Compared to Tian Ke's high-tech office building, Heavenly Success's premises left much to be desired.
Heavenly Success was located in a somewhat suburban area. Its office building was an old structure from the eighties or nineties, its exterior walls weathered by wind and rain and marked by the passage of time. Even the windows looked rundown, nothing like the sleek, modern impact of a glass curtain wall.
Moreover, the office building was not even theirs. They only rented one floor, so they truly could not compare with Tian Ke's development.
Heavenly Success's general manager, Wang Yang, and chief economist Chen Simin were smoking downstairs.
"Old Chen, did you buy the cigarettes and tea I asked for?"
"How could I forget?" Chen Simin sighed. "After you asked Huang Lillin about the audit team—especially Wang Yan's preferences—I've spent the last two days looking for restaurants with good food. I even got someone to look through Wang Yan's Moments. They eat incredibly well, Wang. Huang Lillin spent several thousand on a single meal for them! More than ten thousand a day! Are we going to entertain them like that too?"
Wang Yang spat on the ground and ran a troubled hand through his long hair. "Then what do you suggest we do if not? Do you think Fat Huang is some kind of saint? He wouldn't release the hawk without seeing the rabbit! If the audit team hadn't seized his weak spot, would he have run to the chairman and begged him in tears? He bled himself dry and forked over so much money. I heard he even sold an apartment.
"We know best what we've done ourselves. Treating them to meals, cigarettes, and tea might cost us eighty or a hundred thousand at most, but if they just lift a finger, that's