Transmigration: Lady Chi Woos The Ice cold Professor Jun
Chapter 609: Where is my cut?

Chapter 609: Where is my cut?

This press conference was not open to any other media house with the exception of NBTV the empire’s state television.

Chi Lian, for once was in agreement with other televisions and medias which were not allowed to cover the exclusive news stories she weaseled for herself. This was major news, they should all be allowed to eat a slice of that pie. All eyes would be on NBTV for as long as the press conference lasted.

"At least your brother made it to the conference." T4 told her.

Despite that small consolation, she had other other questions in mind as well like, why was the emperor calling it their empire’s treasure? It was mixed in with treasures of other empires and kingdoms too.

Most importantly, where was her cut?

Because it was being held in the royal palace, the emperor had no qualms about exposing the mountains of gold coins, heaps of porcelain, jewelry, old weapons, scraps of clothing and most of what had been discovered.

"The most important and surprising item discovered at the bottom of the sea in Saoning island is one of the three missing golden dragon heads which were stolen from the throne of Emperor Chengzu of the Ming dynasty in the 1400’s. A team of experts has restored the dragon head and carefully studied it, current market value of one dragon head is sixteen billion. It is the duty of every emperor to search for and return these dragon heads home. For hundreds of years, this duty has not been satisfied no matter how much effort has gone into the search. I am very glad that in my lifetime as emperor one of these dragon heads can finally come home. We will amp the search for the missing two dragon heads and it is my hope that they too will be found and returned.

The mythical Saoning wreckage which is a myth no longer and some of it’s contents will be put on display at the old restored museum for you all to feast your eyes.

A proper auction is also being arranged and some of the contents of the wreckage will be made available for you to take home.

In light of such a great victory, the royal palace along with the minister for finance and minister for housing have decided to once again revisit the idea of rebuilding and renovating the ancient antique street in Beijing. Rather than destroy it, we shall make it beautiful and restore it to it’s past glory just a piece of our lost glory has come home.

At this junction, I would like to introduce the incoming minister for lost culture, Chi Rui the future husband of your imperial princess Long Rize. He will be answering your questions on the Saoning wreckage, the old restored museum and the auction."

The emperor stepped aside and Chi Rui came forward only to be loudly bombarded by reporters and blinded by flashlights.

"Why are the NBTV reporters acting as if anyone else is competing with them to get to the answers first?" Chi Lian muttered.

Theirs was the only television covering this abrupt and unannounced press conference so why compete with themselves?

Chi Rui was unfazed by their almost rowdy behavior and he maintained perfect silence, staring at them coldly until they calmed down.

"Damn, your brother has already been trained on how to command authority with just the look of his eyes. Look at how those reporters are squirming." T4 cackled, amused by the way the reporters retreated like snails into their shells because it was too hot.

"If that was Mo Pingfan, she would not back down." Chi Lian commented.

"Your emperor is sly as well, that old ancient street is a garbage dump which needs to be destroyed and rebuilt, why is he saying that it will be rebuilt." T4 questioned the motives of the emperor because the ancient street was a focal point of the host’s latest mission.

"It’s probably because his people have made some discoveries related to it. Like Chin Shen Yao of Wun electronics. There must be more in Bai Bao’s grandmother’s books that they have found." She knew that whatever copies Muyang had made for himself, he had shared with the emperor’s people.

Either that or they followed her example and found a rat vendor of their own.

"Didn’t people demonstrate the last time they tried to touch that ancient street?" T4 was sure that he had discovered this information when the host was digging into the background of the building.

Chi Lian took a lemon drop from her bag and popped into her mouth. "They did." she confirmed. "The street was declared some kind of cultural heritage."

"So why stir the pot up again?" T4 asked her.

She could only think of one possible answer, "It could be a distraction, if too many new faces appear in that place the local residents will be curious and suspicious. But, if the emperor’s people sneak in under the disguise of trying to buy up buildings or measure the street or even as a volunteer group against the rebuilding, the local residents will not be too nosy about them. The emperor must be searching for the client list of QB bank and half of the businesses in that ancient street are clients. That’s what I think?"

"So, where does this leave you and the mission?"

"Dammit!" she mumbled and popped another lemon drop into her mouth. Where did this leave her indeed? Did her plan need any readjustments?

"T4 can your system calculate for me how much of my plan is likely to succeed while factoring in any sudden changes?"

"That will be one hundred points please." Not T4’s voice took over. Not T4 was her new reference to the machine like system voice which loved spending her points.

"Accepted." Chi Lian said.

"Thank you for shopping with us, the system is always happy to help." the machine like voice said.

The points were deducted and an answer was given immediately, by T4 this time round.

"The odds are fifty percent that you will be successful with your plan if you stay the course."

Fifty percent!!!! she thought loudly, in her head. If that was all she was going to get from the system then she would not have wasted her points. She could easily have assumed that she would be half victorious for herself.

"You thieving system, damn thieving system."

She would have to start tonight, there would be no more delays to her plans because the emperor’s plans might mess hers up.

"Your spider is back." T4 told her.

He meant Spider, her driver and personal bodyguard, this was not the first nor would be last that he called her people this way. Your spider, your piggy, your chilli.

"You are back so soon." Ignoring T4, she gave her attention to the man that was sliding into the front seat.

"We will get married." he declared. He looked so serious when he said it, and yet unbothered as if he had just said that they would be going for ice cream or pizza.

Chi Lian coughed and the lemon drop in her mouth shot out speedily like a bullet and hit the front seat like a bullet.