Chapter 1068: Chapter 1068

"Hold your horses, Tang Xin hasn’t appeared yet, probably waiting to make a grand entrance."

Fu Tianbao comforted briefly, coldly looking at the people from the Dark Group faction.

Just then, the doors to the banquet were pushed open, and a dazzling, charming couple walked in.

Tang Ming was wearing a slim black tailcoat, paired with a white shirt, a deep red diamond-studded bow tie at the collar, and shiny reflective leather shoes. His wickedly handsome face instantly captivated every woman’s gaze.

Su Xiaoxi had also dressed meticulously today, her hair up with sparkling diamond hairclips, an elegant yet sexy makeup, and a white low-cut long jumpsuit that accentuated her graceful curves perfectly.

The moment Tang Ming and Su Xiaoxi appeared, they captured the attention of the entire room, with Su Tianyu leading the Ming Group faction to greet them promptly.

Seeing Su Tianyu and others place so much importance on the guests, other family forces, recalling the legendary Tang Xin who helped the Dark Group win the martial arts competition, hurriedly followed to greet them.

Su Xiaoxi, with a smile on her face and holding onto Tang Ming’s arm, made eye contact with the guests.

Tang Ming, meanwhile, smiled mischievously, scanning around, searching for where the banquet food was kept, starving after not eating all day.

Su Tianyu and others personally received Tang Ming, expressing gratitude with sincere reverence, then led him to meet various family members and other noble elites.

Tang Ming, hungry and smiling to the point of stiffness, had no choice but to accompany them unwillingly, unable to lash out spontaneously.

After accompanying for a while, Su Xiaoxi was pulled aside by the socialites and young noblewomen of the Imperial City, chatting endlessly.

With the Su Family now being the leading family among the nine great families, as the cherished pearl of the Su Family, Su Xiaoxi’s status had also risen significantly.

After this competition, Su Xiaoxi officially became the top young lady in the martial arts circle of the Imperial City, backed by the number one Su Family and a phenomenal fiancé, she could now walk horizontally in the Imperial City.

Seeing Su Xiaoxi transform from the Su Family’s young lady to everyone’s object of flattery and praise, many felt uneasy inside.

Even the families from the Dark Group faction, witnessing how the Su Family gained such a strong and favorable support like Tang Ming due to Su Xiaoxi, couldn’t help but feel envious and resentful, lamenting why their daughters couldn’t be as outstanding as Su Xiaoxi.

Facing countless people’s envy, Su Xiaoxi had unspeakable bitterness inside.

To get close to Tang Ming, she sacrificed so much, gave up dignity, shame, and even her first time to a cucumber, yet her relationship with Tang Ming hadn’t substantively changed, all that remained was helplessness.

After socializing briefly, Tang Ming found an excuse to quietly slip away to the food area, and began eating heartily, too lazy to bother with those self-proclaimed upper-class folks with their hypocritical masks, talking nonsense seriously.

Starving all day, filling one’s stomach was the real priority.

Just as Tang Ming was eating heartily, Fu Tianyou suddenly jumped out, gritting his teeth and shouting, "Return the martial arts competition base to me, your formula is completely ineffective."

With food in his mouth, Tang Ming looked at Fu Tianyou quizzically, asking, "How can it be ineffective, haven’t those poisoned been detoxified?"

"Although they were detoxified, they’ve all become idiots now, you must have done something shady."

Fu Tianyou furiously stared at Tang Ming and shouted.

"Tsk, detoxification proves there’s no problem with my formula, why should I refund?"

Tang Ming rolled his eyes, swallowing his food, and coldly looked at Fu Tianyou, "Those people turning into idiots should be because the poisoning lasted too long, detoxified too late, hence the aftereffects. Besides, when I gave you the formula, you only asked for detoxification, didn’t ask what condition they’d be in post-detoxification?"

Upon hearing this, Fu Tianyou was momentarily speechless.

"How about this, I’ll help cure those idiots too, as long as you pay an extra fee, I promise to restore them to their pre-poisoned state and even make them smarter, how’s that?"

Tang Ming smiled slyly at Fu Tianyou, all within his expectations, his goal was to make money.

Fu Tianyou froze, suspiciously staring at Tang Ming, "The doctor said there’s no way to cure them, you aren’t trying to scam me again, are you?"

"Just kidding, I’m always true to my word. If I say I can cure them, I surely can."

Tang Ming nodded firmly, impatiently saying, "Anyway, I can cure them, it’s up to you whether you believe it."

"Wait, how much do you want this time?"

Fu Tianyou looked at Tang Ming warily.

"Don’t worry, this counts as after-sales service, I won’t rip you off, just count one person as ten million."

Tang Ming proposed very generously.

Upon hearing this, Fu Tianyou hesitated, muttering, "Ten million per person isn’t expensive."

Ten million per person, compared to the previous price of one hundred million per person that Tang Ming casually demanded was indeed much cheaper, and these were Ming Group’s technological talents, worth the price.

"Hehe, this is me giving you a discounted rate because you’re a regular customer, for anyone else, restoring a scientist’s intellect definitely wouldn’t be this cheap."

Tang Ming looked at Fu Tianyou with a wicked smile.

"Cheap...cheap your ass, doing the math, twenty people means two hundred million, you’re still ripping people off."

Fu Tianyou suddenly realized, furiously stared at Tang Ming, though the unit price was cheap, the total amount was still considerable.

"Two hundred million only, that’s peanuts to the wealthy Ming Group, isn’t it?"

Tang Ming smiled, spoke speechlessly,

"Anyway, the price is out, accept it or not, that’s up to you. But let me tell you, wanting me to return the base, that’s absolutely impossible, if you’re not afraid of deaths, go ahead and try, might have to spend several billion more for treatments!"

Fu Tianyou snorted coldly, stared at Tang Ming for a long time. With the precedent of the biochemical laboratory, he really dared not send people to forcibly reclaim the base.

"What exactly do you say, don’t delay me eating."

Tang Ming picked up a sandwich, eating as he impatiently urged.

"How about this, treat one person first, I’ll pay ten million."

Fu Tianyou wised up this time, cautiously proposed, "Now you can give me the formula, right?"

"Sorry, treating them doesn’t require a formula, this isn’t detoxification, it’s dealing with mental issues, I must personally step in to help them recover."

Tang Ming looked at Fu Tianyou playfully, knowing this guy got scared of being scammed by him.