Chapter Five: The Blockade That Failed

Chengze snapped his pen. A flower basket arrived at Qiming that afternoon. Lin Wanqing's card read: *Congratulations, Chenzhou. Dinner tonight? We should not be enemies.* "Your former fiancée?" Qinghe asked. "A venture capitalist." He dropped the card into the bin. "She used to want to invest in me personally." "And now?" "She realizes she missed the cheapest round." His phone rang. Beichen, a European club, offered twenty-eight million for Lu Ye. Before the news became public, another call arrived. Chengze's newly formed Xinghai Sports offered forty million. Watching Lu Ye run across the training field, Chenzhou smiled. The fish had finally seen the bait.