Gu Sipei was a businessman at heart.
Under any circumstances, if he found a simpler approach that also yielded greater returns, he would never stubbornly refuse to change course.
To him, abandoning a better plan for the sake of pride or because of an attachment to sunk costs was sheer stupidity.
Besides, compared with emotion-driven problems that were difficult to quantify, he preferred solving problems with clear root causes and established procedures.
At the same time, the realization that "Lu Jiaoyue didn't subconsciously reject him" acted like a tranquilizer, steadying his emotions again.
Although Lu Jiaoyue herself might not even recognize her true feelings, Gu Sipei had always trusted his own judgment of people more.
He didn't need affirmation from Lu Jiaoyue to confirm that fact.
Gu Sipei was genuinely in a good mood now.
And once his mood improved, talking himself around became exceptionally easy.
In the space of a moment, he casually offered up an idea that would have been utterly impossible just minutes earlier, using it as a bargaining chip to open "new negotiations."
"All right, stop crying." Gu Sipei spoke, his voice still betraying little emotion, but the invisible pressure from earlier had already dissipated.
During a pause in Lu Jiaoyue's sobbing, he calmly said something unexpected. "I'll apologize to your sister, in a way she can accept."
It was rather amusing. Just yesterday, he had declared to Ji Yunhuai that apologizing wasn't a habit of his, only for the unexpected development of Lu Jiaoyue coming to his door today to spur him into voluntarily eating his own words.
But Gu Sipei didn't particularly care about that now. When the time came to actually do it, he could embellish his reasons for deciding to apologize a little. He would come up with some wording to preserve