Straightening his bow tie, Lin Qi parted his lips slightly, revealing exactly eight gleaming white teeth in a perfectly standard smile!
But beneath the dim streetlamp, Lin Qi's unnaturally white teeth glinted with a cold light. Jin and the attendant behind him inside the door suddenly went pale. Almost instinctively, Jin grabbed the door, trying to shut it.
But Lin Qi's right elbow braced against the door, and one of his legs had already stepped inside. No matter how hard Jin strained, he could not budge the door in the slightest. Compared to Lin Qi, who had endured brutal training from childhood under the urging of Iron Hammer, Butcher Knife, and the others, honing a beast-like strength, Jin was a little bean sprout raised in a greenhouse, while Lin Qi was the most ferocious man-eating shark from the depths of the North Sea.
"My dear Jin, I've missed you so much!" Lin Qi smiled gently at Jin. His right arm slowly exerted force, and the heavy pure-gold door creaked open inch by inch. The veins stood out on Jin's hands as he desperately resisted, cold sweat seeping from his forehead.
"My heavens, does Golden Rose refuse even a guest who has come in all sincerity to spend money?" Lin Qi looked in surprise at Jin's bulging-veined yet utterly futile hands. Smiling, he pushed the door open bit by bit, then slipped his left hand into the inner pocket over his chest and drew out the gold note Blackbeard had given him, waving it leisurely before Jin.
"Here, here, look, look. This time, I really did come to Golden Rose sincerely to have some fun. One hundred thousand gold coins, dear Jin, one hundred thousand gold coins—not one hundred, not one thousand, but one hundred thousand! One hundred thousand glittering, lovely