Chapter Three: What Thirty Million Cannot Buy

Liang stepped closer. “You think Gu Wanqing chose you? Far Lantern backed seven projects before yours. Their founders either went bankrupt or disappeared. It isn't a fund. It's a sieve.” Before Jiming could answer, the system opened by itself. 【Phase access increased. Accumulated Reversal Value: 17.】 【Final trial begins at 100. Failure will reclaim all returned resources.】 【Warning: the object of the host's greatest desire has entered evaluation.】 Across the crowd, Xu Zhi was shielding him from reporters. She looked back. She did not smile, but she had not left. For the first time, Jiming feared the system. Because he suddenly understood that thirty million had never been what he wanted most.