Chen Yishun knew Sean Knight's negotiation bottom line and made a phone call to his superiors, those officials, to report the situation.
He didn't leave either, he stayed on the island, where according to him, he owned a house but had never had the time to stay there. Now was the perfect opportunity to take a good rest there.
At least he didn't have to worry about safety there, nor about being framed by anyone.
Sean Knight didn't quite understand the mentality of the Chinese heritage people, or perhaps, the mainland region of China had undergone such rapid developments and changes that since Sean and his group could remember, they hadn't been through much hardship, making it hard for them to understand the shifts in the thinking of the overseas, middle-aged Chinese.
Once Chen Yishun had left, Lana Brown and Sean Knight returned to where they were staying, and she immediately had her assistant compile data on the distribution of people buying houses on Big Island.