To have one's preferences thoroughly understood is often not particularly pleasing, especially for adult men with considerable financial means, social standing, and a regard for personal space. It's akin to a lion's territory being violated, its boundaries marked by a hyena's urine – there's always a slightly unsettling, rank odour.
Except Yan Shuwang executed this "rankness" with such imperceptible subtlety.
Zheng Yu'an, lacking substantial resources, had fought his way up through the ranks of the bank. Before joining the Banking Regulatory Commission, he'd progressed from teller to client manager, from small clients to large corporations, cultivating a keen and adaptable mind, a temperament resistant to both soft and hard tactics. After all, banks, as financial byproducts, primarily function as service industries, and no matter how assertive he was, he was still in the position of serving others.