3.00 a.m. Far away, in a luxurious villa in the Dragonriver City, a middle-aged man hung up the phone and sighed wistfully.

Even though it was an ungodly hour in the morning, the villa was still brightly lit, and there were even five other elderly persons sitting in front of the middle-aged man, including both men and women.

“Is the information from Guardian Auctions reliable?” The leader of the elders was an old man who was nearing his seventies. He wore his pajamas and held a walking stick. Although he looked old, he carried himself with a dignified disposition.

If reporters were here, they would have rushed right up to the panel of elders.

This was the Furniture King Gao Youliang, also the leader of the Gao Clan. Gao Youliang had uprooted his entire clan and brought them to Dragonriver City when it was first drafted to form part of the special economic zone. The Gao Clan came from a lineage of palace master carpenters, and their handiwork was exquisite. As the Dragonriver City flourished and grew, so did the number of wealthy tycoons living in the area. The nouveau riche began to have higher and greater expectations of their living environment, including the furniture which they used at home, and the Gao Clan naturally rode the wave of demand to create the country’s high-end antique furniture hegemony, Imperial Furniture.

Their custom-made pieces were of such high quality that they were often considered treasures that could be sold at the Sotheby’s auction house. In fact, one of the artifacts auctioned by Sotheby’s in recent times was the clothes...