Seeing Bai Xiaosheng and his group arrive, Asgar also brought people over to greet them.

This man always carried himself with composed manners, seldom smiling, yet in receiving and dealing with people, even with attendants and servants, he was unfailingly courteous, revealing extremely good upbringing.

After exchanging a round of polite formalities with Bai Xiaosheng, Asgar said apologetically, "Respected Mr. Bai Xiaosheng, I have some urgent matters on my side that need to be handled, an unforeseen situation. I may have to leave shortly, so I ask for your understanding."

"Mr. Asgar, you’re too courteous. If the situation requires it, you may leave at any time." Bai Xiaosheng replied politely.

Hearing this, a faint smile appeared on Asgar’s face, taken as his thanks to Bai Xiaosheng.

In that short while, many more guests arrived, and an attendant came to Asgar’s side and whispered a few words in his ear.

Asgar nodded repeatedly, then turned to Bai Xiaosheng with another faint smile. "Most of the guests have arrived. I’ll announce the start of the reception then."

"Alright." Bai Xiaosheng immediately nodded with a smile.

Asgar turned and left, walking toward the rostrum.

The people following behind him also went over.

Once the crowd here thinned, Yang Xiaoyun brought Yang Yishan and Lisa over to Bai Xiaosheng’s side.

"Mr. Sheng, you’re really impressive. That Mr. Asgar is known for hardly ever smiling, yet just now he actually smiled at you twice." Yang Xiaoyun clicked his tongue in admiration.

"There’s nothing impressive about that..." Bai Xiaosheng was a bit amused and exasperated by Yang Xiaoyun’s praise, and explained, "He’s probably just giving special face to our Huaxia Business Group, so he was especially courteous to me."

"You’re too modest, Mr. Sheng." Yang Xiaoyun still said cheerfully.

Over there, Asgar was already standing on the rostrum, holding a microphone and raising his voice, "Honored guests, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to you all..."

As soon as Asgar opened his mouth, the reception formally began.

The guests present immediately gathered over.

Asgar’s speech was very concise: on behalf of the Oshan government, he thanked the Huaxia Business Group for coming, hoped that both sides would achieve more and greater results in cooperation, and also hoped that the businesspeople present would actively engage with the Huaxia Business Group to promote deeper trade exchanges and cooperation between both sides...

After his remarks, Asgar invited Bai Xiaosheng to come on stage and say a few words.

Bai Xiaosheng naturally did not decline, walked forward, and delivered a very official round of thanks and well‑wishes.

When Bai Xiaosheng finished speaking, Asgar then introduced to him the heavyweight guests present on this occasion...

In short, after this basic sequence of protocol, the son of the Grand Chieftain once again took his leave of Bai Xiaosheng and hurriedly left with his people.

Once Asgar left, Bai Xiaosheng was surrounded by all the heavyweight guests in the venue, exchanging business cards, making introductions, and talking. It was quite a busy scene.

As for the other members of the delegation, they received similar treatment.

Setting aside Bai Xiaosheng’s identity as the head of the group, the name recognition of people like Dong Tianlu, Lu Tiandao, and Zhang Qinglin was actually even higher than Bai Xiaosheng’s. Some major entrepreneurs and family heads naturally wouldn’t miss such a valuable networking opportunity.

After the bustle around Bai Xiaosheng quieted down a bit, it was actually not as lively as around the others.

Yang Xiaoyun took Yang Yishan, with Lisa following behind, and took the opportunity to stay by Bai Xiaosheng’s side.

Yang Xiaoyun enthusiastically introduced to Bai Xiaosheng some of the backgrounds of the guests present.

Yang Yishan’s attention remained on Bai Xiaosheng the whole time. Ever since being impressed by Bai Xiaosheng’s methods, her attitude toward him had changed. Seeing him just now become the focus of the entire hall and still handle everything with ease, she felt even more admiration for him.

In contrast to her was Lin Weiwei; the look she gave Yang Yishan carried a sense of aloofness and vigilance.

As for Miss Lisa, she seemed somewhat similar to Lei Ying, quietly standing to the side and just listening with a smile to everything.

Among all the guests, Bai Xiaosheng’s side was the most eye‑catching. Aside from his status, it was because he had the most beauties around him.

Lin Weiwei, Yang Yishan, and Lisa all vied in splendor; the three could be said to be the most beautiful young women in the entire hall gathered together in one spot, so of course that drew attention.

Thus, the gazes of all the young male guests in the venue were wandering around Bai Xiaosheng’s side.

As Bai Xiaosheng was chatting with Yang Xiaoyun, he inadvertently looked up and saw a group of people pouring in from outside at the entrance of the hall.

At the head of that group was a young blond man, handsome and sunny, whose looks were no less than those of a movie star.

Walking closely at his side was an elderly white man, slightly bald.

When Bai Xiaosheng saw that old man, he felt he looked familiar. After thinking for a moment, he remembered.

Wasn’t that the old man they had run into earlier when they were wandering around the banquet hall, the one who had been forcefully insisting on "bringing his own wine" with one of the hotel managers?

Next to him, Yang Xiaoyun also followed Bai Xiaosheng’s gaze and looked over, noticed that group of people coming in, and saw the young man at their head.

Yang Xiaoyun couldn’t help speaking. "Oh, isn’t that Alger."

Bai Xiaosheng naturally also recalled having heard that name before.

Back then, Lin Weiwei had even suspected he was a prince.

"Who is Alger?" Now that Yang Xiaoyun mentioned him, Bai Xiaosheng casually asked.

"I know this man as well." Before Yang Xiaoyun could speak, Lisa suddenly spoke up.

Everyone couldn’t help looking at her.

Lisa, half smiling, looked at Alger over there and said, "Previously, our LLK company conducted some business research and paid special attention to the top ten commercial enterprises in the West African Chieftain Union. Not a single one of them is a state‑owned economic entity, yet each one is rich enough to rival a nation."

Lisa smiled and looked at Yang Xiaoyun. "Mr. Yang’s Yang Corporation is ranked eighth. That’s very remarkable!"

"You flatter me." Hearing Lisa’s praise, a smile appeared on Yang Xiaoyun’s face as he modestly replied.

Bai Xiaosheng nodded slightly.

He himself had found similar information online.

When meeting Brady, he had also heard Brady say that the Keruoge company under his control was ranked third.

"And that Mr. Alger over there, he is the sole legal heir to the conglomerate ranked fourth, and he gets even more attention and importance from all sides than people of the same generation from the royal families!"

Lisa’s gaze followed Alger. "He can even be called a rising star of the business world, always the darling pursued by the media. In the past two years, he’s carried out a series of successful investments in Oshan, not a single failure, which has led to him being hailed as a business prodigy."

Hearing that, Bai Xiaosheng suddenly understood.

No wonder he was able to exercise special privileges at such a reception; so it turned out to be a matter of his background and strength.

However, Bai Xiaosheng wasn’t particularly impressed by someone like that.

So what if the other party prided himself on his big background? Didn’t the person in charge of Keruoge, ranked third, Brady himself, also get bluntly turned down by him?

Not to mention, the cooperation opportunities for their Huaxia Business Group were already approaching saturation at the moment. They truly had no such strong desire to take on any more astonishing deals.

They wouldn’t be able to digest them.

Just as Bai Xiaosheng was dismissing it in his heart, Lisa instead smiled at him and said, "Judging from age, he’s about the same as you, Mr. Bai. It’s just that his background is deep, and his success depends on shelter. You, Mr. Bai, rely entirely on your own ability, which is all the more admirable."

Hearing Lisa make this comparison, both Yang Yishan and Lin Weiwei seemed to find it pleasant to the ear and said in unison:

"Well said, relying on family background can’t compare to relying on oneself."

"’Business prodigy’ sounds a bit exaggerated..."

After the two women spoke, they couldn’t help looking at each other, and immediately both restrained themselves.

Lisa, however, smiled and said to Bai Xiaosheng, "Mr. Bai, don’t you want to find a chance to chat with that Alger? I’ve heard that his current investments are huge in scale, with each project more aggressive in capital input than the last. It might let your delegation secure a huge deal with him."

Hearing this, Yang Xiaoyun couldn’t help looking at Bai Xiaosheng as well.

Bai Xiaosheng only smiled faintly and shook his head slightly. "At the moment, we don’t really need any big deals."

To say you don’t really need even gold‑mountain‑and‑silver‑mountain deals sounds downright arrogant to those who don’t know the inside story.

Lisa still wanted to say something, but her gaze passed over Bai Xiaosheng and shifted to behind him.

Then Lisa withdrew her gaze and gave Bai Xiaosheng a meaningful smile. "Mr. Bai, it seems that this time, even if you don’t go looking for that business opportunity, that business opportunity is about to come knocking on your door!"