Chapter 243 — The Bizarre Condition "Bang..."

Sun Jingyan let out an instinctive scream. She had brought Wei Zhao here to talk serious business, and she had never expected to run into a bunch of street punks. If Wei Zhao got hurt and had his skull cracked open, who would be left to steal the files for her?

But it was Scarface whose skull got cracked open. The beer bottle had somehow ended up in Wei Zhao's hand, only now there was just half of it left, the other half having burst open on top of Scarface's head.

Scarface was clearly a ruthless character himself. After taking the blow to the head from Wei Zhao, he did not cry out. Instead it only provoked his vicious streak. He stood up coldly and stared at Wei Zhao. "Which crew are you with, brother? Don't you know the area around the North District market is all under Scarface's protection? Did you come here looking for trouble on purpose?"

"Get lost." It was still the same word from Wei Zhao, only this time it came with an extra move. He snatched up the bamboo skewer Scarface had finished eating from the table and flung it out hard, driving it straight into the unscarred half of Scarface's face and punching a hole clean through it.

"Ow..." Scarface let out a miserable howl. The nerves in the face were packed dense, and having a hole poked through his cheek naturally hurt like hell. He had not cried out when the bottle smashed on him, but this time Scarface really could not hold it in, because it hurt too much!

Scarface felt a flicker of terror. That bamboo skewer was light as nothing, yet with a casual toss Wei Zhao had driven it into his flesh. That kind of skill was not something an ordinary man could pull off.

To his credit, Scarface was still man enough. He only yelled out at the moment the skewer went in, and made no sound after that. Gritting his teeth, he yanked the skewer out and looked at Wei Zhao. "Brother, I admit my skills are inferior, but in all things you should leave a little room. Don't push a man too far!"

"Who's your brother? I'm an orphan! Keep nagging and I'll give you another acupuncture treatment!" Wei Zhao said casually, without even lifting his head, utterly scorning Scarface.

"Mountains don't turn but water does. We'll see about this!" Scarface snorted coldly and left a parting threat. "If you've got guts, just wait here for me!"

"If you're going to call people, hurry up. I can't wait. I've got things to do after I eat. If you're not back by the time I finish, I'm leaving." Wei Zhao was not provoked at all. Scarface's goading had no effect on him.

Scarface's expression shifted. He waved to his three remaining brothers and quickly left the food stall.

"Brother Scarface, why didn't you let us jump him?" one of Scarface's underlings, a kid called Purple Hair, asked.

"The guy's a tough hand, probably trained. You'd only get hurt going up there!" Scarface was no fool. "Anyone who can throw a bamboo skewer into my face like that is definitely no ordinary man!"

At Scarface's words, Purple Hair and the others nodded deeply in agreement. "Yeah, so what do we do now? Just swallow this loss? How are we supposed to hang around the snack street after this?"

"Of course we can't just let it go! We'll go back and get Brother Guang to back me up!" Scarface said.

"Right, get Brother Guang, have him bring men to chop him to death!" Purple Hair said excitedly as soon as he heard it. "Let's go find Brother Guang right now!"

Hearing Wei Zhao call himself an orphan, Sun Jingyan was somewhat shocked. She had never imagined Wei Zhao was actually an orphan! Of course, she did not think Wei Zhao was joking, because no one would joke about their own birth like that.

Of course, that was not the only thing that shocked Sun Jingyan, there was also the skill Wei Zhao had just shown! She had long known his hands were fast, able to lift a wallet off Wu Chengtian like that, which certainly took a certain speed.

But Wei Zhao was this fast even when beating people up! She had not even seen how the wine bottle in Scarface's hand ended up in Wei Zhao's hand before it exploded on top of Scarface's head.

And that bamboo skewer, to actually use it like a dart to stab someone? What kind of man was this?

Lowering her head, she was just about to ask Wei Zhao whether he knew kung fu, when she saw he had already buried his head and started eating, feasting away at a basin of spicy skewers. Sun Jingyan was instantly speechless.

He had just beaten someone, so bloody, and now he could eat like nothing had happened!

"Mmm... right, tell me about this file-stealing job you want me to do?" Wei Zhao ate more than twenty spicy skewers before he slowed down and said to Sun Jingyan.

"The other side is a trading company just like us. We handle pretty much the same lines, office supplies and computer products," Sun Jingyan explained when Wei Zhao asked. "But one of our sales managers gave a supervisor at a big company a cut of the deal to win their business, what they commonly call a kickback. Somehow, the rival company had someone film it, and now they're using it to blackmail our company..."

"Oh, like that. So their company doesn't do that sort of thing?" Wei Zhao picked up two more spicy skewers as he asked.

"It's no secret in the trade. If you want to win business, how can you do it without giving the people in charge a little something? They do it too, it's just that we were the ones who got caught on camera." Sun Jingyan sounded helpless.

"If it's exposed, what harm does it do you?" Wei Zhao asked.

"We could be punished by the authorities, and of course, we'd lose that client! He's a major client of ours, buying over ten million yuan worth of computers and related office equipment from us every year. Once it's exposed, that supervisor won't just lose his job, he could be held liable by his company!" Sun Jingyan said. "The most critical problem is, what company would dare work with us afterward? If even taking a kickback might get exposed, who would come to such an unsafe company? We'd probably have to shut down..."

"That serious?" Wei Zhao did not understand business matters, but Sun Jingyan's explanation gave him the general idea. "Then what terms did the other company offer? If they only wanted to crush you as a competitor, they'd have made the video public already, instead of waiting for you to hire me to steal it."

"Exactly." Sun Jingyan nodded. "Making it public would hurt us, but it wouldn't do them any good. After all, it's a lose-lose move. There are more than just our two trading companies in Songshan City, there are many others. If our company loses its clients, there's no guarantee they'd go to their company."

"Tell me their terms." That was what Wei Zhao was interested in.

"Their terms are... the boss of that company wants me to be his mistress." Sun Jingyan said.

"Huh?! Pfft..." Wei Zhao spat out the half-chewed spicy skewer right out of his mouth... "Cough cough, what did you say? Their condition is for you to be his mistress?"

"Yes!" Sun Jingyan nodded firmly. "So your payment will be half of theirs. I'll be your mistress too, but without performing a mistress's duties, because I'm only your half-mistress."

For the fastest updates, please read the ad-free version.