The nanny van gradually slowed, switching from the highway magrail onto the TV Tower's outer accessway. It circled the skyscraper, steadily climbing higher.
Inside the vehicle, Lawyer Liu displayed his professional competence and began discussing matters with Global Vision's legal department—or, more precisely, laying out the relevant terms they had agreed upon.
Lawyer Liu kept his voice fairly low. Apart from politeness, it was because he did not need to exert much effort at all—the other side offered virtually no resistance. It was as though the person across from him had already lost even the most basic professional enthusiasm and intended to pack up and leave as soon as this deal was done.
Well, saying there was no resistance at all would not be entirely accurate. At least, the other side asked one more question:
"Is this your company's decision, or..."
"This..." Lawyer Liu instinctively turned to look at Ronan again. Seeing no response from him, he answered truthfully. "It's Mister Luo's opinion. Oh, that is, Miss Raven's..."
"Understood." Global Vision's legal representative was the first to abandon that hesitant manner of speaking, and their voice became noticeably brighter. "Then how about this..."
Lawyer Liu listened carefully to the revised terms—or at least tried to. Yet he kept getting distracted, unconsciously glancing toward Ronan.
Ronan merely watched the fractured interplay of light and shadow outside the window, expressionless. Occasionally, as the nanny van rounded onto the sunlit southern side, sunlight pierced through the window film and cast highlights across his profile. Yet it also deepened the shadows beneath his lashes and within his eye sockets, making him even harder to read.
Then, for some unknown reason, he began counting quietly.
"One, two, three... four, five... six."
He paused twice in the middle, as if he had indeed fixed on some