The Mighty Mage
Chapter 173: 30% Commission

Chapter 173: Chapter 173: 30% Commission

Gu Jin looked at the two brothers, her eyes sparkling with mischief.

"Gentlemen, gentlemen," Gu Jin interjected with a smirk. "Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. I haven’t even agreed to sell yet."

Both brothers paused, their competitive fire momentarily extinguished by her words.

"What’s the catch?" Long Yeiling asked, suspicion lacing his voice.

Gu Jin leaned closer to the screen, her red eyes gleaming with amusement,

"That is pretty simple. Whoever gives the highest bid wins!"

Long Yeiling nodded. It was simple for him.

As long as he could buy those Zerg Bllacky for under 5 billion yuan, not only he could make a profit he could also make Long Yifan envious!

Who knows maybe Long Yifan would even cry due to the anger!

Long Yifan seemed to suddenly understand something and stared at Gu Jin deeply.

Gu Jin winked at him.

Since Long Yeiling was staring at Long Yifan’s furious face, he missed the small interaction between them!

Lon Yifan was confused.

Did Gu Jin just now wink at him? Why?

But why?

Gu Jin suddenly asked,

"Mr. Long Yifan I am sorry, I can’t sell the precious Zerg Blacky stones that ’you’ want since you don’t have enough money to buy them.

You can’t blame Mr. Long Yifan, I am just a middle-man, I only get 30% profit from the money I am making. The higher price I sell it for the more I will earn."

Long Yifan’s eyes brightened.

Suddenly he understood what Gu Jin meant.

Gu Jin was asking to be a middleman and keep on raising the price. If he did so, she would give me 30% of the profit.

What a smart girl!

Long Yifan couldn’t help but become amused.

But at the same time, he was filled with pride.

"I will give you 3.5 billion!" Long Yifan shouted.

His tone was filled with desperation as if he truly wanted to buy the stone.

Long Yeiling was delighted to see Long Yifan anxious and announced,

"4 billion!"

Gu Jin sighed like an old man and praised him,

"Mr. Long Yeiling, you are indeed a nobleman! You are not like some beggars who pretend to be rich!"

Long Yifan’s face darkened at the subtle jab, but he quickly recovered, playing along with Gu Jin’s game. He understood that the more they bid, the more profit Gu Jin would earn.

"4.5 billion!" Long Yifan shouted, feigning even greater desperation.

Long Yeiling’s eyes gleamed with excitement. He could sense victory within his grasp, especially with his brother acting so erratically.

"5 billion!" Long Yeiling countered confidently, throwing a smug glance at his brother.

Gu Jin smiled, enjoying the tension between the two brothers. She knew this was the moment to push them further.

"Mr. Long Yeiling," Gu Jin said in a sugary tone,

"I must say, you are indeed very generous. However, I think Mr. Long Yifan might still have something up his sleeve."

Long Yifan, catching onto the cue, forced a look of bitter frustration.

"I... I don’t have more than 5 billion at the moment," he stammered, sounding defeated.

Long Yeiling grinned triumphantly. "Looks like I win, then. 5 billion it is!"

Gu Jin clapped her hands together, her eyes sparkling with mock enthusiasm.

"Congratulations, Mr. Long Yeiling! You’ve secured the Zerg Blacky stones. I’ll arrange for the transfer details."

Long Yifan put on his best-defeated look, but inside he was filled with anticipation.

Gu Jin had managed to drive the price up significantly, ensuring that their cut would be substantial.

Long Yifan accepted that he was thrilled at the idea of his big brother getting scammed.

Last time Gu Jin sold him two Zerg Blacky stones for 1.7 billion while Gu Jin was selling those Zerg Blacky stones to Long Yeiling for 5 billion.

But...

Long Yifan stared at the Zerg Blacky with pity in his eyes.

They were too precious.

Even if Long Yeiling had suffered, he did get a treasure, after all...

After completing the transaction, Long Yeiling told her the shipping details and left after seeing Long Yifan’s dark face.

To say Long Yeiling was not satisfied seeing Long Yifan’s dark expression would be a lie.

Once Long Yeiling left, Long Yifan created a barrier around himself and looked at Gu Jin with displeasure in his eyes.

"Why did you sell him those Zerg Blacky stones?"

Gu Jin rolled her eyes and said,

"It is my business whom I want to sell those Zerg Blacky stones, who are you to question? Didn’t I promise to give you commission?"

Men can’t be spoiled.

Especially those who aren’t yours.

When it comes to business Gu Jin could truly be ruthless...

Long Yifan as if reading Gu Jin’s thoughts, became more gloomy and waved her hand,

"I don’t need the compensation, treat it as compensation for my rude questioning just now."

Indeed he crossed his line just now!

Gu Jin realized that Long Yifan was not as cold as before and decided to explain to her.

Since he had apologized in such a generous manner, she accepted it and said,

"Alright. The reason why I asked you to cooperate is because I wanted to steal money from him. Isn’t he the heir of the Long family? So a few billion should not be much for him, right?"

Long Yifan asked curiously,

"You know he is the heir yet you don’t harbor any thoughts about him? After all, in terms of looks he isn’t bad looking."

Gu Jin smiled,

"No. I am not as frivolous as Young Master Long thinks me of."

Her meaning was she wasn’t a person who would love a person one minute and go to another person the next minute.

Long Yifan smirked and Gu Jin felt her breath hitched.

Truly...Long Yifan is the only person after family from her previous life, who could affect her emotions!

Long Yifan asked,

"So tell me what is the catch,"

From their conversation till now he realized that Gu Jin might have a trump card under his sleeves.

Gu Jin pinched herself to control her erratic heartbeat and said seriously,

"I still have 2 more Zerg Blacky stones, do you want it?"

"Truly?" Long Yifan was surprised.

"Yes. And since you have helped me so much I will sell you at a lower price. 200 million for 2 Zerg Blacky stones, each of 20 kg."

"200 million for two Zerg Blacky stones?" Long Yifan repeated, his voice tinged with both surprise and suspicion.

"That seems unusually low, considering their value."

Gu Jin shrugged nonchalantly, her eyes narrowing slightly,

"What? You are doubting me, Mr. Long? How ungrateful."

Suddenly Long Yifan remembered something.

Wasn’t 30% of 5 billion is 1.5 billion? And with the addition of 200 million, Gu Jin indirectly was selling those Zerg Blacky to him for 1.7 billion.

She was truly suffering less loss.

But...after he saw how she had tricked even someone as smart as Long Yeiling, Long Yifan felt grateful and asked,

"Why did you trick me like him?"

It can’t be called a trick since Gu Jin was providing value for money.

And 5 billion was indeed the perfect price for Zerg Blacky Stones.

So it could be said that Gu Jin had suffered a loss the previous time.

But why?

"I just don’t want to, so I didn’t."

In fact, she couldn’t bear to. Even after knowing the true value, she couldn’t bear to charge so much from him.

Especially when she knew his situation.

He was kicked out of the Long family and didn’t have any support.

Using the money left behind by his mother, he was doing charity.

For everyone, he was a rich young master but Gu Jin guessed that he might be struggling just like her.

Even though Long Yifan never told her about his wealth, she could guess his situation just by digging some more information about Long Yifan on the internet.

In her mind, Long Yifan had long since turned into a pitiful puppy.

The reason why she scammed Long Yeiling with so much money was because of the news she read.

It was clear, that to glorify Long Yeiling, someone kept on throwing dirty water on Long Yifan.

If you say that it was just a coincidence, Gu Jin would never believe it.

Long Yifan vaguely understood Gu Jin’s thought process.

Such as she might be taking revenge on his behalf and hence charged so much from Long Yeiling.

However, he didn’t want to overthink and hurriedly sent money to Gu Jin.

Gu Jin was very happy.

She earned 5.2 billion yuan

It was just enough to help her buy resources and open another branch of her alchemy shop as well as hire some more workers.

For the past 1 month, Gu Jin has been thinking of expanding her business.

This idea was implanted in her mind by Song Hancheng.

He told how his childhood friend who lives 20 km from their shop, likes their product but couldn’t buy it due to such a long distance.