Wen Lian was furious. Everyone else was scrambling to seize the market under the new policies, yet this best friend of hers remained utterly still, keeping herself proper and law-abiding.
But didn't she see whether this was the time to play it safe?
If she fell one step behind now, she would have to spend years catching up later.
Wen Lian nagged and tried to persuade her for quite a while, yet Lin Xiaoxiao remained completely unmoved.
Fuming, Wen Lian turned around.
"Forget it, I'm going back!"
She took several steps away, then looked back to see Lin Xiaoxiao turn and wave gently at her, clearly telling her to hurry up and leave.
"Get some proper rest," Lin Xiaoxiao said gently.
"Ahhh! You're going to drive me mad! What use is it to leave money sitting at home? What a waste! Ahhh!!" Wen Lian clutched her hair.
"If you need it, I can lend it to you." Lin Xiaoxiao smiled.
Wen Lian was instantly left with no temper at all by her friend's smile.
"I'm leaving!" She had recently seen how well her father's side had been doing in seizing the market, with profits far greater than before, so she had hurried over to remind her friend to keep up.
Instead, she had found her friend wearing a completely indifferent expression, and anger had immediately risen in her heart.
She listened to everything that Wei fellow said. She would not seize the market, would not hire more experts, and only cared about her own tiny patch of ground. No ambition whatsoever. It was infuriating.
"I'm leaving, I'm leaving!" The more Wen Lian thought about it, the angrier she became. She simply stopped lingering, left the chess garden, and boarded the carriage back.
She rode all the way back to the