Chapter 803 — Negotiating with the Orphanage
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Although Wei Zhao said nothing, Tang Zhi, given her temperament, felt it was simply too much.
Mother Tang shook her head and looked at her daughter. "By the way, you still haven't told me — what relation are those two girls from yesterday to Wei Zhao?"
"They're my rivals in love. They're both richer than me, and they're about to push me out any day now. Satisfied?" Tang Zhi said bitterly. She stood up, ran to the bathroom in the ward, and wept in secret.
"Rivals in love?" Mother Tang was taken aback. "That doesn't seem quite right."
The Qibing Real Estate Company had paid out nearly double its budget today. Though even at this rate the company could still turn a profit, so much had already been sunk into the construction of the Qibing Towers that the profits from the shantytown development were nowhere near enough to cover the losses on those two buildings.
Judging by the present situation, the best the entire shantytown development could manage was a profit of thirty to fifty million — anything more was utterly impossible. The original budget had counted on earning back the cost of one tower, but now that Wei Zhao had entered the picture, that dream was shattered.
Zhao Qibing sat in the RV. When the news reached him, he was furious. Both his legs were broken, so he had not appeared at the demolition site this time; instead he sat far off in the RV by the roadside, directing everything from a distance.
"My career hasn't even gotten off the ground, and I've already lost two hundred million, with a single project that won't earn it back. What will the Zhao family think of me?" Zhao Qibing glared at Li Cihua, by now half-deranged. His grand ambition to build a career and prove himself to the family had been utterly shattered; at this point, not losing money would be good enough.
"Young Master Bing, Wei Zhao was an unstable factor nobody could have foreseen. Who would have guessed a figure like that could suddenly appear in Songshan City?" Li Cihua sighed as well. The days when he had dominated Songshan City were gone. Now, in front of Wei Zhao, Li Cihua was nothing — Wei Zhao did not even deign to notice him.
"Wei Zhao, just you wait. I won't let you off!" Zhao Qibing clenched his fists viciously.
"Young Master Bing, could you speak to the boss, ask him to send some skilled men to do away with Wei Zhao?" Li Cihua hesitated, but made the suggestion anyway. Wei Zhao's appearance had made Li Cihua timid in everything he did, and he loathed the feeling.
"I'll ask..." Zhao Qibing vaguely knew something of the pacts and mutual restraints among the hidden families — that Earth-rank experts were not permitted to appear in the mortal world at will, and that any hidden family breaking this pact would become the enemy of all the others.
Zhao Qibing did not know whether the pact was real or merely rumor, but so far no hidden family had broken the rule, and it was a fact that no Earth-rank experts had ever been seen in the mortal world.
"But my father is already quite displeased with me. The pressing task is to build the company up. Once I have results, everything else will be easy to discuss!" Zhao Qibing was too embarrassed to ask his father now. He had accomplished nothing — how could he ask his father to send a skilled man to assist him?
"With Wei Zhao meddling in the shantytown project, we can't make much profit anymore. We can't very well cut corners when building, can we? That would ruin our reputation. If someone exposed it, our apartments would be hard to sell!" Li Cihua knew that to build a lasting business, one could not tamper with the quality of the buildings.
"Have we made contact about the orphanage? That plot looks good to me — it's large, and the location is better than the shantytown. Tearing it down and putting up a high-end villa district would be nice!" Zhao Qibing said.
"Not yet. Wasn't this decided only in the past couple of days? I was planning to go make contact in a little while!" Li Cihua replied.