"Chu Mo, it's been some time since we last met, and you look even better now. I wonder if you are still satisfied with the twelve Golden Phoenixes I sent you. Those twelve children were meticulously trained by our Liu family. Honestly, if it weren't for you, Chu Mo, I would have found it hard to part with them to anyone else!"
Zhongzhou's Liu family head, Liu Peng, with his short and stout stature, eyes crinkling in a smile.
He stretched out his plump hands and, when shaking hands with Chu Mo, he gripped firmly, which might have led an uninformed onlooker to believe the pair shared a friendly relationship. However, in reality, Chu Mo was engaged in various types of overt and covert struggles with the eight major families of Hua Country represented by the Liu family, with both sides virtually at each other's throats.
Chu Mo withdrew his hand from the other man's grip; he had not invited the man standing before him, who had come uninvited, presumably not with good intentions.
