A Favor

Renado hesitated for a moment, then nodded stiffly. "I know."

He had come to smooth things over, so naturally he needed to know what had happened.

The people who had asked him for help might not have told the truth, but as long as he knew the general outline, he could piece together most of it.

But none of that mattered. He was here to side with his own people over reason, and make a little pocket money on the side. That was all.

But now that he had admitted defeat, there was no way to hide those petty thoughts anymore.

After all, he came from an earl's family. If he lost, he had to accept it; if he got beaten, he had to stand straight. As long as nobody tried to cheat, at worst it would just mean paying compensation.

Xiang Xue continued questioning him. "So you knew they intended to seize it by force?"

Renado nodded, but refused to say another word. There was no other reason—it was simply too humiliating.

"And you still came to plead for them?" Xiang Xue's expression turned cold. "Was I wrong in my assessment of your Haiyin Family?"

So this was what she had been waiting for.

Renado felt his face burn. Do you have to keep picking at me like this?

He was not afraid of paying money, but having those shameful matters laid bare made him even more mortified.

However, Xiang Xue was not one to press an advantage without mercy. "Originally, I was going to make them pay five hundred thousand. Now... two million."

The original A-rank and B-rank men immediately went pale.

They had people backing them too. Gathering two or three A-ranks would not have been difficult.

But they had just heard that the other side had