"Isn't that the sound of a young lady? Shouldn't we come and take a look?" Jin Yuchen said with a chuckle.
"Young Master Jin, as expected of Young Master Jin, still the same Young Master Jin who spends a fortune for women." The man with the mustache sneered.
"Interesting," Ye Bufan said softly upon seeing this. "A person running a jade gambling shop in a gold trading house actually looks down on the only son of the second wealthiest family in Jinhe."
"Jin Yuchen is notoriously lecherous in Jinhe City. His father originally wanted him to inherit the family business, but he's a hopeless case. Every time, his father has to clean up his mess. In the end, his father stopped caring about him, and he gradually became a joke in Jinhe, with few people willing to associate with him," Zhu Zizhen explained to Ye Bufan.
"What about his mother?" Ye Bufan asked.
"Dead. They say she died from a difficult childbirth when he was born," Zhu Zizhen replied.
"What's so great about that?" Jin Yuchen said. "You're single, you wouldn't understand. For the sake of a smile from a beauty, what's wrong with spending a fortune?" Jin Yuchen then turned to the women beside him, "What do you ladies say?"
"Yes~" The three women beside Jin Yuchen also chimed in cooperatively.
Ye Bufan watched this scene and couldn't help but smile.
The man with the mustache's expression darkened. He looked at Jin Yuchen and said, "What? If it's as Young Master Jin implies, are you planning to pay for this girl?"
"Tell me, how much is it? I'll pay for this beauty," Jin Yuchen grinned and pulled out a black card from his pocket.
"Ten million!" The man with the mustache was not polite and directly quoted a price of ten million.
"This..." At this moment, others in the mustache man's shop exchanged glances.
"Isn't Eighth Master being too unfair? That stone the girl cut is worth at most five million," someone in the crowd muttered.
Jin Yuchen heard this and pointed at the man with the mustache, smiling, "Huzi Ba, you're really unfair."
"What? Is Young Master Jin planning to go back on his word?" Huzi Ba retorted.
"Go back on my word? Are you joking? In my dictionary, Jin Yuchen, there is no word for 'go back on my word'," Jin Yuchen laughed heartily. "Swipe the card, I'll pay."
"Young Master Jin is so generous!" Huzi Ba gave Jin Yuchen a thumbs up.
Just then, Wang Xinyan turned her head and saw Ye Bufan and Zhu Zizhen present. As she was about to greet them, Ye Bufan shook his head at Wang Xinyan, signaling her to observe the situation first.
Wang Xinyan pouted unhappily. She actually had money. The Wang family's strength was comparable to the Liu family's, and with the jade pendant from Ye Bufan, Wang Xinyan wasn't afraid of Huzi Ba causing trouble. But she hadn't expected Jin Yuchen to barge in and give Huzi Ba an opportunity to inflate the price.
Under everyone's watchful eyes, Huzi Ba swiped the card. Jin Yuchen then said to Huzi Ba, "Can you let go of this beauty now?"
"Since Young Master Jin has paid, this young lady is naturally free to leave at any time," Huzi Ba said.
Jin Yuchen walked up to Wang Xinyan and asked, "Beauty, are you free to have dinner with me tonight?"
"Scram!" Wang Xinyan glared at Jin Yuchen.
"Spicy. Fierce. I like it," Jin Yuchen said, reaching out to touch Wang Xinyan's chin. Wang Xinyan slapped his hand away.
"I will repay you the ten million," Wang Xinyan said dejectedly.
"It's just ten million, no need to repay it," Jin Yuchen said.
"Disperse, disperse," Huzi Ba shouted, seeing the growing crowd.
"Beauty, are you going to the auction later? You can come to my private room then. I'll be waiting for you," Jin Yuchen said to Wang Xinyan.
"Scram! I'm not interested." Wang Xinyan rolled her eyes so hard they almost flew out.
Jin Yuchen was still persistent. Wang Xinyan, unable to stand it any longer, walked directly to Ye Bufan's side.
"Beauty, is this your boyfriend? He's not much. He didn't stand up to help you when you were in that situation," Jin Yuchen said, looking at Ye Bufan.
"Hello, my name is Ye Bufan." Ye Bufan smiled faintly and extended his hand for a handshake with Jin Yuchen.
Jin Yuchen looked at Ye Bufan, hesitated for a moment. Their eyes met, and after a two-second gaze, Jin Yuchen's expression changed. He couldn't help but shiver and, pulling the three women along, left without looking back.
Wang Xinyan looked at Ye Bufan in disbelief and asked, "What did you do to him?"
"I didn't do anything," Ye Bufan said, smiling in the direction Jin Yuchen had left. "He was just afraid of being seen through by me."
"Seen through?" Wang Xinyan asked, puzzled.
"Let's go, we'll talk as we walk," Ye Bufan said.
Meanwhile, Jin Yuchen felt cold sweat on his back. The three women looked at him and asked with concern what was wrong. Jin Yuchen found an excuse to send them away.
Jin Yuchen found a deserted spot, took out his phone, and made a call.
"Hello—" a deep male voice came from the other end of the line.
"Master, I just encountered someone," Jin Yuchen said. "We just made eye contact, and I felt as if he could see right through me."
There was a few seconds of silence on the other end before the voice spoke again, "Who is the other party?"
"I don't know," Jin Yuchen said. "Master, could he be someone sent from the capital? If so, wouldn't all my pretense be in vain?"
"It shouldn't be," the voice replied. "There have been no movements from the capital recently. What did that person look like? Who was with him?"
"That person looks about eighteen or nineteen. He was with a girl and an old man," Jin Yuchen said. "That old man looks a bit like the miracle doctor Zhu Zizhen. No, it should be Zhu Zizhen; I've seen photos of Zhu Zizhen."
"It's him?" The voice on the other end guessed Ye Bufan's identity based on Jin Yuchen's description.
"Him?" Jin Yuchen was bewildered.
"Child, you didn't provoke the other party, did you?" the voice on the other end asked.
"No. I even helped the girl with him," Jin Yuchen said.
"That's good," the voice on the other end said with a sigh of relief. "You must have heard about the Yang family incident a few days ago, right?"
"Master, do you mean... that person is the high-level martial artist the Chu family hired?" Jin Yuchen asked. "But Master, I've met high-level martial artists, and they weren't this terrifying. In front of him, I felt as if I were transparent."
Silence fell again on the other end of the phone.
On Jin Street, Wang Xinyan listened to Ye Bufan's analysis and let out a dawning "Oh~".
"So, you mean Jin Yuchen isn't as simple as he appears on the surface, and he's actually a martial artist?" Wang Xinyan could barely believe her ears. A playboy from Jinhe, whose dissolute behavior was just a cover-up? And a martial artist at that?
If anyone else had said this, Wang Xinyan would never have believed it. But since the words came from Ye Bufan, Wang Xinyan had no choice but to accept it.