Yuan Hongyi was drenched in sweat. He’d spent a full hour drinking with Li Guanqi. At this point, even a fool could tell what Li Guanqi was doing. Yuan Hongyi ran all the businesses and industries of the Heavenly Intelligence Pavilion across the Six Territories. He was no fool.0

Li Guanqi had said nothing of substance the entire time. No questions, no business. He’d simply dragged Yuan Hongyi into a chair and kept him there, chatting about nothing. The longer Yuan Hongyi stayed, the more the others would assume they were plotting something, trading secrets behind closed doors.0

Yuan Hongyi had tried every excuse he could think of to leave, but Li Guanqi...0