Rich In a Brief
56

"Lia, do you have to be this cruel?" Luis asked.

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"Ha! Try it if you dare." Lia grinned with a cold look, giving Luis a goosebumpy back.

A waiter escorted them to a private room. The white and fine wooden door opened, and a young man sat in the room. The man wore a light blue shirt, and exuded a mysterious aura. He looked like a man who had been in power for a long time.

A person who can emit such an aura is a person who has a lot of experience in life, and that aura cannot be had in just a few days.

Luis doesn't have that aura.

"Lia, you've come." The young man stood up and greeted as he extended his hand to shake Lia's hand.

From the first second of their meeting, the man didn't even ask about Luis. It was as if Luis wasn't there.

He is very wise in handling the situation. According to the man, Luis' identity is not important. He realized that Lia's arrival was the most important.

"It's nice to meet you." Before Lia could answer, Luis grabbed a hand

that guy's. "It's nice to meet you too. What should I call you?"

Albert frowned while shaking Luis' hand. He felt Luis was acting pretty familiar with him. "I'm Albert Sanjaya."

"Albert, huh? Please sit down." Luis pointed towards the chair opposite him, as if this was his home.

"If I may know, who are you?" Albert looked at Luis.

"of course! I'm Lia's boyfriend." Stretching out her arms, she pulled Lia close to her and looked at Albert stiffly.

"Oh, really?" Albert remained calm and sat in the seat opposite them as Luis suggested. "Lia's never told me about this before."

Albert knew that it was not good for him to explode in front of Lia. He doesn't care about Luis.

"I don't think I need to tell you, Albert."

Lia replied to him in a cynical tone, then sat down.

Luis remained silent and sat down beside Lia. Based on experience, he doesn't need to do anything else. It's Lia who will handle the rest.

Albert felt a little clumsy hearing Lia's reply. "You must be kidding, Lia. I'm just showing you my care."

"I don't think it's necessary, because we're not so close." Lia glanced at him without showing any emotion on her face.

"really?"

Albert forced to smile and said, "Come, we'll eat first."

"really. Come, eat. I'm hungry" Luis said excitedly. He likes free food.

Albert doesn't talk much. He clapped his hands, and the waiters waiting outside started working. They placed the silver cutlery on the table, and it looked like a banquet for the nobles of the last century.

The dishes served are fresh vegetables with a small bowl of tomato soup, potato salad with black truffle mushroom, smoked salmon, pumpkin soup, fried red snapper, and caviar with seafood cream sauce.

Looking at the dishes, Luis rolled his eyes. "What's the point of eating all this? I'd better eat pancakes" he thought.

Although the ingredients of each dish on the table were much more expensive than pancakes, Luis felt the pancakes would be much more filling.

Albert laughed and said, "How? Do you like it? The head chef here has three Michelin stars."

Only distinguished guests had the honor of having such a class chef cook for them.

"I don't like western food because I've eaten it too often while studying abroad. Now that I saw it, I lost my appetite. I'd prefer it if you ordered Cania's food."

Meanwhile, Albert's smile stiffened after his flattery failed. "I thought you were more used to living abroad and wouldn't like local food."

"I'm only briefly living abroad." Lia chuckled, yet in her eyes was a hint of a mocking glint.

For Lia, any food was fine, but the one who ate with it was the one that mattered.

"Huh. Right," replied Albert who was speechless.

During the meal, they had finished several bottles of wine. Lia stood up to go to the restroom.

Luis and Albert ate in silence. In the room, all that was heard was the sound of the clink of their cutlery.

"By the way, aren't you supposed to bully me? Like telling me to leave Lia, for example?" Luis asked and glanced at Albert who was eating quietly without any reaction.

"It's supposed to happen like that in novels and dramas, right? Then, I'll go on a show and break his confidence" Luis thought.

Albert raised his head to look at the man sitting in front of him and said, "You're watching too much drama. I think I know who you are. You're Luis, right?"

"Huh?" Luis was stunned because he did not expect Albert to know his name. "Are you paranormal?"

"Not to be surprised. There weren't many men around Lia all this time. You are probably the closest to her other than her brother," Albert said casually.

Luis lifted the glass and sipped his drink. The bartender specially prepared the Sauvignon Blanc from Firian which tasted better than ordinary wine.

He kept drinking because he didn't know what else to say.

"Don't worry. I have no intention of marrying Lia.” Albert shrugged his shoulders while putting on a carefree expression and said, "Actually, I came here just because my family arranged it. It doesn't matter to me if this matchmaking works or not. Besides, I don't have to risk offending Lia by getting you into a fight. Lia scary. I don't want to try it with him."

A bitter smile appeared on his face as he said that.

Apparently, Albert was very understanding of Lia's nature.

"Good, if you know. Don't make life difficult for yourself." Luis nodded.

"How many events have Lia and I destroyed?" thought Luis.

There are some influential people involved. However, no one had asked them to fight for many years.

First, he was just an ordinary person. Second, no one dared to face Lia because of it.

Albert looked at Luis. He asked casually, "By the way, I'm having a project. Are you interested? I'll share his profits with you in honor of Lia. Come on, we make money together."

He was very satisfied with Luis' intelligence.

Albert laughed loosely and thought, "It will be easier to get things done if we work together. Plus, he'll be in my control."

"What project?"

Luis raised his eyebrows. To be honest, he did have a lot of extra money. Maybe not much, but at least he has 2 million dollars.

"I heard news that Hennerik Industry will set up a subsidiary in Malatam. We are thinking of investing in a factory here to work with them" Albert replied.

The plan is not a secret. Many people already know it and want to take part for it.

"What about your technology?" ask Luis. The Hennerik industry has very high technological requirements, and most of the project cooperation is within that industry.

"Technology is not a problem. The problem is we don't know who to look for" Albert said.

"If you don't know who to look for, why don't you just go for Luis?"