Pocket Money and Keeping Expenses - Thanks to I Salty Fish Lord lv. 84,000 for Becoming an Alliance Master!

Facts once again proved that even Participants were no match for the Financial Empress in the realm of negotiation.

Words, tone, movements, facial expressions, even a single glance—

Treating all of those as weapons to imply, predict, probe, and achieve other effects was indeed an advanced technique beyond ordinary people's understanding.

It was probably just a casual little trick. Seizing the moment Fang Ran raised his red wine to his lips, she suddenly threw out a probing remark.

"But it really is an ability?"

She easily obtained the information that his ability to detect lies was real.

Veronica pretended to sigh and shake her head sadly, looking at him with a tone that was both faintly resentful and faintly amused.

"You really hurt me, Fang Ran. You actually didn't trust me and thought I wanted to use you?"

Having just wiped his mouth and not yet had time to speak, Fang Ran heard her turn the accusation back on him. But perhaps it was a man's instinct when facing a beautiful woman,

or perhaps he himself felt that openly suspecting her like that had indeed been a little inappropriate. He fell silent for a moment and was about to explain.

"But it's alright. I don't mind."

Yet Veronica suddenly changed her tone, smiling mysteriously as all traces of her earlier manner vanished.

It left Fang Ran staring blankly.

"After all, Fang Ran, you could have chosen to use this ability in secret, and no one would have known. The reason you revealed it so honestly instead—"

"Was because you cared about our relationship as friends. You were showing that you had never used this ability on me before and didn't want to damage the trust between us."

Rather than high emotional intelligence, it felt more like she could see through