"If you are confident, you can sign the contract when you return to the capital. But you must remember that once the contract is signed, if you fail to find a suitable spokesperson for both parties, you will have to pay a penalty for breach of contract."
Su Ziqing nodded. "Speaking of spokespeople, what do you think of Ziqi?"
Lu Linghong glanced at her. "She has already become the spokesperson for a similar beverage."
That means it won't work. Su Ziqing bit her lip. "It's okay, we'll find other celebrities."
Seeing that she spoke so casually, Lu Linghong, fearing that she wasn't taking it seriously, added, "This isn't an easy matter."
"I know, it's okay, I'll figure something out." Su Ziqing smiled. "Our company can't just do nothing and reap the benefits, can it?"
"Then once you've decided, go back to the capital to sign the contract. I won't be going back to the capital for the next few days." Lu Linghong called the waiter to order food, putting business aside for the moment.
Su Ziqing sipped her tea, her mind wandering.
“If you find it difficult, you can refuse, but if you do, then the profit-sharing agreement we agreed on will have to be changed.” Seeing her like this, Lu Linghong still gave in a little.
Su Ziqing snapped out of her daze. "Huh? The profit split definitely won't change." That was a profit split that had been negotiated with great difficulty.
Lu Linghong stared at her speechlessly.
"By the way, senior brother, do you have any impression of Zhang Fengqi?" Su Ziqing thought that Lu Linghong had grown up in the business world, so he should know something about him, right?
Lu Linghong looked at her, puzzled. "What's wrong?"
"It's nothing, I just wanted to ask about this person's deeds. If you don't know, that's fine." Perhaps the person who sent the message was just playing a prank, but it's been going on for a while!
"Zhang Fengqi is a very capable person. He was once the richest man in B City and also had a reputation in the capital. If it weren't for his family situation, he probably wouldn't have lost his title as the richest man so quickly."
As expected, Lu Linghong knew.
Su Ziqing thought he was a gossip expert, or rather, a know-it-all.
She stared at his face. "Hmm, what family reasons?"
"It's just about fighting over the inheritance, isn't it?" Lu Linghong looked at her. "Why are you suddenly curious about Zhang Fengqi?"
"I just heard about his deeds from someone," Su Ziqing replied, half-truthfully, then continued, "How exactly did he handle the inheritance dispute?"
“Zhang Fengqi had an illegitimate child outside the marriage, while he had a son and a daughter with his first wife.” Lu Linghong recalled, “Legally, illegitimate children enjoy the same rights as legitimate children, so this matter caused a great uproar.”
"The first wife's two children died one after another, and I heard it wasn't an accident." Lu Linghong shrugged. "I don't know the specifics of the matter, but the illegitimate child was the one who inherited the family property later."
Su Ziqing paused slightly, "You just said that the children of the first wife passed away one after another?"
Lu Linghong nodded, "Yes, because the first report was that Zhang Fengqi intended for his first wife's children to inherit the family property, with his illegitimate children receiving a share, but later his first wife's children passed away one after another."
The original wife...
Su Ziqing suddenly realized something, and her face turned pale instantly.
Thinking back to the several messages I've received in the past few days, the first one of which read, "Do you think Su Tianhao is clean?"
What is implied in this sentence? Is it what she is thinking now?
Was her mother's death not an accident?
Seeing Su Ziqing's pale face, Lu Linghong was very worried. "Ziqing, what's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"
Su Ziqing snapped out of her daze, but her eyes remained unfocused as she looked at Lu Linghong.
"What's wrong?"
"Senior brother..." Su Ziqing began, but didn't know what to say.
"Um?"
"It's nothing." She's overthinking it, isn't she? That can't be, right?
"You look terrible." Lu Linghong couldn't do anything about her; if she didn't want to talk about it, he couldn't force her to.
"I'm going to the restroom." Su Ziqing got up from the table.
Her heart clenched, and she felt as if she could hardly breathe.
And as if she had foreseen something, her phone rang.
The number was unfamiliar, but the last few digits looked very familiar to her; it was the mobile number she had just dialed.
"Hello." She answered the phone, feeling her hands trembling.
But no one answered the phone; only the sound of breathing rose and fell.
"Who are you?" Su Ziqing forced herself to calm down, holding her phone in one hand while clenching her other hand so tightly that her nails were almost digging into her palm.
Still, no one spoke.
"What do you want to do?" she asked again.
The phone call abruptly ended. Su Ziqing found this kind of pretentious behavior utterly absurd, but she was now in a very passive position.
Just as she was thinking of calling back, a message came in.
"Your mother was originally the heir."
Suddenly, her head went blank. Su Ziqing stared at the message on her phone, unable to come to her senses for a long time.
Her hands trembled as she dialed back, but the other party's phone was switched off again.
Your mother was originally the heir...
The former richest man in City B originally intended his children from his first marriage to be his heirs, but they all passed away unexpectedly one after another. Rumors circulate that these deaths may not necessarily be accidental...
When these two things were linked together, Su Ziqing felt like her head was about to explode, and she couldn't think of anything anymore.
When she returned to her seat, she was still completely dazed.
Looking at Lu Linghong, she wanted to say something, but swallowed it all back.
Lu Linghong noticed that Su Ziqing's face had become even more unpleasant after she went to the restroom, and she looked preoccupied.
But no matter how he asked, she kept saying she was fine.
After finally finishing her meal, Su Ziqing practically slipped away as if she were walking on air, leaving Lu Linghong even more worried.
……………………
City A Detention Center
Su Tianming is currently still in detention. Although he will face imprisonment, he has not given up at all.
Su Ziqing stood outside the detention center and looked at the message on her phone again: "See Su Tianming."
Was everything orchestrated by Su Tianming?
What mysterious information? Was it just Su Tianming deliberately trying to pique her interest?
Perhaps it was just an unimportant situation, but before Su Ziqing arrived, she did look up reports about her parents' deaths. However, so much time had passed that there was nothing left to look up.
If it really wasn't an accident...
She gripped her phone tightly, but still chose to step into the detention center.
Aside from looking a little haggard, Su Tianming hadn't changed much. Seemingly expecting Su Ziqing to come, he put on an elder's air, saying, "It's the New Year, and you've come empty-handed?"
Su Ziqing sat down directly, her expression indifferent. "The New Year is already over."
"Oh, then what are you doing here?" Su Tianming asked, putting on airs.
Su Ziqing looked at him quietly, "Didn't you ask me to come?"
"Did I send you here?" Su Tianming chuckled. "You've already set me up and sent me here, how could I possibly send you here?"
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