How she called on clients one house at a time, how she negotiated one deal after another, how she made the Lin family's enterprises grow rapidly step by step, and how she recruited and trained batch after batch of talent.

Wei Zhao listened with keen relish.

Say what you would, this woman's gift for storytelling was truly first-rate.

Told by anyone else, the same material would have been tedious and flat—this sort of thing was hardly novel, and at the end of the day there was only so much to it.

But spoken from Lin Hongchou's mouth, it produced an entirely different effect.

Plainly an ordinary enough matter, yet when she reached the moving passages, the emotions of the entire populace of Tianjun—Wei Zhao included—were carried along with her.