"This is All the way Peace?"
While Lu PingAn was busy raising children and cultivating, news of him naturally spread farther and farther.
Thanks to the current situation, and thanks to Lu PingAn standing behind the Eastern Kingdom's largest power—the authorities—most factions, organizations, companies, and churches maintained a relatively friendly attitude toward him.
More often, they regarded him as a friend worth befriending, a future resource, and a VIP associate whose photo and information needed to be sent to every company and branch in advance to avoid causing trouble.
Reality was not some brainless wish-fulfillment novel where everyone bustled about for profit every day. If a conflict seemed unreasonable, if the party provoking it appeared to have something wrong with their head, then there was usually some enormous, inconvenient-to-state benefit hidden behind it.
Lu PingAn's wisest decision had been firmly choosing to stand with the authorities without hesitation. That way, anyone who wanted to move against him had to consider the consequences. The more value Lu PingAn displayed, the higher his future ceiling, and the safer he actually became.
Because moving against him meant moving against the authorities' interests.
Of course, the price was that he had become a thorn in the eyes of certain "enemies of the authorities." But the current Lu PingAn was not yet qualified to participate in conflicts of that level.
The goodwill of most factions, organizations, and teams had given him a certain amount of room and time to develop.
But some had already become his mortal enemies.
"...This is a threat."
In a building somewhere in Aus, the middle-aged man in the boss's chair said exactly that.
"He has already become our company's mortal enemy. And he's progressing too fast. Once he grows up, he'll be a huge problem."
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