When I went home for Chinese New Year, I spent a million times more money on my foreign wife.

The twelve mechs came to a steady stop. The dull metallic scraping sound was abruptly cut off in front of the gate.

Lei Zi pressed down on his headset.

"Teams one and two disperse, and the outer perimeter cordon is moved outward by fifty kilometers."

After setting everything up, he jogged forward and opened the main car door.

Chen Yang bent down and carried Katyusha out of the carriage.

Katyusha's heavy wedding robe trailed on the ground, and the aurora borealis dome's light shone on the golden lines, reflecting a dazzling light.

Two four-meter-high one-way bulletproof glass doors slowly slid open to the sides.

Warm air wafted out of the room, carrying the rich fragrance of millions of haute couture roses.

Chen Yang carried her as they stepped onto the red carpet in the main hall.

On hundreds of mahogany chairs on both sides of the hall, various tycoons sat upright.

The moment Chen Yang entered was captured.

Everyone abandoned all pretenses and airs, their movements perfectly synchronized, pulling out their chairs and standing up straight in unison.

There was no negotiation, no whispering.

Crown Prince of Al Aal in the Middle East, oil tycoon in North America, and political figure from an old European money family.

All 1,400+ people in the audience turned their heads and locked onto the man in the dark red tuxedo with Chinese knot buttons.

Chen Yang stepped onto the white jade steps and walked to the center of the main stage.

He slowly lowered his center of gravity, gently placing Katyusha flat on the ground.

The crystal lamps hanging overhead dimmed one after another.

The main control screen emitted a blinding blue light.

A 3D holographic projection device descended from the ceiling, and a beam of intense light pierced through the hall, striking the open space in front of the two people.

There are no cross-border charts displayed.

The interplay of light and shadow creates the image of a dilapidated, cramped green train carriage.

The ground was littered with sunflower seed shells, the metal windows were peeling, and the carriage aisles were murky and greasy.

Right in the center of the picture.

A young man in a worn-out coarse cloth down jacket held half a red sausage, greasy in his hand, and handed it to a Slavic blonde runaway girl across from him, whose face was covered in mud and dust.

A huge wave of excitement suddenly swept through the entire guest area.

The head of the Frankfurt Financial Group leaned forward violently, his left arm knocking over a glass of soda water on the edge of the table.

The wine spilled through the expensive handmade tablecloth and dripped onto his leather shoes, but he didn't even bother to pull out a tissue to wipe it up.

Several partners at the Wall Street hedge fund shook their heads violently.

The head butler of the European Ross family lost his grip, and the hardcover notebook fell onto the carpet.

That Eastern behemoth, capable of severing Europe's lifeline with a mere flick of its finger, actually built its fortune on the foundation of half a sausage from a rotten train.

The Crown Prince of Al Aal in the Middle East turned to the side and pointed at the holographic screen.

"What is that reddish object?"

The chief translator quickly flipped through the tablet presentation.

"Your Highness, this is a cheap meat produced in the extremely cold eastern region, called red sausage."

The crown prince took off his emerald ring and threw it directly into the translator's arms.

"Immediately contact them to acquire the entire production line of this factory, and exchange it for the oil shale mining rights on the East Coast. This will be the main course for future state banquets at the Royal Palace."

Chen Yue walked onto the stage from the shadows, carrying a pure silver tray.

Chen Yang picked up the black velvet square box from the plate.

Thumb snaps. The lid flips back.

There's no dazzling jungle of diamonds, nor the silvery reflection of platinum.

A dull, rough, gray-black metal ring is fixed in the center of the slot, its pitted texture preserving the high-temperature burn marks from the meteorite's fall.

At the highest point of the claw, a rare pink diamond the size of a pigeon egg, without any flaws, is firmly held.

Chen Yang took out the meteorite iron ring, slipped it onto Katyusha's ring finger, and pushed it all the way down.

Katyusha moved her upper body forward, close to Chen Yang's ear.

He spoke fluent Northeastern dialect.

"Honey, it turned out great."

Chen Yang raised his hand and straightened the tassels of her phoenix crown, which had been crooked by an inch.

Below the stage, next to the third row of mahogany chairs closest to the main stage.

Howard Sr., the head of a European heavy industry conglomerate, gripped a handkerchief and frantically wiped the profuse sweat from his forehead.

A blonde girl was sitting in the empty seat to his left.

That was his illegitimate daughter, whom he had just brought back from an Ivy League business school.

Before Howard arrived, he gave a strict order: during the toasting ceremony, his daughter had to bypass security and rush up to Chen Yang with the wine to make a good impression.

Even if Chen Yang took her back to the backyard to be a maid who never showed her face, the Howard family's billions of euros in bad debts could be directly revitalized.

Howard turned to his personal assistant beside him.

"Have you found out the security loopholes yet?"

The assistant bent down and handed over a military-grade privacy-protected electronic map board.

"Chairman, our outsourced hacker just sent back this image, and then went missing ten minutes ago."

Howard stared intently at the dot matrix display on the large screen.

Centered on the Snow Palace territory, within a radius of fifty kilometers, there are densely packed red and yellow markers.

Red dot marking: Black Kite Defense Far East Defense Zone Extreme Cold Armored Brigade, with heavy weaponry per person.

Yellow dot indicates: Code of Special Operations Group of the Greater China Internal Security Bureau.

It's an ultimate, deadly defense sequence system that would detect even a fly flying in.

The highest security force in the country was deployed to cover the wedding of a young man who didn't even have an administrative rank.

Howard's heart pounded, and he reached out with both hands to snatch the crystal goblet from his illegitimate daughter's hand.

He used too much force and slammed the back of his hand directly onto the corner of the table.

The glass shattered against the marble floor tiles, sending shards flying everywhere.

"Father, with my looks, if only I could say a single word..."

Howard raised his hand and slapped hard across that delicate cheek.

"Do you want your entire family to be beaten to a pulp along with you?!"

"Get to the airport within ten minutes! Now, immediately!"

The girl covered her swollen cheek, lifted her skirt, and fled in a disheveled state through the side passage.

The 100-meter-wide double doors of the main hall were opened fully again.

Two rows of guards strode onto the main red carpet.

At the very center, Li, dressed in a very plain dark blue Zhongshan suit, strode forward with a brisk pace.

The CEOs of several super-powerful companies saw the hidden work mark embroidered on his chest and stepped back, making way for him.

Li stopped in the middle of the white jade steps, without needing to climb higher.

He took the long, sandalwood box from his attendant.

The tail of the box is pulled out.

A roll of bright yellow silk embroidered with dragon patterns was laid out.

Li Bu grasped both ends with his hands and stretched them horizontally to flatten them.

Four large, wildly cursive characters assaulted the front hall.

A peerless hero.

At the bottom of the paper, a striking bright red seal of extremely high rank was branded.

The thousands of dignitaries present completely stopped making any physical gestures.

They received the direct signal from behind the reel with extreme precision.

The highest representative of China has now passed away, and the final verdict has been reached.

From the moment this seal appeared in the world, all attempts to frame and contain the Chen family's business empire were tantamount to a declaration of war against the heart of China.

Li Bu closed the long scroll and pushed it upwards to chest height.

"The commander asked me to bring something."

"Please keep this message safe."

"If the sky were to fall in the future, the government would bail us out."

Chen Yang grasped the wooden box with both hands and accepted it.

"Please thank the old man for me."

The second to last row, right corner of the spectator area.

The Habsburg family's intelligence agents in Europe were hiding in the blind spot of the load-bearing pillars.

He uncapped his silver pen and began writing code at lightning speed on a miniature parchment card.

The force applied when writing was immense, and the sharp pen nib pierced directly through the underlying cardboard.

The sandalwood box was just fastened with a gold clasp.

The emergency backup iron door on the far left of the banquet hall, which was not open to the public, emitted an extremely dry and harsh metallic friction sound.

The Black Kite elites guarding the inner defense line on both sides pressed their hands against the locking mechanism of the safety harness at their waists.

Lei Zi sprinted forward to block them, pressing down with both hands to firmly grip the butts of their guns.

The solid iron gate was pushed directly against the wall from one side.

Seven burly old men with silver-white hair, without any venue access badges, marched in a straight line into the center of the venue.

They are all reclusive financial tycoons from several North American financial holding companies.

The elderly man leading the group wore a wool coat covered in snow and frost, and held out his hands in front of him a large, lead-gray metal box secured with five black nickel locks.

He stomped on the roses scattered on the ground, crushing them with the soles of his shoes, and crashed straight toward Chen Yang's platform.