Eighties Sweetheart Wife-Chapter 657: Who’s Setting Up Whom?

Song Yunuan looked at Serad’s demeanor, not seeming to think there would be any problems this time.

What exactly was she relying on?

Who cares.

Song Yunuan turned around and signed a contract worth ninety million yuan with the other party.

If breached, the compensation would be ten times the amount.

Song Liang clutched his chest, wondering, is this really happening?

Real or fake, he couldn’t speak.

His daughter was calling the shots.

Even if he didn’t want to buy, there was no choice now, if they backed out, their Zhilan Garment Factory would have to pay the other party nine hundred million yuan—my God, that was terrifying.

Song Liang kept telling himself that his daughter wouldn’t do something she wasn’t sure about.

He knew exactly how much money the family had.

But he didn’t know how much money his daughter had.

Still, such a high amount for compensation was frightening.

He shouldn’t have gotten involved with these people in the first place.

It was originally his fault, but now that they had come this far, there was no turning back.

In the worst case, they’d be swindled out of everything and go back to the countryside to farm. It wouldn’t be the end of the world.

Of course, these were just thoughts.

Once the contract was signed, the full payment had to be made, which had been agreed upon in advance.

Ninety million yuan was transferred, and the other party was also starting to prepare the goods.

The process seemed simple.

However, during the preparation, Serad took the initiative to invite them for a tour of the production base.

The place really was advanced enough to impress anyone.

But it was just a tour, and afterwards, Serad arranged for these people to go out and enjoy themselves.

Then, they were declined.

Go out to eat?

Declined as well.

Shopping?

Even more so declined.

Song Yunuan said she had some private matters to attend to, while the others obediently stayed at the hotel. However, in the afternoon, Song Liang and his group were quietly whisked away by Kurt Gymm.

Song Yunuan and Xia Bowen were led by Hans to the estate that Shangguan Heng had once bought for his sister.

It was located in a small town in another city.

The laws there were different from inside the country; the estate was somewhere nobody could actually live in.

So, with Hans’s help, they sold the estate.

With the money they got, Song Yunuan immediately invested it into the stock market.

There were people setting traps in the stock market this year, and Song Yunuan had been paying close attention. When she discerned that they had moved their plans up by a month, it just so happened that Song Liang had hosted people from Xuguang and Rose. The stakes they had laid were substantial, and an ordinary man would have fallen for it by now.

But Song Liang was her father.

He was used to listening to his daughter. Outsiders might not know this, but there was no one in the family who didn’t.

Song Yunuan wanted a slice of the stock market’s profits, but it was difficult to move the capital around. However, it wasn’t necessary to take money from Hans.

Then Song Yunuan remembered the estate Shangguan Heng once bought for Shangguan Yunqi, which could be sold and used as capital to invest in.

To have a share of the profits alongside those setting up the trap.

It amounted to killing three birds with one stone.

All of this was orchestrated by Hans.

But he indeed trusted Song Yunuan implicitly.

He followed her instructions to draw out all the liquid assets and decisively invest them in the market.

It was like a high-stakes gamble.

If he won, he would become the richest man in Country X, and the Gymm family would reach new heights.

If he lost, his assets would shrink, but he wouldn’t be left with nothing.

Meanwhile, Serad couldn’t find the person he was dealing with anymore.

He felt unsettled, realizing these people were different from the ones who had come before.

The previous visitors were like clueless country bumpkins dazzled by their flashy world.

But these people, whether it was food, drinks, entertainment, or being taken out shopping, didn’t take the bait.

They planned to set a trap for them, to blackmail them with certain things, hoping to corrode their integrity with money and sugar-coated bullets.

But they couldn’t even find the people.

In fact, if Serad and its backers had taken the matter seriously enough, this situation would never have arisen.

Xia Bowen and Gu Huai’an had tallied up the figures, and last year alone, there were nearly a dozen companies that had been swindled or scammed.

And they were almost all in Country X.

Some of these swindled companies wouldn’t publicize their plights loudly.

Because there were many issues involved, it was not convenient to talk about them.

Big companies aside, small ones were conned one after another.

How should I put it?

Always being tricked, but each trick was different.

The opposition had also investigated Zhilan Garment Factory and had information about it.

But Qian Anna and the Qian family never took Zhilan Garment Factory seriously.

Even now, they still believe that the success of the Song family is solely due to Gu Huai’an’s backing.

Everything was because they knew Gu Huai’an.

Without Gu Huai’an, Zhilan Garment Factory wouldn’t be what it is today.

Without Gu Huai’an, Song Yunuan wouldn’t have her current glory either.

As for Song Yunuan’s connections with Kurt Gymm and Hai Shaoqing, those were nothing more than opportunistic gambits based on her beauty.

One must know the enemy and know oneself to win every battle.

What kind of fate does underestimating one’s enemy lead to?

The outcome was obvious.

The agreement was to inspect the cargo at the port a week later, and then some people would follow the cargo ship, while others took a plane.

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Last time, at that second plant, they did go to the port, saw the elaborately packaged boxes, and the towering shipping containers, plus they had accepted too many favors from the other side.

So they signed off on it.

This time, they couldn’t even see the people, much less corrupt anyone.

Something was off.

Normal delivery? How could they have anything to deliver normally?

The sample was created at great expense, made of scarce materials, all to deceive the buyer - how could they possibly give away something involving core secrets?

No goods?

Wasn’t that a joke?

And so, this Serad who was brought in was dumbfounded.

Because they wanted to open the boxes.

One by one.

When Serad said that these types of boxes were particularly difficult to open and required professionals and related personnel, Song Yunuan stepped forward.

Hard to open? That’s easy.

The exterior was bound with steel wires as thick as thumbs, which Song Yunuan twisted open in just a moment, then pried the box open neatly with a screwdriver.

This indeed required a professional to dismantle.

Song Yunuan was very professional about it.

Serad and the others were utterly shocked at the time.

Upon opening it, Song Liang immediately jumped up.

What was inside these?

Nothing but junk.

They had filled it with all sorts of rubbish, a case of all that glitters is not gold.

The exterior looked so sleek and futuristic, yet the inside was crammed with rusty screws, lengths of steel tubing, and chunks of iron - a complete mess.

It was utterly ludicrous.

Song Liang then grabbed Serad and demanded an explanation.

What explanation could Serad give?

He wanted to say they had opened the wrong box, but it was dispatched by their company, marked with their logo.

In reality, as soon as their contracting party signed the document, they had no further connection to it.

Just like the last time they had cheated some factory.

Once they signed, you shouldn’t care what’s inside, for it had nothing to do with them anymore.

A lawsuit was filed at the time, but they had the contract and all the legal proceedings and signatures in hand.

The factory manager’s name was already on it, and it was legally binding.