12: It's all your fault! Otherwise I would have been able to open a Hermes bag!

Chen Kai deliberately feigned skepticism, lifting the blind box delivery bag in his hand.

"It's so light, can there really be anything good in here?"

"Guaranteed! How about this, little brother, if you're serious about buying it, it's 140 yuan. Buy one and try your luck; consider it a gesture of friendship. I see you around this neighborhood often."

The courier station owner said, sounding somewhat impatient as he pushed for the sale.

Chen Kai nodded. "Fine, 140 yuan it is. Where's the QR code? I'll pay you."

The courier station owner's smile grew even wider. "You can open it first, it's fine. I want to see what's inside once you open it, and you can pay me then."

Chen Kai quickly shook his head. "That won't do. Wouldn't I be taking advantage of you? Better to pay first. That's your QR code on the wall, right? I'm scanning it now!"

Chen Kai held the blind box delivery bag in one hand and used his other to scan and pay.

Trying to pull a fast one on him? What a crooked merchant.

If he hadn't paid and found something valuable, the owner could have just reneged and taken the luxury item back.

Otherwise, why would he be so generous? Not rushing to collect money? Without paying upfront, once a Hermès was unboxed, it would just be the courier station owner's word against his. The owner could easily back out since no money had changed hands.

Chen Kai knew one truth well: Never gamble on human nature!

After the payment was made, the owner's smile visibly stiffened. But remembering that he had packed these blind boxes himself, he was sure there couldn't be anything good in them.

"Lend me those scissors."

Chen Kai muttered, grabbing the scissors sitting on the courier station's sign-in counter.

Squatting on the steps next to the courier station, he carefully cut open the black plastic bag on the outside of the blind box.

He was terrified of damaging the genuine leather Hermès bag inside; even a single scratch would cut its value in half.

After cutting through the outermost black layer, he found over a dozen small boxes and bags of various sizes inside.

Chen Kai symbolically pulled out a small bag and cut it open with the scissors. Inside was the cheapest bleached toilet paper.

Seeing Chen Kai start to unbox, the young couple sitting nearby and the store owner curiously gathered around to watch him.

"See? What did I tell you? It's all junk. Good thing you listened to me and didn't buy it, otherwise you'd have lost 150 yuan. It looks like he grabbed the same bag you were holding earlier."

"Yeah! Hubby is right. Good thing we didn't buy it, or I would have regretted it to death!"

Chen Kai ignored the noise outside and proceeded to open each bag in the blind box one by one.

"Phone case... not this."

"Phone screen protector, not this either..."

"Second pack of toilet paper, not this either."

"This is... Fiji? Damn..."

After unboxing for a while, Chen Kai gradually lost interest and set his sights on the largest box inside the bag.

With a gentle swipe of the scissors, the packaging revealed an Adidas shoebox, emitting a faint glimmer.

"Adidas?! Hubby, this one seems pretty valuable, right?"

"Don't rush. What if it's not an authentic product inside the Adidas box?"

The owner standing behind Chen Kai was also stunned. Adidas? He lost! He lost!

When Chen Kai opened the Adidas shoebox, a brand-new Hermès bag appeared in his field of vision.

He was quick-witted, grabbing it instantly. He looked back at the owner, whose face was as red as a spicy boiled egg, and spoke first.

"Holy crap! Boss, there really is a big prize in this blind box!! You can even unbox a Hermès bag! And it's authentic! You're too conscientious."

"Thumbs up to you, boss. You're a credit to the industry."

The owner's heart rate quickened. He hurriedly pulled out his phone to check the payment records. "Wait, did you scan the payment just now? Did you pay for the blind box?"

"I did. See for yourself."

Chen Kai quickly held up his phone, feeling incredibly relieved that he had kept an ace up his sleeve and hadn't listened to him by starting to open it immediately.

"Ah... you paid, huh? Fine, fine, go ahead and open it." The courier station owner turned away impatiently and walked into the room, out of sight, out of mind.

"Holy crap! Hubby! He unboxed a Hermès! And it's the exact same packaging bag I was holding earlier!"

"I... this! Quick, go buy the rest! Honey! Even if we only unbox one Hermès, we'll make a clear profit of over ten thousand yuan!!"

Chen Kai watched the young couple rush toward the courier station and saw the owner change the price of the blind boxes to 388 yuan each, shaking his head helplessly.

The rest didn't have anything good left, and they even unboxed a bag of battle-damaged compressed biscuits.

Something a WWI veteran would have cried for as a child.

Just then, a surprised voice came from beside him.

"Little brother?! Why are you here?"

Chen Kai looked up sharply and found Liu Yunshang wearing a small floral off-shoulder dress, with red high heels on her feet, leaning over to look at him.

"Sister Liu? Are you... here to pick up a package?"

"Yeah. But you still haven't told me why you're here? Is that... a Hermès Birkin 25 in your hand?"

Liu Yunshang was a bit surprised. The bag looked brand new and was worth thirty or forty thousand yuan.

Chen Kai scratched his head and smiled awkwardly. "I was passing by today and saw him selling overseas blind boxes, so I just bought one to play with. I didn't expect to actually unbox a big prize."

"Is that so?"

Liu Yunshang asked, half-doubting. She looked down at the authentic Hermès bag in Chen Kai's hand, then looked at the young couple squatting nearby, cursing as they opened their boxes.

"Damn! How is it another 'Beyond the mountains, beyond the seas, there is a group of Smurfs'?"

"What is this? A little blue pill? Chewing gum?"

"And why is there a dozen-centimeter-long black dog-beating stick here?"

Liu Yunshang's mouth twitched. Is this the difference between buyer expectations and reality?

"Ahem... just good luck."

"Sometimes luck is also a form of strength. I'll go pick up my package first. Wait for me, we'll leave together in a bit."

Liu Yunshang was a bit confused. First, he unboxed a labubu hidden chase, a one-in-ten-thousand chance, and then he unboxed a Hermès bag from a manually packed blind box.

What kind of heaven-defying luck is this?

Moreover, her intuition from working in antiques told her that sometimes, having too much luck is just a disguise.

Chen Kai nodded and walked toward the trash can nearby with the delivery bag.

Except for the Hermès bag, he threw everything else away.

"No way, how is there not a single good thing? I, the 'rainy night with a knife but no...' how did I get so many Smurfs?"

"Is this an erotic blind box or an overseas blind box?"

The young couple nearby grew increasingly agitated. They had spent 3,800 yuan and hadn't opened a single useful item, not even anything worth over 100 yuan.

"That guy must be a shill, right? There were eleven blind boxes in total, and only his had anything in it!"

"Still calling him a shill? If you hadn't told me not to buy it, I would have gotten a Hermès bag for free! It's all your fault!"

Chen Kai smiled and stood to the side waiting for Liu Yunshang to finish picking up her package. 22,000 yuan, finally in his hands.