The outskirts.
Lu Chengwen was getting a little impatient. "What exactly is this about, Young Master? You asked me out to talk?"
"It's very important."
"How important?"
"It concerns the future of the Elder Council."
Lu Chengwen laughed.
"Brother, you have a bright future ahead of you. Your prospects are limitless. Actually, you and I are pretty similar."
"Oh? How so?"
"Your grandfather is the Dean, and my father is a tycoon. Isn't that the same thing? Someone like you can't possibly end up badly, no matter how you muddle through. And if you're worried about me, there's even less need. I'm only afraid of the Elder Council. I have no designs on it."
"Really?"
"Of course." Lu Chengwen said, "Think about it. With people like Lin Jiangxian and Po Zhenzi, a whole bunch of powerful and formidable figures, how could they possibly acknowledge an outsider like me?"
"But you hold the Elder Council's purse strings, and Old Man Wu is backing you. Even the Jiang Family is your reserve force. How can you expect me not to worry?"
Lu Chengwen was nearly furious with him.
"I hold the Elder Council's purse strings? Then the Elder Council holds my life in its hands. Why don't you mention that? Right now, your grandfather is threatening me and the entire Jiang Family. In the future, it'll be some other elder or dean or whatever. And in the end, the one taking over will still be you!"
"How old are Old Man Wu and the others? For all you know, Yama could take two of them away in a single night! They don't have many years left. You're so young—can't you simply outlast them?"
"And the Jiang Family is even less worth mentioning. Does the Jiang Family still have the influence and deterrent