Wanbao Restaurant's ninth floor.
This could be said to be the most important place of the antique convention this time.
At the moment, some preparations were still underway, and no collectors, antique experts, or guests had arrived.
A few private rooms flanked either side, and beyond them laid row upon row of seats.
In front of these seats, there was a huge "stage," almost as if a singing and dancing performance was about to start.
Inside one of those private rooms.
Everything had been prepared well in advance, and a few young people were inside, eating and talking about something.
The leader was a man dressed in a tailcoat who seemed to command the attention of the other men and women around him.
"Boss Xie, you really have a business mind, to come up with the ingenious idea of an auction. It looks like you're going to make a big profit again this time!" A dandy said exaggeratingly at his side, though the astonishment on his face did not seem feigned.
