"Of course not accepting it." Yan Fei’s eyes widened. "It’s so expensive, how could I accept that? At least a fifty percent discount is necessary." When it came to negotiating the price, Yan Fei didn’t plan to continue his reckless spending. To put it in domestic terms, this is a public transaction. Even if he spent more, it wouldn’t do much good for staff like Wendy, as long as there was a suitable price baseline. The negotiation in the morning lasted only half an hour, because Yan Fei’s price cut was too low, and they still didn’t reach a deal. In the end, Wendy could only say helplessly, "Now I understand why you could become a big boss, you have a good negotiation expert." Xu Xiaoyan smiled without speaking. This was the strategy of the two, and in fact, they hadn’t intended to reach a deal in the morning; the important thing was to clearly express their intention to buy. At the ranch, Xu Xiaoyan wasn’t just feeding eagles and walking dogs all day; she was constantly learning about the local knowledge. During free time, she chatted with Aunt Emily to understand the situation here. Although Emily is a professional housewife, she is the wife of Old Haiden. Old Haiden has been a town mayor for over ten years, so Emily’s insights are certainly broader than the average housewife. Today was the day to verify what Xu Xiaoyan had learned over this period. "We plan to go shopping this noon, and I hope we can sign the agreement in the afternoon," Yan Fei said as he left. "I’m eager to contribute to the construction of our beautiful Amora City, but you guys keep not giving me the chance. The money in my account just can’t wait to fly away now!" At noon, the two even left Daniel behind, still using the excuse of wanting to go shopping. Actually, the two booked a hotel room, and Xu Xiaoyan stayed there with Yan Fei’s phone. Yan Fei flew back to the office they just left to probe the government’s bottom line. This is the advantage of having someone else know the secret. The two of them now had a bit of the air of a notorious couple; one guards the home, and the other can confidently go do various things. In a month’s time, Yan Fei didn’t forget to use his skills. Under Xu Xiaoyan’s cover, he also went to White Stone Island and ’moved’ two ships with his ’spatial shifting’ skill. This time, he went a bit far since he had his wife covering for him and plenty of time. He directly sent the ships to near the Aden Gulf—it’s said that there are some rampant islands there. Although the two ships eventually didn’t encounter any danger, the effect was still quite sensational. Later, Xu Xiaoyan and Yan Fei analyzed it and guessed that it was likely because the pirates didn’t dare to act since the incident had caused too much of a sensation worldwide. The pirates aren’t brainless desperadoes and wouldn’t dare to commit such an outrage—people often speculate online that someone might be backing these pirates! If that’s true, even those forces wouldn’t dare to hijack these ’mysterious ships.’ They didn’t go to Japan again to stir things up because Japan recently had a new leader. The new leader is a conservative, and it was purely by chance, or a stroke of luck, that they became the leader. Additionally, this person’s skills are... very amicable toward surrounding nations. Yan Fei settled down at the ranch, reluctant to leave the warm bed at night, so he didn’t do anything. But regardless of whether he did anything or not, it didn’t matter now as the new leader immediately began getting into scandals and making brainless remarks—like once suggesting bad ideas to a neighboring country that was extremely opposed by his own citizens, causing his countrymen great anger once it got out. Coupled with this person’s relatively average ability to get things done, and coincidently Japan is also in turmoil, even Xu Xiaoyan speculated that this leader might not last long in the position. Chapters first released on novel★fire.net Xu Xiaoyan was initially enjoying watching TV at the hotel, but after Yan Fei went out for a while, she began to ponder. Following a monster husband puts quite a bit of pressure on her. The girl now doesn’t place high demands on herself; she simply wants to do the best she can. She’s considering whether to continue her graduate studies; according to the timeline, she should be going back to collect her diploma by now. However, she doesn’t really want to go, so she entrusted her dorm leader, Jiang Xueling, to pick it up for her—of course, the norm doesn’t allow such exceptions, but Xu Xiaoyan, being who she is, naturally can get away with it. The main reason is the girl feels that if she returns to graduate school, she might drag down Yan Xiaofei’s ’soaring high.’ Back at home, Yan Xiaofei had a period of being a real couch potato, not caring about family matters, playing around in the lab when idle, and not wanting to do anything apart from being lovey-dovey with her. It wasn’t until they came here to start a new round of entrepreneurship that Yan Fei found his spirits. Xu Xiaoyan feels that even if she pursued her graduate studies, it might not substantially support Yan Xiaofei. It’s better to stay with him, help manage things when he’s busy, and cover for him when he’s out flying, being a successful woman behind the scenes. After pondering for a while and unable to come to any conclusions, she decided to practice yoga in the hotel—she felt that her physical fitness was still lacking and needed improvement. After all, with a certain monster being so formidable, spending time together every day, she can barely keep up. She hadn’t practiced for long when a little black bird flapped in. In a blink, it transformed into a person and pounced over with a cheeky grin. Xu Xiaoyan was doing yoga at the time and couldn’t resist him, becoming breathless in no time from his teasing. After a while, she could finally open her eyes and ask, "Did you get things done?" Contrary to the girl’s weariness, Yan Xiaofei was in high spirits: "When I got there, Wendy was reporting to the mayor. I listened for a while and now have a pretty good grasp of their bottom price!" After speaking, he felt a bit angry: "This old woman is too difficult to negotiate with. Obviously, her superiors set a much lower bottom price, but she stubbornly insists on a high price just to make a name for herself." "Moreover, that woman smiles on the surface but doesn’t really support selling us that small hill. She says we’ve bought too much land, and if we continue buying, then what? Whereas their mayor has a good impression of us and supports us buying more land here, thinking that we can foster friendly cooperation." "Looks like we’ll have to figure out how to get this lady out of her job sooner rather than later! Otherwise, with her as a smiling tiger, our plans to buy more ranches won’t be very friendly!" Yan Fei was not at all surprised to meet someone who didn’t like him, but he didn’t expect it to be Wendy, who appeared to be all smiles. All along, both Yan Fei and Daniel thought she was supportive of selling that small hill, which barely qualifies as a mine. To their surprise, it was the mayor they hadn’t interacted with who was easier to talk to and had a favorable view of Chinese people. Xu Xiaoyan was also angry: "Didn’t see that coming! When we go to negotiate, you should slightly raise the original price, but not too high, just a bit below their bottom line, and I’ll talk to her at length. If she’s really hard to negotiate with, we can talk to the mayor for a slightly higher price." Yan Fei thought for a moment: "Alright, let’s be prepared this afternoon. If she agrees then she hasn’t gone down to the bottom, and if not, we’ll talk to her superior anyway, we can’t let her take the credit for nothing." After discussing, the two went back, and Yan Fei, as Xu Xiaoyan instructed, offered a price and let Xu Xiaoyan slowly drag out the time with Wendy. Sure enough, they didn’t reach a deal. If they hadn’t snooped around, they would’ve thought Wendy was sticking to her bottom line. But now, since they knew, hearing Wendy quote a price obviously much higher than their bottom line, they realized she was being devious! The young couple didn’t think they were in the wrong, and walking out with a somewhat sorry Daniel, they were determined to find a way to contact the amiable mayor and buy that small hill.