"It's all my fault, I couldn't sleep because of the beautiful woman before me," Guo Xuyang said.
"Smooth talker. I can't get up, I need you to feed me."
"Okay. I'll feed you. Be good today, no more like yesterday, you almost broke my old back."
"You still say that. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be able to get out of bed today.
We had the waiter bring the food up at noon.
You didn't even call to ask," Li Minxi complained.
"It's all my fault. I haven't taken care of anyone before, have I? I'll definitely fix it in the future."
"It's not that I'm asking for too much, it's just that I was too bored alone in the room.
And no one to chat with me. I wanted to go out but I was afraid to move, it hurt too much."
"I'll definitely take you tomorrow, okay? Be good, eat your food quickly. It'll get cold soon."
Guo Xuyang coaxed and cajoled Li Minxi into finishing her meal.
In his heart, he secretly complained that women were troublesome.
But this trouble was self-inflicted, so he couldn't just abandon her.
No matter how much of a scumbag he was, he wouldn't do something so irresponsible.
Fortunately, Li Minxi only complained and chatted for the night; there was no strenuous activity.
On the third day, several people arrived at the public exhibition early.
They had seen everything they needed to see.
Guo Xuyang had used these three days to examine every rough stone at the public exhibition.
Whether they were cut open or split in half, he filled out bid sheets for all that showed good potential.
At noon, he accompanied Wu Youzhi and Pi Xiaoqian to re-examine the two chosen rough stones, and also made minor adjustments to the prices on their bid sheets.
For those that showed good potential, he advised them to bid higher.
For those that were average, he told them to stick to their own prices.
For those he truly couldn't stand, he had them tear up the bid sheets directly.
By three in the afternoon, he began submitting his own bid sheets.
Tomorrow was the bidding for rough stones numbered one to one thousand.
For the few he was particularly interested in, he placed them at the end, planning to submit them after five o'clock.
After five o'clock, the bid boxes in front of the well-performing rough stones began to fill up with bids.
Li Ziwen and Wang Wenxin also appeared with Wang Shimin and Li Mingze.
Wang Shimin looked at each bid box one by one, then had Li Ziwen and Wang Wenxin modify their bid prices.
Guo Xuyang stood far away. He extended his senses, focused his gaze, and discovered that Wang Shimin's bids were only ten or twenty Euros higher than the highest price in the boxes.
He promptly modified his bids and increased his offers for about ten desired rough stones by three to five hundred Euros each, rounding to whole numbers.
Tomorrow was the main event, there was no need to lose out on smaller opportunities today.
Then he walked over and submitted all the bid sheets into the bid boxes.
He also had Wu Youzhi and Pi Xiaoqian modify a few bids.
After all, those rough stones had shown excellent potential, and it was a shame to let Wang Shimin and his group take them.
It was exactly five-thirty by the time they finished submitting their bids.
Public exhibition staff, escorted by over a dozen military police, began collecting the bids.
Guo Xuyang saw that one of the officers was the same one who had been chatting happily with Jielina yesterday.
The officer directed the military police to start from box number one, placing all the bags containing bid sheets into the vehicles.
He wanted to watch further, but was driven away by the military police.
"Let's go, no need to watch anymore. We'll know the results tomorrow," Li Minxi said.
"I wonder how many of my bids will be successful?" Pi Xiaoqian asked.
"We'll know tomorrow, won't we? With Yangzi here, how could we be short?" Li Minxi said.
"Don't think about it. It's been a tiring day, let's go back and rest. We'll come back early tomorrow. The results will be out by eight," Wu Youzhi said.
"I wonder how the results are announced?" Li Minxi asked.
"Publicly announced on-site. Simultaneously, the electronic screens will display the rough stone number, the bidder's name, bid number, and the winning bid price," Wu Youzhi replied.
He had done his homework before coming.
"Then let's go back, there's nothing more to see here," Guo Xuyang said.
Just as he was about to turn back, he spotted Jielina sitting in a bar nearby, seemingly waiting for someone.
"Jielina, what are you doing?" He called Jielina's phone.
"Nothing, Yangzi. I'm waiting for someone."
"Okay. Pay attention to the information I give you tomorrow. Tomorrow is quite important."
"Okay, Yangzi. Goodbye."
Guo Xuyang hung up and returned to the hotel with the group.
After dinner, everyone went back to their rooms to rest.
"I heard you on the phone with Ilena just now. What's up?" Li Minxi asked.
"There's a very important rough stone tomorrow, I'm having her secure it to prevent anyone from intercepting it."
"Can't I go? Does it have to be Ilena?"
"Li Ziwen knows you. Of course, you can't. By the way, what's the deal with that Wang Wenxin?"
"Wang Wenxin?"
"Yes. The middle-aged chubby guy who's with Li Ziwen."
"You mean Old Wang? He used to work in a major ministry and was heard to have made a mistake and was dismissed.
Later, he started doing some business with his family. I don't know the specifics.
Why are you asking about him?"
"I see he's very close to Li Ziwen."
"I thought Li Ziyu was pretty good before, but I didn't expect him to be so despicable behind the scenes.
I don't know much about this Li Ziwen, who is his boss.
But I heard his second brother works in a rather powerful organization.
I don't know what he does."
"What about your Sandao Liang Film and Television Group Company?
I was really shocked when I first heard your name at the charity gala.
I almost became an idol I admired."
"What do you mean 'almost'? Many people admire me. Adding you isn't that much."
"Right. What's the situation with your film and television group company?"
"I invested in a few movies when I had nothing else to do, and they sold well.
Later, I started the company. It was just for fun, nothing else."
"Even playing around is so impressive. Is Su Ran from your company?"
"She's one of my partners, playing together. She's my best friend."
"You should be careful with your best friend, she's quite close to Li Ziyu."
"We used to hang out together.
If I hadn't met you, and if Li Ziyu wasn't so terrible, I might have ended up with Li Ziyu.
My family was quite approving of him. Who would have thought he was so dirty behind my back.
He acts like a good boy in front of my family and me. Truly, you know someone's face but not their heart.
By the way, why are you saying this about Su Ran? Did you find something?"
"I feel she's too close to Li Ziyu, so you don't get taken advantage of in the end.
You know, the deepest hurt often comes from those closest to you."
"Okay. I'll be careful. Let's get some rest. I'm going to take a shower. You can come over later."
"Why don't we shower together?"
"Are you trying to get killed? No. I..." Before Li Minxi could finish speaking, Guo Xuyang was already reaching out, and she couldn't speak anymore.