"What do you mean, confess?" Lin Yun kept up a dazed expression, but he clearly understood that this overbearing middle-aged man was trying to intimidate him. Otherwise, he wouldn't have brought it up like this.
Sure enough, as Lin Yun thought, the middle-aged man impatiently continued, "Could there be problems with the Gilded Rose, which is under your name, that even you yourself don't know about? And you ask me what I mean about confessing? I'm telling you, Mafa Merlin, you had better cooperate and answer this question truthfully. The severity of your punishment depends on your attitude. Don't be stubborn, that wouldn't be good for you and the Gilded Rose!"
This man had held many hearings, so he was quite used to handling these owners of alchemy shops.
The most effective tactic was intimidation...