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Lin Qi instinctively took several steps back and stood in a corner of the mission hall. He quietly watched Gram, and from time to time a terrifying glint flashed through his eyes—one that would surely drive Gram to despair if he ever noticed it.
Lin Qi's heart was calm, but within that tranquil heart lay flames fierce enough to burn everything to ashes. Like a silent volcano, beneath the thick rock of its crater churned savage magma.
After all these years, Gram had not changed much. He looked exactly as he had back at Berely Fifth University.
A plump body, a chubby face, and shrewd light flickering in his tiny eyes. Compared with the Gram of old, today's Gram carried a little more of the mature air forged by experience. After all, he had grown from a boy into a young man.
His clothes, too, were vastly different from before. Back when he and Lin Qi had counted copper coins to make ends meet, Gram had worn coarse hemp garments, and that shabby appearance still lingered in Lin Qi's mind. But today's Gram—why, even the smallest ornament on his person was anything but ordinary.
Fine brocade from the Eastern Continent made up his close-fitting trousers, patterned with embossed dark motifs and tightly wrapping his two fat thighs. Pale blue stockings embroidered with purple flowers peeked out from above his high boots, cinching his calves tightly. Those brocade stockings alone would cost more than two hundred gold coins at a silk shop!
As for those boots with their faint reddish sheen,