Sir! Don't close the net!

Li Yili turned her head and glanced at Dante.

"Or is this the first time you've replied so quickly? Take my advice: men should know how to respect themselves. Don't act like a lapdog; it's bad for the market."

“What are you talking about! Miss Ashley is very well-mannered; she always replies the next day!” Dante patted his chest. “Moreover, I can sense that Ashley is serious; I can feel her unworldly innocence in her words!”

“Mr. Dante, I don’t deny that Miss Ashley possesses an innocence that transcends worldly concerns, but you also need to understand one thing,” Li Yili said, raising her finger and waving it from side to side, “her innocence that transcends worldly concerns means that she is a central air conditioner, treating everyone the same way. It’s just that you happened to come into contact with her, got close to this central air conditioner, and you have thick skin enough to stay there.”

Dante's eye twitched violently.

Although he didn't know what central air conditioning was, he guessed from Li Yili's tone and the content of her speech that it was probably an adjective that had a similar meaning to kindness.

To put it another way, Ashley is a kind person, and she is kind to everyone. This scoundrel from the Jurassic Circle was very lucky to come into contact with a young lady from the Cretaceous Circle who was close to the Millennium Aristocracy. He benefited from Ashley's kindness, but instead of keeping his distance due to the difference in their status, he shamelessly took advantage of Ashley's kindness and even... wanted to become special in Ashley's life.

"So what—I love that innocence that treats everyone equally!" Dante snorted, arms crossed.

"Oh—really? Then why did you knock on my door so early in the morning?"

Li Yili raised her hand and waved to Annie, who was sitting behind the counter reading a newspaper, and then nodded to Adi, who was sitting in the chair next to Annie, swinging her legs and writing.

“Mr. Yellow Raincoat, I must remind you that nine o’clock is not exactly early in the morning,” Anne flipped the newspaper to the next page with a swish, without even looking up.

“Really? Sorry, I was a bit exhausted last night,” Li Yili said, twisting her waist from side to side. “So, you’ve read Miss Ashley’s reply, haven’t you?”

“It’s not just Miss Ashley’s letter,” Anne said, pointing towards the inn’s entrance.

"Not just Miss Ashley's letter—oh dear~"

Li Yili looked in the direction Annie was pointing and exclaimed in surprise, because a box on one side of the hotel entrance was filled with girlish envelopes and all sorts of colorful ribbons.

“Ahem—well, Mr. Yellow Raincoat, your Romeo and Juliet effect is a bit too good,” Dante scratched his face, wanting to point at the letters and show off, but when he thought that the story of Romeo and Juliet was told by Li Yili and the content was filled in by Anne, and that he was only responsible for copying and mailing the letters, Dante felt a little guilty.

Maybe I should find someone else to show off.

Just as Dante was muttering to himself, Li Yili came to the box, casually opened a letter, glanced at the contents, and then turned to Dante, waving the letter in her hand.

"Mr. Dante, although it may be presumptuous of me, you haven't made any investments in multiple places, have you?"

Dante was taken aback, then, realizing what was happening, he raised his hand and slammed his hand on the table, emphasizing it with displeasure.

"No way! My heart belongs only to Miss Ashley!"

"Then why are there so many replies?"

“This…” Dante leaned back slightly.

“Because the daily routine of the young ladies in the chalk circle is to hold tea parties,” Annie folded the newspaper and placed it aside, her fingers interlaced in front of her. “Morning tea party, afternoon tea party, evening tea party, tea party because the weather is nice, tea party because the weather is bad, too lazy to think of a reason, just hold a tea party, because…”

Anne raised her head and smiled meaningfully.

"We got a great story, and then we had a tea party."

"Hey—don't these rich young ladies have anything else to do?" Dante couldn't help but complain. "Why is it always tea parties? Aren't their parents business tycoons? Shouldn't they be teaching them how to do business, or giving them start-up capital to start their own businesses?"

"Don't tycoons have sons?" Anne's expression was somewhat complicated.

“Well… it seems that’s how it is,” Dante scratched his head, feeling a little uncomfortable. He realized something, but instinctively didn’t want to get the answer, so he subconsciously avoided the question. “Hahaha… so my beloved Miss Ashley couldn’t wait to share this story with her tea friends? That’s really a delightful thing.”

"and--"

Dante took a letter from his pocket, turned his back to Li Yili, and held the letter high with both hands.

"Of course! What's truly delightful is Miss Ashley's letter!"

"Ah, dear Mr. Dante, your writing is so moving! I also long for the sincere love between Romeo and Juliet! That's what she said! Is she implying something about me?!"

Dante suddenly turned around and looked at Li Yili and Annie with great excitement.

Li Yili and Dante stared at each other for a moment, then Li Yili patted her forehead. "So?"

"Uh—well, well, I don't want to embarrass Miss Ashley, so..." Dante hunched his back somewhat awkwardly, "Is there anything I can help you with?"

Annie silently turned her face away. Li Yili opened her mouth, remained silent for a while, then raised her hand and patted her forehead. "How about I check the goods for you first?"

"Write it this time..."

"A Midsummer Night's Dream."

Chapter Seventy-One: The Merchant of Venice

Because it is a love story where lovers are finally united, Dante was so excited after reading it that he even wanted to do a backflip.

"This is it! Didn't you have a happy ending story?! Damn it, if you had a happy ending story, why didn't you just bring it out from the start? Romeo and Juliet is such an ominous name!"

Dante held Anne's revised version of A Midsummer Night's Dream high above his head, completely unaware of the subtle expression on Anne's face when she heard the happy ending.

After cheering for a while, Dante coughed heavily, folded the Midsummer Night's Dream in his hand and put it in his pocket. He rubbed his hands and looked at Li Yili somewhat awkwardly, hoping that Li Yili would speak first so that he could respond accordingly. Unfortunately, Li Yili just crossed her arms and looked at him, her slanted eyes seeming to say, "Take the initiative."

Dante raised his hands above his head. "Alright, alright, is there anything I can do to help you? Don't forget, you yourself said you're not the kind of person who kills the goose that lays the golden eggs."

To prevent Li Yili from kicking him into the mud, Dante added.

"Oh, don't worry, I'm very good at finding the right balance," Li Yili said, pinching her index finger and thumb together. "Will you also be playing the role of a righteous person who punishes evil and promotes good in the Jurassic Circle today?"

“What do you mean by playing a role! I am playing a role, okay?” Dante raised his voice, but his gaze wandered, avoiding Li Yili’s eyes. “So what’s the problem? You don’t mean you want me to stop doing this kind of thing, do you?”

“How could that be? Whether it’s an imposter or not, it’s always a good thing to have a righteous partner who punishes evil and promotes good in a place like the Jurassic Circle,” Li Yili said, spreading her hands. “I just think that maybe you should upgrade your weapons.”

"Upgrade?" Dante subconsciously touched the shotgun on his back. Although the Jurassic Circle was in the arms business, in order to prevent being shot dead by random cats and dogs on the street, the Jurassic Circle gangs strictly restricted the arms business within the Jurassic Circle. Most of the underlings relied on controlled knives to scare people or fight.

So, holding a shotgun, he didn't even need to fire it; just holding it in his hand was enough to make those thugs run away in a panic.

After all, everyone knows that he has a real gun in his hand, and that he really does fire it.

Upgrading is not impossible; you could just get some more ferocious guys, but that's completely unnecessary.

Dante immediately became alert. "You're not planning to follow me to an arms deal, are you? If that's your intention, I suggest you—"

Dante paused, and after struggling for a while, he finally forced himself to turn his face away.

I advise you to save your breath!

Annie glanced at Li Yili with some surprise. She didn't think Li Yili was so arrogant as to think that she could make Dante obedient with just two stories. Although Dante was deeply involved, he hadn't lost his mind yet.

It will take at least four or five more stories before Dante becomes so engrossed that he can't turn back.

Moreover, the reason of upgrading equipment is really too strange.

“No, I just want you to upgrade your equipment. I won’t follow you,” Li Yili shook her head and slowly sat down in the chair.

Otherwise I would have followed you yesterday.

"Who knows if you're trying to lower my guard?" Dante's expression was also unpleasant.

Yesterday, he felt that Li Yili would try to follow him to find the place where the arms deal was being made, so he took many detours and even made several surprise visits, but he couldn't find Li Yili at all. If Li Yili's stealth skills were superb, then Li Yili would definitely know the location of the arms deal by now, and there would be no need for her to follow him again under such a suspicious pretext as upgrading equipment.

“This has nothing to do with me, and this condition shouldn’t be too difficult for you,” Li Yili said, raising her finger and bending it. “Otherwise, we can cancel the deal. You can return Midsummer Night’s Dream to me, and then you can tell your beloved Miss Ashley that Romeo and Juliet is your limit, and your literary talent has reached its end.”

Dante's lips twitched slightly. Giving up the exchange meant giving up not only Midsummer Night's Dream, but also all the stories that could make Ashley happy.

“Fine—” Dante gritted his teeth and made a gesture of rolling up his sleeves towards Li Yili, “But I’m warning you first, there’s no one in this Jurassic Circle who can track me. If I find out you’re secretly following me!”

"So all future transactions are void?" Li Yili raised an eyebrow and smiled meaningfully.

Dante's expression began to betray his nervousness.

It cannot be discarded; Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream alone are far from sufficient.

"Then I'll take advantage of you in the next, no! The next three stories!"

Dante originally intended to get one for free, but when he thought about Li Yili's unknown purpose, the gang she kept talking about controlling the entire Jurassic Circle, and the "killing the goose that lays the golden eggs" metaphor, Dante felt that getting only one for free was too much of a loss, so he changed it to three.

“Sure,” Li Yili shrugged.

Anyway, he never intended to follow Dante in the first place, and he had already found the place where the arms deal was yesterday. As for Wojciech, the spy, he had obviously realized his situation, otherwise it wouldn't have been Dante knocking on the door this morning, but the Mafia.

Dante glanced up and down at the incredibly confident Li Yili and couldn't help but mutter, "Don't underestimate me, I grew up playing hide-and-seek."

“Mr. Dante, don’t you think you should send a Midsummer Night’s Dream to your beloved Miss Ashley first?” Li Yili reminded him.

At the mention of Ashley, Dante's face lit up with a happy smile. "That's true!"

After saying this, Dante hummed and jumped as he pushed open the door and left.

Anne glanced at the latest Jurassic Circle newspaper beside her, interlacing her fingers. "So? What did you discover last night?"

“Some things that are popular and welcome,” Li Yili reached for the newspaper and flipped through it quickly, “and these popular and welcome things will probably give rise to some extraordinary things in the Jurassic Circle.”

Annie raised an eyebrow. "Couldn't you have explained it in more detail?"

Li Yili didn't speak, but simply shook her head in a serious manner.

Anne's lips twitched, she took a deep breath, then let out a long exhale while holding her forehead. "Alright, first Romeo and Juliet, then A Midsummer Night's Dream, what story are you going to tell Dante next?"

Annie paused for a moment and then complained, "It shouldn't affect anything, right? Anyway, I'll be the one filling it in the end, so it's better for me to know sooner so I can prepare earlier."

“Well…you have a point,” Li Yili said, resting her chin on her hand and pondering for a moment before raising a finger and flashing a bright smile. “The next story is—”

"The Merchant of Venice".

Chapter Seventy-Two: The Garden and the Butcher Shop

In the beautiful garden, a young woman in a formal dress sat gracefully in a pavilion, sipping red tea and admiring the beautiful flowers. Every move she made exuded an innate elegance. The most dazzling among them was Ashley Eugene, the daughter of Paul Eugene. She had golden hair that seemed to be crafted from gold, and her snow-white skin seemed to glow. Her slightly upturned lips, with a hint of smugness, added a touch of humanity to her beauty.

"Ah, Romeo and Juliet, what a true love they were!"

"If I met my destined Romeo, I would definitely do the same."

"But I love A Midsummer Night's Dream even more, ah~ silly yet adorable Oberon~"

The girls in the pavilion chattered excitedly, but Ashley remained silent and did not participate in the discussion. She simply smiled smugly.

"I really envy Ashley," one of the young ladies finally said, glancing at Ashley who was elegantly holding a cup of red tea. The other young ladies who had been chattering stopped their discussion and turned to look at Ashley with envy.

Ashley didn't participate in the discussion from beginning to end, but she was always the center of attention because both Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream were stories written for her by her Dante.

"Oh yes—these were all written by my beloved Mr. Dante, and he'll be writing me a story tomorrow too."

Without any affectation, Ashley put down her tea, rested her chin on her hand, and revealed a happy smile, gently swinging her legs, looking every bit like a young girl in love. The other young ladies did not discriminate against Ashley because the Mr. Dante she mentioned was from the Jurassic Circle; instead, they all showed expressions of envy.

Because Dante was different from the other Triad thugs; Dante was involved in all sorts of evil deeds.

A righteous partner who fights against brutes and savages, he spends every day either saving people or on his way to save people, and now this righteous partner has also shown extraordinary talent.

It perfectly matches their fantasy of their dream lover.

They never lacked stories to share at tea parties, but no one ever wrote special stories for them.

"So, Ashley, when do you plan to see Mr. Dante?" a young lady asked.