Chapter 212: I Said, Good Job!

Chapter 212: I Said, Good Job!

Mao Rusong was ordinarily adept at concealing his thoughts.

But the fright he had just received had shattered his composure. Without realizing it, he had begun allowing his emotions to show on his face.

At that moment, his expression held both worry and conflict.

He truly was preparing to give a woman to Ding Ruilong.

But his reaction was not caused merely by Wu Chen mentioning it.

It was connected to the phone call Wu Chen had made to him earlier.

Mao Rusong had secretly betrayed Ding Ruilong before.

Mao Rusong was forty-three years old.

He was the real owner behind Ninth Dimension Bar in Modu, the owner of Dingshang Entertainment, the owner of Golden Tycoon KTV, the owner of Golden Art Modeling & Performance, the owner of Jinmu Film & Television…

Mao Rusong owned a great many companies.

He was the major shareholder in more than twenty of them alone.

Large and small companies connected to him numbered no fewer than a hundred.

His total net worth exceeded three billion yuan.

But unless someone moved in the right circles, it was very difficult to understand just how wealthy Mao Rusong truly was.

It was equally difficult to imagine the breadth of his connections.

Still, many people had heard that the man behind Ninth Dimension Bar was an enormously influential figure with connections everywhere.

Most of Mao Rusong’s businesses were in the entertainment industry.

His two largest operations were Ninth Dimension Bar and Dingshang Entertainment.

A bar was a place of pleasure and indulgence, a world of drinking and nightlife—but it was also a social venue.

And in an international metropolis like Modu, Mao Rusong’s Ninth Dimension Bar ranked among the very best.

When the bar first opened, numerous domestic celebrities had attended the ribbon-cutting and opening events. Even a Hollywood superstar had appeared to lend the occasion prestige, while a top French DJ had performed live to energize the crowd.

The bar was extraordinarily expensive.

During holidays, anyone who wanted to reserve a table at Ninth Dimension had to spend at least seventy or eighty thousand yuan.

Over the years, there had been many nights when super-rich patrons or ultra-wealthy second- and third-generation heirs spent more than a million yuan there.

When scions of major families came to Modu, many of them visited the famous Ninth Dimension.

A great many of Mao Rusong’s connections had been built that way.

Bars were already a high-profit business.

Ninth Dimension was one of the handful of elite bars in the entire country.

It had only one location and was not a chain, yet its monthly turnover exceeded thirty million yuan.

Mao Rusong was the largest shareholder.

Even so, he owned only thirty percent.

There were six other shareholders.

Every one of them represented one of Mao Rusong’s connections.

Some were wealthy heirs.

Others were relatives of powerful figures.

Mao Rusong had once run the streets.

Later, he had built himself up from a single bar.

Over the past ten or twenty years, the network he had amassed through bars and KTV venues alone had become terrifying.

And that was before considering the entertainment industry, with all its murky depths, which Mao Rusong had entered as early as ten years ago.

Mao Rusong had a habit.

He gave women to people.

If he wanted to build a relationship with someone, he would send a woman their way—or act as the intermediary who brought them together.

He had once even given away a second-tier celebrity whom his own company had personally made famous, offering her to an exceptionally powerful figure.

He then allowed her to terminate her contract with his company so that she could sign with a larger one.

He was exceedingly willing to spend whatever it took.

The time Mao Rusong had betrayed Ding Ruilong had also involved a woman.

Or rather…

He had used one.

Three years earlier.

Ding Ruilong had come to Modu on business.

Under Mao Rusong’s arrangements, he spent several days enjoying himself.

Mao Rusong introduced him to a girl named Yang Qian.

She was exactly Ding Ruilong’s type.

At the time, Ding Ruilong had come to Modu for an investment project in the medical field.

While keeping Ding Ruilong company, Yang Qian overheard one of his phone calls.

Yang Qian worked for Mao Rusong.

At Mao Rusong’s instruction, she passed the information she had overheard on to him.

Mao Rusong then sold Ding Ruilong out.

As a result, Ding Ruilong’s investment project was snatched away.

All his preliminary investment went down the drain.

A deal he had believed was already his slipped through his fingers.

In truth, Mao Rusong had been forced into it.

He was extraordinarily well connected, but he did not belong to anyone.

He was independent.

Ding Ruilong was merely one very important connection among many.

The man who had pressured Mao Rusong to steal the intelligence, however, was one of Ding Ruilong’s rivals.

Gu Ruibo.

Gu Ruibo was thirty-two years old.

He was a direct-line third-generation member of the Gu family of Modu.

As for the Gu family…

Within Modu, it could be counted only as one of several leading families.

That was because Modu was too complicated.

There were simply too many formidable people there.

The number of wealthy figures and the density of powerful elites far exceeded those in other regions.

So although the Gu family of Modu could not compare with the Ding family, which dominated its own region, the gap between them was not especially large.

Even a powerful dragon could not overpower a local snake.

Because Modu was so complicated, it was difficult for outside forces to extend their reach deeply into the city.

Every major family in Modu possessed extremely strong local connections.

Thus, although Gu Ruibo’s family background was slightly weaker than Ding Ruilong’s, he genuinely was not afraid of him.

Their conflicts and disputes were confined to business.

Ding Ruilong worked in investment.

So did Gu Ruibo.

Because the two had clashed before, they did not merely refuse to cooperate or stay out of each other’s way.

They actively worked against each other.

Three years earlier, Gu Ruibo had been watching Ding Ruilong’s medical investment project for a long time.

Ding Ruilong had previously ruined one of Gu Ruibo’s own investments.

Gu Ruibo had lost that round.

So he kept his eyes on Ding Ruilong, waiting to strike back.

Under pressure from Gu Ruibo, Mao Rusong set up the scheme, stole the business intelligence, and sold Ding Ruilong out.

He truly had little choice.

Gu Ruibo was from Modu.

The Gu family was one of Modu’s local powerhouses.

Mao Rusong’s relationship with Gu Ruibo was already much closer than his relationship with Ding Ruilong.

And Mao Rusong still had to conduct business in Modu.

By both personal ties and practical logic, he had to side with Gu Ruibo.

So he could only betray Ding Ruilong.

Ding Ruilong never discovered how the information had leaked.

He knew Gu Ruibo had been watching him and competing with him, so there were too many possible explanations.

Afterward, Mao Rusong and Ding Ruilong continued to maintain a very good relationship.

Mao Rusong also believed Gu Ruibo would never sell him out.

In fact, he had even considered acting as a peacemaker between them, bringing Ding Ruilong and Gu Ruibo together so they could settle their differences.

That way, he would no longer be caught in the middle.

But the opportunity had never arisen.

Earlier, when Wu Chen called Mao Rusong, this was exactly what he had mentioned.

Mao Rusong’s betrayal of Ding Ruilong and his assistance to Gu Ruibo.

Ding Ruilong was extreme by nature and never allowed even the smallest grievance to go unanswered.

Naturally, Mao Rusong was afraid.

It was not that he believed Ding Ruilong could easily have him killed.

Mao Rusong had connections at every level in Modu, and it would not be easy for Ding Ruilong to reach into the city and move against him.

But Mao Rusong could imagine how much trouble he would face if Ding Ruilong learned the truth.

And now Wu Chen had suddenly mentioned the woman Mao Rusong was preparing for Ding Ruilong.

It was true.

Mao Rusong had been preparing her for a long time, waiting for the right opportunity.

According to his plan, he would give her to Ding Ruilong no later than Ding Ruilong’s birthday banquet that October.

He had no ulterior motive in sending her.

He merely wanted to strengthen their relationship further.

This woman in particular had been carefully selected and prepared.

But combined with Wu Chen’s earlier mention of how Mao Rusong had once betrayed Ding Ruilong…

The whole thing looked exceptionally despicable.

One face before him, another behind his back.

If Ding Ruilong learned everything…

Mao Rusong would not even have the chance to bow his head, admit fault, and offer an expensive apology.

Ding Ruilong would undoubtedly believe that Mao Rusong was sending him another woman in order to plant a spy at his side.

And Ding Ruilong would fly into a rage and retaliate against him like a madman.

“Friend… Mr. Wu…” Mao Rusong finally said.

He first settled on how to address Wu Chen, then continued cautiously.

“Actually, when I screwed Ding Ruilong over that time, I was forced to—”

“Good job,” Wu Chen interrupted with a smile.

“What?” Mao Rusong froze.

“I said, good job,” Wu Chen repeated, still smiling.

Mao Rusong stared at Wu Chen’s expression.

Completely stunned.