Chapter 416 - Hustling for Business (1/2)

This, to a man, was equivalent to a death sentence. Moreover, a man like Chu Lui.

He set the report down. The corners of his eyes were dry as was his lips. From time to time, he could taste the bitterness in his mouth which tended to intensify.

He was in agony—one made from his own hands.

Many people had told him and scolded him.

They said, ”Chu Lui, you will get your own retribution.”

That's right. He knew now that his retribution was here, and it was also from his own doing.

Bang! He punched the table hard with his fist. That bone-cracking pain had not offered him any peace or quiet.

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Du Jingtang felt he was walking on clouds as he held the document. He started to make the preparations. In the past, he had not felt it; but to hustle a business deal and hijack it away from the others had caused an indescribable excitement to well up inside him.

All of a sudden, he was behaving as though he was high with adrenaline. For a lazy person like him, he seldom worked so hard. He had made the calls to schedule appointments for a business meeting.

The next day, the smile on his lips had broadened. He was smiling from ear to ear. Anyone who saw him would have known that he was in an exceptionally good mood today. One could say anything to him, and he would still be smiling. However, the other person seemed to be staying in a pressurized chamber. It was especially so when Du Jingtang arrived at the eighteenth floor. He could feel the suppressed atmosphere on the whole floor. It almost rendered one incapable of breathing.

One felt like fire while the other, like ice; one could burn a person to death while the other could freeze a person to death.

It had always been this way working at the Chu Enterprise. One was constantly subjected to this poison of icy fiery.

”Brother, I've done it!” Du Jingtang entered bearing the document and presented it to Chu Lui as though it was some sort of treasure. ”It's naturally a success with me involved. You didn't see those people's faces when they heard about our company. They were practically weeping with joy while waiting to sign the contract. Although the price was slightly lower than our initial offer, we will profit more in the long run.”

”Thanks,” Chu Lui said simply as he took over the document.

A cackle.

Du Jingtang looked up at the ceiling.

Was he hearing things? His cousin had actually thanked him. Thanks. Thanks. Oh god. Had the wind blown in the wrong direction? Or did his cousin wake up on the wrong side of the bed? Du Jingtang sat by the side quietly as he stared at his cousin with eyes as wide as a bull's that almost bulged out of his eye sockets.

”You have nothing to do?” Chu Lui looked up gloomily, and Du Jingtang shuddered unconsciously. He got to his feet and ran out of the office hastily as though he had seen a ghost.