Chapter 804 — The Overbearing Heir
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"Our terms are simple. We don't want money — all we ask is that you build us a fully equipped orphanage somewhere else, to our specifications, and we'll hand this one over to you." Yu Xiaoke stated her conditions outright; this was something she had agreed upon with the old director long in advance.
Developers had come to the orphanage now and then over the years to discuss demolition, but every time the rebuilding plan Yu Xiaoke laid out was so complex that there was no profit left in it for them, and the talks had always stalled there.
By now Zhao Qibing had noticed Yu Xiaoke too, and his thieving eyes crawled back and forth over her body. What a beauty! This girl looked superb — and she was from the orphanage as well? Zhao Qibing's heart began to itch. Ever since his legs had been broken he had not touched a woman for a long time, and now, seeing a top-tier beauty like Yu Xiaoke, he was practically drooling.
"That can be arranged — but I think you're quite something. Come work as my secretary, and whatever terms you name then, I'll agree to them all." Zhao Qibing leered at Yu Xiaoke as he spoke. It was only a casual promise; once he actually had her, who would care about terms or conditions?
"Sorry, I can't leave the orphanage. You'd better find someone else." Yu Xiaoke shot Zhao Qibing a look of disgust and turned him down flat.
"Don't be ungrateful and refuse a toast only to drink a forfeit!" Zhong Fabai had not expected the people in this rundown orphanage to be so stiff-necked. They really didn't know what was good for them. "We're talking to you nicely now. Since you don't want to talk sensibly, then just wait and see."
"Oh? So you want to threaten an old woman?" The old director gave a cold laugh and turned to Li Cihua. "Li Cihua, you're a name to be reckoned with on the Songshan City underworld, but I'm not afraid of you either. Over the years, more than one boss has cast a greedy eye on my orphanage. Do you know why they gave up?"
Li Cihua was taken aback. He glanced at the old director, puzzled. Could there be something hidden here? Could there be some power standing behind this orphanage?
"Zou Tiandi had a man under him named Yan Bo, a skilled hand of the Yellow Rank," the old director said mildly. "Zou Tiandi also entertained ideas about the orphanage, but after weighing things up, he gave them up..."
"You... you know about Yellow Rank matters?" Li Cihua stared at the old director in disbelief. To be sure, Yellow Rank strength was no secret to a man like Li Cihua — he had once had two Yellow Rank experts under him, though that madman Wei Zhao had killed them.
"This old woman is untalented, but she too is Yellow Rank." The old director's aura surged in an instant, abruptly pressing down on Li Cihua, Zhong Fabai, and Zhao Qibing until they all felt they could barely breathe. They were not cultivators and could not precisely gauge an opponent's rank and strength, but the old director's aura was indeed like that of those cultivators!
This time Li Cihua no longer doubted the old director's words. He had never imagined that a Yellow Rank expert could be hidden away in this little orphanage! No wonder the place had stood here all these years without being torn down — so there had been something to fear after all!
"Yellow Rank?" Zhao Qibing gave a cold laugh. "My father is already an early-stage Earth Rank expert, and my grandfather stands at the peak of late-stage Earth Rank. What the hell is one Yellow Rank expert worth?"
What Zhao Qibing said was true enough. His father, Zhao Guangyin, was already at early-stage Earth Rank, while the family's Old Master Zhao stood at the peak of late-stage Earth Rank, and was at present seeking the opportunity to break through Earth Rank and step onto the Heavenly Way.
But to break through from Earth Rank to Heavenly Rank was a chasm; many people searched their whole lives and never found their way across.