Lu Chengwen was just about to move away when Tang Xiaohao grabbed him.
"Hey, Chengwen!"
"Mm, Young Sect Master."
"So... the first step is..."
"Come clean. Whatever they want to hear, tell them."
"The second step is..."
"Use your identity, position, backing, background... and work with them. You're in them, they're in you. Once everyone's on the same side, right... as long as you don't sleep with their Holy Maiden, you'll definitely be an honored guest, treated well, fed well, and given plenty of face."
"Then you still haven't told me the third step?"
Lu Chengwen looked at him. "Young Sect Master, stop teasing me. With your intelligence and talent, with such wisdom and understanding, and with all your years in business, you must already know what to do for the third step! Why ask me?"
"Oh, right, right, right..."
Tang Xiaohao laughed along with Lu Chengwen. "Exactly. With the first and second steps in place, how to take the third step really doesn't need anyone else to remind me."
Lu Chengwen also laughed and said, "You, seriously, always messing with me!"
"Ah, we're brothers. Sometimes I just like... joking around with friends."
Lu Chengwen smiled and pointed at him. "You really are wicked, you know that!"
"I really am wicked!" Tang Xiaohao laughed. "This third step is like ants on a bald man's head—plain as day!"
"That's exactly it!" Lu Chengwen said. "And you still came to ask me on purpose. Aren't you just making fun of me?"
"Hahaha, listen to you. But Chengwen, honestly, I truly feel... really! Even now! I still insist that you and I are the same kind of person. Do you believe that?"
"I..."
"Look! You hesitated! Didn't you hesitate?"
"I just think you're the Young Sect Master of the Tang Sect, while my