Qiao Nian's eyes narrowed. "What did he say?"
"He rejected it." Lu Zhi looked at her. "Didn't you already guess it?"
Qiao Nian remained silent.
She had indeed guessed it.
Lu Zhi placed his arms on the back of the chair and leaned back. "To be honest, I don't understand you Country Z people.
"I clearly gave him better conditions than the Ninth Branch—Ye Wangchuan couldn't give him these—but he rejected them without hesitation.
"I'm a businessman. Merchants pay attention to benevolence when business fails.
"Since we didn't reach an agreement, he left after we were done talking."
Lu Zhi looked at the girl deeply. "Do you believe me?"
Deep down, he felt that Qiao Nian would not believe him.
Because no matter how one looked at it, he had come to Beijing this time for Master Cheng's Tsar. For this, he had even bought a mole…