Chapter 48: Brother Fan, Your Sacrifice Is Truly Great
Talk?
Chen Feng lifted his head, his eyes fixed on Zhou Fan.
Everything Zhou Fan had said when he left that afternoon, from the news of Liu Chuang's murder to the description of his own symptoms, had struck him like a dagger to the heart.
"How are we going to talk? Surely President Chen doesn't want to talk just like this?" Zhou Fan sat down casually on the sofa, picked up a bottle of liquor from the table, swirled it, and set it back down with a look of disgust.
"Of course not. You're overthinking it, Mr. Zhou." Chen Feng first took out a cigar, offered it to Zhou Fan, and even lit it for him. He then looked at the very delicate-looking young woman beside him. "Go get the liquor I have stored here."
Before long, a new lineup of liquor replaced the old ones on the table. To ensure the ensuing conversation would go smoothly and not be overheard, Chen Feng even sent away all the women except for the delicate-looking one.
With that, only six people remained in the private room: Chen Feng and the delicate woman, Zhou Fan and Gu Feifei, and the two bodyguards who had been standing by the door the entire time.
Seeing Chen Feng's complete 180-degree shift in attitude from that afternoon, Gu Feifei was a little dazed. 'Why is this guy suddenly being so polite?'
"Mr. Zhou, did you bring the contract? As a show of good faith, I'll sign it first. What do you think?" Chen Feng said with a smile, looking at Zhou Fan.
"I'll have to trouble you then, President Chen."
Gu Feifei, ever the quick-thinker, took out the contract and handed it to him. "Brother Fan had already finished work for the day, but when he heard President Chen wanted to meet tonight to discuss the contract, he rushed right over. That just goes to show how important you are to him!"
Gu Feifei said this without batting an eye. Chen Feng's mouth twitched as he listened. 'Damn, this girl is pretty, but how can she be so full of it?'
Zhou Fan, however, repeatedly gave her a thumbs-up, thinking to himself with admiration, 'Feifei is not only beautiful and from a good family, but she's also such a smooth talker!'
A moment later, Chen Feng finished signing and pushed the contract back. Gu Feifei, once again playing her part, took out a pen and handed it to Zhou Fan, acting for all the world like she was just his little assistant for the day.
"To our successful partnership, then?" Chen Feng raised his glass, his face nearly stiff from holding the smile.
"To a successful partnership!" This time, Zhou Fan didn't put on any airs either, standing up to clink glasses with him.
"Mr. Zhou, I feel I must explain. This afternoon, I was just running my mouth. I honestly don't know anything. I can even prove it!" After sitting down, Chen Feng spoke with a strained smile, afraid that Zhou Fan still held a grudge and wouldn't be truthful about his medical condition later.
"Prove it? How?" Zhou Fan frowned.
"The truth is, my young master has an Innate psychological condition. He can't function as a normal man, so his preferences have gradually... deviated." It was the delicate woman beside Chen Feng who answered Zhou Fan.
"Deviated? What does that mean?" Gu Feifei's mind couldn't quite keep up.
"Meaning, out of all of us here, if my young master were to actually like someone, it wouldn't be us two. It would be Mr. Zhou," the delicate woman explained seriously to Gu Feifei with a slight smile.
Gu Feifei was stunned. She looked at Chen Feng, then back at Zhou Fan, as if she had just discovered some great secret. Covering her mouth with her hand, she gently nudged Zhou Fan with her shoulder. "Brother Fan, you've really sacrificed too much for this deal!"
Huh?
Zhou Fan was dumbfounded. Even with his quick mind, he didn't grasp the meaning behind Gu Feifei's words at first.
"This young lady's imagination is truly admirable. However, I prefer my men a bit more beautiful, and they can't be too masculine," Chen Feng said with a soft laugh.
"What the— What are you thinking? Am I the kind of guy who would sacrifice his body for a business deal? And did you even hear him? He said he's not into my type!" Zhou Fan finally reacted, jumping to his feet with a shout. He grabbed Gu Feifei's silky hair with both hands and playfully messed it up, making her look like a madwoman.
But Gu Feifei wasn't one to take a loss lying down.
Forgetting all about her ladylike, assistant persona, she opened her mouth and went to bite Zhou Fan's face.
Chen Feng was completely baffled. This didn't quite match the information he had gathered on Zhou Fan. He looked uncertainly at the woman beside him. "Ah Lian, this is..."
"And how should I address this beautiful lady?" Suddenly, Zhou Fan pinned a struggling Gu Feifei with one hand, sat up straight, and looked at the delicate woman with a smile that wasn't quite a smile.
"I am Ah Lian. I have served the young master since we were children," the delicate woman said respectfully, a little surprised by Zhou Fan's sudden shift in demeanor.
"In your opinion, what's going on with your young master's condition?" Zhou Fan asked in a very casual tone, still wearing that same faint smile.
"I am just an ordinary servant. I can't even tell that the young master has any condition at all." Ah Lian's expression remained unchanged, her composure perfect. Even to Zhou Fan's senses, she showed no sign of abnormality.
"Is that so? What if I told you that your young master's condition is because someone infected him with a Gu Insect? Would you believe me?" Zhou Fan clearly had no intention of letting her off the hook so easily.