"Your Highness... your generosity will illuminate this era! Once this great work is completed, I will inscribe your name in the most prominent place on the title page, so future generations will forever remember your grace! Working with you is my greatest honor!"
"That is unnecessary, Mr. Locke."
Luo Yan picked up his teacup again and took a sip, looking at this down-and-out yet idealistic gentleman, and said with a gentle smile.
"Just put my name alongside yours, for my name will be honored by your achievements."
The gilded edge of the title page might be seen as cumbersome and reduced, but the collective authors will be immortalized.
Just a few hundred gold coins can leave a "was here" on a masterpiece destined to be remembered in history, there's no better deal than this.
...
Hasty footsteps came and went in a hurry.
