Shi Huaifeng and Bai Yu instantly understood Le Yu's intention--
Praise someone to death!
Since ancient times, fame and fortune had been breeding grounds for trouble. According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, human needs progressed from physiological needs to safety, belonging and love, esteem, and self-actualization. Simply put, they were survival and reproduction, stable order, love, respect, and ideals—five categories, all closely tied to fame and fortune.
That much was obvious from Le Yu himself. If he was willing, he could have spent a luxurious, debauched life in East Sun District, and all he had to do was nothing at all.
If he honestly managed the "Youth Newspaper," kept a low profile, and avoided making trouble, then with the status of the Jing family head, he had no need to seek Bai Yu out early in the morning to update the main quest. He could simply live out the capitalist fairy-tale ending of "and they lived happily ever after."
Yet Le Yu had still acted without hesitation.
Wasn't this dangerous? No.
He had fought against the Ting family, negotiated with Lan Yan, and gone head-to-head with Duke Wanghai... Apart from the night the Silver Blood burned, Le Yu had already weathered crisis after crisis. Each time, he had narrowly escaped death; each time, he had had more than enough reason to preserve his life in those troubled times and end this dangerous game.
Why did Le Yu insist on pursuing something that offered him little benefit but carried tremendous risk?
Wasn't it because he had plenty to eat, beautiful women in his arms, fame and power at his fingertips in Xuanzhu, and his first four needs thoroughly satisfied? That was why he wanted to satisfy the highest-level need—self-actualization.
In short, he was bored out of his mind. Back when Qian