Tap, tap, tap~!
In the deep of night, amidst the rain.
The series of knocks startled Yang Yiyi, who was alone on the first floor of the villa, watching a horror movie while hugging a teddy bear.
Snapping out of her shock, she cautiously got up and peeked towards the door. As the knocking persisted, she mustered her courage and asked:
"Who, who is it?"
"Hello, is this the residence of Mr. Su Yi? We have important matters to discuss with Mr. Su."
"Wait a moment," Yang Yiyi replied, not daring to open the door directly.
Wearing slippers, she padded upstairs and arrived at Su Yi's bedroom door. Raising her hand to knock, she heard faintly audible sounds that made her face flush.
A blush instantly crept onto her delicate face.
Her raised hand froze in mid-air, unsure whether to knock or not.
After hesitating for a good while, before she could decide, the door was pulled open.
Su Yi, disheveled, looked impatient as he asked:
"What are you doing at the door in the middle of the night? You want to join in too?"
They were already familiar with each other, so their conversation wasn't as polite as when they first met.
Yang Yiyi, feeling guilty at the moment, didn't bother with formalities and quickly said:
"No, no, I don't. Someone is looking for you outside, I'm just letting you know."
"Got it, tell them to wait, and if they don't want to wait, they can scram. Relay those exact words."
Bang~!
With that, he impatiently slammed the door shut.
In the brief moment before the door closed, Yang Yiyi vaguely saw Yue Ling inside the room, dressed in an ornate and exquisite princess dress, even wearing a crown on her head.
"Playing it wild," she muttered to herself, her face flushed as she went downstairs.
By now, Yang Yiyi had also come to her senses.
Damn it, she was just watching a horror movie at home, not breaking any laws! She was the one who got scared in the middle of the night, why was she feeling guilty!
Since Su Yi himself didn't care about the people outside, she didn't need to care either.
She immediately went to the door and shouted outside:
"Su Yi said, he'll let you wait, if you don't want to wait, you can scram."
Clay: ...
He never expected that he, a high-ranking official of the European Union's Ministry of Commerce, a big shot who was treated as an honored guest wherever he went,
Would come to visit Su Yi secretly in the middle of the night, only to be turned away and told to wait, or scram?
"Mr. Clay, this Su Yi is too rude. Should we just leave?"
Gago, who had hundreds of billions in assets, also clearly couldn't swallow this insult.
And if Clay hadn't stopped him, he really wouldn't have wanted to come at this hour.
From any perspective, with Su Yi already announcing that he would meet everyone tomorrow, him using various connections to find Su Yi's residence and coming over in the middle of the night was also breaking the rules.
If his peers found out and spread the word, how would he ever be able to hold his head up in the industry again?
Now that Su Yi wasn't seeing him, he couldn't wait to leave.
Standing here for a minute was torture for him.
Damn it, didn't us noble lords need to maintain our dignity?
"Don't rush, he didn't directly chase us away, but told us to wait, so we'll wait!" Clay was also a ruthless person, and clearly came with a mission.
After calming down, although very unhappy, he still suppressed his temper.
Thus, these two big shots, who were definitely at the top of the European hierarchy, obediently stood under the eaves of the villa, waiting for the door to open.
Two hours later.
Click~!
Accompanied by the sound of the lock tongue turning, the villa door slowly opened.
Su Yi, expressionless, appeared at the door.
Glancing at the two, Su Yi said indifferently:
"Come in."
In fact, Yue Ling had already told him that someone had arrived when they first got to the door.
But at that time, he was already prepared and was about to get down to business.
He had no interest in dealing with these small fries.
Now that the business was done, since they hadn't left, Su Yi wanted to hear what they had to say.
If they couldn't give a good explanation, then they shouldn't leave tonight, and instead become fertilizer for the flowers and plants in the villa garden.
Clay and Gago, whose bodies were half-soaked by the torrential rain, heard this and quickly followed Su Yi into the villa.
After two hours of waiting, Clay couldn't maintain any pretense of being a Western high official.
As he followed Su Yi into the house, he couldn't help but say:
"Mr. Su, please allow me to introduce myself, my name is Clay, I am..."
"I don't care who you are, just say what your purpose is for coming here, my time is precious," Su Yi waved his hand to interrupt, and sat down on the sofa by himself, casually pointing to the opposite position:
"Sit down, you have about ten minutes to explain your purpose for coming here clearly."
His unceremonious tone and expression made Gago unable to hold back, and he said directly:
"Do you know who we are?"
Su Yi chuckled:
"Gago D'Lair, Chairman of D'Lair Biopharmaceutical Group, I know you not because you have great fame or high status, but only because I happen to have some understanding of the ants that Tianyu Medical will crush, that's all."
"Instead of putting on airs here, you might as well quickly think about how to sell all the stocks of your family business and run away."
Although the business was finished, being interrupted in the middle still made him very unhappy.
So he couldn't be polite at all.
Moreover, he didn't intend to have a good discussion with these white guys at all.
Tomorrow's so-called meeting was just to inform them that the Water of Life was not something they should be thinking about, and to let them give up on that idea.
Gago's company had been developing in Kyushu for many years, and he himself was proficient in Kyushu language and culture.
In the past, the Kyushu people he had cooperated with, whether they were government officials or businessmen, no matter what the content of the discussion was, whether they could reach an agreement or not,
Basically everyone was polite and courteous, and the etiquette was absolutely in place.
This was the first time he had encountered such a blunt person.
He was almost so angry that his nose was crooked.
He immediately said:
"Mr. Su, your Kyushu is a land of etiquette, in the past I have seen..."
Before he could finish speaking, Su Yi impatiently interrupted:
"Don't beat around the bush with me and put a high hat on me, I didn't say anything about a land of etiquette, I'm a barbarian, I don't understand that."
"You have eight minutes left, you better get to the point."
"Believe me, if you are still talking nonsense and can't give a reason when the time is up, the things that will happen are definitely something you don't want to see."
Gago wanted to say something more, but was interrupted by Clay.
"Mr. Su, we came so late mainly to make a deal with you."
Saying that, he took out a paper world map from his pocket, spread it out, and pointed his finger at a certain area in the Indian Ocean:
"I am from the European Union, this is an overseas territory of a member country in our union, an island with an area of about 50 square kilometers, this is our sincerity."
Su Yi, who originally planned to see what these two could say, was stunned when he heard this.
Then he looked at the location of the island.
After a moment, the cold expression he had been maintaining finally broke into a smile:
"Five branches of the Water of Life with life-extending effects, I want this island."
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