Eleven thirty in the afternoon.
The investment summit was temporarily suspended, allowing attendees to take a short break before enjoying a working lunch prepared well in advance by the Soaring Group. After lunch there would be about an hour of rest before the meeting resumed at two o'clock.
Yan Qinglai's early departure from the scene meant that it was impossible for him to continue attending the meeting. While the other attendees were enjoying their working lunch, he was already aboard a plane back to Yanjing.
His haste to leave the East Sea was due, in part, to his unwillingness to continue facing embarrassment, but more so due to the extremely dangerous aura he sensed from Chen Fan's attitude today. He needed to return to Yanjing as quickly as possible to come up with a strategy.