Lex Luthor?
Hearing Brucie's reminder, Miao Mu followed her gaze to the gleaming bald head in the crowd.
As luck would have it, Luthor happened to look up as well.
He recognized Miao Mu and gave a faint smile, raising his wineglass in greeting before exchanging a few pleasantries with the people around him.
Then he walked over.
"Ms. Brucie, aren't you going to introduce us?"
Luthor approached and performed a gentlemanly hand-kiss, though his interest in Miao Mu was far greater than his interest in Brucie.
"This is my husband, Miao Mu. You should know him. But why are you here?"
Leaning against Miao Mu, Brucie asked curiously.
Luthor gestured toward the CEO of Queen Consolidated who had been chatting with Brucie earlier. "I came here for a meeting concerning LexCorp's military contracts."
"I wonder whether MW Group would be interested in working together?"
Luthor spoke with a smile. Backed by Department of Defense weapons contracts, LexCorp had already become an undisputed behemoth.
Even a tiny portion of those contracts represented an astonishing sum.
But making money was not important to Luthor. Proving his ideals was what mattered most.
And his ideal was to prove that humans were stronger than Superman. Naturally, that human was himself—he was superior to Superman.
It had become an obsession. He had done some truly terrifying things for it, but compared to the Luthors of the Multiverse...
The Luthor of the Main World was practically a... moderate.
Still, when it came to major matters of right and wrong, this guy was like Deathstroke. It did not matter how badly this world fought itself.
But no one was allowed to destroy it.
That was why, whenever the end of the world approached, certain figures who hovered between supervillains and superheroes would always step forward.
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