitable for them to work for him.
Zhou Chen was very satisfied with the Yunmei Auction.
If the Yunmei Auction belongs to Xiao Yunmei, then cooperate with her personally and help her grow bigger and stronger.
Collect treasures from all over the country and even the world for your own use.
It will definitely be of great benefit to one's own path of cultivation.
Xiao Yunmei sighed in response to Zhou Chen's question.
“I founded the Yunmei Auction House, but I’m a member of the Xiao family.”
Zhou Chen didn't respond, he knew Xiao Yunmei had something else to say.
Xiao Yunmei paused and said, "Although I am a member of the Xiao family, I have not relied on the power of the Xiao family to get to where I am today."
"I'm not afraid of you laughing at me. My mother is the top star of a club, and my father is the current head of the Xiao family, so my existence is a stain on his life."
"If I hadn't shown an extraordinary business acumen since childhood, I would have long since disappeared from the world amidst the family's open and covert struggles."
Zhou Chen remained unmoved by Xiao Yunmei's tragic life story. "And then, don't tell me that now that you've made the Yunmei Auction bigger and stronger, the Xiao family wants to get a piece of the pie."
"Alas, it's even more serious than that. I have a half-sister. Her mother is from another large family. She and my father are related by marriage and she is my father's first wife."
"After graduating, my sister also opened an auction company."
"With the family's resources allocated to her, her auction company quickly rose to prominence, but it still couldn't compete with Yunmei Auction. So the family wanted me to allocate some of my resources to her auction company."
"If I refuse, the Xiao family will no longer protect the Yunmei Auction. However, I am not worried that other family forces will take action against the Yunmei Auction. What is really disgusting is that after breaking off relations with the Xiao family, they are the family that most wants to swallow up the Yunmei Auction!"
Zhou Chen understood.
Big families are really disgusting.
As an illegitimate daughter, Xiao Yunmei has no status in the Xiao family.
The reason why the Xiao family protected the Yunmei Auction in the past was simply to prepare a big gift for the young lady of the Xiao family after she graduated.
Compared with illegitimate daughters, only the legitimate wives who were married through formal marriages belong to the Xiao family.
If Xiao Yunmei was forced to hand over the Yunmei Auction, she would definitely not agree.
So, using this method of boiling a frog in warm water, the profits of Yunmei Auction were slowly transferred to the auction company of Xiao Yunmei's sister.
In this way, all the profits from the auction are firmly in the hands of the Xiao family.
As for Xiao Yunmei, the illegitimate daughter, after all the profits were divided up, she was not far from bankruptcy.
If the Yunmei Auction is lost, Xiao Yunmei's status in the Xiao family will plummet, and she may even become a tool for the Xiao family to form marriages.
This is the ugly face of a big family, it is really disgusting.
In order to avoid a tragic end, Xiao Yunmei found Zhou Chen to discuss cooperation.
Yunmei Auction needs a new umbrella, a completely good umbrella for Yunmei Auction, an umbrella that can stop all those who covet Yunmei Auction in their tracks!
During the years that Xiao Yunmei held auctions, she had come into contact with all kinds of practitioners and many cultivation treasures.
I learned that above the ancient warriors, there were immortal cultivators who had been passed down from ancient times.
They are the few who stand at the top of the world.
However, people like those who became Qi Refining Stage cultivators by accident are of no use to the Yunmei Auction.
Only cultivators like the woman surnamed Luo and Zhou Chen who have already established their foundation can provide protection to the Yunmei Auction House.
"You want to rely on the strong, but what can you provide to the strong?" Zhou Chen drank a sip of tea casually.
Xiao Yunmei replied, "My Yunmei Auction has channels to collect all kinds of treasures across the country, and we even have branches overseas."
Zhou Chen made his request: "I will give you a document that records all kinds of natural treasures that I can use. I need your people to collect them for me across the country and even the world."
Xiao Yunmei nodded: "Anything else?"
This is not difficult for Yunmei Auction. They only need to print out the treasures Zhou Chen needs into an illustrated manual and ask the staff to pay special attention to it when collecting various auction items.
Zhou Chen added, “By the way, find out for me any news related to the immortal cultivators, such as where strange phenomena have occurred in the heavens and earth, or where monsters have appeared.”
Xiao Yunmei nodded: "What substantial benefits do you need, Senior?"
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