Chapter 46 - Land

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Lu Yaohua coughed and said timidly, “Can’t you reduce the amount a little?”

“Not one cent less.”

Atom said forcefully. He sized Lu Yaohua up and said, “Besides, you won’t be able to pay even if I reduce the amount.”

He was telling the truth. There was only so much that he could reduce.

“I think you should sell your home and then try to make up for the shortfall. Give me 5 million yuan today and I will leave.”

That was all Lu Yaohua had left on his card.

But he could not hand over the lump sum just like that.

The whole family would have to starve!

Moreover, his company would have to pay the employees their salaries soon. The tofu-dreg construction projects had just been exposed, and the news that a worker had jumped off a building due to exhaustion had been widely circulated. He did not want his own employees to report him for not paying their salaries.

“Why did one bad thing after another happen so quickly?” he thought.

“Why don’t we make an exception again?”

Atom looked at him and said expressionlessly, “No, if you can’t fork out 5 million yuan, don’t blame us for being ruthless. Even if we have to search your home today, we will find 5 million yuan! You have quite a lot of calligraphy and antiques at home, right?”

He paused for a moment before continuing, “I think any of those would be worth 5 million yuan. After all, it’s not that you can’t fork out the money, it’s that you don’t want to give it to us. Don’t tell me you want us to help ourselves?”

He had been in the industry for many years and knew how to get debtors to pay up. All he had to do was find a fatal weakness.

He had not attacked them forcefully because of the Tang family, but since Lu Yaohua refused to listen, he could not blame him for being uncivil. As long as they did not offend Tang Wenyi, the Tang family would not cause trouble for them.

He raised his arm and was about to instruct his subordinates to seize his possessions when Lu Yaohua quickly said, “I’ll give! I’ll give!”

If he accidentally woke Tang Wenyi up, he would definitely be reprimanded again. She might get emotional and leave Shanghai with Lu Ze, and he would have to deal with the mess here.

As long as Tang Wenyi was around, he had one last safeguard!

So he signed a check for 5 million yuan with an aching heart and handed it to Atom.

After confirming that there was no mistake, Atom’s attitude became a little better. “So when do you plan to repay the remaining 60 million yuan? Are you selling the house or antiques? Or are you selling them both?”

There was still 60 million yuan!

Lu Yaohua wished he could escape from Earth at the speed of light.

He sighed heavily. “I have a piece of land.”

He had previously bought a good piece of land in the suburbs with the intention of building a house for investment purposes. Now even if he built it, no one would dare to buy it for the time being because of his reputation.

In addition, there were construction fees and so on. It would be a sizable sum of money. Based on the current situation, the best strategy was to sell the land!

However, at the thought that he could have developed the land to make more money, his heart ached terribly!

“It shouldn’t be a problem to sell that piece of land for 50 million yuan.”

Atom nodded. “Then please sell it within a week. I’ll come to you again in a week.”

With that, he left with his subordinates.

Lu Yaohua was tired out. At this moment, his phone rang. He answered the call without looking at it.

A crisp female voice came from the other end. “Mr. Lu, remember to pay your son’s medical fees.”

Lu Ze was still lying in the hospital ward and had yet to regain consciousness.

For some reason, Lu Yaohua was a little envious of his son. He wished he could walk away from all these debts.

“… Okay, I’ll get someone to wire the payment. Please take care of my son.”

After hanging up, he looked at his antiques. He wondered wistfully if it was finally time to say goodbye to them.

He never expected that he would end up like this one day!

He dialed a number and said, “Prepare to auction that piece of land in the suburbs. Ask if any construction company is willing to buy it.”

His heart ached so much that he could not breathe.

He had spent 60 million yuan on that piece of land. Whether he could sell it for 50 million yuan now was a problem!

Instantly his eyes were dark.

He quickly held on to the wall and took the capsules provided by the hospital. He felt much better after that!

When Tang Wenyi woke up, her stomach was rumbling from hunger.

She got out of bed and did not see the servants at home. She looked at Lu Yaohua who was sitting on the sofa and asked, “Yaohua, why isn’t anyone preparing meals? Where are the servants?”

“I dismissed them.”

Lu Yaohua looked at the newspaper in his hand and answered.

“Dismissed?!”

Tang Wenyi raised her voice and said in disbelief, “Why did you dismiss them? The house is a mess now, and no one is cleaning up.”

He looked up and said, “We’ve sold everything we can. If we keep those servants, we’ll lose all the money we have left. Our son is still receiving treatment at the hospital. He’s still unconscious.”

“What’s going on?”

When Tang Wenyi heard that Lu Ze was unconscious, she became nervous. “Wasn’t he fine when I left? What happened?”

Lu Yaohua tightened his grip on the newspaper in his hand and said, “I thought you told him that Lu Ming was behind it, so I told him. I didn’t expect…”

“Stupid!”

She cursed in her heart. Her beloved son was actually provoked by her husband!

She began to suspect that she had chosen the wrong man. She felt that if she had not married Lu Yaohua, she would not be in this predicament. Even if something happened, her husband would have resolved it easily. She just needed to be a rich man’s wife.

“My child was born to be a rich second-generation heir, to be put on a pedestal. If we did not become enemies with Lu Ming, Lu Ze would have recovered long ago. Why would he still be in the hospital, hovering between life and death?” she thought.

She looked at the disappointing Lu Yaohua and suppressed her negative emotions. “We’ll resolve this sooner or later. Let’s take it slow.”

“How do we take it slow?!”

Lu Yaohua slammed the newspaper on the table. “I have to wear a hat when I go out now. I’d gone out just to buy something, but the moment people saw me, they started cursing!

They called me a heartless dog. If I hadn’t run fast, they would have caught me! Your family really doesn’t care about our ties at all! I’m Old Master’s son-in-law, after all.”

After taking a sip of the cold tea, Tang Wenyi said, “These are only temporary. Do you know why I came back?”

“Why?”

Lu Yaohua looked at her suspiciously and asked.

She said calmly, “Only married people are entitled to the Tang family’s inheritance. The five of us, including me, have families and businesses.. In other words, as long as we persist, who will win in the end is anyone’s guess!”