Zhang Heng had been to Mark Reuss's domus before, and the interior decorations were a clear statement of luxury. When he compared Mark Reuss's domus with Dior's, however, he realized that it wasn't much different from roadside squatters.
This was the gap between the nouveau riche and the noble families.
Mark Reuss, master of a gladiator school, had to put on a smile when he came here. Since he was not qualified to enter for dinner, he could only wait in the front hall with his slaves. Apart from him, several masters from other gladiator schools were here as well. Some gladiators had even come from far away from different parts of the empire.
The entire front hall looked like a mini ethnographic expo.