"Brother Tiger, this guy dares to lie to us. I suggest we cut out his tongue and make him mute so he can never lie to anyone again."
"In my opinion, break his legs."
Before Zhao Kun could answer, Tiger's henchmen, filled with righteous indignation, offered their suggestions.
Zhao Kun trembled with fear. Cutting out his tongue and breaking his legs—wouldn't that mean the end for him? Even if he survived, his life would be miserable.
"Brother Tiger, I was wrong, I won't do it again."
"Spare me, I'll pay you back, I promise I'll pay you back."
Zhao Kun immediately begged for mercy, hoping that Brother Tiger would let him go.
Tiger chuckled and patted Zhao Kun on the shoulder again. He was about to take action himself when he remembered that they were in a public place like a train station, so he gave a wink to his underlings.
The younger brother understood immediately and kicked Zhao Kun hard in the stomach.
Zhao Kun collapsed to the ground instantly, clutching his stomach in agony.
The other henchmen all took action and started hitting Zhao Kun.
"What are you doing? How can you hit people? Help! Murder!"
When Grandma Zhao saw her son suddenly surrounded and beaten, she ran over with red eyes and shouted loudly.
Upon arriving at Zhao Kun's side, Zhao Kun's face was already bruised and swollen in a short time, which greatly angered Old Mrs. Zhao. She glared at Tiger and the others, shouting loudly that they were murderers.
The underlings were a little nervous, but Tiger remained extremely calm.
When the security personnel at the station arrived, Mrs. Zhao immediately began to cry and complain.
"What exactly happened?"
“We’re here to collect a debt. He owes us money and is trying to run away.”
Tiger remained calm and explained to the security personnel.
"Impossible. How could my son borrow money from you? We have hundreds of thousands of yuan. Why would we need to borrow from you? You're talking nonsense."
Grandma Zhao didn't believe it at all.
Tiger sneered, "I said I wasn't lying. You can ask your son. He doesn't owe me any money, so why did he take you all and leave Fanjia County so late at night?"
Upon hearing this, Old Mrs. Zhao turned to look at Zhao Kun and Zhou Ling.
Zhao Kun turned his head away in shame, not daring to look directly at Old Mrs. Zhao, while Zhou Ling remained silent.
Seeing this scene,
Grandma Zhao was stunned.
"See? This is the truth. I also have the IOU he wrote himself. It's in black and white, there's no denying it."
Tiger chuckled.
"How much money does Xiao Kun owe you? I'll pay you on his behalf."
Grandma Zhao forgot her anger and decided to pay back the money on behalf of her son.
"Not much, including principal and interest, it totals 330,000."
Tiger said.
What!
When Grandma Zhao heard that she had to come up with over 300,000 yuan, her eyes widened instantly, and the next second, she collapsed to the ground.
"mom……"
...
"Brother Chen, Brother Chen, breaking news!"
"Zhou Ling is in jail again."
During lunch break, Li Kaile rushed to Zhou Chen and delivered the news that many people on campus were discussing to him.
Zhou Ling is in jail?
If he remembered correctly, two nights ago, he called the police because Zhou Ling was disturbing the peace, and she had already been taken away by Uncle Hat. Now, just two or three days later, she's back in jail. She really never stops causing trouble.
"what happened?"
Zhou Chen asked
Knowing that Zhou Chen was extremely annoyed with his younger sister Zhou Ling, Li Kaile didn't hold back and told her everything he had heard.
It turns out that Zhao Kun borrowed 300,000 yuan while playing cards, and then, not wanting to repay the money, planned to run away with his family. However, they were caught by the creditor and ended up at the police station together.
“One of our students happened to be at the police station last night and witnessed this incident firsthand. Now the whole school knows about it.”
Li Kaile added.
What happened next?
Zhou Chen asked, and only then did he realize why Zhou Ling had asked him for 300,000 yuan that night. It turned out that Zhao Kun had lost money and wanted him to pay her off.
Zhou Ling, Zhou Ling, this is the man you insisted on marrying—a gambling addict.
"It was Grandma Zhao who took the money. With Uncle Hat as a witness, a settlement was reached and the IOU was retrieved."
Li Kaile responded.
Zhou Chen nodded. Knowing Old Mrs. Zhao as he did, she would be heartbroken to give away 300,000 yuan to someone else for nothing, and she would probably blame Zhou Ling.
Originally, the family had received compensation for the demolition of their house, and their life was quite comfortable. However, because Zhao Kun got into gambling, he lost the compensation, and their lives returned to the state of being penniless.
It's easy to imagine that Zhou Ling is about to face difficulties again.
He shrugged.
Zhou Chen wasn't gloating. He wasn't envious if Zhou Ling was doing well, nor was he pitying if she wasn't. It was a joke. Zhou Ling had walked her own path, and he had no interest, no mind, and no energy to care.
Compared to Zhou Chen's indifference, Zhou Na was implicated because Zhou Ling once again became a hot topic of discussion on campus.
Some offensive remarks appeared around Zhou Na from time to time.
For example, like sister, like sister; if you say Zhou Ling is like this, then Zhou Na is essentially the same.
For example, this is God's retribution. It's retribution that Zhou Ling married a gambler, became rich overnight from the demolition compensation, and then became penniless again in just a few days.
Such sarcastic and cynical remarks continued.
Zhou Na could only avoid and stay away from this situation, while hoping that the college entrance examination would come soon so that she could get away from Fanjia County, away from Zhou Ling, and away from the center of this vortex.
On this day,
Good news arrived: after discussions between Qi Tianlei and senior management, it was unanimously agreed to embed the farm game into Penguin Space.
However, there is one requirement: a performance-based agreement must be signed.
If this game fails to generate any buzz or reach the required user engagement time, the copyright for Happy Match will be transferred to Tencent free of charge.
This was somewhat unexpected for Zhou Chen. He hadn't anticipated that Tencent would want to acquire Happy Match. It seems that Tencent has taken notice of the popularity of Happy Match in the mobile phone market, making it a popular game for many people to pass the time.
“I can sign a betting agreement or agree to their conditions, but if we win the bet, I want 80% of the profits from the farm game.”
No one knows better than Zhou Chen how popular farm games are and how much they help Penguin users increase their time spent on the platform. There's no need to worry about losing this bet.
Originally, he was hoping to get 20% of the profits, but since Tencent proposed a bet and offered him money, he naturally had to seize the opportunity.
He gets the lion's share of the profits from this game.
The penguins could only follow him and drink the soup.
Once the farm game is released and its popularity is seen, Tencent's top management will surely have immense regrets.
"Are we really going to gamble? What if we lose..."
Su Jiajia felt that even without signing a performance-based agreement, Tencent would most likely agree if they gave up some benefits.
"If they want to gamble, then let them gamble. Anyway, we can't possibly lose."
Zhou Chen made the decision immediately; there's no reason to turn away money that's offered to you.
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