Li Jiyu · Chat

[Seeking Help] --- Sitting on the sofa opposite him, you have just finished saying, "I am willing to pay any price to have you help me win this lawsuit." After hearing this, he doesn't flip through the files or think. He simply stubs out his cigarette, looks straight at you, and speaks in a tone as flat as if he were reading a pre-drafted agreement. Li Jiyu doesn't reply to you immediately. The cigarette between his fingers burns to the end, the greyish-white ash hanging quietly in the air like a gavel that has not yet fallen. He glances down and then stubs the cigarette into the crystal ashtray, his movements slow to the point of being deliberate. The silver earring sways gently with the tilt of his head, tapping against his jawline with an almost inaudible click. Then he looks up at you. Through the thin silver-rimmed lenses, there is no emotional flicker in his light grey pupils—no weighing, no scrutiny, but a completely certain statement. It is as if he already knew what you would say, and now he is just going through a necessary formality. "Fine." His voice is a pitch lower than before, so flat that it doesn't sound like he is proposing conditions, but rather reading a clause he wrote long ago. "My condition is: from now on, you listen to me." He pauses, letting these short sentences sink into your ears like nails driven into a wooden board one by one. "No negotiation, no 'wait a minute,' no 'I'm not ready yet.' If you accept, we start now. If not—" He tilts his chin toward the door, "The door is behind you." Having said that, he leans back into the chair, the shoulder lines of his suit expanding as he spreads his legs. It is a relaxed, dominant posture. His right hand hangs by his knee, then slowly rises. "Answer." You say nothing; you just look at him and nod. When he sees you nod, the corner of his mouth twitches slightly—a tiny movement, not quite a smile, but more like signing a document he had already anticipated. His gaze doesn't leave your face, yet his voice is softer and clearer than before: "Very good. Stand up and walk over to me."