There were those in Antique Street who made their living from swindling the average Joe while others swindled antique traders.

In fact, it was already cliche for them to trick antique traders with forgeries, and it was not surprising that someone had tried their luck on the opening day of Raymond's shop.

As such, it was strange that he had just started today without any hype or even a proper shop sign, but someone was already after him.

That told him that he was being targeted, and Raymond was putting his money on Zachary.

The sole reason for that was how Zachary had come earlier to ask Raymond about how much capital he had, and he had humbly said a few hundred thousand.

The fact that Billy had come and immediately demanded 500 thousand made even more sense—he wanted to siphon all of Raymond's capital.

Even losing money wasn't the worst part—the worst was being labeled as an amateur.

When that happened, customers who wanted the good stuff wouldn't come to him, and he would find