Tit For Tat (Beloved Enemy) - Chap 98
YuanYang seemed to have teased enough, so he released his hand that was holding GuQingPei.
GuQingPei opened the door and left without a word
It was not easy to get away from YuanYang. Coming out of the room and looking out, the tea break was already over and the auction had started again. He could vaguely hear the bidding prices. GuQingPei stood outside the door and hesitated for a few seconds before deciding not to enter.
YuanYang stood behind him and spoke frivolously, “You’re not going in to see what your Wang Ge racked up?”
GuQingPei picked up the coffee that was not finished since the waiter yet to clear it from the table and took a sip. Then, he casually sat down on the sofa that was on the side and said softly, “I don’t need to, he won’t let himself lose money.”
“You really have confidence in him.” Just with this, YuanYang detested WangJin so much that he wanted to strangle him to death.
GuQingPei glanced at him, “You’re not going in?”
YuanYang also didn’t plan to go in, but instead sat down opposite of him. His slender fingers tapped the table lightly, “Seeing your reaction, I’m satisfied. I’m not going to compete with him for that piece of land, otherwise all of your painstaking efforts would have been for naught.”
GuQingPei raised his wrist to look at the time. The auction should be ending in half an hour. He didn’t want to endure YuanYang’s continuous sarcasms and endless taunts.
He got up, “My time is too precious. It is not be wasted in bickering with you. You want to stay then stay. I’m going to leave first.”
YuanYang snickered, “Just leave after getting pleasured, you certainly haven’t changed from before.”
GuQingPei subconsciously tried to grasp onto the front area of his shirt, then remembered that his tie is still in YuanYang’s pants pocket. This made his scalp feel a bit of tingling sensation. He walked down the stairs without looking back.
After sitting in the car, he sent a text message to WangJin informing him that he had some business to attend to and had to leave first. Then he turned off his personal cell phone, leaving only his business phone on.
He knew that after the auction, WangJin would certainly ask him what he and YuanYang had talked about, but he’s too lazy to answer.
Having been angry and pissed off with the day’s events, he finally returned home. After communicating the latest developments with his assistant on the phone, he started to work at home.
The status to the mortgage loan issue was going to be all bad news in the upcoming few days. GuQingPei’s ability to resist pressure was undoubtedly revealed at this moment. Even though he had received much unfavorable news in one day, he was still able to eat and sleep. It is only when he is awake that he would be busily working overtime.
On this day, close to the time before getting off work, GuQingPei again held another small meeting to focus on discussing the upcoming issue with the funding deployment.
“The contract for the WeiShui project will need to be signed as soon as possible. Once the contract is signed, the funds must be transferred within three days. However, once the funds are transferred over, the company is still an empty shell. Director Gu, what should we do now?”
GuQingPei pushed his glasses, looking calmly at the documents. After a long while, he finally responded with the words, “Delay it.”
“Delay it?”
“Yes, the bank delayed us. We will delay the WeiShui project there. Don’t sign the contract, don’t make the payment.”
“But for what reason?”
GuQingPei raised his eyes and glanced at them. Then he gently nodded his head and smiled, “Think of something.”
A few people looked at each other and pondered about it.
GuQingPei is also thinking about it. He quickly thought of a few reasons but none of them seems sufficient to allow them to delay the process. Regardless, they still can’t let the other party doubt their sincerity in this cooperation. After all, the intentional contract has been signed and the other party has stopped looking for other buyers. If they can’t make the payment within the agreed time, the other party may breach the contract. This project is a gold mine. The price for it changes rapidly. Many people want it.
The Legal Director finally said, “Director Gu, I do have a way to make a clause in the terms of the contract. But if we do that, it can easily hurt the partner’s feelings.”
“That’s right. The contract has been negotiated countless times. If we back out of this, it will have a huge impact on our reputation. It is very likely that we will not be able to cooperate,” another manager also echoed.
GuQingPei narrowed his eyes and continuously swept his eyes over the inflexible concrete terms. After a long time, he softly muttered, “I’ll feign sickness.”
“Huh?” The people present looked at GuQingPei in surprise. They did not expect that GuQingPei could come up with such an idea and actually thought he was joking.
GuQingPei’s expression is not at all joking even though he was still smiling, “The contract requires my signature,. If I’m ill, then this will get dragged on for one to two weeks. At this critical time, using any excuse will be easily used by the other party to make a fuss. Only playing the weak cards will this work, even if they know we were in a shortage of funds, morally speaking, we wouldn’t breach the contract at this time.”
“Director Gu, your idea is really… can’t help but say that you are competent and daring.”
GuQingPei joked, “Don’t flatter me. If other knows of this trick, it can be shameful enough. This is also a last resort. There is not much in my control right now, whatever works is all that matters. Xiao Zhao, during this time you will have to contact a powerful buyer as soon as possible. If the bank is really unable to lend the money, we’ll sell that piece of land.”
Several people are somewhat upset.
The value of that land is very impressive. They are planning to develop it themselves. The only problem is that the company is short of funding. This is really a helpless situation.
“Okay, there was a few buyers that had wanted to buy before so it shouldn’t be too difficult to locate them now.”
“So it’s decided, Ah Mo, go and inform the people on the WeiShui project that I have an infectious disease, make it sound as if I need at least one week to rest at home and can’t be in contact with people. Then, I’m going to take sick leave and go home right now.” After saying that, GuQingPei really stood up, “Director Wu, you continue to follow up with the bank. You must be diligent and not slack off. We can’t give up.”
“Yes.”
GuQingPei really went home. In fact, whether or not he goes to the company really does not impact his work since he spends more than half of his time in business-related social interactions.
In the evening, the secretary called him and said that the Director of the Environment Bureau had time to have a meal with him tonight. GuQingPei had tried to meet with this person for a long time. He is the university classmate of the deputy governor. Although it was said that they had not been in contact for many years, GuQingPei still wanted to give it a try.
After they finished discussing this matter, the secretary added, “Director Gu, today a Mr. Yuan’s came to the company to look for you.”
“Yuan? Is it a young man?”
“Yes, and very tall.”
“Why is he looking for me?”
“He said…” The little secretary felt a bit embarrassed.
“Said what?”
“He said … that your tie is with him so he specially brought it back to you.”
GuQingPei was a little irritated, “Foolish, ignore him.”
The little secretary embarrassingly said, “Right, I told him you weren’t here so he left.”
GuQingPei lowered his voice, “Don’t gossip about this, you understand?”
The secretary was nervous, “Director Gu, you need not worry!”
After hanging up the phone, GuQingPei changed his clothes and drove to the agreed restaurant.
Halfway on the road, he received a call from YuanYang.
“Hey, doing something?”
YuanYang’s voice, full of masculine charms, sounded on the other line, “I went to your company today to return the tie to you, but you weren’t there. I’m really disappointed.”
GuQingPei’s chillingly responded, “Just find a garbage can and trash it. It’s outdated anyway. I don’t want it.”
YuanYang laughed lowly, “But I want to give it back to you. It been infused fully of Director Gu’s essence. How can I just throw it anywhere? I still feel something toward it.”
“Trash it,” GuQingPei heavily emphasized this it in his tone.
“I hate to do that. Seeing it, I would remember how slender Director Gu’s waist is. I can wrap around it with one arm. Director Gu’s skin is so soft, the more I touch it, the hotter it becomes. And also Director Gu’s cock, just slightly touching it and it’ll stand erect as if it’s extremely hungry and thirsty.”
GuQingPei silently listened to YuanYang’s sexually harassing words. He didn’t say anything until YuanYang finished talking, “Retraining Director Yuan like this, I’m feeling very sorry.”
“If you really feel very sorry, then just let me fuck you once?”
GuQingPei mocked, “Just keep waiting.”
YuanYang smiled twice, “Oh yeah, I heard your secretary said that you are sick? Hearing your voice, it sounds quite lively.”
“Thanks to Director Yuan for caring, but I’m still busy with many things. Always disturbing me with these frivolous matters, can you just stop bothering me?”
YuanYang laughed hysterically.
GuQingPei hung up the phone and threw it under the seat.
About seven to eight people attended the meal gathering that night. Many of them were from the northwest. Seeing their demeanor, GuQingPei knew that getting drunk would be inevitable. He sent a message to his driver directing him to come pick him up from the restaurant two hours later.
Then he braced himself to drink with this group of people.
GuQingPei’s alcohol tolerance use to be very good. His alcohol tolerance was established during the two years that he was the director at the office of a state-owned enterprise. At the time, there were continuous social gatherings. It can be said that his achievements from his later developments came from the drinking table.
But since he was promoted to an executive, the number of times that he had “to drink” had dropped significantly. Especially in the two years that he was in Singapore, drinking was not a common thing to do. He barely drank more than a few times. So returning to the country, faced with such a situation, he momentarily couldn’t handle it.
This meal lasted nearly three hours. He accompanied these northwestern men in their bragging and frivolous chattering about everything and anything. After drinking a few glasses, they all started to address each other with close familiarity calling other brothers. GuQingPei had attempted to stay sober so that he can get this Director of the Environment Bureau to clear the way with the X Bank’s Vice Director. After the director got drunk, he agreed easily. As for what to do next, he must continue to push forward.
It was not easy for everyone to be done with drinking and call it a day (ended their gathering).
GuQingPei almost squatted on a chair, not being able to stand up for the longest time. He was disoriented and couldn’t find his bearings. Even though he was drunk, he was still aware but he could hardly think straight.
Not knowing how long time passed, he felt like he was about to fall asleep. Suddenly a strong arm held him up, supporting his body as they walked down the stairs.
He vaguely felt that this person should be his company’s driver. But he remembered that the driver was almost as tall as him but thinner than him. At the time when this person was supporting him, he felt that this person’s shoulder was very high, very broad, and his strength is very strong. He never would’ve thought that the scrawny kid (the driver) would have such strength.
When GuQingPei opened his dazed eyes, he realized that he could only see a shadow. He clung to the person’s body like mud from the beach. His eyelids drooped. He could no longer hold on and gradually lost consciousness.
GuQingPei repeatedly woke up several times this night.
The first time he felt himself lying on a soft bed. It felt especially comfortable and warm. After that, he felt something wet rubbing his face, his neck, and his chest. Then after that, he felt that all the clothes that he was wearing were gone. He had never felt so relaxed.
All the liquor they drank were all good liquor. Even drinking a lot, it doesn’t get to the head, only getting drunk. The feeling of being treated so tenderly is like lying on cotton, not to mention how comfortable and relaxing it is.
He opened his eyes again and sees a very familiar object. It is a chandelier. He stared at this chandelier for a long time. He desperately tried to recall this style of chandelier from his memory. He knew that this chandelier belonged to him. It is a light from one of his rooms.
Then, he remembered. This is the light from one of the bedrooms in the house where he and YuanYang had lived. That’s right… it is that bedroom light. He had spent more than 600,000 yuan on it, shipping it from Hong Kong. He had always liked it. There were many times before, when YuanYang was fucking him really hard, in between the thrills of heated passion, he would occasionally open his eyes and see the chandelier above him. This chandelier is a link to all the wild and warm memories between him and YuanYang.
He had actually almost forgotten about it….
Almost…
GuQingPei felt himself reaching his hand out to grasp the chandelier. In actuality, he didn’t know whether he had reached his hand out. Brimming on the verge of tears, he whispered “Forgot… I almost forgot…”
Almost forgot …. the many heartwarming happy memories he once shared with YuanYang.
End of the Chapter
