Chapter 2937 — A Quiet Request
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"I see... So, Wei Zhao, how do you plan to punish the Liu family?" Han Jingyi seemed remarkably interested as she pressed on.
Wei Zhao found it odd that she should care about such things, but he answered anyway. "In light of the Liu family's loyalty all this time, I'll just terminate their partnership with Guan Daifu Pharmaceuticals, and let the mastermind, Liu Tianli, simply disappear. As for the rest, everything stays as it was..."
"I see..." Han Jingyi nodded, but then suddenly asked, "Wei Zhao, could you... let the Liu family off just this once?"
"Huh?" Wei Zhao was thrown by the abruptness of the question. Utterly at a loss, he asked, "Let the Liu family off? Why?"
"Because... because Jingjing knows the Liu family, that's why. The invention Jingjing's researching, this one-hundred-percent pill refinement method, needs the Liu family's help to procure some of the things she needs. So, Wei Zhao, could you promise Jingjing? Let the Liu family off?" Han Jingyi batted her big, watery eyes, gazing at Wei Zhao imploringly.
Wei Zhao frowned. Han Jingyi's reason was, frankly, far-fetched and baffling. Her invention needed the Liu family's help?
Still, he probed cautiously. "You don't need the Liu family. Whatever you need, I can have someone else procure it for you."
"Wei Zhao, please just say yes to Jingjing, I'm begging you!" Han Jingyi insisted.
Had anyone else begged him, Wei Zhao would certainly not have agreed so readily to such a baffling request. But with Han Jingyi, he could not refuse—not only because she could refine pills for him, but because she had once nearly lost her life helping him keep his secret.
"All right. I won't terminate the Liu family's partnership with Guan Daifu Pharmaceuticals. I hear Liu Tianli has a gifted daughter named Liu Jinghan—she ought to be able to take up her father's work..." Wei Zhao sighed and agreed to Han Jingyi's request. It was not a complete concession, but even so it was a tremendous one for him.
Hearing this, Han Jingyi did not seem especially happy. Instead, a flicker of barely perceptible sorrow passed through her eyes. Then she asked, "And... what about Liu Tianli?"
"Everyone must answer for what they've done. Wrong is wrong. If someone does wrong and suffers nothing for it, what would everyone else think?" Wei Zhao paused there. "Jingjing, why are you pleading for the Liu family?"
"Wei Zhao... Jingjing... in all this time, this is the only thing I've ever asked of you, all right?" Han Jingyi bit her lip, raised her head, and looked Wei Zhao straight in the eye. "Is that all right? Wei Zhao, for the sake of Jingjing, who once nearly died—say yes to Jingjing, please?" (To be continued)