After all, she was just a girl fresh out of high school. She didn’t know much and certainly couldn’t handle tasks requiring technical skills and experience.
What he hadn’t expected was that she wasn’t here to run errands, but had come straight to the Qin Family’s Commercial Firm to work as an appraiser.
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Because a job like an appraiser obviously demands extensive experience and specialized knowledge. And Qin Yao, who just graduated from high school and is only here as a part-time summer intern, is she really capable enough for this role?
Su Yan had his doubts and began to feel that the Qin Family’s Commercial Firm might not be as professional as he had imagined.
"Eh? Su Yan? What a coincidence!"
Seeing Su Yan standing outside the window, Qin Yao’s delicate face revealed a touch of surprise, mingled with a hint of delight. She was clearly excited to have bumped into Su Yan twice in a row. The joy in her heart was irrepressible, practically radiating from her.
"Indeed, quite a coincidence." Su Yan offered a rare, warm smile that looked very healing.
Facing Su Yan’s healing smile, Qin Yao found herself momentarily mesmerized.
That smile is unfairly captivating, almost tempting one to misbehave! she thought. No! I can’t be so frivolous!
Qin Yao lowered her head and patted her cheeks, trying to calm her agitated emotions.
Only then did she raise her head and smile sweetly at Su Yan. "Su Yan, I’m the appraiser responsible for this window. Do you have anything you want to sell?"
Su Yan nodded. "Yes, I have some Spirit Plant fruits and flowers I want to sell."
Qin Yao said, "Then take them out; I’ll help you appraise them."
After speaking, Su Yan took out a school flower of only Rare level from his System Backpack and handed it to Qin Yao.
I have some doubts about Qin Yao’s professionalism, he thought, so I’ll test her with this school flower first to see how competent she is. If I feel she isn’t professional enough, I’ll leave immediately and find another firm to sell my treasures.
"Such a pretty flower..." Seeing Su Yan hand her a flower, Qin Yao, inside the window, felt her cheeks flush slightly.
It feels like Su Yan is giving me a flower...
Her romantic, girlish heart couldn’t help but flutter.
In the office of the head of the Qin Family’s Commercial Firm, a middle-aged man in his forties watched Qin Yao’s behavior on the surveillance monitor, feeling puzzled.
He couldn’t help but murmur to himself. Strange, wasn’t the Third Miss raised in Nanjiang? But from her cheerful chatter, it seems she knows that young man? Could he be a friend from Nanjiang, and they just happened to run into each other at the firm? Hmm, that must be it.
The man rationalized it to himself, feeling that this line of thought made sense.
Then, quite quickly, a wave of emotion washed over him. I never would have guessed, he mused. The Third Miss seems so gentle and docile, yet she’s quite the actress. She deliberately went to the purchasing area to meet that young man but made it look like a chance encounter. How should I put it? She seems more shrewd than the Second Son. Yes, a bit like the Lady.
Speaking of which, so much time has passed since that incident. I wonder if the Lady has forgiven the Master yet. When the Lady left with the Eldest Miss and the Third Miss back then, the Master had such a hard time finding them...
While the man’s eyes were on the computer screen in front of him, his thoughts had long drifted far away. He reminisced about past events in the Qin Family, an indescribable feeling welling up inside him...
「In the purchasing area, at window number 8.」
Qin Yao managed to suppress her wild thoughts a little and gracefully took the flower. She began to appraise it with practiced skill. She touched here, pinched there; her technique looked highly professional, not at all inferior to those appraisers who had been in the field for many years. This was because, under her mother’s tutelage from a young age, she had developed an exceptional understanding of various rare and exotic treasures and how to identify and appraise them.
Time passed. Soon, Qin Yao, from inside the window, completed the appraisal. She looked up slightly at Su Yan in front of her and said, "Judging by the flower’s color, shape, and the intensity of its scent, I can determine this is a Rare level school flower. Su Yan, based on the Qin Family’s Commercial Firm’s transaction records over the past six months, as well as recent market price changes, the purchasing price for your Rare level school flower can go up to 150,000."
As soon as Qin Yao spoke, before Su Yan could react, Sister Zhou in the hall and the man who had been demeaning Su Yan earlier both wore expressions of utter disbelief.
A Rare level school flower?
This young man looks so frail, as if he couldn’t even truss a chicken! Where on earth did he get a Rare level school flower?
One must understand that heavenly and earthly treasures like school flowers are only found on Demonic Plants. And Demonic Plants, unlike Spirit Plants, possess their own consciousness and will actively attack creatures.
So the question arose: how had this strikingly handsome young man managed it? This was what everyone was wondering at this very moment.