Campus Cultivation Master-Chapter 366 - 0367: Playing Cheap

Miss Xingzi forcibly suppressed the rage boiling within her and attempted to speak calmly, "I’d like to talk to you about a reconciliation?"

Upon hearing Miss Xingzi’s words, Chu Feng responded, "How about we talk about selling apricots instead?"

Miss Xingzi knew Chu Feng was difficult to deal with, but she did not realize that on top of being troublesome, he was also such an unscrupulous scoundrel.

"What are your conditions?" Miss Xingzi asked.

Chu Feng replied, "Look, we should talk about conditions first and then move on to reconciliation; isn’t that how the normal negotiation process goes? If you come to me directly about reconciliation, it makes it seem like I am easy to push around. What if someone else tries to step on me next, what should I do then? Even if they can’t step on me, it’s not nice if they trample all over my flowers and grass, right? So, everything we do must follow proper procedures."

After Chu Feng finished speaking, he saw that the faces of the three people sitting opposite him all bore a huge character for ’cheap’. However, Chu Feng simply couldn’t care less; after all, it wasn’t written on his face.

Miss Xingzi truly felt the urge to explode at that moment and suddenly realized that her previous strategy regarding Chu Feng was flawed. She hadn’t expected that, apart from holding grudges and being unscrupulous, Chu Feng also had the audacity to act lowly.

"Mr. Chu, what kind of conditions do you need to let Xinghai Capital go?" Miss Xingzi felt she couldn’t keep listening and hurriedly interrupted the conversation.

Chu Feng said, "That depends on what you can offer me. If I say I want the whole Xinghai Capital, you’re not the decision-maker, are you? So, you should be the one to propose conditions, right?"

Miss Xingzi was silent for a moment before replying, "Mr. Chu, I am willing to pay three times the price to buy back all of Xinghai Capital’s shares, and I will also return all your company’s middle management personnel."

After hearing this, Chu Feng laughed heartily and said, "Miss Xingzi, how about we just talk about selling apricots instead? Your offer has just cut my profits by two-thirds. Do you know how many excellent middle managers I could recruit with that profit?"

Miss Xingzi said, "But if we at Xinghai Capital are determined to drag you down, it would be quite difficult for you too, won’t it, Mr. Chu?"

Chu Feng nonchalantly replied, "It doesn’t really bother me. If you want to drag my small business down, so be it. In the end, let’s see who suffers greater losses."

Having said that, Chu Feng pretended to mull over the scenario and said, "Help me calculate, if we get dragged down, how much will they lose?"

An Wenxing replied, "At least eighty percent of the market value, and eighty-five percent of the industrial value. Xinghai Capital won’t just drop out of Asia’s top ten financial groups but would also find it impossible to make a comeback."

Chu Feng said, "Did you hear that? A small price to pay on my end can destroy a financial group like that. I feel it’s worth it. Moreover, I’ve suddenly thought that if you get dragged down, it would probably be beneficial to Huaxia’s capital market. I’ve decided not to discuss terms with you anymore; instead, I’ll choose patriotic loyalty to the end. Maybe I’ll even end up as one of the top ten inspiring people in Huaxia. Let’s talk about selling apricots now, shall we?"

Upon hearing Chu Feng’s words, Miss Xingzi genuinely panicked.

If Chu Feng really went through with it, then her entire family would be utterly ruined. Without the support of capital, her whole family would be finished, and Elite Society certainly wouldn’t care about such a discarded piece. The future of a discarded piece was already perfectly demonstrated by Jin Enhui.

"Mr. Chu, I am willing to pay five times the price to buy back all our shares," Miss Xingzi said directly, no longer willing to beat around the bush.

Chu Feng said, "As I mentioned, I now aim to be one of the top ten figures who inspire Huaxia; I don’t want to talk about this anymore. But don’t you think my entire character seems to have greatly improved in an instant? Don’t you feel that my image has suddenly become much more imposing?"

Miss Xingzi truly started to regret ever getting involved with someone who could stoop to such pettiness and chicanery; she even began to regret coming to Huaxia.

"I’ll buy it back at six times the price; that’s my final offer," Miss Xingzi said through gritted teeth.

Chu Feng thought for a moment and said, "Seven times the price, if you agree we’ll continue talking, if not, I’d rather stay the good guy."

"Fine!" The word from Xingzi was practically squeezed through clenched teeth.

"Miss Xingzi, I imagine your expression must be quite contorted right now, huh? I’m genuinely honored to have such a beauty twist her face in frustration. Now that we’ve settled on the price, I have another request. There’s someone named Liu Chenyi at your place, he’s sold quite a lot of important corporate secrets to you. You know what to do with him, right?" Chu Feng said.

"I know, I’ll kick him out." Xingzi couldn’t vent her anger with swear words at Chu Feng, so she directed her cursing toward Liu Chenyi.

Chu Feng said, "Good, last request. Shall we continue talking about the apricot sale?"

"Bang!"

As soon as Chu Feng finished speaking, he heard the sound of the phone being violently slammed on the floor.

"Such a short fuse, can’t handle even a bit of humiliation, how are you going to be a competent leader," Chu Feng shook his head and commented.

Zhuang Xinyan said, "Do you know how much you just acting like a jerk makes someone want to beat you up?"

Chu Feng grinned and replied, "If acting like a jerk could get us twice the profit, I’m willing to continue for a bit."

An Wenxing said, "The seven times multiplier is already painful enough for Xinghai Capital. If we add another double on top of that, I’m not sure if they wouldn’t just go for mutual destruction with us."

Chu Feng looked at An Wenxing and asked, "Do you think I acted low enough just now?"

"Yes!" An Wenxing answered truthfully.

Chu Feng responded, "Well then, if you all think I went low enough. The extra twice the profit that I demanded, I won’t share with you. That was won by my acting low. It has nothing to do with you. And the way you talked about me just now really hurt my tender heart. I need money to properly soothe my wounded soul."

Zhuang Xinyan looked at An Wenxing and asked, "Do you regret letting your sister date him?"

"Yes! I do regret it a bit now," An Wenxing nodded.

"Hey, hey, aren’t you two being a bit much? We’re talking about money here, why bring up personal feelings? If you want your share of the profit, just say it. Why drag Rongrong into this? Besides, me demanding twice more in profit was also for Rongrong’s sake," Chu Feng said.

"If you hadn’t made yourself sound so noble, I might actually have believed you," Zhuang Xinyan said.

Inside Xinghai Entertainment Company, Xingzi looked at the shattered phone on the ground, still not satisfied. She lifted her foot, clad in sleek high heels, and stomped down hard, as if the phone beneath her was Chu Feng himself.

"Deal with Liu Chenyi," Xingzi directed her pent-up rage, ultimately deciding to take it out on Liu Chenyi.

"Wait!" Just as her subordinate behind her was about to take care of Liu Chenyi, Xingzi had a new idea, "Don’t deal with him, just give him a beating. But make it look like it’s their people who did it, then we’ll kick him out of the company. It might be useful to keep a person like that around."

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