Chapter 754 — Is This What They Call a Benefit?

In the Yu Family's view, Guan Daifu Pharmaceuticals, despite its fine products, was, after all, a small company. Surely it must be trembling with anxiety at the launch of a new product. If a colossus like the Yu Family deigned to cooperate with them, they would be overjoyed beyond measure! They might even cede a great deal of profit!

The Yu Family's calculations were sound, and so Yu Kun had carried himself with such arrogance - only to run into a wall with Fatty Lai, losing face in an instant! That lofty posture he had struck before now seemed like nothing but a monkey show!

The man had never had the slightest intention of handing over the distributorship at all. Yu Kun had simply been flattering himself!

"This isn't my personal decision. I told you, I'm just a professional manager," Fatty Lai said with a smile. "Mr. Yu, apart from that, I wonder what other benefits you might offer us?"

To Yu Kun's ears, Fatty Lai's words sounded like mockery. His face flushed crimson, and he glared at Fatty Lai with eyes full of hatred. "The fragment map. Name your price."

"I'm sorry. I don't lack money, and besides, I've already given the fragment map away," Fatty Lai said with a shake of his head.

"Given it away? You actually gave it away?" In his agitation, Yu Kun shed his earlier good manners entirely! He was one of the most outstanding members of the Yu Family's third generation, an object of admiration wherever he went - and here he was, hitting a wall at every turn. His patience was gone; he was on the verge of lashing out in shame and fury.

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

"Fine. Very fine. We'll see about this!" Yu Kun shot to his feet and strode out of the reception room. "You'll learn the price of offending the Yu Family!"

"Offending the Yu Family?" Watching Yu Kun's retreating back, Fatty Lai gave a cold laugh. So this was a son of the Yu Family? What a piece of work! He had spoken courteously the entire time - he had merely declined the man's overbearing proposal, and that constituted offending the Yu Family?

With upbringing like that, the Yu Family probably wouldn't last three generations.

In the past, Fatty Lai might have feared the Yu Family, feared that they would make trouble for his company down the road. But now he followed Wei Zhao, and he believed Wei Zhao was omnipotent. Compared with Wei Zhao, the Yu Family truly amounted to nothing!

After Yu Kun left, Fatty Lai immediately called Wei Zhao. He had to tell him about this!

"Boss, is this a good time to talk?" Fatty Lai asked.

"Go ahead." Wei Zhao had just arrived at school. He had no classes today, so he took the call in the classroom without drawing any attention.

"Just now, the Yu Family sent someone to the company," Fatty Lai said. "A young man named Yu Kun, looks to be only in his twenties."

"The Yu Family? Yu Kun? What are they doing here?" Hearing the words "Yu Family," Wei Zhao drew a deep breath.

"Mainly to ask about that fragment map you won at the Yu Family auction last time, boss!" Fatty Lai said. "They asked me whether I knew what the fragment map was for, and whether I'd ever seen any similar maps..."

"Oh? Could it be that the fragment map at that auction was deliberately put up for sale by them?" A thought struck Wei Zhao - the young man who had followed him that night! His martial arts were not weak; at the time, Wei Zhao had assumed he was sent by the Kang Family. But now, on reflection, what skilled hands did the Kang Family have? Who besides members of the great families could command a Yellow-rank expert?

Could he also be from the Yu Family? Had he been following them for the fragment map as well?

"It's possible," Fatty Lai said with a nod. "Otherwise he wouldn't have tried to buy the fragment map back from me at a price. If they wanted it, they could have secured it at the auction itself - there'd be no need for such a roundabout approach."

"Heh..." Wei Zhao smiled faintly. The fragment map, was it? It really did seem to be a treasure. Wei Zhao had put it away in a drawer; not knowing what use it had, he had never taken it out to study. And now the Yu Family was treating it as a priceless object?

Did they know the secret hidden within the fragment map?

"And here's the funny part - this Yu Kun kept going on about giving us a benefit. The so-called benefit was wanting the exclusive distributorship for our company's products. It's simply ridiculous. That's what they call giving us a benefit? He's the one who wants a benefit!" Fatty Lai said with some scorn.

"Heh, if it were any other small company, they might well have taken it as a benefit," Wei Zhao said with a faint smile, then added in warning: "The Yu Family has many skilled fighters. Watch your own safety, and don't clash with them head-on."

"Of course I know. I was neither servile nor overbearing the whole time - it was just that Yu Kun was a little too arrogant." Fatty Lai shook his head.

"He just left like that? Said nothing more?" Wei Zhao did not believe the Yu Family would let the matter drop. If they really had come for the fragment map, they would surely make another move.

"He told me to watch my step, said I'd learn the price of offending the Yu Family..." Fatty Lai said.

"I see." The corner of Wei Zhao's mouth curved slightly upward. The Yu Family, eh - hidden dynasty or towering giant, it made no difference. They had best not provoke him, or in the end, no one would come out of it looking good.

Wei Zhao hung up, unconcerned. Since the Yu Family would not let it go, he would simply wait for them to come knocking. After hanging up, he glanced at the text messages on his phone - there had been a notification while he was on the call.

"My daddy wants to treat you to dinner tonight!"

The message was from the Young Miss. Gu Pengzhan wanted to treat him to dinner? Wei Zhao figured it must be because of yesterday - because he had saved Gu Mengyao.

Since Gu Pengzhan had extended the invitation, Wei Zhao naturally would not refuse. He replied with a text: "All right, I understand."

The Young Miss received the message, glanced down at it, and did not reply.

Wei Zhao felt that ever since yesterday's events, the Young Miss's attitude toward him seemed to have changed. She no longer looked at him with quite the same antipathy, always finding fault with him - it was as though things between them had grown more peaceful... except, perhaps, a little more distant?

Because the Young Miss's attitude carried a sense of keep-your-distance, somewhat like how she might treat a stranger?

Wei Zhao could not figure out what the Young Miss was thinking. In truth, the Young Miss herself did not know what to think - how was she supposed to face Wei Zhao from now on? He had seen her body - could she really just let it go at that? Gu Mengyao had actually lain awake last night, pondering the question of her and Wei Zhao the whole night through.