Boss Zhang's expression shifted slightly, and he shot to his feet.
Sweat poured down his forehead like a waterfall.
"M-M-Master Xiao...!? I should have realized... I should have realized. Your surname is Xiao, and you cleared it in one go. Of course you're Master Xiao. But... what you said about dirty money, I really..."
Xiao Yu could not be bothered listening to his excuses and cut him off without ceremony.
"Stop pretending. Even if it weren't me, someone else would have come looking for trouble today."
"I honestly don't know whether to call you too clever or too stupid."
"Since you could come up with such a brilliant money-making idea as 'Puzzle-Solving Battle Royale,'"
"how did you never consider that the 'poor guy you imprisoned' might slip 'hidden pleas for help' into the escape-room puzzles?"
"Pleas for help? Damn it, so that's what happened... Fine, Master Xiao, I admit it. So what do you want to do?" Boss Zhang was deeply reluctant to accept it.
"You locked someone up to make money and forced him to design escape-room puzzles, and you're asking me what I want to do?"
"But I never hurt him! I even kept him supplied with good food and drink. I practically got down on my knees and begged him! I even offered to help him find a girlfriend! I only did this because the guy refused to cooperate..."
He was not lying about that.
Xiao Yu nodded.
"I know. That's why I'm telling you this in a relatively 'peaceful' way. If you'd actually done anything to him, I would have called the police directly."
The man sighed for a long while before stamping his foot. "So you want me to let him go. But without him, I won't be able to keep this attraction running..."
"Oh,