Chapter 1 The Dragon City Rises

The next day in Manchester, outside a scenic villa, two middle-aged men stood guard at the entrance, their eyes fixed on the security guard with ingratiating smiles.

"Hello, we're here to discuss something with Chairman Wu. We made an appointment yesterday," the man on the left said softly.

The guard scanned them and replied indifferently, "Wait here. I'll verify your identities."

"Okay!"

"Thank you for your trouble!"

The two men bowed and nodded.

…

About ten minutes later, the two mid-level managers from the association, after filling out the visitor registration, were led inside the villa by the guard.

Upstairs in the study, Wu Boxin was reading a book.

"Mr. Wu, these two gentlemen are here to see you. They said they made an appointment yesterday," the guard said as he entered.

Wu Boxin looked up at the two men, pausing slightly. "Xunyang, is that you? Come in, come in, have a seat!"

"Long time no see, Chairman!" The man called Xunyang sat down on the sofa with the other man.

The guard exited the room and nodded to his colleague across the hall.

In the monitoring room, four sets of monitoring equipment were operating simultaneously. Eight technicians wearing headsets were listening in real-time to Wu Boxin's conversation with the two men. They could even hear the sound of farts.

At the same time, the surveillance footage was zooming in, focusing on the three men.

Inside the study.

The man called Xunyang sat down cautiously and said with a smile, "Chairman, we're here today to discuss the selection of representatives for the branch association. This is Liu He. You should have met him before. He has a lot of prestige in the southern branch association…!"

Wu Boxin looked at the man. "How old are you?"

Liu He immediately replied, "Chairman, I'm thirty-nine years old this year! We met at the last summit, and I even had a drink with you! This is my information!"

As he spoke, Liu He stood up and handed over his vetted documents.

"Zoom in, zoom in on his hand and upper body!"

In the monitoring room, a special agent leader called out to the technician beside him.

The picture zoomed in, and Liu He's profile appeared very clearly before everyone's eyes.

On the sofa in the study, Wu Boxin crossed his legs and reached out to take the documents. The distance between the two was less than a meter.

Liu He bent over, his suit jacket, fastened with only the middle button, opened slightly, and the corner of his collar was aimed directly at Wu Boxin's cheek.

The two men looked at each other, and Wu Boxin noticed three characters written on the corner of Liu He's collar.

Hua Gong Hui!!

Wu Boxin paused for a moment, accepting the documents with an unreadable expression on his face.

Seeing that Wu Boxin had noticed the words, Liu He immediately straightened the corner of his clothes and wiped the three characters away.

The three characters were probably written with easily erasable dry powder. They disappeared with a touch of the hand, leaving no dust behind.

Liu He bent over and sat back on the sofa.

Wu Boxin paused, glanced briefly at the documents, and casually placed them on the table.

"Do you think my qualifications are good enough? Can I compete?" Liu He asked, staring at Wu Boxin.

Wu Boxin slowly picked up his teacup, squinted at Liu He, and said deliberately, "What are you good for?!"

"???!" Liu He was dumbfounded, not understanding for a moment.

"What do you mean by winking at me?! Are you testing me?!" Wu Boxin asked, tilting his head.

"No, I didn't quite understand!"

"Smash, crash!"

Wu Boxin suddenly grabbed the teacup on the table and splashed it directly in Liu He's face. "What are you good for?! What are you trying to do with all that winking and eyebrow-raising?! Get out! I don't want to talk about anything! Disappear now! Hurry!"

"No, Chairman, Xiao Liu didn't say anything!"

"You get out too!" Wu Boxin shouted, glaring at him. "You're all damn lackeys! I don't want to talk!"

The two men looked at each other in confusion, standing up with extremely distressed expressions.

"You motherfucker… are you two leaving or not?!"

Seeing that they were still standing there, Wu Boxin turned his head and looked at the table. "Where's my knife?!"

"No, Chairman, you might have misunderstood!"

"Slap!"

Wu Boxin found a fruit knife, gripped it in his hand, and stood up. "Are you leaving?! I'm asking you, are you leaving?!"

"Is this guy crazy?" Liu He was dumbfounded. "What does this mean?!"

"Let's go, let's go!" Xunyang saw that this guy was really going to stab him, and immediately pulled Liu He away.

At the entrance, the guard was also dumbfounded, completely unaware of why Wu Boxin was so angry!

"Get out, all of you!! Don't send anyone else in, I don't want to see anyone!" Wu Boxin threw the fruit knife away and roared.

"Pure crazy! Bad brain!" Liu He cursed with a gloomy face.

As he spoke, Liu He and Xunyang were about to go downstairs, but at this moment, the military intelligence chief in the monitoring room immediately pushed the door open and shouted, "You two, come in here!"

The two men were stunned for a moment, then had no choice but to walk over.

A minute later, the door was closed.

"Why did he get angry?" the military intelligence chief asked.

Liu He cursed with a gloomy face, "Who knows why he got angry? Maybe his mother died! I just gave him some information, and he wanted to stab me…!"

"Come, come, you two stand aside, take off all your clothes, we're going to search you!" The military intelligence chief said, pointing at the two men.

"On what grounds?" Liu He asked, pretending to be angry. "What did I do?"

"Slap!"

A gun was pointed directly at the heads of the two men.

…

Inside the room.

Wu Boxin sat in his chair, smoothed his sparse hair, and cursed inwardly, "Real or fake?! Who the hell knows if you were sent by Gwen to test me?!"

What kind of person was Wu Boxin?

He was an old fox who had been mixing in political and business circles for many years. He looked like a loudmouth on the outside, but he was incredibly perceptive on the inside.

Two people suddenly come, flashing three words, and I'm supposed to believe it?

What if you were sent by Gwen to test me? If I nod my head, wouldn't I be screwed? The two sides would definitely fall out.

Five minutes later.

Liu He left with his tail between his legs, dialing Huang Peishan's number on his phone. "Vice-Chairman… that Wu Boxin is definitely crazy!! I even flashed him the code, but who knew he'd suddenly start cursing… and try to stab me with a knife! Xunyang and I almost got exposed!"

"?! Didn't you guys do any groundwork?" Huang Peishan asked, frowning.

"We did, we made an appointment last night!"

"Did the people from the Central Bureau notice anything?" Huang Peishan asked immediately.

"I used colorless and odorless dry powder to write the words, so they didn't notice anything!" Liu He paused and said, "We were searched when we left… they searched very thoroughly!"

"…!" Huang Peishan thought for a moment. "It's probably because Xunyang's rank in the association isn't high enough, so he doesn't trust him! Do some more groundwork, you guys go first, I'll think of a way!"

"Okay!"

The phone hung up, and Liu He asked Xunyang, "…Did you feel anything?!"

"Everything else was fine, but when they searched my back door… the tweezers pinched my large intestine a little…!"

"Let's go, let's go to the hospital to check your stomach!"

"…That old thing is definitely crazy!" Xunyang cursed viciously.

Just as the two men left, Wu Taiyong got out of the car, wearing a pair of pink and green striped cloth pants, with a handsome young man by his side.

Five minutes later.

After being checked, Wu Taiyong entered his father's study.

Wu Boxin was pondering the events of just now, and didn't pay any attention to his son.

"Dad, what are you doing?!" Wu Taiyong walked over and asked.

Wu Boxin glanced at him impatiently, slowly reached out to pick up his teacup, and asked, looking at the handsome young man, "Who's he?"

"Ah, my boyfriend." Wu Taiyong sat gracefully on the sofa, crossing his legs.

"Hello, Uncle!" The handsome young man extended his hand.

Wu Boxin looked at the two of them for a long time, slowly put down his teacup, and calmly picked up the fruit knife. "I your motherfucking hello!! Sixty-thousand a year in tuition and living expenses! And you bring me back a husband?! I'm going to fucking stab you to death!"