“
In response, five nearby Scarlet
gangsters who were waiting around a restaurant also stilled, waiting to see if they would be summoned.
They were killersand extortionistsand raging forces of violence, butas the rumors went, Juliette Cai was
the girl who had strangled and killed her American lover with a string of pearls. Juliette Cai was the
heiress who, on her second day back in Shanghai, had stepped into a brawl between four White Flowers
and two Scarletsand killed all four White Flowers with only three bullets.
Only one of those rumors was true.
Juliette smiled and waved to the Scarlet men. In response, one waved back, and the other four
nervously laughed among themselves. They feared Lord Cai’s wrath if anything were to happen to her,
but they feared her wrath more if they were to test the truth of the rumors.
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