Chapter 2481

He then said, "Xue Long, you should actually understand what I meant by what I just told you. If you haven't adjusted your state of mind, then you can give up, and I also promise to help you afterward, but at the same time, what you can gain will be less than before!"

"But since you've already fulfilled the role of a mouthpiece before, I won't go back on my word. So whether it's more or less, you choose for yourself. I'm putting the right in your hands. If you truly don't want to face Wang Canghai again, I won't force you."

This was the answer Zhang Lin gave Xue Long. He didn't need Xue Long to reply to anything; perhaps this way was the best right now. If Xue Long could give himself a firm answer—

Then Zhang Lin naturally wouldn't need to keep nagging the other party. In any case, as far as Zhang Lin was concerned, handing these subsequent matters over to Yang Lu presented no problem at all.

The reason he sought out Xue Long was that he was worried about Yang Lu's condition. Thinking of this, he immediately added, "I have to admit that handing this matter to Yang Lu presents no problem either. I'm worried she won't handle it as well as you, after all, you were once by Wang Canghai's side and know this person very well."

"At the same time, I don't want Yang Lu to encounter even the slightest mishap. But relatively speaking, I'm not worried about you running into trouble. If you die, naturally someone will collect your corpse, and I'll find you a burial plot with good feng shui."

To others listening, Zhang Lin's words sounded a bit like he was squeezing the person out. The more you want to use someone, the less you should tell them the truth; instead, you need to coax and deceive them so they willingly submit to you.

But in Zhang Lin's view, this approach was absolutely wrong. Or rather, if one mindlessly kept using the same method without considering the actual situation, it would only compound the error. Clearly, Zhang Lin would not make such a mistake, which was why he gave the other party this answer.

His meaning was very clear: he was telling the other party that if they wanted to follow him with genuine sincerity, then they shouldn't fear sacrifice. If it were Wang Canghai instead, he might have persuaded the other party from a completely different angle.

That is, telling the other party that if they don't obey his orders, then whether it's him or her relatives, or the people they care about, everyone must pay the price.

That was Wang Canghai's behavioral logic. But Zhang Lin was ultimately not that kind of person; he could only lay the truth before the other party's eyes.

The reason he spoke this way was because he was eighty percent certain that Xue Long would willingly follow him. Because if Xue Long didn't follow him, the other party would have no choice at all—that was the first reason.

The second reason was that when Zhang Lin's approach formed such a stark contrast with Wang Canghai's, Xue Long would also tell himself the answer in his heart: following Zhang Lin posed no problem at all. Perhaps in the past, Wang Canghai precisely failed to understand this point.

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