Anyway, getting his hands on the goods mattered more than anything!
As for saving face... how could he give up resources for the sake of face?
Could face put food on the table?
Could it buy thousand-year whale rubber?
Could it buy materials?
No.
But the things in his hands were real and tangible.
Hu Fangyuan carefully tucked the thousand-year whale rubber into the deepest part of his Storage Soul Tool, checked it over and over several times, and only then let out a long breath.
Still, there was no harm in being cautious.
After returning to his room, Hu Fangyuan did not immediately make a move.
He simply sat quietly on the edge of the bed, holding that piece of whale rubber and stroking it again and again. Moonlight slanted through the window lattice, spreading a layer of silvery frost across the floor.
He was waiting.
Waiting for the moon to hang high in the sky, for the lights along the street to dim, for the last trace of human voices outside his window to disappear, for him to no longer sense any prying eyes.
Time passed little by little.
The room was quiet, save for his own steady breathing.
Only when the moon reached the middle of the sky and everything around him had fallen completely still did the moment come.
Only then did Hu Fangyuan slowly exhale.
It seemed the family behind Gu Yue truly thought little of these secrets of his. Otherwise, they could simply have seized them by force. With that person's strength, if they truly chose to act, he would not even qualify to resist.
But they had not acted.
They had even sent him thousand-year whale rubber.
What did that mean? It meant they regarded him as a partner, valued his abilities, and