
What Gerald always wanted to do was live an ordinary life.
After all, now that he was in Lugaw City, he had to start looking for people with strong yin physiques. All he knew, he needed to roam around the places where many people gathered. In other words, busy locations such as train stations and crowded commercial roads.
With that in mind, he knew that now was a good time to start the search.
From what he saw, Lugaw Town was a bustling place, and as he walked around, he saw several stalls selling small pendants once owned by the ancestors of the sellers. Some of them seem to be selling what radio looks like from the 1970s as well.
While looking around, Gerald saw several people—somewhat excited— gathered around one of the stalls. Afterwards, he heard a voice say, “Master, please! I need money right away to treat my sick son! Know that this jade has been passed down by some of my ancestors! Even though my mother passed it down to me, I really have no choice but to sell it! I only sold it for eight grand! Eight thousand, I said!”
Despite the large crowd, Gerald has sharp and precise hearing, allowing him to listen to sounds accurately. Feeling that something was wrong, he quickly slipped into the crowd to see what had happened to himself.
“Fuck? You're saying that this piece of jade is worth eight thousand dollars? I want you to know that I have seen many jade pendants before in my life, so I can easily say that this is just a fake! How dare you try to trick me! From the quality of this item, eight dollars is already a big advantage for you! Now that you've made me angry, however, I'm not only not going to give you a penny, but I'm also going to beat you up!” said the rich young man while directly kicking the seller.
The seller himself was a middle-aged man, and beside him, stood his young daughter.
Not wanting the rich young man to take his jade, the man immediately knelt down, clearly begging for mercy.
From what he observed, Gerald managed to get the gist of the situation. In short, the man desperately needed money to treat his terminally ill daughter. As a result, he sold the jade pendant that his ancestors had passed on to him at a relatively low price just to earn enough money to take care of his son. While a rich young man liked the pendant, he did not want to cough up the money that the middle-aged man valued. As if that was not enough, the rich young man even threatened him so that he could take the pendant by force! With all that going on, the old man really had no other choice but to kneel down and beg for mercy while holding onto the rich young man's pants.
“Hey now, didn't you hear what my husband just said? He's an expert at grading jade, you know? Since he has already made sure that you are trying to sell counterfeit goods at such a high price, you should be happy that we released you by not calling the police! Now let go of him!” shouted a woman with thick makeup—who had been standing beside her husband all this time— as she began to attack the middle-aged man's face with a sharp corner of her LV handbag.
“I tell you that the jade pendant is at least fifteen thousand dollars! I only sold it at this low price because I had no other choice! If you don't want to buy it at that price, then please give it back to me! I will not sell it again!” the man shouted as he continued to beg.
"Oh? You don't sell it anymore, you say? Remember that you have taken my fifty dollars before and the jade pendant is now in my hands! That means our transaction is done! If you want to buy it from me again, then first you have to pay me thirty thousand dollars!” said the young man's girlfriend in a cold tone while holding a jade pendant.
“Just pay my husband that amount and this broken jade pendant becomes yours again! While waiting for payment, here, catch!” added the woman as she directly threw the pendant in the opposite direction.
As soon as the pendant fell to the ground, it instantly shattered into pieces!
"I ... My jade pendant ...!" yelled the man—who had already bled out from the corner of his right eye from being hit by the lady's handbag earlierTaken to his knees in shock, looking like his entire world had just been smashed together with his pendant!
"Ha ha ha! Looks like you can't catch the pendant in time! It's up to you so you better not blame me! ” screams the woman happily while clapping.
“You... You broke my jade pendant…! My compensation! ” shouted the middle-aged man as he immediately began rushing towards the vile woman.
However, before he could go far, the few bodyguards of the rich young man grabbed the man by the neck, holding him in his place.
After which, the rich man stuffed his hand into his pocket as he slowly walked towards the middle-aged man…
Slapping the middle-aged man's face gently, he then said, “As long as it makes him happy today, my girlfriend can do anything she wants. If you dare to ruin her mood, then believe it or not, with just one phone call, I will make sure that your daughter will never be able to be admitted to any hospital! I hope you can imagine how helpless the two of you were then without purpose! ”
Upon hearing the young man's cold warning, the middle-aged man instantly stopped thrashing. Knowing he was completely helpless against the young man, he could only pull his own hair in frustration as he replied, “....I was wrong.. My jade pendant is fake, so I deserve to die!”
"Dad!" his daughter shouted at that moment as she rushed to his father's side to comfort him.
Seeing that, the woman locked her hands happily with the young man's hands before flirtatiously saying, “This is no fun anymore, Honey! Now let's go!”
However, just as he was about to leave, he suddenly realized that someone was grabbing his hair... Even before he had the chance to react, he found himself being pulled backwards!
Naturally, he immediately started shouting ...