"It's only a part-time job. What are you still hesitating for? Are you that lazy? Can't you work a little overtime? Griffin is really just giving you a graceful way to accept his help."
At that, Zhang San's wife naturally began nagging him in exasperation, much like most housewives.
After all, working part-time as a legal Consultant really wasn't difficult. It took less effort than occasionally taking on legal work on the side, and it would bring in extra income while resolving the matter of their son's bride price and marital home. This was practically a windfall.
"Griffin, if you'd brought this up a day earlier, I wouldn't have minded another part-time job. But now I can only decline your kind offer."
Zhang San gave a slightly helpless, wry smile.
He had originally thought Griffin wanted him to handle a lawsuit or offer advice on a legal issue, which would already have put him in a difficult position.
He hadn't expected the "request" Griffin thought wouldn't put him on the spot to leave him even more helpless.
Just a short while ago, he had found a new job and received a full 1.2 million in advance salary.
The price of that advance was that he was now firmly tied to his new company. During the year covered by the advance, he wasn't allowed to change jobs. He would serve full-time as Star Sea Venture Capital's legal Consultant and was prohibited from providing legal advice or assistance to anyone else.
The biggest pain was that he had drafted the contract himself. There wasn't a single loophole to be found, and to show his gratitude and sincerity, he had set the penalty for breaching it extremely high.
In a sense, this was a real-life case of literally shooting himself in the foot.