"Zijin's flying too fast. Too fast, too high, and it's easy to let it go to your head."
Wang Xiaoliang said nothing.
"The money we're making now isn't really ours yet. We have to stop completely before we can safely pocket it. In her current state, something could easily go wrong. Working with her could drag us down too."
"Surely not. Aren't you worrying too much?" Wang Xiaoliang thought for a moment. "Zijin's always been pretty steady."
"Whether she's steady isn't for her to decide." Xiao Mo poured himself another drink, downed it, ate a bite of food, and continued, "When a huge fortune lands on someone all at once, whether they can handle it has nothing to do with their personality. It has to do with human nature. If she thinks she earned all of this herself, she'll be finished sooner or later. If she worked with us alone, there'd be no problem. Nuomi and I would keep things under control. But now she's fighting on multiple fronts. If anything goes wrong on any one of them, we'll suffer too."
Wang Xiaoliang knew the old fox had hit the nail on the head. Deep down, Zijin really did think she had earned everything she had now herself.
"When I was about your age, I let things go to my head. I accomplished one piss-ant little thing and started looking down on everyone, full of myself. It cost me a leg and a brother his life..."
"How did you spot the change in Zijin...?"
"It hasn't actually been that long since I first met Zijin." Xiao Mo's hand paused as he poured. "She's gone from cautious and careful to confident and proud. She's not the same person anymore. She's changed too fast, and it makes me uneasy. Not working with