He was clearly in disarray.
Originally, he had planned to go out with the woman he liked today. Now, the outside was filled with people, and those people were in an uproar. He wasn't even sure if he could survive tonight.
As Tang Wei's mother, despite her own immense anxiety, she knew she had to step up. Could she really expect her own son to charge forward first?
When the fifth knock echoed, the woman held her breath and immediately went to the door.
She asked in a deep voice, "Who?"
At the same time, she reached for the vase placed nearby. If the person outside had ill intentions, she would strike them with it the moment they broke in, at least buying herself some time.
"It's me!" But upon hearing the familiar voice, the woman first froze, and then her heart, which had been about to leap uncontrollably from her throat, instantly settled back into place.
Simultaneously, the woman showed a look of surprise, "How did you get back?"
"Open the door quickly," Tang Shengtang didn't want to be discovered by lingering in the hallway.
The woman cautiously opened the door. Seeing Tang Shengtang enter with his assistant, she quickly relocked the door.
Looking at the woman before him, Tang Shengtang laid out all the questions he had been holding back.
The woman answered Tang Shengtang truthfully, one by one.
After listening, Tang Shengtang's eyes widened. His gaze was filled with astonishment.
He worried his assistant had lied to him, but his wife and assistant's accounts were identical.
The possibility of them colluding to deceive him was minuscule.
Tang Shengtang instantly realized he had been tricked by Manager Yun and cursed fiercely.
"This Manager Yun, he deserves to die!"
Without a moment's delay, he hurried to the other side of the room, grabbed his phone, and called Manager Yun.
As soon as the call connected, before Manager Yun could utter a sound,
Tang Shengtang immediately poured out all his pent-up grievances, "Manager Yun, what's going on? Didn't you say you would arrange for the employees and give me some compensation?"
"Didn't you say you would show me a way forward?"
Tang Shengtang considered himself quite restrained, yet Manager Yun showed him no mercy.
On the other end of the phone, Manager Yun's voice was cold.
"Tang Shengtang, you've been in business for so many years, and I never thought you'd still be so naive. You've messed up my business, and you think I'll show you a way forward? A failure like you. What you gained from me back then, I should take back."
You!
Tang Shengtang gripped his phone, his teeth grinding in anger. The hatred fueled a force that made him want to shatter his own pearly white teeth.
However, saying anything more on the phone was useless, a mere waste of breath.
Since the other party had tricked him, simply cursing him would achieve nothing.
Despite his anger, Tang Shengtang was also clear-headed and capable of his own judgment.
He had been deceived because he had trusted too easily and overestimated the other person's principles.
But as his mind raced, being tricked was one thing, at least there was the contract.
With this thought, Tang Shengtang quickly raised his voice, "Manager Yun, we have a contract binding us."
However, as soon as he said this, he was met with undisguised laughter from the other side.
Manager Yun knew exactly what Tang Shengtang had done.
After a moment, the laughter subsided, and the man spoke seriously.
"Tang Shengtang, are you the only one in this world who knows how to tamper with contracts?"
Understanding that the other party was referring to the methods he had used against the Lin family, Tang Shengtang could no longer contain himself. Rage surged through him.
*Clang!*
He hurled the phone to the ground forcefully.
As the anger gradually subsided, realizing he had lost everything this time, Tang Shengtang slumped onto the sofa.
However, Manager Yun's voice from the phone had not yet ended.
"Alright, Tang Shengtang, it's getting late, so I won't bother you further. Tomorrow, I'll have someone give you some travel expenses, ten thousand yuan. Don't say I don't look out for you; this is coming out of my own pocket!"
With that, he let out a cold laugh, and the call ended with a cacophony of busy signals.
Ten thousand yuan, what was ten thousand yuan enough for?
Ten thousand yuan wouldn't even sustain a few people for ten days.
Recently, at the villa, he had grown accustomed to a life of lavish spending.
Moreover, Tang Shengtang wasn't foolish; this money wasn't easy to accept.
This wasn't Manager Yun having a change of heart; this was the man's death money.
If he accepted this money, Manager Yun would likely find a way to leak this information to the crowd surrounding the villa.
Those people knew nothing of the truth.
They didn't need the truth.
Upon hearing this, they would only transfer all their anger to him.
They would believe he was the one who had sold out the Zhouge Villa, sold them out.
At that point, even if he didn't want to perish, he would be drowned by the spittle of the mob.
This bastard!
After cursing, Tang Shengtang tried his best to calm himself and find a solution.
Stillness breeds wisdom.
Soon, he picked up the phone from the ground and opened his banking app.
At the same time, a flicker of hope gradually appeared on his face, which had been flushed with anger.
Indeed, Manager Yun had taken his assets, but he still had some money in his personal account. This amounted to over a million yuan. While not much, it was enough to alleviate his immediate crisis.
With this thought, Tang Shengtang's fingers moved faster and faster across the phone screen.
However, the moment he looked at the loaded page with anticipation,
The last trace of softness on his face vanished as if swept away by a fierce gale.
This man was truly ruthless!
Tang Shengtang hadn't expected Manager Yun to go to such extremes.
His account was frozen because it had regular transactions with the company's accounts.
But Tang Shengtang distinctly remembered not doing that himself.
As a businessman, how could he not understand this principle?
He quickly clicked to check and immediately discovered the anomaly.
According to the transaction details, all the money had flowed into his son's card.
And during this time, busy dealing with the Lin family, he had inadvertently overlooked this.
"You, you, you."
Tang Shengtang's anger was now entirely directed at his son.
Not only Manager Yun and the Lin family, but even his own useless son was undermining him.
If his heart wasn't strong, he feared he would have gasped for his last breath and fainted on the spot.
Tang Wei, completely unaware of why his father was acting this way, looked at him blankly, not understanding what had happened.
"Dad, what's wrong?"
This question only made things worse.