Li Wei looked the three of them over.
All three were young. The youngest looked only seventeen or eighteen and wore a formal suit that did not quite suit him. He was thin, with brown hair and a rather timid appearance. On the other side sat a blond man in his early twenties, lounging without a care. Unlike the timid young man, he seemed perfectly composed, even swaggering, as though he were the master of the house.
The man sitting at the nearby table was overweight and nearly thirty. At the moment, he was stuffing himself with pastries.
This was a pretty shabby Social Assembly.
If Li Wei held a Social Assembly, no one would dare refuse to attend.
Not because he was particularly popular, but because-if they did not come, who knew whether this famous detective might dig up some of their dirty secrets?
Still, Li Wei had no interest in demonstrating his power that way. Often, such things were like nuclear weapons: they were best left resting quietly on their launchers.
Once launched, they would bring the whole world crashing down.
In Li Wei's opinion, even if Baron Payne was merely a minor local baron in Delicate, at least ten people ought to attend his daughter's Social Assembly. Any fewer, and it was less a Social Assembly than an ordinary dinner.
The three men eyed Li Wei with unmistakable scrutiny and a trace of hostility. He knew that look all too well. What could he do? He was simply too handsome. Whenever he appeared at a social occasion, men around his age almost always looked at him that way. Li Wei felt rather helpless about it. Being handsome was not his fault.
It reminded him of attending dinners in college. The other men had guarded against him as