Zheng Yu'an remembered this was the second time Yan Shuwang had called him by his full name.
People from the South rarely have perfectly standard Mandarin; they more or less carry a Jiangnan accent, which sounds soft. But Yan Shuwang did not.
The way he said Zheng Yu'an's name was as if he held the words on the tip of his tongue, rolled them around once, and then spat them out one by one.