"How did you know?"
Yang Qi blurted out the question instinctively.
He had just received the invitation; word shouldn't have spread this fast.
"It's really an invitation from Red Star?!"
Chen Ze's eyes went wide as he exclaimed, his face flush with excitement. "That's amazing, Brother Qi! You're the fucking man! Even the best zoo in the province sent you an invitation! What a power move!"
"I'm just going over to help them take a look. It's not a big deal."
Yang Qi waved his hand dismissively, getting back to the point. He looked at Chen Ze, puzzled. "You still haven't said how you knew."
"I guessed, of course!"
Chen Ze chuckled, a bit smug. "Weren't there rumors going around that the zoo in the Provincial Capital wanted to poach you? They sounded pretty convincing."
"When you mentioned you were going to the Provincial Capital on a business trip, Brother Qi, a lightbulb went off. I thought, 'What kind of job would need you to go all the way to the Provincial Capital?'"
