After listening to Fu Luo's clearly embellished account and filtering out the exaggerations and self-praise through his own understanding, Lin Yu more or less figured out what had happened in the City That Never Sleeps.
Arlan Mercury had suddenly announced that he was entering retirement and that Eris Mercury would take over all affairs of the Mercury Family. At the same time, the Solence Family, Mercury Family, and Autumn Family had all signed a series of Cooperation Treaties with the Nightless Sky Family that were extremely favorable to the latter. On the other side, the Saint Orchid Family's competition for the position of family head heir had entered an intense struggle—not only were Saint Orchid Kui and Saint Orchid Lai involved, but a new Saint Orchid Jie had even emerged halfway through.
Although Fu Luo did not understand why these things had happened, Lin Yu knew the whole story perfectly well.
However, he could not explain it. All he could do was eat with Gao Shan and sigh along with him, saying, "The City That Never Sleeps really is seething beneath the surface. I wonder what's going on."
And at this time of upheaval in the City That Never Sleeps, Fu Luo's status as "Sherlock" had also risen accordingly.
Originally, Sherlock had only held a certain position in the Nightless Sky Family because he was favored by the family head. In the eyes of most people, he was merely a dog raised by Nightless Sky Huo Le to amuse the family head.
But after Fu Luo went in this time, he discovered... that he seemed to have become a major figure of tremendous importance.
The core heirs of the five great families were all scrambling to curry favor with him and win him over. Those more peripheral collateral descendants treated