Ring

Chapter 3

It was already six o'clock in the evening, and the two of them went back to their room to get ready, then met directly at the restaurant on the top floor, and then sat down at a window seat. The palazzo hotel is already extremely high, and sitting in this position can overlook the entire Las Vegas.

Wei Shenzhi looked sideways at the night outside the window.

From the direction where the two are sitting, you can directly see the ian building opposite.The pitch-black ground was lit up by neon lights, and several open-air swimming pools shone blue.

"You've been looking outside. Like the night view of Las Vegas?" Edgar said while pouring mushroom sauce on the steak.

The steak he ordered was only medium rare, and the charred black steak was slightly stained with dark red blood, mixed with the black mushroom juice, which was indescribably weird.

Wei Shenzhi came back to his senses, symbolically rolled the face in front of him with a fork, and glanced at Edgar lightly: "This place reminds me of my hometown."

The other party smiled slightly, put the cut food into his mouth, chewed and swallowed, and then said with interest: "Your hometown? Makes me think... Beijing?"

"...I told you yesterday?"

"Ah."

"..." Wei Shenzhi secretly scolded himself for the poor quality of his wine. After getting drunk, he would be in a state of complete amnesia, and when he woke up, he would not be able to remember anything at all.Thinking of this, he looked at the red wine in the goblet with lingering fear, coughed in disguise, and waved for the waiter to serve a glass of mineral water.

The other party saw it, and his tone was very joking: "Why, don't you dare to drink anymore? Yesterday, I drank so much that even I have to admire it." Thinking of the oriental man who poured himself a glass of wine in a bar with dark lights last night , he was very distressed - it was the wine.Westerners drink to taste, and what they drink is the taste; while Orientals drink more for fun, as the saying goes, a thousand cups of wine is less than a bosom friend.

Wei Shenzhi glanced at him, put down the tableware in his hand and leaned back on the chair, and also smiled: "Mr. Flanders, do we have to repeat this strange conversation between us? You and I only know each other very well. It was yesterday—last night, to be exact, and I woke up in the morning and forgot everything. Don't you think..."

He considered his words.Although the other party looked like a libertine, he never forgot that sitting in front of him was the person in charge of Western Network Company—the person who rewrote the performance of Western Network within three years and made it one of the fourth largest trust companies in the United States. one man.

"Are you trying to say that our friendship is not enough to talk about the weather?" Edgar raised his glass, took a sip, and his brown eyes shone with an invisible light.

"...Exactly." Thinking of the Western way of thinking, Wei Shenzhi said bluntly, "To be honest, I just really want to know what I said to you last night...or did I do anything to embarrass you Things." After a pause, he added, "Of course, if you are willing to continue discussing the 'Silver Shield' project with me at the dinner table, I am very happy."

It was only then that Edgar noticed that the other party had been carrying the previous briefcase with him.Maybe it's because there are too many documents, the whole bag looks bulging, and a small corner of the proposal book with light green cover is exposed.

And the oriental man sitting in front of him had a faint smile on his handsome face, and his brows were full of confidence.

Are you so serious about your work?

Are you so confident in your abilities?

"Ah."

Edgar chuckled, and his slender legs wrapped in suits overlapped.The index finger and middle finger pressed the base of the goblet, and the rose-like wine trembled slightly with the shaking of the fingers.The slightly dim light was turned on, which actually made the rose wine look like dark red blood, but also made the hand holding the wine glass look a little pale.

Those brown, half-smiling eyes seemed even more unfathomable.Wei Shenzhi frowned imperceptibly.

What does this man named Flanders want to do?

This strange looking at each other lasted for 2 minutes. Edgar finally raised his glass and took a sip of the red wine. His voice was a little hoarse because of drinking: "Although you don't seem to remember our friendship last night. It's okay, I can now Say it to you again."

"Don't always think that you have the chance to win. You are far less powerful than you think."

When he said this, the smile in the brown eyes disappeared, and what was left was full of sarcasm, just like he looked down at him in the conference room this afternoon.

Wei Shenzhi's back stiffened imperceptibly, but he immediately covered it up.Wei Shenzhi propped up his hands, and then smiled: "I don't quite understand what Mr. Flanders means."

"What I said is not clear enough? Before you are not good enough, don't pretend to be profound, just like you are now." The disguise was immediately broken by the other party, "Don't think I can't guess what you think about the Western Open Contractual. Do you really think your company's board of directors will make it easy for you?"

"...It seems that I said a lot to you last night."

Edgar ignored his words.He cut another piece of steak casually, chewed and swallowed it slowly, and then continued unhurriedly, "I always think that I can control everything—just like a proverb in the East, 'When soldiers come to block, water comes to cover up'. But you ask yourself, are you really sure to fulfill the conditions we set within half a year?"

"..."

Wei Shenzhi's hands were already clenched slowly.Edgar was right.Although he hadn't thought about it before, there was probably only a prototype of that plan in his mind.As for how to implement it, how to allocate personnel, what is the main direction of attack in the next stage... He has no answer now.

"There is a writer who is very gifted, like you, a rare talent. But he has never finished a book. Do you know why?"

As if he didn't want Wei Shenzhi to answer, Edgar took it on his own, "Whenever an idea flashed in his mind, he couldn't wait to develop it and write it out. When the inspiration passed, He discovered that he had no idea how to develop this idea into a novel."

"However," Wei Shenzhi didn't back down, "if he let that flash of inspiration just pass away, then he wouldn't even have the basic framework of a novel."

"I don't mean inspiration and... how should I put it, impulsive recklessness is not important." Edgar raised the corners of his lips sarcastically, "But you haven't done well enough. Yesterday's angry runaway, today's He suddenly stood up and asked us to revise the contract. The former is fine, but do you know that the latter has committed a big business taboo?!"

"Do you think this is acting in a movie? Yesterday you ran away in anger, today you tore up the agreement - where did you come from so many exciting scenes to perform for you?" At this point, there is no smile on his lips, " You are in breach of contract."

The brown eyes were completely serious and sharp, even worse than Lorraine's sharp eyes yesterday.Stared at by such eyes, his clenched palms have begun to ooze a little cold sweat.

"...So, you are here to discuss compensation with me?"

His dark eyes were fixed on Edgar, and he didn't even notice that the western fork was knocked off.The eyebrows that slanted into the temples were also slightly frowned, and there was an unconcealable nervous expression on his handsome face.I think this young oriental man should reflect on what he did today.If Wei Shenzhi encountered other trust companies, who would give him a good face based on Wei Shenzhi's reckless actions these two days?

Edgar looked at Wei Shenzhi seriously, and Wei Shenzhi looked at Edgar nervously.

The two looked at each other for a while, Edgar sighed softly, and began to cut the steak that had been completely cooled: "It's already this time, and you still look like you're not surprised, you're not tired."

At this time, Wei Shenzhi's eyebrows were completely furrowed, and the smile on his lips disappeared.The person sitting across from him instantly lost his sharp look, and changed back to his previous slutty look.However, the pressure he exerted just now, with such sharp eyes and serious demeanor, can make people see him leading the Western Network Company to break out of the siege, like a long sword out of its scabbard—the point of the sword is unstoppable .

The sweat in the palms of his hands was already a little cold, and Wei Shenzhi looked at Edgar with a smile on his lips in a daze, and suddenly felt that the knife and fork in his hand had become extremely cold.From sitting down to talk until now, I have been completely suppressed by him.He didn't hesitate to expose his disguise, and played his counterattack lightly-it was a terrible opponent.

Edgar looked at the shocked expression of the other party with satisfaction, and his black eyes were wide open.He pushed the already empty dinner plate to one side, propped up his hands and began to carefully observe the other person's expression.The tit-for-tat confrontation with Lorraine during the negotiation, the helplessness when he got up and left, the confusion in the tavern last night, and the shock now.

It seems, really too much alike.It's exactly the same...

In the memory, there is a pair of similar eyes overlapping with the black pupils of the other party.Edgar lost his mind for a moment, but immediately came back to his senses, forced the surging memories to be suppressed in his mind, looked at the pupils of the other party who gradually regained consciousness, and kept telling himself: The person sitting in front of him is "Silver Shield" "The person in charge is an oriental man named Wei Shenzhi, not that...that...

"...Mr. Flanders? Are you okay?" Wei Shenzhi managed to come back to his senses, but saw Edgar staring at him blankly, his eyes seemed lost, and he couldn't help but remind him.

"...It's okay." He bent his index finger to the tip of his nose, turned his face to cover up and took a sip of his wine, and then looked at Wei Shenzhi with a smile again, "Have you considered what I said before?"

"……compensation?"

"No, no, no." Edgar shook his fingers, "That's what you said. I just came here to tell you, don't have blind confidence in things you can't do. Otherwise, no one will be able to help you when the time comes you."

"You just said that?"

"Yes. Do you think I'm threatening you?"

……Is not it? !

Thinking of this, the expression was written on his face, and the brown-haired man sitting across from him couldn't help but laugh: "You really followed my advice and stopped making unnecessary pretense."

Wei Shenzhi glared at him, then covered his face with his hands, and let out a heavy breath: "I was really scared."

"Just advice." Edgar smiled slightly.

"To be honest, I don't understand... Our friendship doesn't seem to be good enough to advise each other, does it?" Wei Shen said with disbelief, "Besides, both of us are sharers of the same interests... You will give yourself Advice from competitors?"

"So, you really forgot all about our last night." Edgar sighed softly, then stood up slowly, still holding the red wine glass in his hand.Under Wei Shenzhi's watchful eyes, he sat down on the sofa beside the other party, crossed his legs, and put a hand on Wei Shenzhi's neck with malicious intent.

"But I believe your body still remembers it very clearly." White fingers lightly pressed on the artery on the side of his neck, and light-colored lips gently moved to Wei Shenzhi's ear.

Since Edgar's actions were too ambiguous and conspicuous, all the guests at other tables around him had already looked over.

Wei Shenzhi: "..."

The white fingertips pressed the jugular artery, and he could feel the pulsation of blood.Edgar's eyes darkened, he licked his lips subconsciously, and the tip of his tongue slid over two canine teeth that were slightly sharper than ordinary people.

Wei Shenzhi shook his hands, feeling that his whole body was not well.He looked at Edgar in horror, and tremblingly said: "...Mr. Flanders, what are you doing?!!"

"I'm just telling you what happened last night." At this point, he pulled away the high collar of the other party, and gently pressed his fingers on the two points on the artery, "Could it be that when you woke up today, there was no blood here?" Do you feel any strange feeling?"

...It doesn't feel like it, but when I look in the mirror, I feel that those two dots are a little red.

How did this foreign devil know? !Could it be that he... made it up? ! ...how did you get it up? !Could it be...

"It's probably what you think it is." From the expression on Wei Shenzhi's face, he knew that he was automatically thinking in the wrong direction.Edgar laughed abominably and didn't explain much. He just stood up slowly and looked down at the oriental man whose face turned red and turned white.

"How is it? Do you still think that our relationship is not good enough and our friendship is not deep enough?" Wei Shenzhi was in the shock beyond compare, while Edgar had dropped a snow-white piece of paper on the other side, and it floated in front of him. On the table.

"Then, the next official meeting will be in San Francisco's Silicon Valley." Hateful laughter sounded above his head, "However, if you miss me, please feel free to come and find me."

Leaving this sentence, Edgar jumped off the table in a chic way, and walked away amidst the attention of everyone, leaving behind a series of insolent laughter.

Wei Shenzhi numbly held up the piece of paper, but only saw elegant cursive words in English.

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