Chapter 109: There's a Ghost!

The cross of gazes was a momentary flash.

Then Ji Jue withdrew his gaze and never looked back, the smile on his face unchanged. He quietly watched the dynamic scene at the side of the event, like a bystander who had not participated.

By now he was almost ten thousand percent certain:

Trouble was coming.

He just didn't know how much the person opposite had spent to make this woman snarl and turn into a mad dog guarding her food.

Everyone was working on contract, why make it tough on another contractor?

They could have negotiated privately, crafted some flair and excitement, and shared the money afterward—it wasn't impossible since money wasn't everything. Friendship comes first, competition second.

Of course, provided he wasn't the one coming second.

But seeing the other party cozy with Mu Jiang as if a single entity, he didn't seem like a working stiff like himself, perhaps even a deep-level partner.

So since you don't want friendship...