Legend of Dragon Son-in-law - Chapter 290

Chapter 290: Chapter 289 Two Lines of Poetry_1

The atmosphere tensed up once again.

Sophia Leocadia wanted to intervene, but Fernando Lee left no room for retreat.

Now there were only two possibilities.

She could offend the Lee Family by forcefully protecting Julius Reed. Not only would this cause disputes between the two families, but letting Fernando Lee lose face in front of so many people would lead to repercussions that Julius Reed simply couldn’t withstand.

If she chose to remain silent, then Julius Reed might not even make it out of the Global Hotel tonight.

Fernando Lee was forcing Sophia Leocadia to make a choice, while also using the pressure of the surrounding youngsters to have Sophia Leocadia stand on his side.

He could demonstrate the Lee Family’s strength and also take out a potential rival, serving as a warning to anyone thinking of crossing Sophia Leocadia.

“Experts, huh? You believe what experts say?”

Julius Reed didn’t feel any danger and continued to speak calmly, “If I prove this is a chamber pot, what will you do?”

“If it really is a chamber pot, I’ll grant you any condition! But if it isn’t, I want your four front teeth!”

Fernando Lee faced Julius Reed and said, “Dare or not dare?”

This jade piece has been appraised by top national experts and has been confirmed to have been unearthed from the Cassius Dynasty and was once used by royalty.

The appraisal certificate is in the glass case. Claiming this is a chamber pot?

Has he gone mad?

“If it’s true, let me slap you twice, and I’ll take your Bugatti, how about that?”

Julius Reed asked with a smiling face, “If you don’t dare, forget it, I won’t insist.”

“Good! Everyone here is listening. I, Fernando Lee, am a man of my word! If you really prove that the white jade cup in my hands is a chamber pot, then I will give you the Bugatti parked outside and let you slap me twice! But if you lose, don’t say I didn’t give Miss Leocadia this face,”

Fernando Lee readily agreed.

Why would he turn down such a business opportunity presented on a silver platter?

He was just worrying about how to get revenge!

It never occurred to him that the other party would be so proactive in coming forward, especially in front of so many people. Even Sophia Leocadia wouldn’t be able to say anything.

As for his Bugatti, it’s a global limited edition, one that not even money could necessarily buy. He figured the other party must have gone mad with poverty to dare make such a bet.

“Now I have an appraisal certificate in my hands, what do you have?”

Fernando Lee took out an appraisal certificate from the glass case, pointed to the seal and name on it, and spoke with great pride, “This is from a top national expert, not only with his personal signature but also a seal! Now, what more do you have to say?”

This whole affair was nothing short of a sure win. The ironclad facts were right before his eyes; no amount of talking would change them!

“Today is Sophia’s birthday, and I don’t want her to see blood.”

Fernando Lee put the appraisal certificate back in the glass case and ordered the bodyguards behind him, “Take him outside, make it clean!”

“Understood!”

Several security guards nodded, grinning evilly as they walked towards Julius Reed.

“Young Master Lee, what’s all this fuss? If I say it’s a chamber pot, then it is a chamber pot!”

Julius Reed still appeared calm, showing no signs of fear whatsoever.

“For fairness’ sake, why don’t you hand this cup to Sophia Leocadia, let her see what’s written underneath! But before that, I have to ask you one question, when it comes to the purpose of this item, do the ancients have the final say, or do the experts?”

“Naturally, the ancients! Experts are merely making conjectures, who wouldn’t know better about their own items than themselves?”

Fernando snorted coldly. This was an object from the Cassius Dynasty; could they dig up a mummy to explain the use of this white jade cup?

Absurd!

“Young Master Lee, don’t go back on your word now,” Julius Reed reminded as he pointed at Sophia Leocadia, “Please, Miss Leocadia, look at the bottom of this white jade cup and tell us what is written.”

“Alright!”

Previously, Sophia Leocadia had been extremely worried, but seeing Julius Reed’s composure, she also began to feel much more relaxed.

She carefully picked up the white jade cup and examined the text underneath.

“Hey, there’s no need to look anymore. An expert has already deciphered it. It’s a line of poetry, all detailed in this appraisal report.”

Fernando Lee took out the appraisal report from the glass case, impatiently and read the line aloud, “Stars as birds fly into the night, murky waters fill a pot. This implies the long, endless night tires even the birds, but the lifetime owner of this cup cannot sleep alone, resorting to drinking in the dead of night. Well, is there anything you want to say?”

A smug expression once again spread across his face.

An ironclad fact, denial is futile!

Sophia Leocadia examined it carefully and found that indeed the sentence was written as such. But Julius Reed had asked her to look at it—what could it mean? Could there be some secret in the poetry?

Yet, this white jade cup was a private possession of the Lee Family, never seen by outsiders. So how could anyone know there was something written underneath?

“Bullshit!”

Julius Reed cursed loudly, “What a random interpretation! I ask you, when you read the last two words of the poem together, what do you get?”

“The last two words?”

Fernando scrutinized the appraisal report and blurted out, “A night pot, right?”

As soon as he said that, his face drastically changed!

The well-dressed young men and women spectating gasped in shock!

“Impossible! This is just a coincidence! You are being argumentative for no reason! This is simply a poem written by the owner of the cup, and you’re maliciously twisting it!”

A knot formed in his stomach.

He had owned the cup for so long; how had he never noticed this issue?

What scared him more was how the other party knew there was poetry under the cup. He didn’t believe for a second that Julius Reed had no idea about the inscription until just now.

It appeared that the other party not only knew the secret of the cup but also the content underneath!

A shiver ran down Fernando’s spine.

But merely two words were not enough to convince others.

Even though he was starting to believe it himself.

Sophia Leocadia was too shocked to speak.

She suddenly felt that Fernando didn’t stand a chance against this man, even though she knew nothing about him, the man who had once saved her.

This was, in fact, only their second meeting after many years.

“What nonsense about the long night! I tell you, that turbid water is piss! A pot of piss, do you understand!”

Julius Reed showed no consideration for Fernando, walked over, and pointed at the two lines of poetry on the appraisal certificate, “Bullshit about drinking! Your Lee Family drinks piss?”

As he finished, the crowd erupted into chaos.

In the capital, nobody dared to speak ill of the Lee Family. Yet here in Five-river Province, someone had the audacity to accuse the Lee Family of drinking piss?

“Shut your mouth! That’s all nonsense you’re spouting!”

Fernando grew furiously embarrassed and panic began to set in.

But as long as he didn’t admit it, no one could prove he was wrong.

“Then what does ‘stars as birds fly into the night’ signify?”

Sophia Leocadia, on the other hand, was quite intrigued. She stepped forward to look at Julius Reed, eyes full of curiosity.

“Cough, cough! The bird, you know… It’s a man’s…unique,”

Julius Reed’s face turned red, suddenly feeling rather embarrassed.

It was a white jade cup he had casually used as a night pot to relieve himself while drinking in the sleeping chambers of the Emperor of Crimsonal. And then he composed an impromptu poem.

Who could have known that the Emperor of Crimsonal would order craftsmen to engrave it underneath and recreate an identical white jade cup—the very treasure Fernando Lee held in high esteem.

“Ah!”

Only then did Sophia Leocadia realize, and in an instant, her face blushed red like a ripe peach.