"You cannot counter balance anything . You have no rights to do so . "
"Argue all you like, you have two options accept the agreement and get your compensation today, or take us to court and wait months for a hearing, where I can tell you there will not be the generosity shown . Plus our compensation claim will be filed within twenty-four hours with the courts . Your choice . "
Yao Tan, was finding this highly interesting . Who was the trusted legal staff member? However it was interesting that Hou Yi could simply push slightly and CEO Lu would react . No matter how much in negotiations he pushed there was never a reaction .
"I do not need to make a choice . You will not be successful, you know I will win . "
"Your arrogance is showing . Just because we have never claimed, does not mean that the rights do not exist, and if you want to enforce your rights it will be simply a counter claim to our claim . "
"Screw that"
"Temper, Temper . You did not ring about artists, so stop trying to divert attention from what you want to talk about . "
"You …" by now CEO Lu so incensed on the other end of the phone, and Hou Yi now noticed how hard it was for Yao Tan not to react .
"Come on, what do you want, I am not going to play the games . "
"You know I have those images . "
"Nice try, I know that they are fake …"
"Who cares whether they are fake or not, all I have had them posted on line, and you will have to try and save your wife's image . " There were a few seconds silence and then CEO Lu continued, almost with a maniacal laughing undertone to his voice "They are up, now try and protect your wife . "
"I hope you like jail . Your son got you out of trouble last week, but he will not risk it for you a second time . And I will prove that it is fake . "
Hearing that Yan Tan now sent the second of the prepared messages to the police and the IT departments of Hou Enterprises and XF International . He wondered how Hou Yi predicted this reaction . Normally it always is easy to predict within a range, but Hou Yi presently is scarily accurate .
"As If you can see me jailed . "
"Do you really want to play this game . Let me be realistic you have little options …"
"I control what happens, and I will crush you . "
"Just try . This is simply time wasting, and …"
"I will win . "
"Do not bet on it . Goodbye . " With that Hou Yi hung up .
Hou Yi looked at Yao Tan, and laughed . "He was so predictable . "
"How in the world did you know what he would do?"
"I am not psychic, but he tipped his hand last week . He is so blinded by trying to get what he thinks he is owed, that he cannot see anything other than targeting me . Presently that blindness is undermining his generally good business sense . It would have told him not to try and blackmail me, and to cut his son loose . However he cannot see any other options now, and that is making targeting him so easy . "
"And …"
"Let me be realistic . ; You and the other companies that cut your ties with Lu Corporation last week, did so for business reasons that will benefit you in the long term . We all know, somehow in ventures with Lu Corporation involved, they come out highly profitable, whereas everyone else does not . That never made business sense to anyone . "
"True, but to know my friend I am thinking you may have used me a little . "
"Tan, you know I am compensating XF International with this joint venture . Hou Enterprises with the projects that are coming online would have been in a better position if we continued on alone . It is the same with the other companies . Deals will be structured to help them repair any financial damage Lu Corporation try to do . For you my friend, the payback is the largest, as he will target you more than anyone else because you are my friend . "
"Yi, the last think I would want to be is on the wrong side of you . "
"Never will happen my friend . You know we have always had each others back and even before my brother-in-law married your daughter I have always seen you as family, so I would never target you like that . "
As they sat quietly, Hou Yi received a text message from Anna, indicating that they were on their way . After alerting Yao Tan to this, they both quickly finished their drinks and headed down to the foyer to await their wives .
Chapter end
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