Although I clearly understood the real meaning behind my last statement, Sun Jingjing deliberately teased, "What? Are you saying you haven't seen enough, or that it wasn't exciting enough?"
Hearing this, my face immediately darkened.
Just as I was about to retort, I remembered that she held crucial evidence in her hand. In the end, I chose silent compliance.
Seeing my reaction, Sun Jingjing's expression returned to normal. She said, "The photos and videos are unique. As for how I got them... I definitely can't tell you!"
"Now, you just need to answer me, are these things I have worth two hundred thousand?"
Seeing her steer the conversation back to money, I took a deep drag of my cigarette and spread my hands, replying, "They are worth it! But I really don't have that much money."
"No money!? If you really have no money, then I declare our conversation is over!"
With that, Sun Jingjing picked up her bag and stood up, ready to leave at any moment.
I had to admit, this woman, who loved money to her very core, was truly pragmatic!
From her perspective, this pragmatism was actually not difficult to understand.
After all, she must have gone to great lengths to obtain these items.
If she mishandled them even slightly, given Wang Yangming's temperament, Sun Jingjing's future life would likely be completely ruined!
Knowing full well that she was waiting for me to stop her, I reluctantly spoke, despite not wanting to.
"Can the two hundred thousand be deferred?"
"Deferred!?"
Upon hearing my words, Sun Jingjing sneered dismissively and said with a cold laugh, "The world of business is even murkier than society!"
"If it weren't for concerns about my personal safety and not wanting to get too deeply involved, believe it or not... it wouldn't be you sitting here with me right now!"
"As long as I can find Wang's direct competitor and show them the evidence, without mentioning anything else, twenty thousand would at least double!"
Hearing this, I directly retorted, "According to you, as long as you can extricate yourself, whoever offers the highest price gets what you have?"
"So what if it is!?"
Sun Jingjing puffed out her chest and shot back without hesitation.
Seeing her decisive answer, I immediately understood that the matter of two hundred thousand could not be deferred.
However, at best, I currently had only a little over one hundred and ten thousand on me.
If I excluded daily living expenses and emergency funds, the money I could access was only around seventy to eighty thousand.
This was still more than half short of the two hundred thousand Sun Jingjing mentioned!
Seeing my silence, Sun Jingjing immediately held up three fingers and said in a low voice, "Holding onto these things isn't good! Three days, I'll only wait for you for three days!"
"If you can gather two hundred thousand in cash within three days, we'll meet here again for the transaction!"
"Remember, I want cash!"
"If you can't come up with it... then I can't help you, and I'll have to find someone else."
"After all, there are many people who hate Wang Yangming for what he's done."
"If no one can satisfy my demands, then I'll have to destroy all the photos and videos!"
"Although I love money, I love... my own life more!"
"That's all I have to say. Think it over carefully."
"Oh, and don't forget to make the purchase."
After speaking, Sun Jingjing got up and left.
...
When I returned to my hotel room with heavy steps, it was already six in the evening.
Sitting on the small sofa in the hotel, my clothes soaked with sweat, I was completely oblivious, my mind consumed by the matter of two hundred thousand.
Although I was a gambler, money was just a number to me, a matter of more or less.
But what was restricting me now, preventing me from acting freely and boldly to raise the money, was precisely this identity as a gambler.
The circle of gamblers was actually very small.
Setting aside the gambling groups operating outside, who might be lurking in some dark corner, watching me, Yu Shuang alone... was enough to give me a headache.
I didn't believe that this woman, with her almost supernatural intelligence, wouldn't make any moves behind the scenes after deceiving me into a partnership.
If Yu Shuang detected anything unusual, this unexpected windfall would likely be intercepted by her!
Therefore, I could not, and also could not, use my identity to raise money in the outside card rooms and underground casinos.
After racking my brain for a solution and coming up with nothing, I could only place my last hope on a... non-solution.
Borrowing money!
I think these two words are not only the ones I am most unwilling to face, but also the ones many people are most unwilling to face.
Asking someone for help puts you in a subordinate position!
No matter what kind of relationship you had with someone before, from the moment you borrow money, the relationship is no longer equal.
Even if the outward appearance is well disguised, the strange feeling that arises psychologically will not disappear.
Therefore, it is better to live a harder, poorer life than to easily ask someone for money!
Cough, cough! I've digressed. Back to the point.
Opening my phone's contact list and seeing the few contacts, I didn't adopt a "cast a wide net and catch many fish" mentality, calling one by one.
Instead, I very purposefully chose one contact and called directly...
After the call connected, I first greeted the person on the other end and then got straight to the point, asking to borrow money.
To be honest, I had no idea whether I would succeed in borrowing the money.
Hearing my request to borrow money, the person on the other end neither refused nor agreed, but merely teased me, asking if I was planning to buy a car.
I could only vaguely say yes and tell the person that I would only borrow it for a week.
And I promised to return the money with interest within a week.
In my opinion, the transaction would be in three days, leaving four days to stir up trouble, which should be enough.
Hearing my confident tone, the person on the other end just smiled, didn't say much, and asked for my bank card number.
"Thank you! I'll definitely return it next weekend," I promised again.
"No rush, no rush! I'll hang up now and go to the bank to transfer the money. Check your ATM in half an hour to see if it has arrived." The person on the other end replied.
After hanging up and sending my bank card number, I waited for about forty minutes. As agreed with the person, I went to a bank near the hotel.
After checking my balance at the ATM, my heart couldn't help but pound!
I thought that the transaction three days later would bring a perfect conclusion to the feud between me and Wang Yangming's father and son.
But what I didn't expect was that the end of old grudges... was also the beginning of new ones!