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Chen Xiaojun sat quietly beside Zhu Yanfeng, the hem of his robes trailing on the floor and concealing every slight movement he made.
His eyelids were slightly lowered, as though he cared nothing for the pointed exchange before him. Only when Chen Zhang presented the three options for leaving did his eyes lift for an almost imperceptible instant.
Second Uncle's methods... Chen Xiaojun murmured inwardly, watching with a trace of cold detachment.
The conditions Chen Zhang proposed were, at their core, naked incorporation and control.
Unlike Chen Xiaojun's own past approach of gently drawing people in with better "benefits" and "prospects," what Chen Zhang displayed now was the absolute dominance of a victor who had crushed his foes in bloody battle, with the outcome already settled.
He gave Tan Yashuang and Tang Hengyu little room to fantasize about "benefits," much less painted any detailed, rosy vision of life after submitting.
What he offered was a stark choice after every avenue of survival had been sealed off-either submit to the new order and become part of it, or be banished entirely to the fringes of survival, left to live or die on their own.
This was far crueler than the "enticement" Chen Xiaojun had anticipated, but it also better suited the Chen Clan's position as victor and architect of the new order.
What they could not win on the battlefield, they could forget about gaining at the negotiating table.
Chen Zhang was drawing a clear line: once the dust settled, the Canopy District's Underworld could have only one master-the order represented by the Chen Clan's Allied Army. Every other faction would either join it or disappear.
With such skill at maneuvering alliances and dividing opponents, it was no