Shen Qiang didn't know much about Korean cuisine.
Gao Hui was very reserved, only ordering beef slices braised with apples and then stopped ordering. Worried that she might not eat well, Shen Qiang, without regard to cost, casually ordered a feast including Korean grilled steaks, sugared dog legs, and stir-fried shrimp.
After all, Boss Ma was picking up the tab. Spending too little would be like looking down on him.
Besides that.
Shen Qiang also ordered an extra set, telling the waiter to pack it up and take it with Gao Hui when she left.
This kind of behavior seemed quite unscrupulous.
But it didn't matter.
To Boss Ma and Sun Kaiping, who often left dishes untouched, this was nothing.
After lunch, it was already past two in the afternoon.
Shen Qiang felt that Gao Hui seemed a bit tired, so he asked Boss Ma to call his driver to take her home.
Gao Hui was sent away.
But Shen Qiang got caught up.
Sun Kaiping was better, as he truly had great eye power and recently, most of the items he acquired had no issues.
Boss Ma was a bit sloppy.
Several of the items he recently acquired were difficult to authenticate, so Shen Qiang spent the whole afternoon helping him evaluate his collection. Strictly speaking, Shen Qiang should have been paid for his help.
But they were too familiar with each other.
So, when Boss Ma wanted to pay, Shen Qiang flatly refused.
It was just the way things were.
Shen Qiang charged a very high price for appraising antiques.
Ordinary experts or appraisal institutions would charge only a few thousand for an item, so very few people actually approached Shen Qiang for appraisals. When Shen Qiang moved, Boss Ma and Sun Kaiping gave gifts worth a million each.
Quarreling over money with them would seem rather petty.
Moreover, Shen Qiang's ways of making money were no longer limited to antiques; a matter of tens of thousands wasn't worth bothering about.
Shen Qiang didn't take the money.
But Boss Ma was understanding, not only did he drag Shen Qiang out for dinner, he also arranged for singing and called over a dozen girls to liven up the party.
Sun Kaiping joined in the fun.
All the expenses were on Boss Ma.
After partying until past ten at night, with Boss Ma and Sun Kaiping slightly drunk, they clamored to go for spa treatments, mentioning something about a young masseuse that had just arrived.
But Shen Qiang declined.
After all, he hadn't gone home the whole day, and Su Xiaonuan was waiting for him at home. Drinking with Sun Kaiping and Boss Ma until this late was already enough; going off for spa treatments would be over the top.
But as he thought about it, Shen Qiang found it odd. Usually, if he didn't return home by this time, Su Xiaonuan would have called, but there was no call, which seemed strange.
Boss Ma's driver, driving Boss Ma's Mercedes, brought Shen Qiang home.
Standing downstairs, Shen Qiang saw Su Xiaonuan's car was there.
But the lights in her room were off.
Looking up, however, there was a faint light in the rooftop garden.
"Waiting for me?"
With a smile, Shen Qiang went upstairs.
Back home, through the door, just reaching the living room.
He was immediately stunned to see Qian Shanxue, a stunningly beautiful female military officer with a frosty expression.
"What did you use?"
Shen Qiang frowned, "Can't you stop appearing out of nowhere?"
"What happened to her?" Looking at Shen Qiang, Qian Shanxue signaled with her eyes to the petite girl lying on the rosewood couch in the living room and furrowed her brows, "She's been unconscious for nearly five hours now. I've tried everything, but I can't wake her up."
Shen Qiang gave her a surprised glance.
At this moment, her breathing was even, sleeping very silently.
Shen Qiang subconsciously called out in his mind, "Spirit Corpse Golden Cicada?"
An odd emotion immediately came back, "Master, this person entered your plantation without your permission. Do you want me to kill her?"
Shen Qiang chuckled and said calmly, "I warned her not to go downstairs to my place."
Qian Shanxue's brows furrowed, "What exactly did you do? Although Ali's talents are poor, her cultivation has reached the late Golden Core Stage. How could such a bizarre thing happen?"
Shen Qiang laughed.
In front of the Spirit Corpse Golden Cicada, cultivators below the Nascent Soul Stage are almost no different from ordinary people, all easily butchered fish belly.
"If you promise me that you won't barge into my house as you please from now on, I'll let her wake up."
"Fine," the stunning female officer agreed immediately.
Shen Qiang snapped his fingers.
A glint of golden light flickered briefly.
The petite girl lying on the rosewood couch yawned, and then slowly awoke, murmuring in a half-dream state, "Such mystery over some mere Lingzhi, the red ones are okay, but those dark ones are so ugly, only a ghost would eat them..."
Ignorant!
The dark Lingzhi?
Shen Qiang looked at her with disdain.
That was none other than the beautifying Holy Grade Cloud Ganoderma, Mo Yunzhi.
"Ali!" the stunning female officer called out.
The petite girl snapped back to reality, rapidly sat up, and then with a puzzled look said, "How did I get here?"
Seeing that she had returned to normal.
The stunning female officer sighed with relief and then with a wave of her hand, a new identification, a mobile phone, and a strange mask floated in the air in front of Shen Qiang.
"This is your new identification and communicator for your position. As for that mask, it's a personal gift from me because your cultivation is too weak. I don't want you to get killed after just one mission," she said sternly.
Shen Qiang, astonished, defiantly retorted, "Are you sure I'm that weak?"
"Yes," the stunning female officer replied coldly, "Your methods may be strange, but they're nothing more than a joke in the face of absolute power."
Shen Qiang smiled, "Don't forget your assistant, who was completely powerless in the face of my methods."
The stunning female officer gave Shen Qiang a cold look, and a tremendous aura suddenly descended, an immense force weighing on Shen Qiang's shoulders, the fury of which almost brought him to his knees.
Power!
In an instant, he activated the Power Skill from his Mixed Arts.
Supported by triple the strength, Shen Qiang managed to stand firm, yet he could hear the sound of his bones almost fracturing.
"Oh, you can still stand? That's a bit surprising," she said.
With a sigh, the stunning female officer released the pressure and said in a deep voice, "Below the Mixed Element, all are ants. You'll understand this slowly."
Shen Qiang, relieved, yet stubbornly said, "Above the Mixed Element, there may not be invincibility either."
The stunning female officer stood up, her eyes strangely cold, "Above the Mixed Element indeed is not invincible, but they only need to glance at you, and you would be dead. If you want to live a full life, wise up."
With that, she picked up the petite girl and walked towards the patio garden.
Shen Qiang frowned, "Can't you guys just use the door?"
The stunning female officer stopped by the patio door, turned around, and looked at Shen Qiang very seriously, "By the way, your girlfriend made dinner for you. It tasted quite good; I ate it."
Shen Qiang was stunned.
Whoosh!
The two people standing by the patio door vanished.
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