Hangcheng Five-Star Hotel
"Secretary Li, I invited you here this time to discuss the joint development of that piece of land in the west of the city between your company and us... The project is already halfway through, and we have a list of new suppliers. If you agree, we can give you a 1% commission on this project..."
Zhang Zhe, the head of Hengxing Real Estate Company, brought his subordinates to discuss cooperation matters with Li Dan at the dinner table. At the beginning, Li Dan listened to the other party very patiently, but the more she listened, the more she felt something was wrong. Was the other party planning to give her a commission directly to get her to agree to sign since the cooperation failed?
Li Dan had to interrupt him: "This land was originally developed jointly by Tiansheng and Hengxing Real Estate. However, your company secretly switched material suppliers during the project, which violated the previously signed agreement."
Zhang Zhe disagreed and said, "Although Tiansheng is a large company, it has only recently entered the real estate industry. Established real estate companies like us have more experience in real estate development. We chose to change suppliers in order to reduce our budget."
Li Dan retorted forcefully, "But according to our company, the supplier you chose was involved in a lawsuit with another real estate company a few years ago due to issues with raw materials. We at Tiansheng don't believe that a supplier with such a criminal record can successfully complete the project development work..."
Seeing that Li Dan did not accept his advice and signed the document to change suppliers, Zhang Zhe winked at the subordinate sitting next to him.
The latter immediately stood up from his seat and walked to Li Dan's side, picking up dishes and pouring wine.
"Sister Li, this is our project manager's fine wine collection. Would you like to try it?"
A handsome, round-faced man in his twenties handed Li Dan a glass and filled it with wine.
Li Dan declined: "Sorry, I don't drink."
Hearing the other party say that he doesn't drink, the man's eyes showed a trace of surprise. After hearing this, Zhang Zhe saw that the man was stunned and immediately scolded him unhappily: "Do you think Secretary Li likes to drink such strong liquor like us men? Why don't you go outside and get a bottle of plum wine!"
"No, don't bother, I..."
Li Dan waved her hand to refuse, but the young man didn't know if he was frightened by Zhang Zhe's stern tone. Before Li Dan could finish her refusal, he rushed out.
Then he quickly brought over a bottle of wine, opened it attentively, and poured another glass for Li Dan.
Li Dan looked at the glass of wine, lowered his head and glanced at his stomach, and said: "I have been feeling unwell recently, and the doctor told me not to drink alcohol, so I will skip this wine."
The young man began to persuade Li Dan again: "Sister Li, it's okay. I just asked, this is a low-alcohol fruit wine, it won't affect your health."
Li Dan looked at the glass of wine with a hint of hesitation on his face. The wine was indeed as he said, with a rich color like red wine, but with a hint of plum fragrance in the taste. It was indeed not a strong smell of alcohol.
Seeing that Li Dan was reluctant to drink, Zhang Zhe began to feel annoyed as it was impossible for her to sign the document if the stalemate continued.
He picked up the wine glass beside him and drank it all, then put it heavily on the table and scolded: "I asked you to toast Secretary Li and you didn't even bother. You are such a useless person. If I had known earlier, I would have asked Xiao Chen to come over!"
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