Reaching A Deal (成交)
No matter who was the victim or the culprit, both sides would benefit from settling this in private.
The parents of the Jiang family had already crushed their teeth from how tense their jaws were; they were angry at Jing Yun Zhao for asking such a high price, but they were angrier at Jiang Xia for letting her have such a large handle on him!
If Jiang Xia didn’t sign his name, then as long as he didn’t admit it, these three letters couldn’t be linked back to them. Now things have reached this point, forget wooing others, he even had to give himself over as compensation.
The Jiang parents felt stifled, but as the one directly involved, Jiang Xia was in an even worse mood.
It wasn’t like he was stupid? In the beginning, he had no thoughts of writing his name down at all. If it weren’t for seeing how happy Jing Yun Zhao became, he wouldn’t have done such a stupid thing! Plus, how could he have known that Jing Yun Zhao was so daring, actually thras.h.i.+ng him beyond recognition in front of everyone in the cla.s.s and even taking the letters out to threaten him!
After all, if these love letters were to be spread around, he’d be finished, but her reputation wouldn’t be any better.
And much unlike him, Jing Yun Zhao had been prepared for a drawn-out war, but she was quite shocked when Jiang Xia actually only lasted three days before he gave himself up. However, that wasn’t hard to understand, this Jiang Xia was so full of himself, apart from his narcissism and selfishness, he also liked to use his own mindset to a.s.sume other people’s thoughts. When he saw her behaviour, he even thought that his literary charm was fierce and unparalleled.
The Jiang parents were extremely hesitant, but they made their decision after a long while.
“Jing Yun Zhao, don’t be too greedy. 50,000 dollars as compensation for emotional distress fees is too much. We’ll never agree to that. However, we’ll compromise; we’ll give you a total of 30,000 dollars, and you’re to give us the love letters,” Father Jiang haggled.
Their Jiang family didn’t lack money, but one should still not spend it like this.
Jing Yun Zhao raised an eyebrow, “Impossible.”
“Don’t be discontent with this situation. Otherwise, you won’t get a single cent!” Father Jiang bellowed.
“Whether I can get it or not isn’t actually that important to me, but it’s different for your son. I still need to go to cla.s.s, so I’ll only give you another 10 minutes to consider my offer. If you’re still unwilling by then, then we can forget about it,” Jing Yun Zhao spoke firmly.
Father Jiang had an expression like he wanted to eat up Jing Yun Zhao, he was both angry and pained at the thought of the sum.
He was a businessman, could he not see through Jing Yun Zhao’s intentions? 50,000 dollars was only the fee for her psychological damage, as for wanting to get back the love letters? He probably had to fork out another 10,000!
These 10,000 dollars were practically enough to get Jiang Xia to attend a good school in Ning City!
Unfortunately, he couldn’t undo the fact that his son had signed those letters. Be it years or decades later, the love letters would forever be part of Jiang Xia’s dark history for Jiang Xia.
Father Jiang saw his son’s frightened and begging face; no matter how angry he was, he could only swallow the suffocating feeling and harden himself, “I’ll add another 10,000, if you’re still not willing, then the deal is off! I’ll send my son to get his injuries examined, but then, the one who’ll have to pay up will be you!”
“Deal,” Jing Yun Zhao smiled cheerfully.
She earned 10,000 in exchange for nothing, and she even got to beat up Jiang Xia; she already profited.
After both parties came to an agreement, Jing Yun Zhao didn’t actually give them the letters immediately. She waited for the couple to finish transferring the money to her before she made them create a letter of compromise that stated that she was unrelated to Jiang Xia’s injuries, and they were not allowed to come after her to get her to take responsibility. Only then did she give them up.
After the Jiang Parents got the letters, just in case, they burned them on the spot. Once everything was in ashes, they irately dragged Jiang Xia home to treat his injuries.
This family of three were all sullen to the max, especially when they saw how much Jing Yun Zhao emphasized her own benefit. They felt as if their chests were blocked by a large rock; they felt extremely uncomfortable.
The Jiang parents couldn’t vent this anger on their own son, so they naturally went to look for Qiao Hong Ye.