Next, Liu Jinghong will take Chu Hongluan to a jewelry shop.
"No! I won't wear it! It's too cumbersome!" Chu Hongluan immediately rejected it three times in a row.
Liu Jinghong rested his chin on his hand and thought it over carefully for a moment, then slapped the jade-bone fan into his hand: "That's right, how can these mundane things be worthy of Junior Sister?"
After saying that, he drove the carriage directly to Jubaolou.
Hearing the sound of the car wheels, Chen Si leaned out to look around. When he saw Liu Jinghong in the distance, he immediately smiled and went to greet her.
"Oh! Young Master Liu! Why didn't you tell me you were coming all this way beforehand!"
The carriage stopped in front of Jubaolou. As Chen Si greeted the guests, his eyes kept glancing involuntarily at the carriage curtain, his face practically screaming: "I think I'm about to get my hands on some juicy gossip!"
Liu Jinghong glanced at him with a half-smile, then turned to help Chu Hongluan out of the car.
Chen Si kept giving Liu Jinghong meaningful glances, urging her to hurry up and introduce her to him.
“This is my junior sister. You can call her Miss Chu. From now on, all her expenses will be on my tab.”
"Alright!" Chen Si readily agreed, then smiled and gave Chu Hongluan a slight bow, saying, "Greetings, Miss Chu!"
Afterwards, they warmly welcomed the two into the building.
"This is Boss Chen," Liu Jinghong introduced. "The bottle of dragon marrow I had last time was something I specifically asked Boss Chen to help me find."
Chu Hongluan paused in her tracks.
"specially?"
"Hmm? Is there a problem?" Liu Jinghong tilted her head slightly, looking somewhat puzzled.
Chu Hongluan shook her head, but secretly kept a watchful eye on her.
Liu Jinghong specifically asked someone to search for it...
Dragon marrow, could it be one of the ingredients in that prescription for repairing the spiritual palace?
The book never mentions the specific medicinal ingredients in the prescription, only that the ingredients are hard to find. Liu Jinghong searched for them in vain and developed a mental demon. When she saw the male protagonist shining brightly at the Nine Pavilion Summit, she became jealous and resentful, and thus opposed the male protagonist at every turn, repeatedly ruining his chances.
But if dragon marrow is indeed one of the key ingredients in the elixir recipe, then everything in the story would be completely different...
Thus, the story would become: Liu Jinghong went to great lengths to finally obtain one of the main ingredients in the pill formula, Dragon Marrow, only to have it stolen from her, nearly losing her life and thus missing the Nine Pavilions Summit. However, from the viewing platform at the Nine Pavilions Summit, she could only watch helplessly as the male protagonist, Mo Yu, consumed the Dragon Marrow.
Every ingredient in the prescription is a rare and precious treasure, a rare find that is hard to come by. What Mo Yu consumed wasn't dragon marrow anymore; it was Liu Jinghong's hope for repairing his spiritual palace…
Therefore, Liu Jinghong disliked Mo Yu and opposed him at every turn.
Those so-called stolen opportunities could very well be the rare and precious herbs recorded in the pill formula, which are the medicinal materials that Liu Jinghong needs to repair his spiritual mansion.
A small information gap can lead to vastly different causal relationships.
Just as Chu Hongluan was feeling conflicted, Chen Si had already led the two of them to the third floor.
It turns out that apart from the first and second floors being used as an auction house, the upper three floors of Jubaolou were all legitimate treasure shops, displaying elixirs and magical artifacts made by various powerful figures, as well as rare and precious treasures that Jubaolou had painstakingly collected.
The dazzling array of goods was overwhelming, and Chu Hongluan felt like Grandma Liu visiting the Grand View Garden.
Liu Jinghong leaned against the wall with her arms crossed, carefully observing Chu Hongluan's expression. Anything that Chu Hongluan stared at for more than three seconds was ordered to be packed up by Chen Si, including hairpins, bracelets, earrings, necklaces, and other jewelry-style magical artifacts, regardless of their purpose.
As Chen Si worked rapidly on his abacus, he smiled at Chu Hongluan and said, "I never thought that in my lifetime I would see Young Master Liu's iron tree blossom... Not bad, not bad at all!"
Chu Hongluan: Damn it, rich people really deserve to die!
A flurry of footsteps approached from the stairs.
"I was wondering why I didn't see Boss Chen in the lobby. I didn't expect him to be slacking off here."
It was a delicate female voice. Liu Jinghong didn't even need to turn his head to know that it was the female cultivator from the Jade Maiden Sect who had appeared at the auction that day.
"Oh, Miss Ji, what are you saying? I'm just entertaining distinguished guests."
"You!" Ji Ruyan said angrily, "I want to see what kind of distinguished guest has more airs than me?!"
She led five or six maids in through that door, not immediately noticing Liu Jinghong leaning against the wall behind her, and thus her attention was immediately drawn to Chu Hongluan.
Chu Hongluan couldn't quite understand the girl's sudden hostility, and simply raised an eyebrow: "What is it?"
Ji Ruyan snorted coldly and looked Chu Hongluan up and down with a critical eye. When she noticed Chu Hongluan's bare feet, her mockery intensified.
"Such vulgar behavior from the Hehuan Sect. I thought she was some noble lady from a prestigious family, worthy of being personally entertained by Boss Chen. Boss Chen's judgment of people isn't always accurate; don't mistake a fish eye for a pearl..."
"Whether it's a fish eye or a pearl, does someone like you even have the right to judge?"
Before Chu Hongluan could speak, Liu Jinghong had already stepped forward, gently waving his jade fan, his handsome face filled with impatience.
He scrutinized Ji Ruyan from head to toe with the same critical gaze, then sneered, "I thought the female cultivators of the Jade Maiden Sect were so pure and virtuous, always putting on an air of superiority. But after seeing them today, I realize they're nothing special."
"You!!!" Ji Ruyan's face flushed red with anger, but she didn't immediately retort.
She clearly recognized Liu Jinghong as well.
At the last auction at Liu Jinghong's Jubao Tower, Liu Jinghong outbid everyone to win the Dragon Marrow with a sky-high price of two hundred Heavenly Spirit Jade. Naturally, she had inquired about his identity.
Chu Hongluan looked at Liu Jinghong with some surprise. She hadn't expected that Liu Jinghong would be so sarcastic when talking to others.
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