"Brother Xu, wait!"
Xu Yang had only taken a few steps when a voice rang out behind him. He turned to see Yuan Yi jogging over, with Yuan Sujie following at an unhurried pace.
"Brother Yuan, Miss Yuan."
Xu Yang smiled and cupped his hands. "Did you need something, Brother Yuan?"
Yuan Yi returned the salute. "Brother Xu, my father has reserved a table at the Wine House. He would like to invite you over for a chat."
Xu Yang knew perfectly well what this was about. Now that he had undergone marrow cleansing, the Yuan Family wanted to recruit him again.
But he was no longer interested even in a leading Azure Sun City lineage like the Ding Family, much less a third-rate lineage like the Yuan Family.
If not for the pressure from Xiao Hua back then, and his concern that refusing would make him more enemies, he would never have given the Yuan Family a second glance.
Compared with the terms the Ding Family had offered, what the Yuan Family could give him amounted to tossing scraps to a beggar.
The Ding Family was at least a leading lineage with substantial resources of its own. Aside from an unreliable connection to Elder Li Yang, bought by selling their backsides, the Yuan Family had nothing.
Besides, that old queen Elder Li Yang disgusted him.
"Please thank the Yuan Family Head for me, Brother Yuan. I already have plans with these friends, so I can't leave them behind to attend a banquet." Xu Yang smiled and gestured at Sun Tao and the others beside him.
Yuan Yi failed to hear the refusal in his words. "That's no problem. Since they're your friends, they can come too. My father has always enjoyed befriending talented young people. He won't mind."
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