"Brother Yuan! Did you get everything sorted out on your end?"
As soon as the call connected, Gao Zhe's cheerful voice came through the receiver.
Inside the private room, Hu Chenghui trembled with fear, almost falling off the floor along with his chair.
His henchmen behind him were also in a panic, their expressions were priceless, even worse than if they had seen a ghost.
Lu Yuan simply smiled faintly and said slowly into the phone, "Ah Zhe, Hui Ge and I tried everything to persuade him, but he just wouldn't believe there wasn't some mysterious big boss or any amusement park project. What kind of magic potion did you use to make him believe it so readily?"
"I said exactly the lines you taught me, not daring to say a word more or less, for fear that my acting was too clumsy and he would see through it." Gao Zhe's voice was filled with the pleasure of a successful prank.
Hu Chenghui's expression shifted rapidly, a mixture of fear, doubt, skepticism, and anger.
He took a deep breath, forced a smile, and said in a trembling voice, "Lu Yuan, it wasn't Gao Zhe on the other end of the phone, right? It was just a liar whose voice sounded like his!"
"Tsk!" Lu Yuan rolled his eyes, looking helpless as he spoke into the phone, "Ah Zhe, Brother Hui absolutely refuses to believe you're still alive, what are we going to do?"
Before he could finish speaking, a loud "bang" rang out as the door to the private room was kicked open.
The two men in suits guarding the door were already pale with fright, standing there frozen in place, as if they had seen a ghost.
Gao Zhe swaggered in.
He held his phone to his ear in one hand and a roasted chicken leg in the other, his mouth greasy as he ate: "Brother Hui, open your eyes and look carefully, your Brother Zhe is alive and well."
After hanging up the phone, Gao Zhe wiped his mouth with a grin.
The bruises on his lips and brow bone were clearly visible, marks left from his fight with Lu Yuan by the river yesterday. This further proved that he was the real Gao Zhe, not a conman who looked similar.
"Impossible!" A man in a suit suddenly stood up and roared, his voice trembling with fear. "I clearly saw you being strangled to death, and then Lu Yuan threw you into the river!"
This is the same person who followed Lu Yuan to the riverbank yesterday.
"Are you sure you saw it with your own eyes?" Lu Yuan asked with a half-smile.
"I..." The man in the suit's expression changed drastically as he realized he had been careless.
At that time, the grass along the river was thick and reached his knees. He only saw the two people wrestling and falling to the ground before his view was completely blocked.
Later, he only saw Lu Yuan wrap a "human-shaped object" in plastic film and throw it into the river before leaving in a panic.
After Lu Yuan left, he also left immediately, without even seeing clearly whether there was a corpse inside the plastic film. It was all just his subjective assumption.
"Have you figured things out?" Lu Yuan looked at Hu Chenghui and his group, and exchanged a smile with Gao Zhe.
Gao Zhe pulled over a chair without any hesitation, sat down casually, and brazenly put his legs up on the table, displaying an extremely arrogant attitude.
He stared at Hu Chenghui with a mocking expression: "Brother Hui, you still underestimate the bond between Brother Yuan and me. Even if you throw 10 billion yuan at me right now, I will never betray my Brother Yuan, let alone give me 30% of the shares afterward."
"You..." Hu Chenghui's face turned ashen, a lump forming in his throat.
Before he could finish speaking, Gao Zhe interrupted, "And another thing, my younger sister is absolutely smitten with me. No matter how handsome or capable Brother Yuan is, she won't change her mind. She keeps praising Brother Yuan's abilities, and the little bit of jealousy I showed was just a performance arranged by Brother Yuan."
These words came like a barrage of bullets, making Hu Chenghui's face even uglier.
Hu Chenghui glared angrily at Lu Yuan, never expecting that these teenagers would be so cunning, putting on such a perfect "Infernal Affairs" act.
No, that's not right.
It wasn't that these young people were so great, but rather that Lu Yuan was the best.
From beginning to end, Lu Yuan was the real mastermind.
Hu Chenghui gritted his teeth, forcing himself to calm down, and asked in a deep voice, "Lu Yuan, when exactly did you start planning this? And how did you know I would do something to you?"
"From the moment you sent these thugs to find me." Lu Yuan raised his finger and pointed to the big guy behind Hu Chenghui.
All eyes immediately turned to him. The burly man, terrified, frantically shook his head and waved his hands, afraid of being mistaken for a traitor: "Boss, it has nothing to do with me! I didn't do anything!"
Lu Yuan laughed and explained, "Brother Hui, it would have been so much better if you had come to me with sincerity to discuss cooperation from the start. Why did you have to send a few thugs to threaten me? I'm not stupid, and I hate being threatened. How could I not be wary of you? And how could I not guess that you would hook up with that woman, Lin Na?"
"I had already discussed it with A-Zhe from the beginning, and we were always on guard against your attempts to turn us against you. Sure enough, you contacted Gao Zhe in private. He seemed to be greedy for money, but in fact, he reported all the details of your meeting to me that very day."
"To put it bluntly, Brother Hui, you think you've got something on me, but little do you know, it's all bait I deliberately threw out to lure you into revealing your true colors. Tell me, isn't my scheme exciting?"
Hu Chenghui was stunned, almost choking on his breath, and stammered, "So...so you were already planning to mess with me from the moment I sent people to find you? The money-making project you mentioned back then was actually a trap, trying to get me to come forward personally?"
"You guessed right!" Lu Yuan snapped his fingers and laughed. "I did want you to step in. But I wasn't entirely lying. For example, I do have a new money-making project, it's just not building an amusement park."
"If you had cooperated with sincerity, I could have really made a fortune with you. But now... tsk tsk tsk, you're not sincere at all, so I'm not going to include you."
"Heh!" Hu Chenghui sneered, tactically pulling out a cigarette, lighting it, and taking a deep drag. "Brilliant! Very brilliant! I underestimated you bunch of little brats. But... so what if there's no amusement park? I've got what I wanted."
As he spoke, he smugly pulled out the contract from his pocket and waved it in front of Lu Yuan: "It's in black and white, the contract is signed, and it's legally binding. Your 'Love Notes' are now mine. Don't try to say I bullied or threatened you into signing it. The law only considers written evidence, not one-sided statements. You can't go against the law, can you?"
"Hehe." Lu Yuan shook his head and chuckled, wanting to tactically light a cigarette, but then realized he hadn't brought one. He looked at Gao Zhe, who didn't have one either. He then looked at the big guy, but unfortunately, the big guy only wanted to beat him to death right now and definitely wouldn't offer him a cigarette.
Left with no other option, Lu Yuan could only spread his hands, looking completely innocent, and say, "We are all outstanding college students of the new era, law-abiding citizens. How could we possibly go against the laws of the country?"
Hu Chenghui exhaled a smoke ring, thinking that Lu Yuan had resigned himself to his fate.
He secretly calculated that although he had been tricked by Lu Yuan, he had obtained the "Love Notes" that could earn him millions a year, so it wasn't a complete loss.
As the saying goes, face is fleeting, money is what truly matters.
What's the most important thing when you're out in the world?
It is flexible and adaptable.
However, Lu Yuan's next words instantly froze the smile on his face.
"Why don't you take another closer look at what kind of contract you signed?"
"What do you mean?"
Hu Chenghui's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly flipped open the contract. At first glance, it seemed to be fine, but when his gaze swept over the detailed clauses, his pupils suddenly contracted...
The original text, "One million to acquire Love Notes," has somehow changed to "Longhui Computer City pays Love Notes one million in 'GG fee'!"
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