Clutching the ashtray tightly, he was too nervous to even have a cigarette, so he took a deep drag of secondhand smoke instead: "Take your time, Third Madam."
Seeing the old man’s hair standing completely on end from the ordeal—looking quite like the Bull Demon King—Chen Rou tried to distract him. She slowly searched for the controls while steering the conversation elsewhere: "This ceramic pot that Mr. Guo sent you is quite significant. Look, the perimeter is covered in fish bones and seashells. Eight thousand years ago, these were symbols of wealth, so in a sense, this is a treasure basin."
In truth, that man named Guo—Boss Guo Xiaobai—had brought a mountain of artifacts to entice Liang Lisheng to come out of retirement. Liang had no desire for them; for one, he didn’t want to cooperate with Mainland interests, and for another, doing so would mean betraying Nie Rong.
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