Qinghe Prefecture, within the city.
Pingwei Escort Agency.
As the largest escort agency in Qinghe Prefecture, Pingwei Escort Agency's headquarters occupied most of a street in the eastern part of the city.
Its vermilion gates stood tall and broad, with four burly escorts guarding the entrance. Their gazes were fierce and vicious, and pedestrians passing nearby all lowered their heads and hurried away, not daring to meet their eyes.
Just then, a lavishly decorated carriage rolled out from the street corner and stopped before the gates.
Su Hai, plump of build, stepped down from the carriage. An old man with a gaunt, withered face followed behind him.
"President Su!"
A man who appeared to be a steward hurried forward, smiling.
"Is Proprietor Bao here?" Su Hai asked.
"Um..." The steward looked troubled. "The proprietor announced that he was entering seclusion some time ago. As for when he will emerge, this humble one does not know."
"Seclusion?"
Su Hai was somewhat surprised.
Bao Tian was already a Fifth-Stage Channel-Opening Realm martial artist, yet he had actually gone into seclusion now. He must have made further progress.
Truly remarkable!
"If President Su has business, you may speak with our young proprietor."
The steward said, "Before entering seclusion, the proprietor handed all affairs, great and small, over to the young proprietor."
"That will do."
Su Hai nodded.
The steward led him into the escort agency's inner courtyard, into a spacious and brightly lit hall.
A young man who looked around thirty sat in the seat of honor, his brows tightly furrowed as he impatiently flipped through the account books on the table.
At his side stood an old butler whose hair was combed without a single strand out of place, reporting on the escort agency's various affairs.
"Uncle Su!"
The moment Bao Ping