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"Bring him over tomorrow. I'll wait for you at the Mid-Levels Villa..."

Lin Qi hung up and shook his head. It wasn't that he was dissatisfied with Lyme.

That was simply how the Federation's society operated—

"If I'm worth a lot, then I have to show what I'm worth!"

Everyone thought that way. They wouldn't see it as betraying anyone—not even Lyme. He was worth that price; he had value and a purpose. He was merely demonstrating it.

That was also the result of capitalists and capitalism reshaping society over all these years. People followed capitalism's rules of the game and ultimately became an unbreakable part of it.

Lin Qi wouldn't think Lyme was unreliable because of this, either. If he did, ninety-nine percent of the people in the Federation would be unsuitable to work for him, because ninety-nine percent of them would have thoughts like this.

He shook his head only because he felt sorry for the president of Every Moment. If the man had agreed to his proposal a few days ago, there would be no meeting tomorrow.

The night passed uneventfully.

Early the next morning, Lin Qi finished bathing with the maid's help. He wasn't some grown boy who couldn't even bathe himself; there were simply some places he couldn't reach and needed someone to help him.

The purpose was purely innocent.

At breakfast, Lin Qi noticed that all the major newspapers were continuing to report on the problems caused by the pirates' rampage. Only the Observer Daily reported that the pirates had been eliminated.

It gave no detailed explanation of how the pirates had been dealt with. It merely said that after they were arrested, the pirates put up armed resistance, and the criminals had ultimately been shot dead at the scene.

Apart from that, not