Chapter 587: Qi’s corner
There was a special gift shop in the capital, it was a small one in size, squeezed between two large luxury jewelry shops in the Xing and Xing mall. Because of it’s small size, many people often passed it absentmindedly, giving it the barest of glances before moving along, on to shinier shops with obvious loud familiar items that they could feast their eyes on. Many people who walked by or simply peeked inside often wondered how a small shop like that managed to survive with the steep price it cost to rent a shop in the mall. Chi Lian was one of the people that knew why, it was because the shop was owned by daughter of the biggest investor in the mall. The shop belonged to none other than her employee Qi Lele, a fresh faced young girl who was not even out of university. She also knew that Qi Lele paid her rent yearly, she did not simply take advantage of her father’s money to occupy a space shamelessly. The other thing people did not know was that the price of one item alone from this shop could more than cover the cost of one year’s rent.
Qi Lele like clockwork always took one overseas trip per year and on those trips, she looked for the rarest perfumes, the discontinued but still sought after luxurious watches, the jewelry which was once worn by nobles and royalty, jewelry boxes, chairs crafted from special wood or rare trees, toys, rare plants or seeds and that sort of thing. All these were authenticated extremely well to the point that she took pictures with the sellers to prove the source of origin.
If one wanted something special, unique and one of a kind in the aristocratic society, this was where they came, to a small shop named Qi’s corner.
Chi Lian was there right now, with her fruit gift basket which was sitting on a glass counter while a female employee smartly dressed in a red and white suit with a tiny silk floral scarf showed her an item. It was a silver box like item, it had a few scratches on it and it looked really old.
"It’s really Edison’s telegraph which was used for sending and receiving coded messages, it’s one of a kind because it was the first in existence, you will not find something like elsewhere madam." the female employee explained to Chi Lian, "Not only did the CEO obtain it from his descendant, she also got the original patent and the authentic certificate."
She needed no such assurances because T4’s scan could authenticate all this for her. She was also running out of time as the autopsy would start soon.
"How much?" She asked the employee.
"Three hundred sixty eight million." The employee replied.
Chi Lian did not flinch as she handed her card over and the transaction was completed. It seemed extremely lavish and wasteful to spend money like this, but to her, Muyang had gifted her many things worth more than this, including his black card which she rarely used except to buy him a few shirts here and there.