At the same time.
Just across the street from Jingcheng Building, inside a high-end private dining restaurant called "Silver Banquet," in a street-facing third-floor room, Xue Mingyuan took a deep drag on a custom-made unbranded cigarette and then extinguished it in the ashtray.
With Xue Mingyuan's action, his secretary Wan Xingyi hurried forward to remove the ashtray immediately, while a scantily clad waitress swiftly turned on the exhaust fan to clear the room of smoke.
"I heard once, when Old Qian from Qianjiang Real Estate hosted Yan Lingchuan for dinner, he didn't know Yan couldn't stand the smell of smoke. He smoked throughout the meal, and soon after, the project at Magic City Bund fell through."
Xue Mingyuan said indifferently, "It was only after that that Old Qian went to apologize, standing at the door for a whole day before meeting Yan."
