After Shen Yuechuan and Mu Sijue had left, Lu Boyan was left alone in the spacious office.

Despite the mountainous pile of documents on his desk, waiting for him to go through, he was standing in front of the window, holding a half-finished cigarette between his fingers; flakes of ashes had deposited on the floor all around his feet.

There was a time when he had been a heavy smoker. It was also during that time that he had accidentally discovered Su Yicheng's ...