Lu Sheng was instantly stunned.
Mountain-Edge City and Nine Links City were incomparably different. A restaurant in Mountain-Edge City was worth at least ten restaurants in Nine Links City!
And there were actually FIFTEEN such restaurants here! This way exceeded the typical extravagance! Even if his entire Lu Family’s assets were sold off, it might not even be enough to purchase them.
This was because, apart from the money required on the surface, to be able to establish a restaurant in such a place, there were too many other dealings to be made under the table that would require vast resources. All in all, this would incur at least over a million taels’ worth of silver notes. This was already more than half of what the Lu Family had.
THIS was what tyranny looked like!
In this precise moment, Lu Sheng understood what was meant by "money means power" and "money makes the world go round"! And, what it meant to be a man-pet…
[1] ED/N: The term "research student" here may also refer to a graduate or postgraduate student.
[2] ED/N: If you're curious wtf Ying Ying means, it seems to mean "oriole oriole" :3
ED/N: MC is called here Yue Sheng--it's not a typo, nor is it some kind of mistake. The explanation will appear in the next chapter.