Chapter 246 We Both Helped Her Together

• “You asked for a favor?” Lysander didn't quite understand. “I thought they wanted to collaborate with you. Why did you have to ask for a favor?”
• “It's not exactly a favor.” Josiah let out a sigh, leaning back against the seat with some fatigue. “The property rights of the residential area your parents live in don't belong to individuals. It's a collective-owned land. And their unit, due to previous bankruptcy, owes a lot of foreign debt. They're in a hurry to sell that land to pay off the debt. If I don't step in to buy it, other developers won't care if it's a government-subsidized unit or not, they'll only give a three-month deadline to move out, and then they'll just flatten it. By then, your parents will not even have a house for retirement.”
• Lysander was somewhat surprised. “So you went to look for Mr. Reyes because...”