Several days later.
Xia Ping contacted Jerma again. After spending three days on it, he had finally finished writing this complete compendium of deception.
"Thirty-Six Stratagems of Deception?!"
When Jerma saw the title of this work, he could not help but pause. This was the masterpiece Wu Wudi had written?
To be honest, he did not think highly of anything Wu Wudi could write. After all, he was an old hand who had been steeped in this trade for centuries. What authors and books had he not seen?
He knew full well that every profession was like a mountain apart. Although this kid had achieved some success in the world of swindlers, that did not mean he could write a good book. Those were two entirely different fields.
Still, he did not criticize it right away. He wanted to see exactly what had been written first.
If it truly turned out to be complete nonsense, he would still advise the kid to hire a ghostwriter. No matter what, he could not let this huge deal fall apart in his own hands.
The moment he opened the book, he saw a striking title: The First Stratagem of Deception: The Honey Trap!
Good heavens!
Jerma was stunned at once, because it described in great detail how beauties could be used to carry out scams.
There was a blade hanging over the word "lust." The ancients had also said that appetite and sex were human nature. Lust was one of the roots of human nature itself. Perhaps ascetics could escape it, but the vast majority of living beings could not escape this instinct.
The honey trap was a method of swindling that exploited this instinct.
For instance, honey-trap extortion used certain men's desire to chase after women as its foundation. Put simply, it