Chapter 97: Wei Siyuan (Add it to your bookshelf so you can find it again)

In the CEO’s office of the Lu Family Group, Lu Changyun had just seen off a representative from the Upper River Business Alliance and had only now sat down to take a sip of his favorite tea.

When the tea’s sweet aftertaste had spread fully through his mouth, Lu Changyun finally drew a long breath and called Lu Siyuan in.

“Has the contract been signed?” Lu Changyun asked.

“It has,” Lu Siyuan replied. During the negotiations, he had spared no expense just to win a beauty’s smile. Now, standing before his own father, he was filled with apprehension, for he knew exactly what terms he had agreed to.

“Tell me the conditions of the contract,” Lu Changyun said, pouring himself another small cup of tea, then pouring one for Lu Siyuan as well.

After Lu Siyuan had gone back yesterday, he had called his wife.

Wen Ruoyuan had also told him her plan, and when he returned home that evening, Wen Ruoyuan even told him, word for word, what she had said to Lu Siyuan at noon.

Because Wei Xueying was the quintessential strong-willed career woman, the usual tricks for pursuing girls were utterly useless on her. Wen Ruoyuan believed that if his son wanted to win her over, he had to make her feel a real sense of achievement through business dealings.

Only when Wei Xueying’s pride as a capable woman had been satisfied would Lu Siyuan have any chance of pursuing her. That was what it meant to read the room.

Another thing was to cultivate good relationships with the people around her. Sometimes a single word from a bystander outweighed ten things one might do oneself. That was what it meant to encircle the city from the countryside.

So Lu Changyun had made some psychological preparations for today’s contract. He had guessed that the terms his son negotiated might well leave the Swan Group with the advantage.

“The funding condition in the contract is that we provide the full amount,” Lu Siyuan said.

“Cough—” With his son’s very first sentence, Lu Changyun nearly choked on his tea.

“The Lu Family Group is funding the entire project?” Lu Changyun looked at him in disbelief. “Was that Wei Xueying’s demand? And you agreed to it?”

He cursed inwardly: once a man has a woman, he forgets his father!

“It wasn’t Wei Xueying who proposed it. I did,” said Lu Siyuan.

Lu Changyun: “...”

He nearly flung the tea from his cup straight into his son’s face. Only by forcing his left hand down on his right hand did he keep the cup steady on the table.

“The profit split is forty-sixty.”

Lu Changyun gritted his teeth and used his right hand to pin down the left hand that wanted to slap him. “If our Lu Family Group is putting up all the money, the most reasonable split would be seven-and-a-half for us and two-and-a-half for them! How did you negotiate this? How did you end up with a forty-sixty split?”

“We get forty. The Swan Group gets sixty,” Lu Siyuan finally squeezed out the last sentence as though forcing toothpaste from an almost empty tube.

“You little bastard!” Lu Changyun finally uttered a curse he had not used for more than ten years.

Then he simply let both hands go free. Tea splashed from the right hand, and a slap from the left followed at once.

Son, don’t call yourself Lu Siyuan anymore. You might as well call yourself Wei Siyuan!

Why is our Lu Family Group paying the full amount while they take the larger share of the profits?

If word of this gets out, the whole business circle of Upper River City will laugh itself sick, do you believe it?

You’ve been bewitched by that enchantress!

Your mother did tell you to give the Swan Group a little more profit, but not to hand the entire Lu Family Group over to them!

Lu Siyuan fled the CEO’s office with tea dripping from his head. Now he had to go back and hide with his mother, Wen Ruoyuan. Only there was he safe.

At the rate his father had just blown up, no matter where he hid in the Lu Family Group, he would end up skinned alive.

Just after his son had left the office, Lu Changyun picked up the phone and called his secretary.

“Send Xiao Wang from the legal department to me at once, as fast as possible!”

Five minutes later, the plump legal officer arrived at the CEO’s office.

Two minutes after that, a furious roar rang out from inside: “You little whelp! You actually took someone from the legal department straight to sign the contract, and even stamped it with the company seal!”

“You didn’t leave me even the slightest chance to take it back!”

The plump Mr. Wang from the legal department also came out with tea all over his head.

For a time, the entire Lu Family Group fell into a silence as tense as if everyone were walking on thin ice, and the CEO’s office was regarded as a danger zone.

As for business reports, unless they absolutely had to be discussed that very day, everyone tacitly postponed them by one day.

Later, according to the servants in Lu Changyun’s household, the couple who had never once quarreled before had argued that night...

Compared with the stormy unease inside the Lu Family Group, the Swan Group was filled with celebration.

When the legal department’s people finally stamped the contract with the seals of both companies, Wei Xueying could at last breathe a sigh of relief.

Today could be said to be the best day she had had since taking over the Swan Group. Although there was still more than a billion left to cover before the twenty-billion shortfall was filled, at least things were moving in a good direction, were they not?

Perhaps because she had been suppressed by bad news for too long, after the contract was signed today, a trace of a smile finally appeared on Wei Xueying’s face.

Wei Xueying herself did not notice this change, but Hua Tianyu, sitting beside her, did.

The title of the Upper River goddess was indeed not undeserved. The moment a faint smile touched Wei Xueying’s face, Hua Tianyu felt that if a perfect score were one hundred, he would have to give her one hundred and one.

Only an extra point could express Wei Xueying’s incomparable bearing and her beauty that could overturn a city.

“Come with me to the hospital tonight,” Wei Xueying said to Hua Tianyu, who was seated across from her.

She wanted to tell her father the good news.

Last time, at the Tiger River Villa Restaurant, the matter with Lu Siyuan had not been settled. She had hidden that from her father, telling him only that the two sides were still locked in a tug-of-war and not daring to speak the truth.

Now that the contract had finally been settled, she could at last go and tell him the good news.

Hua Tianyu nodded. He understood exactly how Wei Xueying felt now, like a student who had done well on an exam and could not wait to show the report card to his parents.

As for the time before, when the negotiations with Lu Siyuan had failed and Wei Xueying had hidden it from her father, that was just like a poor report card: the later you could show it to your parents, the better.

“By the way, Hua Tianyu, you took the greatest credit in getting this contract done. According to company rules, you’re entitled to a certain percentage of the commission,” Wei Xueying said seriously.

Hua Tianyu had actually helped her with many crucial matters, though he also often made her furious.

Still, Wei Xueying was a woman who repaid kindness, and so she planned to give Hua Tianyu a handsome reward this time.

Hearing that he was to receive a commission, Hua Tianyu smiled and said, “Xueying, can I refuse the money?”