Seeming to realize that his words could be misunderstood, Boss Cai hurriedly explained, "I mean, he isn't familiar with Master Xiao."
Or rather, before that chance encounter, Old Bai probably hadn't known anything about Master Xiao at all.
"He didn't know how capable you were."
He clearly hadn't known...
And his attitude had been terrible when they first met...
So why had he thought of Master Xiao when something happened?
That puzzled him.
Although he did have one shameless guess...
Could it be that, because of him, the other party had placed some hopes in Master Xiao?
Boss Cai had directly asked him why.
"...That guy is always putting on airs."
Boss Cai was dissatisfied. "He just laughed it off."
"He didn't say anything."
"He wouldn't say what he wanted Master Xiao for..."
"He wouldn't even say why he had sought out Master Xiao..."
Boss Cai tapped the table unhappily.
"I got angry."
"He wouldn't tell me this or that. Why should I help him make the connection?"
"I'm not that selfless."
"Then he told me."
"It was about the jade sphere."
Sure enough, there was something wrong with that jade sphere.
That was Boss Cai's first reaction.
"He had already asked other people before, but none of them gave him a satisfactory answer."
"Then he thought of Master Xiao, whom he had met in my shop."
He made it sound as though Master Xiao had been a last resort.
Boss Cai was somewhat displeased.
Of course.
He only thought that to himself.
There was no way he would say it in front of Master Xiao.
Wouldn't that just make him unhappy?
"I remembered that Master Xiao had seemed quite interested in Old Bai's jade sphere before, so I thought I'd come and tell you about this."