A Sudden Twist: Almost Friends Became Enemies in Seconds

"Fine, then. Give us twenty percent off!"

Twenty percent off a house? Did he think he was buying laundry detergent at a supermarket?

Zhang Yang was stunned. Discounts that steep on houses were almost unheard of unless a property had obvious defects.

But there was nothing wrong with the quality of the homes at the Meng Family's Azure Brown Sea development.

Meng Xue was no fool. She figured Zhang Yang had come about his company's business. By offering him a discount first, she could shut him up.

Or, when he asked the Meng Family for their cooperation later, he would have to beg her, the Meng Family's eldest daughter, to show him mercy.

That inborn sense of superiority could be dangerous. It made people forget themselves. Wasn't it what drove people to boast about who they knew and who their fathers were?

But Meng Xue had no idea what card Zhang Yang would play, or how he would play it.

She knew Sailing Company's investigators had appeared on the Meng Family's radar. But the family had left no openings, and the investigators had found nothing. That was why she felt so confident.

Faced with a cold, proud woman who bowed only to strength, the old Zhang Yang would have been helpless. He might even have turned and left. But Zhang Yang was a different man now. He was no longer the college student who could only lower his head and walk away when people mocked him.

"Thank you!"

Whether he was buying the house himself or not, he ought to thank her for such a large discount. It would satisfy Meng Xue's vanity for the moment.

Meng Xue smiled faintly, looking rather pleased with herself.

Zhang Yang found that baffling. She knew he was poor, a useless live-in son-in-law of