During the brief silence, Chiba Ryuji did not reply and looked beside him: "Miss Isamu, I'll ask you outside."

"It must be foolproof."

Isaki didn't mind that he would send him away and left calmly, not forgetting to take away the bottle of Yamazaki on the table.

After the door was closed, only Qianye and Huai Shi were left in the quiet and luxurious private room.

"Speaking of this, we haven't had such an intimate conversation yet, Mr. Huaizhi."

Qianye Ryuuer took out another bottle of good wine, poured a glass of Huai Shi, and sighed: "I originally wanted to summon you to my command. I think we must have a lot of common language. Unexpectedly, the old man Sheng Tianmu took action one step earlier."

Huai Shi frowned in confusion, not understanding what he meant.

Chiba Ryuji picked up the wine glass toast, raised his head and drank it all, raised his sleeves and wiped the remaining wine on his beard, and said bluntly: "I admire you very much, even now, I admire you very much, because you are different from others."

"Mr. Chiba has won the award."

Huai Shi replied: "If you recruit me, you will be exempted. I have no idea of ​​changing the family for the time being."

"Haha, it's not that I don't like to win people's favors. This kind of thing is like a relationship between a man and a woman. It's just that I'm not as beautiful as Li Hua."

Qianye laughed, got up, and signaled Huai Shi to follow him.

Walking to the window, pointing to the gorgeous neon lights shining below.

View from the highest ground direction of the Danbo inner circle.

"Did you see it? Huaizhijun, this is the Empire Hotel, there is the Luohe family's industry, there is the trading company of Shengtianmu family... Well, there is also the Jingtong Electronics, which belongs to you, and there, it should be the Huaizhi group? From here, there, this is the Danbo inner circle."

His fingers turned and pointed to other places:

"I have a clothing factory here, and it's an investment company. Under the Imperial Hotel, I have six stores in the most prosperous place in the inner circle of Tambo... By the way, have you been building a fresh food market recently? I also have a seafood company at the dock."

As if showing off his billions of properties, Chiba Ryuuer said in a nagging manner, and at the end, he told him: "You can choose any of these, just treat them as compensation I give you."

Huai Shi was shocked and difficult to understand.

"I didn't win the bet. In fact, if this was the alliance's decision, I had to follow the choice. Why should I compensate me again?" he said: "I don't think there is any need for compensation."

"What do you want to say, just use funding?"

Chiba Ryuji shook his head and smiled, sucking the wine in his glass: "What you told Akazaki has spread in the alliance these two days. To be honest, I envy you very much."

He whispered: "I am very, very envious of you - no, even if you are jealous, it is not an exaggeration? To me, you are already shining to the point of being disgusting. If possible, I really want you to disappear from the inner circle of Danbo."

In the reflection of the glass, the smile in Chiba Ryuu's eyes gradually faded away, making people feel calm.

Perhaps this is what Chiba Ryuuji really looks like.

When he broke free from the intoxication of alcohol and beauty, he became the ruler of the inner circle of Danbo, regaining the former Chiba family from the brink of destruction, and achieving the ultimate master of Zhongxing with his own strength.

But Huai Shi was still calm, standing in front of the window, looking down at the night below, and when she turned around, her expression became confused.

"I don't remember any taboo I violated, Mr. Chiba." He asked curiously, "Do you need me to apologize? Kneel down and get off the ground?"

Ryuji Chiba asked back: "If I said I wanted it, would you?"

"I will."

Huai Shi replied: "Don't hesitate."

But Qianye was amused and shook his head slowly: "Huaizhijun, you are also a hypocritical person... There is no need for such a ritual that is just like a false one.

I have no reason to get rid of you.”

He raised his hand and patted the young man in front of him on the shoulder: "I know your ambition and your purpose. I know that if you are asked to grow bigger, it will shake the alliance's rule over the inner circle of Tambo in the future.

But it doesn’t matter. I don’t care. To be precise, neither I think you can succeed.”

Chiba Ryuji told him: "Because we have all tried the same things as you."

Huai Shi, stunned in place.

"Do you know? I am 41 years old this year, and I am middle-aged. Sometimes women will have a sore waist and back pain after sleeping. When I get up in the middle of the night, I will miss my past, my physique and actions when I was young. I envy those young, bright, and shining things..."

Chiba Ryuji shook the ice in his cup and sneered: "Even if he was so stupid when he was young - no matter how unbearable the past, when he recalled it, he was actually full of so-called 'hope'."

He said, "We were like you now."

"The old man who had born in Tianmu had tried hard, and was as embarrassed as a dog for this, but he still failed in the end. I was a little smarter and chose to give up early. In the end, I did my best to maintain the continuation of the Qianye family."

He smiled self-deprecatingly and looked at Huai Shi: "Drinking water, food, medical care and education... What you do is much more realistic than I did back then, Huaizhijun, but from beginning to end, you have ignored one problem-"

Qianye Ryuu looked at Huai Shi's eyes and asked softly:

"—You want to make them better, but do they really want to?"

Huai Shi shook her head and replied without thinking: "Will anyone want to live in hell?"

Qianye smiled, "Then go downstairs to the lobby and ask those beautiful girls, tell them not to be prostitutes anymore. There is a stable job with a monthly salary of 50,000 yen to give you. Do you think they will sneer?

You tell me, don’t do the best, we can start again... But where can we have so many opportunities in life? If you miss it, you will miss it.

How can those who have been accustomed to theft, fraud, betrayal and violence since childhood return to normal order?

When you are in your forties or fifties, you feel old and find that you have accomplished nothing. You will be afraid, regretful, and cry. But besides sweatshops, where can you take them in? Convenience stores will despise your tattoos and mixed identity.

At that time, where can you go except this only hell that will tolerate you?"

"Some people always think that as long as there is a chance, the world can become good. But, there is never a shortage of opportunities in this world, right?

Then why is it still so bad?”

In Huai Shi's silence, Qianye Ryuuji calmly told him: "Have paper, even if you can give them countless opportunities, you can't stop the self-degenerate people.

Even if a brief change is coming, it will soon be revealed. When people get used to living in a place without light, they will never be able to leave the darkness again..."

"Do you know? Before you, there were people who worked as hard as you, as full of hope." Chiba Ryuji said: "That person's name is Shencheng Future."

"Shencheng?" Huai Shi was stunned and suspected that she had heard it wrong: "Shencheng is in the future?"

"Yes, Shencheng, the madman you know, Shencheng Future."

Chiba Ryuji laughed mockingly: "It's funny, right? The former Redeemer now wants to tie the entire clan to a chariot.

He has come to us, like you, thinking that he can change everything and hope that we can help him. But we don't.

We watched him struggle coldly, look at his failed miserable appearance, and finally watch him leave alone... His assets were annexed by his allies, his kindness was betrayed by his supporters, and his hopes were trampled into mud by the people he wanted to help.

From beginning to end, we have not stopped it.

Because the inner circle of Danbo is such a cruel place, it is like living, it will kill everything that does not belong to itself, and it will change all those who want to change, including the future of the Divine City, including the birth of the Tianmu, and me and you.

This is not something that can be changed by one person's efforts, nor is it something that can be saved by a group of people's sacrifices."

As he said that, Chiba Ryuji raised his hand and pointed out the glorious city outside the floor-to-ceiling window.

"Look, paperwork.

There is Kyoto Tower, here is the Central District, and there is the direction of Qingshuiban, Youjing, Zuojing, Dongshan, Shanke, Xijing, Xiajing...

Look at how huge and brilliant the outside world is.

If you look down from the sky, the so-called Danbo inner circle and Danbo area are such a narrow place, compared to this city, they are as small as garbage cans.

No matter how high or low we are, we are all ants who survive here, and prisoners who are imprisoned here. We are just the 'king of the infinite universe' in this core."

His back was facing the brilliant lights, and his smile became self-deprecating and weird, "You want to get the rights from the alliance to change all this, but you have found the wrong direction at all - it has never been the alliance that ruled the Danbo inner circle, it is the Danbo inner circle that ruled the alliance!

And it won't accept the changes you want."

In the long silence, Chiba Ryuu looked at the young man in front of him, but until the end, his determined look had never changed at all.

No matter how shaken, it is shocked and confused.

"Thank you for your reminder and warning, Mr. Chiba."

Huai Shi calmly replied: "Even so, I will not give up."

"So, it's great to be young..."

Qianye shook his head and waved his hand indifferently: "With paper, you can work hard, we will not stop you, but you will fail, everything you try will not succeed, and your efforts are meaningless.

Now, you can leave.”

In the distance, the bell at twelve o'clock rang.

Fanatic cheers rang out of the box, celebrating the birth of a new generation of gambling kings. Outside the window, gorgeous fireworks rose into the sky, illuminating the young man's pupils.

It was like a fire was lit in the abyss.

"Mr. Chiba, maybe I will fail in the end, but I don't think my efforts will be in vain-"

Even though he knew the final outcome, he was still smiling: "No matter how much he paid, even if only one person can be saved, I believe it is worth it."

In this way, he said goodbye politely and turned away.

The door is closed.
Chapter completed!