Chapter 859: I'm Really Sick

It was a project proposal for the development of an amusement park. Because many companies were interested in this project, several companies with similar qualifications wanted to win it.

Zhai Yizhong's company and Yin Zhixing's company were two of them. Because the conditions of the companies were similar, the investors who ultimately had the decision-making power chose to select their partners through a sealed bid.

A sealed bid means that each company submits a bid, and no one except the organizer knows the bids. The highest bidder wins.

At the time, Zhai Yizhong was just a department manager. Because he was valued by the boss, he was assigned to handle this matter. After weighing all aspects, he gave what he felt was the most suitable price.

Sometimes luck is just that strange. Zhai Yizhong's price was exactly 100,000 yuan higher than the price offered by Yin Zhixing's father.

It was this sum of 100,000 yuan that ultimately determined their victory or defeat, and also caused some of the veterans of Yin Zhixing's father's company to become dissatisfied with this nominal boss.

Especially shortly after that, a notice was issued from above, designating that area as a key development zone.

The estimated profits from that amusement park suddenly doubled, which inadvertently led to Yin Zhixing's father being targeted even more aggressively.

If it were just a minor incident, it wouldn't have been enough to make Yin Zhixing want to kill Zhai Yizhong's entire family.

Yin Zhixing was quite young at the time, hot-blooded and spoiled by his family. After learning about his father's difficulties, this lawless young master went directly to the black market and found a group of thugs, wanting to teach Zhai Yizhong a lesson.

Unexpectedly, this group of desperate criminals had already been targeted, and they were captured before they could do anything to Zhai Yizhong.

As a result, the things Yin Zhixing had done behind the scenes were also exposed, and he was implicated and went to prison.

Yin Zhixing's parents did consider saving him, but at that time, his actions had already put them in a difficult position.

Years later, Yin Zhixing emerged to find that the outside world had undergone tremendous changes.

His father's company was boycotted because of his stupid actions, and the restless people within the company took the opportunity to attack him, originally intending to remove him from the position of chairman.

Later, internal strife threw the company into chaos, and the company's reputation was severely damaged due to the boycott. Some people realized something was wrong and immediately sold their shares to get out as soon as possible.

Not long after, Yin Zhixing's father's company went bankrupt, leaving him with a mountain of debt.

Yin Zhixing's parents were driven to desperation by debt collectors, leading to mental breakdowns, and ultimately they chose to jump off a building together.

Yin Zhixing's family was destroyed, while Zhai Yizhong was promoted to general manager because he successfully helped the company win the project proposal. He became the boss's right-hand man and his career took off.

The contrast was too stark, so Yin Zhixing pinned the blame on Zhai Yizhong.

He believes that if Zhai Yizhong hadn't stolen his father's bidding proposal, he wouldn't have gone to jail, his family's company wouldn't have collapsed, and his parents wouldn't have died.

He would still be that spoiled rich kid who never lifts a finger and asks for anything, instead of being like he is now, with his parents injured and destitute, and everyone taking advantage of him.

All of this is Zhai Yizhong's fault. He ruined himself, destroyed his privileged life, and owes two lives.

Eager to take revenge on Zhai Yizhong, Yin Zhixing plotted how to make Zhai Yizhong's family suffer the same fate as his own, when he encountered Shang Qiuyan, who believed she had a blood feud with the Ji family.

One wanted to take revenge on Zhai Yizhong, and the other wanted to take revenge on the Ji family. The two people, who were so similar, hit it off and spent several months planning this kidnapping.

After reading these testimonies, Zhai Yizhong was completely distraught. He had only worked hard as a company representative to secure a project proposal for the company's benefit. It was a fair competition, with everyone relying on their own abilities. How did he end up provoking such a lunatic?

If Shang Qiuyan's resentment towards the Ji family stemmed not only from her own personality and experiences, but also from a misunderstanding and a series of unfortunate events...

Yin Zhixing is selfish to the core. He can blame heaven, earth, and everyone else, but he will never look for the reasons within himself.

It's impossible to reason with someone like that, because he lives in his own world and always feels that others owe him something.

After reading the information related to Yin Zhixing, Ye Wanxi's lips twitched, and she sighed, "Mr. Zhai is a decent-looking man who should have many children and much happiness. How come he keeps attracting such oddballs?"

"There are gains and losses. If I weren't so blessed, I wouldn't have met such a loyal pet, which has repeatedly saved me from danger."

Ye Wanxi pondered for a moment and nodded in agreement.

"That Shang Qiuyan..."

Ye Wanxi continued flipping through the pages, narrowing her eyes with surprise: "She does indeed have a rather strange illness, which is currently considered incurable by medical standards. Fortunately, it is not contagious, but patients will experience rapid weight loss and great suffering after contracting the disease."

According to her, ten years ago she was sold by a man who was very likely her biological father to a man in a remote area who had lost his wife. The man treated her well, but she simply couldn't accept such a husband, such a family, and so many children born to his ex-wife, so she never gave that man a kind look.

Ye Wanxi paused for a moment, then said, "Her illness has little to do with this man."

According to Shang Qiuyan, she was not the only one who got sick; many people in that remote area had contracted the disease.

The reason was actually the village's pig butcher.

This butcher is the only person in the village who sells pork. He has been selling pork in the village for twenty or thirty years. It's no exaggeration to say that he has a complete monopoly.

At first it was fine, but after a while he started to have wicked thoughts.

In order to make more money, he deliberately chose to sell the relatively healthy pigs from the pig farm, as they were much cheaper, including sick and dead pigs.

It's not that no one noticed anything wrong with the pork, but in remote areas, it takes an hour or two to get to the nearest market and back. People are already busy, so it's not realistic to go to the market every day.

This butcher was a petty and vindictive man. He remembered exactly how many people in the village bought pork from him. If someone didn't buy pork from him for a day or several days in a row and bought pork from someone else, he wouldn't even sell to them again.

Some villagers, whose families crave meat or who frequently need to worship the gods but cannot afford to waste time going to the market every day, have no choice but to swallow their anger.

The villagers remained silent, which emboldened the pig butcher. This forbearance lasted for several years, until it led to problems.

(End of this chapter)