I slept with my sister's classmate, and she turned out to be my boss.

At six o'clock in the afternoon, Bai Jiangfei's phone rang.

It was Jiang Dongmei calling.

Bai Jiangfei answered the phone without hesitation.

Jiang Dongmei skipped the pleasantries and went straight to the point:

"Old Liu needs to ship another batch of goods, a larger quantity than last time, and the deadline is even tighter. Contact another group of buyers through Wang Yan, and ship them out within three days."

Bai Jiangfei did not answer immediately.

He noticed that Jiang Dongmei's tone was faster than last time—

Last time she called, at least she asked one question:

"Is it convenient to talk?"

This time, even that sentence is gone.

Her eagerness to sell indicates that the price is nearing its peak, and if she doesn't sell now, it will be too late.

These thoughts swirled in his mind, but he didn't voice them. He simply asked:

"How many?"

"Fifty tons. Price will be based on market conditions; we won't try to lower the price."

Bai Jiangfei paused for a moment.

Fifty tons, more than double the amount of the first batch.

He silently calculated his commission, a thought flickering in his mind, but his face remained expressionless.

"Okay, I'll contact Wang Yan and let you know when I have news."

After hanging up the phone, he put his phone in his pocket, walked out of the warehouse, and returned to the supermarket counter.

The proprietress was looking down at her phone and didn't look up at him.

He stood behind the cashier for a while.

Then he took out his phone, found Wang Yan's number, and typed a message:

"Are you free tonight? Let's talk."

Wang Yan replied quickly:

"I'm free. Same place as always?"

"Hmm. Seven o'clock."

……

At 6:50 p.m., Bai Jiangfei arrived at the same restaurant as before.

He chose a corner seat, ordered a pot of tea, and didn't order any food first.

Wang Yan arrived a few minutes later than him.

Pushing open the door, I saw Bai Jiangfei in the corner. I walked over and sat down opposite him, draping my coat over the back of the chair.

"What's the rush?"

Bai Jiangfei poured her a cup of tea, without any preamble:

"There's another shipment, fifty tons. Does your boss still want it?"

Wang Yan paused for a moment as she picked up her teacup:

"Fifty tons? That's double the amount from last time."

"The price is negotiable."

Bai Jiangfei's voice was calm.

"The market is currently at a high level; if you miss this opportunity, you'll miss out."

Wang Yan did not respond immediately.

She took a sip of tea, her gaze fixed on the table, as if she were pondering something.

Bai Jiangfei didn't urge her, and waited quietly.

After about ten seconds, Wang Yan spoke:

"I'll ask him."

She took out her phone from her pocket, dialed a number, and said a few words that Bai Jiangfei couldn't understand. She spoke very quickly, as if she were speaking in a dialect.

After hanging up the phone, she said to Bai Jiangfei:

"He wants it. The price will be based on market rates, and you set the time."

Bai Jiangfei nodded, picked up the tea in front of him, took a sip, and felt a chord in his heart stir again.

He didn't make it too obvious, he just said:

"Then tomorrow."

Wang Yan glanced at him but didn't say anything more.

When the waiter came to take their order, Bai Jiangfei casually flipped through the menu and ordered two dishes and a soup.

After the dishes were served, the two ate the meal quietly without discussing the shipment any further.

Bai Jiangfei paid the bill when the event ended.

Wang Yan got up, put on her coat, and as she walked to the door, she glanced back at him and said:

"You've been getting some pretty big orders lately."

Bai Jiangfei did not respond.

His face showed no expression; he simply nodded slightly.

"You're not bad either."

Wang Yan smiled but didn't say anything.

Bai Jiangfei smiled meaningfully.

"Let's go to your hotel."

Wang Yan glanced at him and teased:

"What, missing me again?"

Bai Jiangfei did not deny it: "I do think about it, I think about it every night..."

Wang Yan smiled smugly: "Little brat... I'll seduce you to death."

A dozen minutes later.

The two arrived at the hotel where Wang Yan was staying.

As soon as they entered the room, Bai Jiangfei couldn't wait to hug her waist from behind.

He rested his chin on her shoulder and kissed her neck.

I missed you so much!

Wang Yan turned around and giggled, "So impatient?"

"Who told you to be so beautiful?!"

Bai Jiangfei quickly stripped her naked.

Then, he lowered his head and kissed her directly...

Caught off guard, Wang Yan trembled as if she had been electrocuted.

Next, things fell into place naturally.

Like a couple who had been together for a long time, they rolled around on the sheets, taking from each other to their hearts' content...

More than an hour later.

The two then stopped.

Bai Jiangfei had one arm around her shoulder, while the other hand remained on her soft spot.

This feels so good, so exhilarating.

"You should get a lot of kickbacks this time, right?"

Wang Yan leaned against him and asked in a muffled voice.

Bai Jiangfei smiled slightly: "It should be quite a lot, but it's what I deserve."

Wang Yan chuckled softly but didn't say anything.

After a few seconds, Bai Jiangfei asked, "You're working so hard, how much does your boss pay you?"

Wang Yan did not answer directly.

Bai Jiang paused for a moment, then said, "Fine, don't tell me then."

Wang Yan looked up at him and asked, "What's wrong? Are you angry?"

Bai Jiangfei smiled and said, "I'm not angry. It's your secret, so it's perfectly reasonable for you not to tell me."

Wang Yan paused, then continued, "It's not that I don't want to tell you, it's that I genuinely don't know. I'm selling information, and I only get paid if the boss profits. If the information is wrong, I won't get a penny, and might even..."

She didn't finish the second half of her sentence.

But Bai Jiangfei understood.

He paused for a few seconds, then suddenly remembered that the price surge was entirely orchestrated by Zhao Yike.

Before long, the price of these Chinese medicinal herbs will shrink many times over.

If Wang Yan's boss loses money, what kind of compensation will she receive?

However, he doesn't plan to tell Wang Yan these things now.

He needs to wait for an opportunity...

……

The next morning.

Bai Jiangfei contacted Lao Liu's driver in the small warehouse behind the supermarket to confirm the time and quantity.

Fifty tons, loaded in two batches at the same location, departed one after the other, their destination a transit warehouse outside the provincial capital.

The delivery address designated by Wang Yan's boss.

It was a little after 4 p.m.

He received a message from Wang Yan:

"The first batch has departed."

He replied with a single word: "Okay."

That evening, the second batch of goods was also successfully shipped.

Bai Jiangfei sat in his rented room, his phone screen lit up with a bank transfer notification.

Sixty thousand yuan, more than three times the amount received in the first batch.

He stared at the notification for a long time, his finger hovering over the screen for a moment, before he took a screenshot and saved it.

This was the first time he had deliberately kept records of incoming payments.

He didn't know why he wanted to save it.

Perhaps some kind of instinct was reminding him—

If the money wasn't taken cleanly, I'll need something to prove my innocence someday.

He didn't think too deeply about it, locked his phone, put it on the table, and stood up to walk to the window.

He stood there for a while, then turned around and walked back to the bedside to squat down.

The bed was an old-fashioned wooden plank bed.

He lifted the top layer of the mattress, revealing a wooden board underneath.

There is a thin crack along the edge of the wooden board.

He used his fingers to wedge them in and lifted the plank upwards with force, and the plank loosened.

He removed the wooden board completely, revealing a small object hidden inside the bed frame—

A silver USB flash drive.

Bai Jiangfei took the USB drive in his hand, returned to the table and sat down. He then transferred all the call recordings, text message screenshots, and transfer records from his phone to the USB drive, categorizing them as follows.

He carefully saved the recording of Jiang Dongmei's phone call urging him to deliver the goods, noting the date and time.

After doing all this, he unplugged the USB drive, put it back into the bed frame, pressed the wooden board down, and put the mattress back on without hesitation.

He turned off the light and sat down on the edge of the bed, sitting in the darkness for a while.

Moonlight streamed in through the window and fell on the floor; he saw his shadow cast on the wall.

If one day things are exposed.

He has at least one card he can play.

He didn't know if this card could save his life.

But he knew that having something in his hands and having nothing in his hands made a completely different situation...