She even understood; the female celebrity was Lu Siyuan.
In that second, the bluesy tassel chandelier overhead switched to white incandescent light. Media reporters orderly positioned their cameras outside the red line. Within three brief minutes, the business and political figures attending the meeting silently took their seats. In a display of decorum befitting the solemn occasion, no one uttered a sound, all listening to the speaker on stage.
On stage, the director of United Bank's corporate investment department was speaking, announcing the planned funding.
The sum, measured in trillions, was unimaginably vast.
Zhou Luchen sat in the principal seat in the front row, his face indistinct. He occasionally flipped through the files in his hands, calmly conversing in a low voice with the conference leader beside him.