This Is Not the Female Demon Lord I Remembered
Chapter 119: You Might Make a Killing, But I Never Lose!

Chapter 119: Chapter 119: You Might Make a Killing, But I Never Lose!

"Ah!!"

The maid’s body tensed up, and her eyes instinctively shut tight, ready to endure the intense pain to come. However, instead of the expected agony, it was the young man who let out a wretched scream.

"Please be more gentle with the ladies!"

After grabbing the man’s wrist, Su Youyi forcefully twisted it, and the man’s screams rose an octave higher.

"Hmph!"

But Su Youyi also knew whose turf this was, so it wasn’t her place to overstep. After giving the young man a slight lesson, she let go of his hand and pulled the maid back to hide behind her senior brother.

Yu Wei waited for Su Youyi to return before rushing over with a "startled" expression to the young man who was now sitting on the ground in pain, as if caring, helping him up.

"Young Master, are you alright?"

"Get lost, who are you! Do I look like I’m alright?" The young man who was pulled up by Yu Wei pushed his hand away and rubbed his wrist with a frown, not forgetting to ask back nastily.

"I am the manager here. The floor here is a bit slippery and somewhat cold, so you’d better be careful, Young Master."

Despite the young master’s gesture, Yu Wei continued to smile and express his concern.

"Hey, this is..." The young master started to say that he was pushed by that aggressive girl but was immediately interrupted by Yu Wei.

"May I know... What is the Young Master’s name, and what trouble have you encountered? Our Divine Wind Commerce will certainly do our best to solve it for our customers."

"After all, our Divine Wind Commerce’s motto is: everything for the customer."

"I am Wu Yong of Qingyun Sect. Our sect has worked with your Divine Wind Commerce a few times, and I didn’t expect you to be so greedy."

"Where does this accusation come from? Our Divine Wind Commerce’s reputation for fairness is well-known to everyone." Yu Wei continued to ask without getting irritated.

"Hmph, this jade bracelet is made from a specialty of the Qingyun Sect’s Secret Realm. What price did your Divine Wind Commerce pay for it originally? Dare to sell it now for eighty thousand spiritual coins!?"

Wu Yong stared at Yu Wei, his left hand pointing towards a jade bracelet displayed behind the counter.

Liang Yi and the surrounding onlookers were also curious and glanced over; indeed, it was an exquisitely made bracelet.

[Lapis Lazuli Bracelet]: Sixth Grade purple Equipment. Carved from lapis lazuli, it comes with two Array attributes that can accelerate the absorption of Spiritual Power.

From Liang Yi’s perspective, the Equipment’s attribute effects were average, but the craftsmanship was extremely refined and aesthetically pleasing. As for practical value, it might be worth two or three thousand spiritual coins, but it was harder to say for jewelry-type Equipment.

Utility was secondary; appearance took center stage.

In his previous life, there were many instances where Equipment with poor attributes was auctioned for high prices because it looked like gold-grade equipment; it was the same for players and the natives.

"Young Master Wu, before we talk about how much we bought it for, do you know who designed this piece of jewelry?"

"No matter who designed it, you are just overcharging customers in the store!" Wu Yong shouted, pointing directly at Yu Wei’s nose.

"This piece of jewelry is designed by Mister Gao Yang, a top jewelry master of the Immortal Dynasty."

"Wow!"

The surrounding customers who understood the significance of the name collectively gasped in amazement.

Liang Yi was also surprised; that owner of Fusheng House? The All Living Beings Willow Stone Necklace his junior sister currently wore was made by that master too.

"I don’t need to elaborate on Master Gao Yang’s skill level, do I? Do you know how many spiritual coins our Divine Wind Commerce spent to get Master Gao Yang to design this bracelet?" Yu Wei shifted from his earlier gentleness to a more aggressive stance.

"How... how much?" Wu Yong, faced with Yu Wei’s change in attitude, asked somewhat stammeringly.

Yu Wei slowly raised a finger!

"Ten... ten thousand?"

"Poverty has limited your imagination, young master Wu. We have put out one million spiritual coins!" Yu Wei spoke slowly, his gaze piercing towards Wu Yong like a sharp sword: "Now do you still think that our bracelet is overpriced?"

Wu Yong was somewhat dumbfounded. One million spiritual coins? That was almost enough to buy half of the Qingyun Sect, right?

Liang Yi stroked his chin. Tsk, if Yu Wei wasn’t bluffing that idiot, then Gao Yang must have recognized him. Otherwise, there’s no way he would make a necklace for himself at such a low price.

"What a hassle, I owe someone a favor again." Liang Yi scratched his head and looked towards his innocent-looking junior sister. He casually pinched the junior sister’s cute face, provoking a flurry of playful punches from her.

Yu Wei ignored Wu Yong and walked towards the bracelet, covering the price tag with one hand.

When Yu Wei’s hand left the price tag, the price was no longer eighty thousand. Instead, an extra zero had been added—it was eight hundred thousand!

"Young master Wu, you have to understand, if you think an item is expensive, that’s not the product’s issue." Yu Wei’s large frame stood in front of Wu Yong, bringing an extremely heavy sense of oppression, a stark contrast to when they first met.

"This is, your problem, understand?"

Yu Wei gently tapped Wu Yong’s shoulder with his finger, but who would have thought that the man had been so overwhelmed by Yu Wei’s demeanor that his legs softened, and he sat down on the ground.

"Oh my, young master Wu, I already told you to be careful since the floor here is slippery. Look, you’ve fallen again." Yu Wei’s expression softened, returning to that of a friendly businessman.

In the end, young master Wu was still carried away by the guards and placed on the Divine Wind Commerce’s blacklist.

"Senior brother, is it that expensive to request the services of master Gao Yang?"

Su Youyi quietly asked her senior brother. One million spiritual coins—she had never seen so much money in her life.

"This... I really have no idea."

In his previous life, Liang Yi only asked Gao Yang to process a minor trinket; although he knew of Gao Yang’s reputation as a jewelry master, he really wasn’t sure about his pricing standards.

"Of course it’s not that expensive." Yu Wei, who had settled the subsequent matters, came over and said.

"In fact, the real cost was only about a hundred thousand; one million was just to trick that troublemaker."

"We didn’t spend much on acquiring the lapis lazuli, but the labor, material, and financial costs in between were not trivial. Pricing it at eighty thousand spiritual coins wouldn’t yield much profit."

"If we didn’t take the Qingyun Sect’s stone, the lapis lazuli would just be another type of stone material. They have no channels, no technology; keeping it themselves is utterly useless."

Yu Wei shook his head and sighed. He had seen this kind of situation more than once in his travels.

He could buy four or five random books for one spiritual coin, and after some artistic enhancement, sell them for ten spiritual coins each. Then the bookstore owner would be discontent, insisting on splitting the earnings.

Sigh, they never consider what exactly bestows an item with a value far beyond its own.

"So your jade bracelet is priced at eight hundred thousand?" Liang Yi pointed at the bracelet, noticing that Yu Wei did not seem to intend to change the price back.

"It’s fine. I priced it at eight hundred thousand, so it’s worth eight hundred thousand."

"Just now, there were a few onlookers of some renown in Qingliang City’s circle of ladies. They will certainly spread the story of today. Those ladies love to compete; if they hear about this, surely someone will buy this jade bracelet at the center of the incident to flaunt it to their friends later, basking in everyone’s envious gazes."

Yu Wei looked assured, such is the way of a businessman. You might make a killing, but I never lose!