護花近衛 - 第1803章 撤資 - 翰墨軒

"Withdraw?" An Mingyue was taken aback. He had not expected Gu Pengzhan to pull his money out at a moment like this. If the man took back his billion, An Mingyue might still cheat him out of a portion of it—but with that billion in hand, Gu Pengzhan stood a very good chance of rising from the dead. After all, Gu Pengzhan was a veteran of business; this one lapse of judgment was entirely the hypnotist's doing.

"That's right. I'll have to trouble you with this, Brother Mingyue," Gu Pengzhan said.

"What exactly has happened, that you're in such a hurry, Brother Pengzhan?" An Mingyue asked, betraying nothing.

"Something's come up at home. It's not convenient to say..." Naturally, Gu Pengzhan could not go around babbling about Wei Zhao.

"I see... I don't even know whether a withdrawal is possible right now. This futures business—I don't really understand how it's done myself, so let me ask around and then get back to you?" An Mingyue did not refuse outright; that would have rung far too false.

"All right, I'll wait for your call," Gu Pengzhan said.

An Mingyue hung up and looked at An Liwen beside him with some perplexity. "Jianwen, what game do you suppose Gu Pengzhan is playing now? He wants to pull out a billion?"

An Liwen had had little to occupy him lately, and had devoted his main energies to ruining Gu Pengzhan. Every time An Mingyue spoke with the man it was on speakerphone and recorded, so An Liwen had heard it all from the side. "I'm not sure, but that money absolutely cannot be allowed to go back to him. I have to bankrupt him, so that I can move in and win Gu Mengyao for myself!"

"Hmm... but if we don't give it to him, won't Gu Pengzhan get suspicious?" An Mingyue said with some concern. "Even if we do give him the billion, couldn't you have the hypnotist work on him—suggest to Gu Pengzhan that he marry Gu Mengyao to you?"

"What good is suggesting it to him? The key is whether Gu Mengyao herself is willing. With those two bastards Wei Zhao and Shen Yushu stirring up trouble in the middle, what use is Gu Pengzhan's consent?" An Liwen shook his head.

"Then... hypnotize Gu Mengyao?" An Mingyue asked.

"Hypnosis only lasts so long. You can hypnotize someone for a time, but not for a lifetime. When Gu Mengyao comes to her senses, there'll likely be trouble. Besides, what I want is Gu Mengyao's heart. Otherwise I could simply have someone kidnap her and make the raw rice cooked—and everything would be settled. But I don't like that feeling!" In An Liwen's heart there was an obsession close to madness that had driven him utterly insane.

"Then... how should we handle it?" In the matter of Gu Pengzhan, An Mingyue deferred entirely to An Liwen; after all, An Liwen was the one driving the whole affair.

"Dad, your mention of the hypnotist gave me an idea. Here's what we'll do: I'll have the hypnotist make a suggestion to Gu Pengzhan and ask him what he actually intends to do with that billion once he withdraws it. Then we'll decide," An Liwen said after a moment's thought.

"That works. Find out first, then decide," An Mingyue said with a nod.

An Liwen's word now counted as law in the Fire Wolf Gang. Though he was using the gang's influence for private ends, neither the hypnotist nor Dr. Yin raised the slightest objection—after all, while a man threw his life away making money for the gang, he was surely entitled to win some benefit for his own family.

So when the hypnotist heard An Liwen's instructions, he disguised himself as An Mingyue's secretary and went with him to see Gu Pengzhan.

Gu Pengzhan had not expected An Mingyue to come in person, and received him in the company's guest room. "Brother Mingyue, whatever it is, it could have been said over the phone. There was no need to come to the company."

"Ha ha, I was just passing by anyway..." An Mingyue said, and as he spoke he shot a look at the hypnotist beside him.