The Strategist was simmering with anger.
These were hard times.
He said to the Sect Master, "Sect Master, he turned our forty-percent plan into twenty percent! That's an undeniable fact!"
Lu Chengwen said, "Lord Strategist, I won't waste time going in circles with you! Let's not even mention that if the Sect Master hadn't controlled the overall situation and made the call at the critical moment today, we wouldn't have made a single cent. Let me do the simplest math for you!"
"What's forty percent of ten million!?"
"That would be..." The Sect Master was clever. After calculating briefly, he blurted out, "That would be four million!"
"Then what's twenty percent of forty million!?"
"That is..." The Sect Master was even cleverer. His eyes instantly lit up. "Two times four is eight... eight million!"
Lu Chengwen spread his hands. "You're only looking at the percentage and not the base amount?"
Lu Chengwen continued, "Cut one million in half and you still have five hundred thousand. Give you all one hundred yuan, and it's just a piece of paper!"
The Sect Master thought about it. "Then we made money today!"
"We made a killing, Sect Master!"
"Chen Yong lost out!"
"I guarantee you with my head, he's crying in his car right now!"
The Sect Master was thrilled. "From now on, the Cleaver Sect can bring in several million a year from this alone!"
"And we don't even have to do anything, Sect Master! We can just lie back and count money!"
Lu Chengwen said warmly, "But Sect Master, I truly admire you to death!"
"Oh? Is that so?"
"Yes! I admire you so much I'd prostrate myself before you!"
"Go on."
"Today, during the negotiation, I understood what you meant from a single look! I nearly failed to react in