Zombie Bodyguard
Chapter 164 - 163: The Unlucky Boss

What does a bustling crowd sound like? This was a living example. Lin Tian stood at the entrance, looking into the throng of people and sighed.

"You three beauties need to be careful, with so many people around, someone might take the opportunity to cop a feel, and that would be a real loss," Lin Tian said with a smile, eyeing the shapely figures of the Xiao sisters and Secretary Xu, and kindly cautioned them.

But even good intentions can provoke contempt; Miss gave him a roll of her eyes—his words were kind, but his gaze seemed too unabashed, no wonder Miss reacted that way.

However, it was Xiao Manxuan who was more petulant; she waved her fist and glared as she said, "If anyone dares to cop a feel, I’ll flatten them. I wasn’t even afraid of those demons and ghosts last night, why would I be afraid of a lowlife!"

After what happened last night, the little girl’s courage had grown. Having seen strange and eerie things like a female Heavenly Master and vampires, she now felt braver. Especially given how the beautiful female Heavenly Master casually flung talismans to fight vampires, she found it incredibly cool and admirable.

Clearly, she aspired to be like the female Heavenly Master, but she hadn’t realistically assessed her own abilities; she was a novice and offering herself up would truly make her someone else’s prey.

As the four of them joked around, it seemed they were blocking someone else’s path; someone behind them said loudly and displeasedly, "You’re in the way at the entrance, how is anyone supposed to get in!"

Upon hearing this, Lin Tian looked around and realized that they indeed stood in the doorway. Normally, this wouldn’t be a problem since there were other paths to take, but today, with so many people, even a bit of space became too narrow.

He stepped aside, while also glancing over at the speaker. There were four people in the other party, and Lin Tian actually recognized all of them. The most eye-catching was the chubby man in the middle, with a cigar in his mouth that he didn’t light, his large belly protruding, resembling someone in the late stages of pregnancy.

That man was the chubby businessman Lin Tian had run into in Area 2; the coquettish woman next to him was his mistress.

When she saw Lin Tian, she secretly sent him a flirtatious look, a slight gesture that might escape the chubby businessman but not hide from Xiao Manxue, a woman herself.

Xiao Manxue looked at the coquettish woman with hostility, then glanced at Lin Tian. Seeing that he looked straight ahead, she felt satisfied.

Lin Tian was not indifferent to beautiful women, but he thought that this woman attracted people’s attention merely by daring to be revealing. In reality, her figure and looks were quite inferior to Secretary Xu’s, let alone compared with the Xiao sisters.

He spent each day with the Xiao sisters, and even Li Xiaoxiao, who he had seen during that car race, possessed a demeanor and physique that didn’t fall short of Xiao Manxuan, far surpassing the coquettish woman.

A woman can attract quite a bit of attention by being revealing, but that is only an attraction of a lower order. Beauties like the Xiao sisters don’t need to show skin; their charm radiates naturally.

No matter what this woman was like, Lin Tian shifted his gaze to the other two people. One was the stall owner from whom Xiao Manxuan had selected the ’Emperor Green’ icy jade material; he had thought at the time that Lin Tian was a rich second generation, foolish with too much money.

The other was even more tragic, he was Bai Yuze’s so-called friend, the stall owner who had fainted from anger after Lin Tian bought an extremely fine piece of red fei cui from him at an incredibly low price.

As for how the two had come to know this fat businessman, Lin Tian wasn’t sure, but it was normal for these raw jade stone merchants to know a few particularly wealthy clients.

These raw jade stone merchants loved dealing with rich people who pretended to understand jade stone gambling, as they could always coax these wealthy businessmen into buying their raw jade stones.

"I recognize you, you’re the one who bought that extremely fine piece of red fei cui from my stall!" Bai Yuze’s so-called friend recognized Lin Tian instantly.

He couldn’t not remember him, he would probably never forget it in his lifetime. A piece of raw jade stone, which he considered ordinary, had turned out to be an extremely fine red fei cui worth hundreds of millions. The memory of such a tragic event caused him pain every time he thought about it.

If he had known beforehand not to be provoked by Bai Yuze’s instigation, he would have regretted it. Perhaps the stone wouldn’t have sold, and on a whim, he would have cut it open himself and struck it rich. Alas, a fortune of several hundred million had slipped through his fingers, and he held a deep grudge against Bai Yuze for it; it was all his doing.

"Mr. Zhu, is the young man you mentioned him?" The other stall owner asked with a serious expression, a bad premonition in his heart. After all, Lin Tian had also purchased a piece of raw jade from his stall.

"Boss Zhu, this amazing red fei cui that’s been the talk of the town these past few days, was it really him who uncovered it?" The fat businessman frowned at Lin Tian and then turned to ask the unfortunate Mr. Zhu.

"Mr. Qian, Brother Lu..." Mr. Zhu glanced at the fat businessman and the other stall owner, then let out a long sigh: "Sigh... You’re right, the extremely fine red fei cui indeed came from my stall, and it was this young man here who uncovered it."

News of Lin Tian uncovering an extremely fine red fei cui worth hundreds of millions couldn’t be concealed from those well-informed businessmen and had already spread throughout the Gambling Stone Festival. Before long, Lin Tian’s name would be known all over the Jade Industry, and the story of his bet with Bai Yuze would become an amusing tale circulated there.

Of course, Bai Yuze would become the butt of jokes, while Lin Tian would be praised as an outstanding young man. Bai Yuze, as a junior member of the Bai Family known in the jade world, frequented many major gambling stone markets and had a significant reputation in stone gambling.

He had indeed brought a lot of prestige to the Bai Family; whenever the Bai Family was mentioned, people knew they had a promising young successor named Bai Yuze. However, in his attempt to make things difficult for Lin Tian, he had hit a snag.

The reputation he had painstakingly built could be ruined overnight. Society is so realistic that people with greater fame can’t afford even the slightest failure. Once they fail, others will relentlessly kick them while they’re down and badmouth them.

"Boss Zhu, I heard that this matter started because of that Bai Family’s Bai Yuze. Wasn’t it said that he was quite capable? Could he really have misjudged an extremely fine red fei cui? To have it snatched right under his nose, it seems he’s not all that after all!" The businessman known as Boss Qian indeed began to look down on Bai Yuze.

Even as Bai Yuze’s friend, Mr. Zhu couldn’t say much in his defense, since he was one of the involved parties. Meanwhile, Boss Lu, looking somewhat uneasy, asked Lin Tian, "Hello, brother, if I’m not mistaken, you also bought a piece of stone from my stall yesterday. May I know what kind of jade you uncovered from it?"

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