Chapter 163 The Mistake from Two Years Ago
“The rest of what happened, you already know.”
The old man in Tang robes rubbed the gold coin between his fingertips and turned to look out the floor-to-ceiling window.
“A girl capable of making the Magician mobilize on such a scale had to be extraordinarily special, extraordinarily important—perhaps connected to some highly unusual secret.”
“So I privately made a deal with [the Puppet]—I offered a condition he simply couldn’t refuse. Heh, in the face of sufficient temptation and benefits, all principles are nothing but floating clouds.”
“[The Puppet] naturally agreed to the deal. That was how we were finally able to begin our ‘Key Plan.’”
“All this time, we never knew what use this key would have. But since the Magician was willing to pay such an enormous price for this girl, then there was no need for us to overthink it. We simply had to sharpen this [Key] properly and quietly wait for the appearance of the [Lock].”
The middle-aged man leaned back against the chair, hands folded over his stomach.
“And then little Jiang Ran, carrying that Genius Playground micro-film, appeared in such plain and unadorned fashion.”
“When you first showed me Jiang Ran’s profile, I flipped to the final page and saw the section you had circled in red—Jiang Ran and Cheng Mengxue just so happened to be childhood sweethearts and close friends who had grown up together since they were young; and when that car accident happened two years ago, Jiang Ran had also been there at the scene.”