The former Gardener, huh.
Other than the timing of this call really lends itself to a lot of speculation, there's nothing much else.
After all, he was just the Garden's former Gardener, not an ex-girlfriend. Gao Yi owed Shaun a favor, not the Garden, and certainly not the former Gardener.
"Uh, what do you want with me?"
"Nothing much, just felt like if I didn't make this call soon, you would have become a mercenary. I'm right, am I not, Hammer God."
"Uh."
"Oh?"
"Uh!"
"Uh..."
"Uh?"
It's not that Gao Yi intended to irritate the former Gardener, he just wanted to strike first and gain the upper hand.
"Alright, the reason I'm making this call..."
He choked up, the former Gardener choked up!
All those uh's and uh huh's, just see if he didn't choke up.
After a pause, a moment of thought, and reorganizing his thoughts, the former Gardener finally said, "I'm no longer the Gardener, you are the Gardener, so..."