The proposal that could not be refused was to bid 0 gold coins.
If Cyrus still insisted on participating in the bidding, it would be highly suspicious, affecting his own plan.
But why did Faith have to do that? With only 10 gold coins in hand, wouldn't Cyrus naturally fail the bid anyway? Why did he need to stop this?
But this "naturally" only refers to numerical calculation, not the instinct on the chessboard.
Cyrus could completely repeat his old trick, which is to explicitly request that everyone bid 10 gold coins to divide the money evenly.
In the mindset of the other players, this is just a cheap trick Cyrus set up to retaliate for the other players breaking the agreement to bid 10 gold coins in bidding turn 1.
Cyrus would wait until they all bid 10 gold coins, and then he would bid 0 gold coins to reclaim the lost profit from turn 1, in other words, becoming a freeloader.
