Seeing how his boys stopped approaching New and how their bodies stiffened up out of fear, Wan Lee sneered. Truly, if anything happens to them, he wouldn't do anything to help. These boys who go around with him were meant to add to his glamour and presence in exchange for small favors from his family and connections. A few of them have parents with credible positions in the Sunny group. Those ones, he could give a little face. But the rest were just children of middle-class families within the company, and the value their parents brought to the company was not significant enough for him to go the extra mile in protecting them.
So when they paused, he understood why they paused. But that doesn't mean that he would let them off. In fact, the fact that they even considered disobeying his order out of fear already made their position a difficult one. Wan Lee wouldn't let them go. After he made them deal with this stupid boy, he would still punish them.