OFR – Chapter 278 Selling ginseng

In the early hours of the morning, Mu Bai drove back to the Xuanwu Zhongshan villa district.

After returning to the comfort of his villa, he found that Li Xiaoqing hadn’t gone to sleep yet. She was sitting in the living room watching TV while waiting for him.

When she saw him come in, a visible look of relief appeared on her pretty face. She happily stood up and said, “Mu Hao, you’re back! Have you had dinner? If not, I can make you something now?”

To be honest, seeing someone still waiting for him at midnight made Mu Bai feel a subtle warmth in his heart.

He smiled gently and said, “I’ve already eaten. In the future, if I’m this late, don’t wait up for me. Staying up too late isn’t good for your health—go to bed.”

“Mm-mm, thank you for your concern, Mu Hao. You’re so kind. Oh, do you need me to do anything else?”

Li Xiaoqing was clearly touched by Mu Bai’s words of concern.

She knew very well that if she hadn’t been lucky enough to meet such a good boss like Mu Hao, she’d never have had the chance to hold such a light and easy job with a monthly salary of 100,000 yuan.

Moreover, aside from giving her a job that paid over a million yuan annually, Mu Hao also brought her experiences she never dreamed she’d have.

Such as riding in the luxurious Bugatti Veyron, or living in this billion-yuan luxury villa.

These were things she once didn’t even dare to imagine.

Yet now, this benefactor in her life had never made any demands on her—instead, he consistently showed care and concern for her as an employee.

She was so moved that she didn’t know what to say.

She felt that even those assistants who secretly climbed into their boss’s bed every day wouldn’t have it as easy and pleasant as her.

So she always wanted to do more for Mu Hao—whatever little she could.

But she realized she could hardly help Mu Hao with anything. It felt like a tiny ant wanting to protect an elephant—willing but powerless.

Just then, as Mu Bai walked from the door to the sofa in the living room, he could sense this thought in Li Xiaoqing’s heart, which made him smile and wave his hand, saying: “Alright, don’t overthink it. Go to bed.”

After saying this, he turned and went back to his bedroom.

Indeed, the reason Mu Bai hired a personal assistant was just to help him ship packages and handle small daily tasks.

What Li Xiaoqing had done so far was already enough—no need to do more.

And frankly, she really couldn’t do anything beyond that anyway.

At this quiet moment of the night, lying in bed in his bedroom, Mu Bai didn’t fall asleep.

He was frowning slightly, thinking about tomorrow’s Ring of Purple Gold banquet, while casually opening the browser on his phone to log back into the Black Skynet.

The Black Skynet was a website that existed outside the jurisdiction of national laws. Honestly, even now, Mu Bai’s understanding of it was still very limited.

From the beginning, the site had indicated it contained three distinct online realms, but to this day, Mu Bai only knew about the Trading World.

In fact, he still didn’t even understand the basic structure of the Black Skynet.

As for what he did know, the Trading World contained all kinds of rare items, advanced technology, top-tier talents, and information resources—far beyond what real-world companies could offer.

This already highlighted the site’s sheer mystery and strength.

Because of this, sellers on the platform were confident in listing rare items, and Mu Bai was one of them.

A few days ago, he set up a black market shop called Qizhen Pavilion, where he listed more than twenty high-grade and super high-grade ginsengs.

After logging into the black market now and closing the welcome screen, Mu Bai went straight to his shop to check customer inquiries.

Ginseng isn’t just a highly reputed traditional Chinese herb—its powerful effects are globally recognized.

From boosting health and immunity, to restoring vitality and treating diseases, its benefits are widely accepted by the global medical community.

Even mass-produced farmed ginseng is expensive on the market, let alone the wild high-grade ginseng Mu Bai was selling, which was on another level.

A few days ago, he had set the price in his store:

• 500 diamonds for a single high-grade wild ginseng
• 1,200 diamonds for a super high-grade wild ginseng

On the black market, 1 diamond = 100,000 RMB.

So Mu Bai’s pricing wasn’t cheap but remained within market range.

However, because items on the black market usually sell above market price, his shop had already received many inquiries within just two or three days.

Sample inquiries:

• User Wen Yun (quasi 2-star): “Shopkeeper, hello, are you sure about the ginseng’s efficacy? And is it really over 200 years old? I want to buy one to gift to an elder.”
• User Kun En (2-star):
  “The shopkeeper, hello, I want to buy ginseng.”
  (Auto-translated by Black Market Assistant: Shopkeeper, I want to inquire about the specific effects of the ginseng.)
• User Zhan Huaqiang (quasi 4-star):
  “Hmm? A new store? I just saw your wild ginseng, very interested. Is the transaction processed through the black market network? And is the quality guaranteed? Please reply—if everything checks out, I may place a bulk order.”

Mu Bai scanned these messages and found around a dozen inquiries from users all over the world, including two quasi 4-star users.

He had researched the user rating system—spending 1,000 diamonds (i.e. 100 million RMB) was required just to become a 1-star user.

So quasi-4-star meant an unimaginably massive amount of spending.

Thus, Mu Bai didn’t waste any time and replied to all the inquiries. For the two potential big clients, he also added the VIP customer tag.

In shops, messages from tagged VIP clients come with special alerts. If the shopkeeper is offline, the system sends them a text notification.

This user-friendly feature made the Black Skynet more advanced than any real-world e-commerce platform.

At this point, in the deep stillness of night, after finishing all that, Mu Bai was ready to search the black market for an intelligence shop with a high star rating—to investigate which key figures would be attending tomorrow’s Ring of Purple Gold banquet, and predict the possible shifts in Nanjing’s power dynamics.

But just as he was about to leave his shop’s dashboard—

A special alert sound for VIP clients rang out.