The Meng Group Was Involved, So He Had to Take the Job

The first was a front-facing photograph of the house. It was four stories tall and quite nicely finished. At first glance, it looked a little like a detached country villa.

The second was taken from a distance at a forty-degree angle.

The last was an aerial shot taken by a drone. It showed the location perfectly: the house stood right in the middle of a stretch of rubble.

It was rubble because the debris from the demolished houses around it had never been hauled away. Instead, it had been piled in a ring around Wang Dong'an's house. It was a tactic some people used to force him to accept their terms and agree to demolition.

"To be honest, this house isn't worth fifty million. It isn't even worth five million. But given the location, fifty million for the land isn't outrageous either. Of course, the other side won't agree if you calculate it that way."

Zhang Yang started by pouring cold water on the idea. Wang Dong'an frowned. Fifty million had not been his idea; he had only wanted thirty million. Lin Cheng had told him to add another twenty million so that Wang Dong'an could get more money and use some of it to pay Zhang Yang.

Hearing that, Wang Dong'an felt his hopes sink. After saying all that, Zhang Yang surely would not take the job.

Lin Cheng, however, knew exactly what Zhang Yang was doing. He was testing them and laying the groundwork for his fee. After all that, there ought to be a "but."

"But..." Sure enough, Zhang Yang smiled. "I can take the job. My cut is twenty percent."

Wang Dong'an was thrilled to hear Zhang Yang accept, but then the fee registered. Twenty percent was what Zhang Yang would receive once the matter was