Chapter 428

If Lucius had to be honest, this was entirely Keane and Silas' fault. Those two had fed him nothing but useless advice. They had insisted that if he wanted to win a woman over, he should shower her with handbags, lipstick, and jewelry. After spending this much time with Valerie, Lucius knew better. She had zero interest in those surface-level indulgences. He had tried anyway, only to earn no goodwill in return. Worst of all, she had labeled him as tacky. It wasn't until he saw her carefully scheming over the lacquered bracket in Lora's bag earlier today that everything finally clicked. The White family's legacy stretched back generations, and their private vault held more rare treasures than most people could imagine. While things like millennium lacquered brackets and millennium eleuthero weren't so common that they could be treated like produce at a market, taking out a dozen or so for Valerie was hardly difficult for him. While Valerie was napping, Lucius had Edwin start pr