Chapter 220 - 221: Ill Intentions

Chapter 220: Chapter 221: Ill Intentions

Li Yang nodded. For now, this was their only option.

"What do we do now?" Qin Susu asked anxiously. "Should we go try the next neighborhood?"

"Try what?" Li Yang said with a helpless expression. "This neighborhood doesn’t seem to be the problem. What we need to do now is rent a shop here. Otherwise, how are you going to deliver the water? If they’re really willing to help, they’ll give us a referral. We can only wait. No, that’s not right... we need to rent a shop. I see a few other neighborhoods nearby. We can use this as a hub and radiate outward, get it?"

Qin Susu was left speechless, but she couldn’t bear to lose face. "I knew that. I was just testing you."

Fine, fine, fine...

Li Yang was completely exasperated.

After grabbing a bite to eat at a random place, Qin Susu led Li Yang to start looking for a storefront in the area.

"Boss Mo, don’t you worry. I’ve already prepared the water. I’m just waiting for her to drink it. As soon as she does, she’ll become desperate. And then, our business will be a done deal." Suddenly, a voice drifted over.

Li Yang froze.

He saw a BMW parked by the roadside, where a middle-aged man was talking.

Li Yang frowned. ’This doesn’t sound good.’

While he was hesitating, the CLICK-CLACK-CLACK of high heels approached.

Then, a beautiful woman walked up to the car and said with a smile, "President Liu, President Mo sent me to find you."

"Come, come, I’ve been waiting for you for a while. Get in the car, we can go talk somewhere else. By the way, you must be thirsty. Here, have some water!"

As he spoke, the man took out a bottle of water and handed it to the beautiful woman.

Li Yang froze. ’Isn’t that the beautiful woman from before?’

Li Yang immediately stepped forward, snatched the bottle of water, and said with a smile, "What a coincidence, we meet again."

The woman froze, then said, clearly displeased, "Sir, please give me back the water."

"That’s right, what do you think you’re doing!" President Liu was getting angry. "Give that back."

"Are you sure you want to drink this?" Li Yang ignored President Liu and asked the woman directly.

The woman hesitated. "President Liu gave me this water, so of course I’m going to drink it."

"President Liu," Li Yang asked, "when you were on the phone with President Mo just now, you said that as soon as she drank this water, she’d become ’desperate.’ What exactly did you mean by that?"

The color drained from President Liu’s face. "What nonsense are you spouting?"

The woman gasped in shock.

"Xiaoren, don’t listen to his bullshit!" President Liu explained hurriedly. "There’s nothing wrong with the water!"

"If there’s no problem, then why don’t you drink it yourself?" Li Yang said with a grin, holding the bottle out to him.

President Liu’s face turned crimson, but he didn’t dare to drink it.

"What’s in it?" No matter how trusting she might have been, Xiaoren could tell something was seriously wrong. She immediately took a step back and demanded an answer.

"It’s nothing..." President Liu was already flustered. He pointed at Li Yang and snarled, "You’re fucking looking to die, aren’t you, kid?"

"Trying to threaten me?" Li Yang sneered. "What if I call the police right now?"

President Liu panicked at the mention of the police. "You... If you dare call the cops, I’ll fucking kill you."

SLAP!

Li Yang strode forward and slapped him across the face. "You son of a bitch, still acting so arrogant? Are you going to tell her yourself? If you don’t, I’ll call the police and let them do the talking."

"I’ll talk! I’ll talk..." President Liu was scared stiff. He turned to Xiaoren and said, "Xiaoren, I... it was your boss who put me up to this! He said that if I agreed to sign the contract with you, he’d let me sleep with you. He even bought the drug for me! The stuff in there, he bought it. He told me not to worry about what happened afterward, that he’d take care of everything. It was just a moment of weakness!"

Xiaoren looked like she was about to explode with rage.

She couldn’t believe it. She had come here full of confidence, entrusted with an important task by her own boss, only to be trapped in such a despicable scheme.

A chill washed over her at the thought.

"So?" Li Yang asked, watching the expression on Xiaoren’s face. "What do you want to do? Tell me, and I’ll help you handle it. Call the police? Something else?"

Xiaoren was silent for a moment. Then, she suddenly strode forward and SLAP! SLAP!—struck President Liu twice across the face.

President Liu stumbled back two steps but ultimately said nothing.

"Get out!" Xiaoren screamed at him.

President Liu scrambled into his car and sped off.

"Want to sit for a minute?" Li Yang asked, seeing how pale Xiaoren looked.

Xiaoren turned and looked at him. "Thank you."

"Don’t mention it," Li Yang said, shaking his head. "I just happened to overhear him on the phone with your boss and thought I should warn you."

"Thank you, really," Xiaoren said to Li Yang. "You said before that you wanted to hire me for a sales position, right?"

Li Yang faltered. "Uh, that’s right. I..."

"I’ll do it," Xiaoren agreed readily. "But I have one condition. My boss set me up like this, and I want to get even. But on my own, I don’t have the power to do it. Since you want to hire me, you must be a boss too. You can do it, right?"

Li Yang gave a dry laugh. "What kind of revenge did you have in mind?"

"I just want to let off some steam," Xiaoren said after a moment of thought. "Letting me slap him a few times, or something else... anything’s fine."

"Done!" Li Yang considered it for a moment, then made up his mind. "Then it’s a deal."