Yes, Miranda knew about L’s dragon-shaped jade pendant. She couldn’t forget it since he was holding onto it tightly when she hit him with her car.


    When Summer showed her the painting earlier, Miranda tried to hide her confusion.


    Upon hearing this, L’s face changed and his eyes became cold. “Are you threatening me?”


    Miranda felt his gaze and couldn’t help but stare at him with resentment. “Yes, I am threatening you. What are you going to do about it? Are you going to listen to me or not?”


    L frowned as he noticed Miranda’s expression. He softened his tone and said, “Okay, I’ll listen to you. But my dear wife… you have to keep this a secret for me.”


    Mason red at him hatefully and snorted coldly. “We’ll see how well-behaved you can be.”


    “I’ve been behaving pretty well so far,” L retorted defensively.


    “You’ve been a disaster!” Miranda ground her teeth together as she spoke in an icy tone.


    L scratched his nose awkwardly as he realized that women could change their minds quickly.


    What did he do wrong tonight?


    As soon as L arrived home, a small figure ran out excitedly towards him waving its little hand, “Daddy! Daddy is back!” Nora shouted happily.


    A smile of indulgence appeared on L’s face as he crouched down and picked up Nora in his arms before spinning around once with her in tow. “Daddy is back now! Where did Daddy go?”


    “Nora missed Daddy so much,” the little girl pouted cutely while looking up at him expectantly.


    “I’m here now,” replied L while yfully pinching Nora’s nose before turning towards the nanny who had juste out of the house, “Have both of you eaten yet?”


    “Yes sir,” nodded the nanny respectfully while smiling warmly at them both, “Miss Nora has been waiting for your return.”


    Lina’s words made L feel tender-hearted inside…


    An hourter!


    After soothing Nora to sleep, L found himself in the courtyard, once again practicing the Dragon Soul Immortal Technique in an attempt to break through the bottleneck and enter the Uppecia realm.


    However, he failed once more, unable to sessfully liquefy the true energy within his body.


    “The spiritual energy of heaven and earth is too thin, and I can only rely on treasures like the Heavenly Spirit Jade to break through!” L shook his head with a sigh.


    Nora’s illness had him feeling helpless, but L firmly believed that as he increased his strength, he would find a solution.


    However, Summer’s appearance tonight also made L feel a sense of crisis. A young woman of simr age who was almost as strong as him? There were definitely many people in this world stronger than him. His strength was still far from enough!


    Just then, his phone rang. It was Mason calling.


    “Brother-inw, I have some news about what you asked me to look into! In one week at the Graham family auction, they’re going to auction off a piece of spirit jade. I don’t know if it’s the Heavenly Spirit Jade you mentioned, but it seems like it’s used for martial arts cultivation and contains very rich spiritual energy!”


    Mason told L everything he knew about the uing auction at the Graham family estate in Ednd. The Graham family was an extremely low-key martial arts n with much greater power than even their first-ss Lowe family n.


    They held auctions every so often where they sold rare items that were useful only to martial artists or other entric individuals – items that usually went for astronomical prices.


    “For example,” Mason exined further, “a single pill they make could cost tens of millions or more; a set of martial arts techniques could easily go for billions…”


    L raised an eyebrow at this information.”Billions? How many billions?”


    The Graham family may be reclusive and secretive but their wealth and power were not insignificant – after each auction event they held they would typically earn tens or even hundreds of billions in revenue alone!


    In addition, there were many skilled martial artists in this family who would do jobs for others, but their prices were exorbitant. Of course, the strength of these hired experts was unquestionable.


    Jay imed to be the number one expert in Kreanford, but in reality, it was possible that there were stronger individuals within the Graham family who simply didn’t make a show of it.


    After Mason finished speaking, L furrowed his brow. Whether or not the Graham family had any unbeatable experts wasn’t his concern; he cared more about the astronomical prices for auction items that Mason mentioned.


    ording to Mason’s words, that piece of spirit jade could easily fetch billions! It seemed like the saying “poor schrs and rich warriors” was true indeed. The path of cultivation really did require a lot of money.


    Erik had given him 2 million dors before and Grace had also deposited 1 million into his ount – enough to offset what he spent buying back his factory. He still had around 2 million left over now.


    He thought he was pretty wealthy until now; however, those 2 million didn’t seem like much anymore…


    L hadn’t considered asking Miranda for money – otherwise he’d truly be a freeloader. Besides, Lowe’s Pharmaceutical funds weren’t entirely Miranda’s; they also needed to be invested into production costs such as purchasing raw materials or even expanding factories…


    “Brother-inw! Are you short on cash? No worries – I can lend you 20 million!” Mason seemed to sense L’s predicament and offered generously.


    The businesses under him belonged nominally under him but most of their ie went straight into Victoria’s pocket instead… 20 million dors was currently all that Mason could offer L without reservation as a brother-inw.


    “Well… alright then! Consider it borrowed.” L hesitated briefly before epting with some embarrassment because he urgently wanted to break through this bottleneck stage and couldn’t refuse help from others at this point in time.


    Mainly because L believed that with his current abilities alone, paying back these 20 million wouldn’t be an issue eventually anyway…


    “What borrowing? Don’t talk nonsense with me!” Mason snapped impatiently at him over the phone before they chatted briefly again then hung up.


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    Victoria’s face remained very ugly even today inside her old mansion belonging to Lowe family…


    After being so angry that she coughed up blood, there was always an unhealthy flush on her face.


    “Cough, cough…”


    She coughed a few times and there was another bloodstain on her handkerchief.


    A doctor was massaging her meridians beside her with a slightly furrowed brow.


    “Dr. Hughes, how is my mom doing?” Romeo asked with concern on his face.


    “Well… your mother had anger attacking her heart before. I gave her a prescription to take regrly every day. She should be fine!” Dr. Hughes replied.


    “Make sure she adjusts her mentality and takes good care of herself!” Dr. Hughes pulled Romeo aside and instructed him in a low voice.


    Romeo nodded and nced at Victoria before shing a hint of coldness in his eyes.


    After the doctor left, Victoria asked suspiciously, “Romeo, what’s wrong? What did the doctor say?”


    Romeo’s eyes flickered for a moment but he looked hesitant as he said, “Mom… nothing! The doctor said you just need to take good care of yourself.”


    Although he said there was nothing wrong with his mother’s health, he still had the look of someone attending a funeral about him.


    The way he acted and spoke didn’t seem like everything was okay at all.