Chapter 754 — Does This Count as a Favor? The Yu Family Thought Highly of Dr. Guan's Pharmaceuticals — After All, Its Efficacy Had Been Verified, and the Premium Edition of the Wound Medicine Worked Wonders! And So the Yu Family Scented a Business Opportunity: Before Dr. Guan's Pharmaceuticals Could Grow Famous and Big, They Would Seize Its General Agency Rights, and Then Need Never Worry Again — Wealth Would Come Rolling In!

In the Yu family's eyes, Dr. Guan's Pharmaceuticals did have good products, but it was a small company after all, and was bound to be nervous and uncertain when a new product hit the market. If a behemoth like the Yu family entered into cooperation with them, they would be overjoyed beyond measure! They might even surrender a great share of the profits!

The Yu family had reckoned their abacus well, and that was precisely why Yu Kun had been so arrogant — never expecting to strike a wall here with Fatty Lai and lose his face all at once! That lofty posture of his from before now looked like nothing but a man putting on a monkey show!

The man had no intention whatsoever of handing over the distributorship — he had simply flattered himself!

"This is not a decision I can make personally. I have said it before: I am only a professional manager." Fatty Lai smiled. "Mr. Yu, apart from that, what other benefits do you think you can offer us?"

In Yu Kun's ears, Fatty Lai's words sounded like mockery. His face flushed scarlet, and he stared at Fatty Lai with eyes full of hatred: "The broken map. Name your price."

"Sorry, I am not short of money — and I have already given the broken map away." Fatty Lai shook his head.

"Given it away? You actually gave it away?" In his agitation, Yu Kun dropped even his earlier good manners. He was one of the finest young men of the Yu family's third generation, someone fawned upon wherever he went; yet here he had run into obstacles at every turn, and his patience was gone — shame curdling into rage.

"Why shouldn't I give away something I bought with my own money?" Fatty Lai shrugged.

"Good, very good. We shall see!" Yu Kun shot abruptly to his feet, turned, and strode out of the reception room in long bounds. "You will learn the price of offending the Yu family!"

"Offending the Yu family?" Fatty Lai watched Yu Kun's departing back and let out a cold laugh. Was this a scion of the Yu family? What trash! He himself had spoken to him courteously from start to finish — he had merely refused that domineering proposal of his, and that counted as offending the Yu family?

With such family upbringing, the Yu family would probably not stay rich beyond the third generation.

Once, Fatty Lai might have feared the Yu family, fearing they would trip up his company in the days to come. But now that he followed Wei Zhao, he felt Wei Zhao was capable of anything — and compared with Wei Zhao, the Yu family was truly nothing at all!

No sooner had Yu Kun left than Fatty Lai dialled Wei Zhao's number directly. He had to tell Wei Zhao about this!

"Chief, is it convenient for you to talk right now?" Fatty Lai asked.

"Go ahead." Wei Zhao had arrived at school not long ago; there were no classes today, so he took the call inside the classroom, and no one paid it much attention.

"Just now, the Yu family sent someone to the company," Fatty Lai said. "A young man called Yu Kun — he looked to be only in his twenties."

"The Yu family? Yu Kun? What have they come for?" At the sound of those two words, 'the Yu family', Wei Zhao drew a deep breath.

"Mainly to ask about that broken map you won at the Yu family's auction last time, Chief!" Fatty Lai said. "They wanted to know whether I had any idea what the broken map is for, and whether I had seen any similar broken maps..."

"Oh? Could it be that the broken map at the auction last time was deliberately put up for sale by them?" Wei Zhao suddenly thought of the young man who had trailed him that night! The man's martial arts were no feeble thing — at the time he had assumed the Kang family had sent him, but thinking on it now, where would the Kang family get their hands on any real expert? Who but the men of a great clan could command a Yellow-stage expert?

Could it be that he too was a man of the Yu family? That he had trailed them, and him, for the broken map as well?

"That is possible." Fatty Lai nodded. "Otherwise he would not have wanted to bid against me to buy the broken map back. If they wanted the map, they could have simply secured it at the auction — no need for such roundabout means."

"Heh..." Wei Zhao smiled faintly. So the broken map really was a treasure, it seemed? Wei Zhao had slipped it into a drawer — not knowing what use it had, he had never taken it out to study it; and now the Yu family had come to treat it as a trove?

Could it be that they knew the secret contained in the broken map?

"And the laughable thing is, this Yu Kun kept opening and closing his mouth about granting us a benefit — and this so-called benefit is the general agency rights for our company's products! It is simply absurd. You call that giving us a benefit? He is the one after a benefit!" Fatty Lai said with some mockery.

"Heh. If it were some other small company, they might well take it for a benefit." Wei Zhao smiled lightly, then warned: "The Yu family has many experts. Mind your own safety, and do not clash with them head-on."

"Of course I know. I have been neither servile nor overbearing all along — it is only that Yu Kun was a shade too arrogant." Fatty Lai shook his head.

"He left just like that? Said nothing more?" Wei Zhao did not believe the Yu family would leave it at that. If they had truly come for the broken map, they would surely make further moves.

"He told me that we would see — that I would learn the price of offending the Yu family..." Fatty Lai said.

"Understood." The corners of Wei Zhao's mouth curled up slightly. The Yu family — whether you are a hidden clan or a behemoth, it would be best not to cross me. Otherwise, in the end, no one will come out of this looking well.

Wei Zhao hung up, without worrying over it much. Since the Yu family would not let the matter rest, he would simply wait for them to come knocking. After ending the call, Wei Zhao glanced at the messages on his phone — a text notification had come in while he was on the line.

"Tonight my Daddy is treating you to dinner!"

The message was from the young miss. Gu Pengzhan wanted to treat him to a meal? Wei Zhao supposed it must be because he had saved Gu Mengyao yesterday?

Since Gu Pengzhan had extended the invitation, Wei Zhao would naturally not refuse, and sent back a message: "All right. I know."

The young miss received the message, glanced down at it, and did not reply again.

Wei Zhao felt that since yesterday's events, the young miss's attitude toward him seemed to have changed somewhat. She no longer found him so disagreeable, nor went out of her way to make trouble for him; it was as if their relationship had grown a little more peaceful... only, she seemed somehow distant?

Because the young miss's attitude toward him carried an air of 'keep away, stranger' — a little like the way one would treat a perfect stranger?

Wei Zhao could not fathom what the young miss was thinking; in truth, the young miss herself did not know what she was thinking either — how was she to face Wei Zhao from now on? He had seen her body; was she really just going to let it pass? Gu Mengyao had in fact lain awake with insomnia all last night, spending the whole of it considering the matter between herself and Wei Zhao.

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