Since the two sides could not reach an agreement, Shui Corporation could not be bothered to keep talking—would they stop living just because they lost them? But Poseidon Marquis also lost his temper: if you had refused from the start, that would have been one thing; it would have meant the old grudge ran too deep.
But stopping halfway through negotiations? Was this just making a fool of me?
When the Marquis got angry, the consequences were serious. He began arranging to suppress Shui Corporation.
But this matter... could not be made public! Otherwise, people would laugh at him, and he would become a joke in noble circles.
Among the nobility, such things were actually not uncommon. However, if no one found out, then it had never happened.
Poseidon Marquis was not in a position to show himself personally, so he sought out Hook and asked him for help.
If the Dyson Consortium took action, it certainly would not be helping for free. That went without saying.
But it was worth mentioning that Dyson had not gone all out. Instead, it had mobilized its peripheral forces and adopted a gradual squeezing strategy.
In Hook's words, he hoped Shui Corporation would recognize the situation and take the initiative to yield.
Because he knew very well that once the Shui family merged into the Poseidon Family, the Marquis and they would become one family again.
So, he could not go too far with things that offended people.
However, he had not expected not only for Shui Corporation's patriarch to be so unyielding and refuse to compromise, but for Shui Xisheng to actually bring in powerful external support!
Hook had assigned others to handle this matter. He was only responsible for making decisions.
After all that, he himself was actually going to suffer