Chapter 250 — Scheme: Sun Jingyan Was Speechless — You Still Have Time to Play with His DV? Aren't You Afraid of Being Found Out?

"Are you sure this is the right memory card?" Sun Jingyan still sounded uneasy.

"Positive!" Wei Zhao said lazily. "It's just a recording made in a coffee shop. I checked it ages ago."

Only then did Sun Jingyan relax. "Thanks, little husband. Your big sister will give you a kiss as a reward!"

With that, she pursed her lips and kissed the empty air.

"Mwah..."

Sun Jingyan froze. She had only kissed the air — how had she kissed something? Then she saw that Wei Zhao had leaned his face in at some point.

"You—" Sun Jingyan cursed him inwardly as shameless. She had only pretended to kiss him, and he had moved in on his own.

"Me what?" Wei Zhao rubbed the spot on his cheek where she had kissed him and smiled wickedly. "From now on, don't go thinking I'm harmless. Pull any more of those teasing moves, and I'll respond in kind."

Sun Jingyan really had gotten under his skin. You can't keep dragging up that half-a-lover business over and over. Fine — if you're so eager to say it, then so be it. Half a lover, and there's no clear definition of what that half covers. Even if they didn't sleep together, a kiss was surely allowed?

"You..." Sun Jingyan didn't know what to say. True, she had teased Wei Zhao only because he looked young, and she had assumed he would be no match for her. With any other man who posed a threat, she would never have stooped to such childish tricks — that would only get her burned.

By Sun Jingyan's judgment, Wei Zhao was a boy who had never known a woman. He might be skilled, but he must have spent his earlier years in closed training under his master, knowing little of the world outside. So she was confident she could use her beauty to wrap him around her finger and make him work for her.

But she had never expected Wei Zhao to go on the offensive. Just as she was about to say something else, his next move left her utterly at a loss.

Wei Zhao suddenly reached out and lightly pinched her beautifully curved chin. It was a frivolous gesture, faintly insulting — the kind a bully in a period drama uses to harass a village girl. Coming from Wei Zhao so abruptly, it made Sun Jingyan, who had never suffered such humiliation, tense up, even grow afraid.

"You... what are you doing?" Sun Jingyan was alarmed. Under such a gesture, nothing good was likely to follow.

"Half a lover, is it? I'll come collect that debt whenever I please!" Then Wei Zhao let go. "Next time you want me to do something, think it through. I'll still take my fee — and by then, half a lover will become a whole one!"

If he didn't show her a bit of color, this girl would set up her own dye works. He had let her off before, but she had gone too far, and Wei Zhao's patience had run out.

At home, Wei Zhao could put up with Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu — that was his job. But with Sun Jingyan, a total stranger, did this girl really think her charms were limitless?

Sun Jingyan felt aggrieved. When had she ever suffered such an insult? Even Wu Tieshou wouldn't dare speak frivolously to her, and though Zhang Tongtian coveted her, he would never force himself on her. Threats and bribes were one thing; force was another. However mighty Zhang Tongtian was, he had no wish to rot in prison.

But Wei Zhao — that wretch — had actually stolen her first kiss. It hadn't landed on his lips, but it had landed on his cheek... and that left Sun Jingyan feeling deeply wronged.

Yet even in her grievance, Sun Jingyan swallowed it in silence, because she knew perfectly well that she had brought it all on herself. That was what they meant by playing with fire and wetting the bed.

Seeing that Sun Jingyan had finally settled down, Wei Zhao couldn't be bothered with her anymore. Best if she never came looking for him again — he was busy, and every time she dragged him into some low-skill errand, he felt he was wasting his talents.

If Sun Jingyan really were his wife, he would accept it. But she wasn't — and she still played little games with him. This time, for the sake of their acquaintance, he would help her once. Next time, it would depend on her sincerity.

Naturally, Wei Zhao wouldn't let Sun Jingyan drive him all the way to the villa district. He got off at a bus stop nearby. Sun Jingyan gritted her teeth, shot him an indignant look, and drove away.

"Dad, Gu Pengzhan has been consolidating his power these past few days. That's bad for us!" A young man in glasses stood cautiously before a middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man was Jin Gubang, Zhong Fabai's brother-in-law and, apart from Gu Pengzhan, the largest shareholder in the Gu Group. The young man was his son and secretary, Jin Maosheng.

"I know. Zhang Yuzhou found me a pack of trash. Otherwise that job would have gone through — it would have cost the company at least two hundred million. Gu Pengzhan signed that contract himself, so either way it would have cut his prestige on the board to nothing!" Jin Gubang said hatefully. "They can't even kidnap a girl properly. I don't know if these people eat shit! They couldn't even handle one little bodyguard!"

"Exactly. And that little bastard Wei Zhao is truly detestable. I bribed the company electrician to stage an accident for Gu Pengzhan in the parking lot and put him in the hospital for a while, but Wei Zhao ruined that too." Jin Maosheng spoke with hatred.

"You're still talking about it? Who told you to act on your own? If something happens to Gu Pengzhan inside the company, the police's first suspicion falls on someone on the inside!" Jin Gubang glared at his son. "Do you have a brain? How could you do something so reckless?"

"Dad, that electrician has disappeared forever..." Jin Maosheng lowered his head and explained cautiously.

"Hmph. I'm not saying you did wrong — I'm saying that from now on, don't make your moves inside the company!" Jin Gubang snorted coldly. "By the way, has your cousin managed to win over Gu Mengyao yet?"

"Doesn't seem so," Jin Maosheng said. "Dad, I don't think Uncle-in-law has any good intentions either. If Zhong Yongliang really ends up with Gu Mengyao, it might indirectly serve our Jin family's aim of controlling the Gu Group, but doesn't it also benefit Uncle-in-law's family? He's an outsider by blood, after all — no guarantee he won't turn on us later!"

"What you say makes sense. Zhong Fabai is not a man who settles for second place." Jin Gubang nodded. On this point he agreed with his son: Zhong Fabai's ambitions were great. Bringing him in would be fine in the short run, but over time, who knew whether he might turn the tables and make himself the master.

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