Special District 9 Chapter 137: Negotiations

Late at night, in a resting room of a hotel in Fengbei.

Zhang Tian sat on a traditional tatami mat as he prepared a pot of tea solemnly, waiting patiently for his guest to arrive.

Half an hour passed before the second son of the Xing Family, Xing Zilin, opened the door and entered in a black suit.

“Aiyo, Second Young Master!” Zhang Tian stood up and welcomed him with a smile.

Xing Zilin took off his gloves and shook Zhang Tian’s hands nonchalantly before saying, “There were many guests at my home earlier, so I wasn’t able to excuse myself earlier.”

Zhang Tian glanced at the black cloth wrapped around Xing Zilin’s right arm and sighed deeply, “My condolences, Second Young Master.”(In Chinese funeral, a black cloth wrapped or pinned around one’s arm is used to symbolize mourning over one’s kin.)

“Have a seat,” Xing Zilin took off his coat as he gestured to the seats, not bothering to talk about his younger brother’s affair.

Zhang Tian took a seat opposite to Xing Zilin and began pouring a cup of tea for him. “Do you want to have some snacks?”

“I’ll have to pass. I’ll be having a meal together with the elders in my family later at night.” Xing Zilin looked at Zhang Tian quietly, not bothering to initiate a conversation at all.

Zhang Tian calmly pushed the teacup toward Xing Zilin before asking solemnly, “Second Young Master, since you have something to attend to later on, I won’t beat around the bush anymore. I wish to know what Prosperous Dragon’s view toward partnering with us is.”

Xing Zilin calmly lifted his teacup as he said, “The Yuan Family’s company has performed poorly in resolving that matter, but we have also put in a lot of money and effort into supporting them. Furthermore, my younger brother and Old Yuan’s death means that our interests are aligned not just in terms of profits but in vengeance too… If put it explicitly, with Yuan Ke taking over the company, even without our supervision, we can be assured that he’ll continue biting down on our enemies tenaciously. This is a quality that you are lacking.”

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