The price had reached such a point that the scene instantly spiraled out of control, and Sophie turned her head and playfully stuck out her tongue at Li Fei.
Right before lifting the bid sign, Zhao Jie had already regretted it, but inertia drove the last series of events; he couldn't retract the sign or restrain his words. Xu Lang, too, had his eyes wide open and eventually shook his head helplessly.
After some thought, Xu Lang lowered his voice and said, "Wait until you go back, and your father will skin you alive."
It would require mobilizing funds from the family to come up with 700 million. Of course, this amount wasn't much for the whole Zhao Family, but it wasn't worth it to spend that just for a three-hundred-year-old ginseng.
If Zhao Jie denied the bid, the auction house could at most blacklist the Zhao Family and ban them from future auctions—an insignificant loss. But their reputation would take a serious blow.
