Dragon's Origin

## Chapter 696: Lifting Half the Table (Part 2)

The essential task was to secure Wang Sheng's forgiveness.

Despite Wang Sheng having already killed over eighty legendary experts from the Xia family, the incident where Xia family members attacked Wang Sheng outside the capital was far from over. Even now, Li Zhen Workshop continues to offer a high reward for the heads of Xia family experts, five times the market price. Experts from Worry-Free City and Divine Might Prison are constantly watching the Xia family, ready to strike at any moment. In their eyes, the Xia family members are walking piles of gold coins.

The reward of several billion gold coins has even the Xia family, one of the Eight Great Families, trembling with fear. Previously, the priority was the suppression from various parties that could lead to the Xia Kingdom's destruction. Now that that concern is gone, resolving the issue with Wang Sheng naturally becomes the priority.

Negotiating after only lifting half the table clearly indicates that the Xia Kingdom doesn't want to give up its interests in the core of the Perpetual Killing Ground. However, Wang Sheng is capable of making the Xia Kingdom lose everything. Without resolving the threat Wang Sheng poses, the Xia Kingdom's experts would have to sleep with one eye open.

"So, you want to express your apology to His Grace?" At the Changsheng Duke's residence, Mei'er, putting on airs, sat in the reception hall, facing the two humble Xia family experts.

"This matter was indeed our fault, and we ask for the Changsheng Duke's forgiveness." Both Xia family experts were at the legendary level. Outside, they would undoubtedly be figures revered by countless people. Moreover, both of them were Xia family elders. Even if they entered the imperial palace, the emperor would likely treat them with courtesy.

Yet, facing Mei'er, they wore apologetic smiles, showing none of the arrogance of great figures. Their eyes seemed to be only on the beautiful and charming woman before them.

"Then how do you intend to express your apology?" Mei'er asked with a smile, displaying an air of grace and nobility as she faced the two Xia family elders.

Regardless of what else could be said about them, the two Xia family members who came today had an excellent attitude. They didn't offer any explanations, excuses, or justifications, but sincerely admitted their mistake right from the start. At least their attitude earned Mei'er's approval.

"The person who attacked His Grace has already died at the hands of the Changsheng Duke. The elder who gave the order will come to the Duke's residence to kowtow, apologize, and admit their fault. In addition, we are willing to offer five hundred million gold coins as compensation to His Grace." Unknowingly, the two elders had fallen deeply under Mei'er's charming smile, revealing the Xia family's bottom line without any guard.

In truth, the Xia family's sincerity was indeed well-considered. First, the family elders couldn't be sacrificed casually, or no one would dare to work for the family in the future. But kowtowing and apologizing gave Wang Sheng and Mei'er great face and was a well-thought-out gesture.

As for the gold coin compensation, it was based on the price offered when the Gan family attacked Wang Sheng and the old Taoist, raised directly to five hundred million. It could be said that the Xia family was truly making a significant investment to resolve the threat posed by Wang Sheng.

This five hundred million gold coins was actually less than the gold coins Li Zhen Workshop was paying out for the bounty on Xia family experts, which meant that the Xia family was genuinely and completely bowing their heads in admission of guilt, even settling the costs of Li Zhen Workshop's bounty on Xia family experts themselves.

When Wang Sheng left, he had told Mei'er some things, including how to respond if the Xia family softened. Now that the Xia family was being so sincere, Mei'er followed Wang Sheng's instructions and readily agreed.

In fact, after Wang Sheng killed those experts from the Xia family's core area of the Perpetual Killing Ground, he hadn't planned to continue the revenge. Otherwise, there wouldn't have been a single survivor in the Xia family's camp in the Perpetual Killing Ground. Some things required scapegoats, such as the Xia and Shi families triggering the super-beast outbreaks in the core of the Perpetual Killing Ground.

"Let's change a condition!" Mei'er considered it and slowly spoke.

"Please instruct us, Princess!" The two Xia family elders were overjoyed. Mei'er's willingness to negotiate meant there was hope; it was just a matter of how much bargaining was needed, which was better than stubbornly refusing to yield.

"That person doesn't need to come to the residence to kowtow and apologize. Let him leave the capital and never come to the capital again." Mei'er's face fell as she quickly stated her condition: "I don't want to see him in the capital again!"

"He will leave the capital today." The Xia family elder agreed without hesitation. It was a joke; this was much better than making that elder come to kowtow and apologize. It was a pleasant surprise!

"In addition to the five hundred million gold coins in compensation, you must also issue twenty billion gold coins in gold notes through Li Zhen Workshop." Mei'er immediately put forward the second condition.

Issuing gold notes meant depositing the gold coins into Li Zhen Workshop first and then using the gold notes for consumption. If everything went smoothly, these gold notes and gold coins wouldn't suffer any losses and might even bring greater convenience. As long as Li Zhen Workshop didn't intend to swallow this sum of gold coins and lose the market of hundreds of billions or even trillions of gold coins across the world, this condition wouldn't cause any loss to the Xia Kingdom and would only indirectly strengthen Li Zhen Workshop.

"We can!" The two elders didn't avoid Mei'er and started discussing it on the spot. After a while, they gave a direct reply.

Since there were no losses, and Mei'er had spared the elder in charge of the capital, if Mei'er had insisted on taking the life of the elder in charge, they probably would have had no choice but to accept it in the end. Now, they only needed to issue twenty billion gold coins in gold notes, so there was no reason to disagree. Anyway, many conditions, including the compensation of gold coins, could be negotiated with other families to recover a portion.

As long as they could completely resolve Wang Sheng's hostility, everything would be easy to handle. The two elders readily agreed, and Mei'er also agreed readily.

The two Xia family elders, overjoyed, left the Changsheng Duke's residence and happily returned to report the news. Of course, they didn't forget to immediately drive the elder in charge of the capital out of the city. That afternoon, five hundred million gold coins were sent to the Changsheng Duke's residence. There was also the deposit of twenty billion gold coins in gold notes, but that was a condition that was temporarily negotiated, and the Xia family wasn't prepared for it, so it would take some time to raise.

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They were straightforward, and Mei'er was equally straightforward. On the same afternoon, as soon as the gold coins were delivered, Mei'er had people remove the bounty from Worry-Free City and Divine Might Prison.

The movement was too obvious. Anyone paying attention immediately noticed this and knew that the Xia Kingdom had definitely obtained Wang Sheng's forgiveness and no longer needed to worry about Wang Sheng's counterattack.

Everyone began to consider how to negotiate conditions with the Xia and Shi families in this situation.