Chapter 243 — Bizarre Conditions
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But Wei Zhao could fight with that same speed! She had not even seen clearly how the bottle in Scarface's hand had gotten into Wei Zhao's, and already Scarface's head had burst open.
And that bamboo skewer—who would have thought it could be used as a throwing dart to pierce a man? What kind of person was this?
She lowered her head, about to ask Wei Zhao whether he knew martial arts, when she saw that he had already buried his head in eating, heartily devouring a basin of spicy skewers. Sun Jingyan was momentarily speechless.
He had just finished beating someone up, so bloody a scene, and now he was eating as if nothing had happened at all!
"Mm... right, tell me about this business of having me steal the data?" Wei Zhao had eaten more than twenty spicy skewers before he slowed down and spoke to Sun Jingyan.
"The other side is a trading company, just like ours. We deal in roughly the same lines—office supplies and computer products," Sun Jingyan explained when she heard him ask. "But one of our company's business managers, while negotiating with a large corporation, gave their executive a certain percentage as a kickback—commissions, as it's commonly called. Somehow or other, the people the rival company hired filmed the whole thing, and now they're using it to blackmail our company..."
"Oh, I see. So their company doesn't do that sort of thing?" Wei Zhao pulled out two more skewers and asked.
"It is no secret in the trade. If you want to drum up business, how can you not slip the people in charge a little something? They do it too; it is just that we were the ones caught on camera." Sun Jingyan sounded rather resigned.
"If it comes out in the open, does it do you any harm?" Wei Zhao asked.
"We might be penalized by the authorities, and of course we would lose that client as well. He is one of our company's biggest clients, buying over ten million yuan worth of computers and office equipment from us every year. Once this is exposed, not only will he lose his position as department head, but his company may well hold him accountable!" Sun Jingyan said. "The most critical problem is this: after that, what company's people would dare work with us? Even taking a kickback can get you exposed. Who would come to an unsafe company like ours? I am afraid we will have no choice but to shut our doors for good..."
"That serious?" Wei Zhao knew nothing about business, but Sun Jingyan's explanation had given him the gist. "So what terms has the other company proposed? If they only meant to strike at a competitor, they would surely have made the recording public already; they would not have waited for you to come to me to steal it."
"Exactly." Sun Jingyan nodded. "Making it public would hurt us, but it would do them no good either. After all, it is a case of harming others without benefiting oneself. There is more than just the two of us trading companies in Songshan; there are plenty of others. Even if our company loses a client, that client will not necessarily run to them."
"Tell me their terms." That was what interested Wei Zhao.
"Their terms are... the chairman of that company wants me to be his mistress," Sun Jingyan said.
"What?! Pff..." Wei Zhao spat out the half-eaten spicy skewer straight away... "Cough, cough, what did you say? Their term is for you to be his mistress?"
"Yes!" Sun Jingyan nodded firmly. "So your fee will be half of theirs, and I will be your mistress too, but without carrying out a mistress's duties, because I am only half your mistress."