Li Wei quickly banished that absurd thought from his mind.
He considered himself someone with at least a little self-awareness.
She owned an entire commercial street in Water-Drawing City, was creditor to half the city's nobility, and could stand toe-to-toe with Kaierben, the lord of Water-Drawing City, in business.
As for him, while he had earned a modest reputation in the northern Underdark and could barely count as a newly recognized lord among Gerson's Drow—and the Boss of the "Black Mine"—he had only managed to scrape together a mixed reputation on the surface through a bout of "swindling and bluffing" in Silvermoon City. Given some time, he was absolutely confident he could surpass her within ten years. But for now, he was merely an insignificant nobody fresh out of the Underdark.
Why would this "rich lady" want to court him?
Because of his face?
Li Wei could not help laughing at the bizarre twists of his own thought process.
Just then, Xia Lan Veloss, seated across from him, casually added three small spoonfuls of sugar to her black tea. She stirred it absentmindedly, took a small sip, then asked in a confirming tone, "I heard you say just now that you intend to open a new alchemy workshop in Water-Drawing City?"
"That's right." Li Wei smiled.
"And in order to determine the future pricing of your fellow creature products, you went into my alchemy workshop and smashed things up to your heart's content, tossed down a bag of gold coins, and ran away. Don't you think that, as an outsider newly arrived in Water-Drawing City, that was rather too arrogant and overbearing? Aren't you afraid of truly making me angry? Hmm?"
Only then did Xia Lan Veloss raise her eyes and properly look at the unusual Silver Dragon before her—the