"No, the two of you are simply too greedy."
Lin Ke shook his head. "The price I had in mind was six hundred thousand spirit stones, low-grade spirit stones. Anything beyond that limit is out of the question."
"In business, reaching a deal is good, but if we can't, neither side can force the other to buy or sell. So I can only ask you both to leave."
He had only wanted to buy some solar essence for the sake of secrecy in the first place.
If solar essence was that expensive, there was no need.
He could simply have Lin Fusang make it.
Usually, even if a deal fell through, goodwill remained.
But these two had been putting on an act all along, leaving Lin Ke with no desire to say more.
Yes, the two of them were acting!
The one truly calling the shots was not the old man, Li Qiangqu, but Zhang Wu, who seemed as though he had never left home or seen the world.
Zhang Wu was the backbone of the pair, so he stayed out of the conversation, controlling the situation better from an outsider's perspective.
That also made it easier for others to underestimate and overlook him.
Better still if he could provoke someone's anger, because an irrational person would inevitably be at a disadvantage in negotiations.
Then Li Qiangqu could step in as the peacemaker, playing the good cop and maneuvering between them to secure a profit.
Lin Ke had no reason to blunder headfirst into such an obvious scheme to fleece a customer.
Of course, if he needed something from them, especially something they held a monopoly over, he would naturally have no way around it.
But frankly, solar essence did not have a particularly wide range of uses.
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