This Bad Luck is Awesome!

Chapter 75: Chapter 75: Real-Life Business War, Kidnapping the Opponent’s Son

Honestly, this retirement plan with a pre-tax annual salary of one million.

It was a huge temptation.

If he’d been faced with this offer before his physique was activated, he probably wouldn’t have hesitated for a second before signing his name.

But now, an annual pre-tax salary of one million yuan...

...wasn’t enough to make him give up his freedom to work a 9-to-5 job.

For him, a million was something he could probably earn just by having a bit of bad luck.

The offer was a good one.

And their intentions were good.

They were just too late.

"President Lu, I can feel your sincerity. Thank you."

"But I value my freedom and don’t want to be tied down by a nine-to-five life..."

Chen Mo thanked President Lu but still politely declined his kind offer.

Of course, he couldn’t just say that one million was too little for him to care about.

That would be incredibly ungrateful.

Seeing Chen Mo reject the offer, the secretary, accountant, and driver who had come with President Lu were all stunned.

An annual salary of one million, pre-tax, with no performance requirements.

’What kind of god-tier offer is this?’

If it were them, they would have signed their names on the offer without a second’s hesitation.

And yet, Chen Mo had rejected it outright?

They wished they could be Chen Mo and sign that offer themselves.

"Mr. Chen, your principles are truly on another level."

"But although the position is for a vice-department head, you don’t actually have to come in. You’d just be holding the title."

President Lu thought Chen Mo might have misunderstood him.

’Does Chen Mo think he actually has to come to work every day?’

’Who would make their benefactor come slave away at their own company?’

If his father found out, he’d get a beating when he got home.

"Huh?"

Hearing this, Chen Mo couldn’t help but be slightly taken aback.

’Damn, the side effects of my old life as a corporate drone haven’t worn off yet.’

He had subconsciously assumed he would have to go to work.

’So it turns out it’s just a title-only position, a no-show job?’

’I have to get rid of this kind of subconscious thinking. It doesn’t match my current wealth and status.’

Just then, Chen Mo figured it out.

President Lu was just planning to spend one million a year to support him, his benefactor, as a way of repaying the favor.

It wasn’t like he was short on a million. Even if he didn’t pay it to him as a salary, that one million would have just been paid in taxes anyway.

Even after the company went public, he would have ways to justify this one-million-a-year expense.

"Mr. Chen, this is a token of our entire family’s gratitude. Please, you must accept it!"

President Lu’s wife had the secretary bring over a pen, her tone and attitude exceptionally sincere as she spoke to him.

"Yes, otherwise our whole family won’t be able to rest easy,"

President Lu added, nodding with a very serious expression.

Witnessing this scene, the secretary, accountant, and driver looked at Chen Mo with incredibly complicated expressions.

They no longer knew what to say.

They worked themselves to death, slaving away at the company every day, just to earn a meager salary.

Not only did Chen Mo get the three-million-yuan reward, but he was also getting this job offer.

The key point was that he’d get paid without even having to go to work!

’With this kind of god-tier treatment, Chen Mo can’t possibly refuse again, can he?’

After all, it was practically free money. It wouldn’t affect the freedom Chen Mo wanted at all, and it came with no strings attached.

"Well then, thank you both,"

Since they’d put it that way, Chen Mo had no reason to refuse.

He took the contract but didn’t rush to sign it.

Even though they were very sincere and earnest.

But you can never be too careful. Something like a contract needed to be examined thoroughly.

’What if I accidentally sign myself into indentured servitude? Wouldn’t I be screwed?’

Anyway, HR had already signed and stamped it, so the contract would take effect the moment he signed it.

So he wasn’t in a hurry.

"You can all wait in the car."

President Lu seemed to want to chat with Chen Mo for a while, so he sent the secretary and the others to the car.

Soon, only he and President Lu’s couple were left in Chen Mo’s apartment.

"Mr. Chen, you saved Xuanxuan. You’re our family’s benefactor."

"I feel that this is a kind of fate. I was thinking, how about we form a connection and become friends?"

President Lu had taken the initiative to befriend Chen Mo.

He felt that Chen Mo was special, having unhesitatingly rejected the one-million-yuan salary contract he offered.

In the end, he had only reluctantly accepted because he and his wife had insisted.

On top of that, Chen Mo had saved his son. He was a firm believer in fate and felt that his family was fated to know Chen Mo.

"Of course, no problem."

Chen Mo naturally had no reason to refuse.

For an adult, more friends meant more opportunities.

Especially when this friend was so influential.

"You two don’t have to call me Mr. Chen. It’s too formal. Just call me Chen Mo."

Chen Mo smiled. Hearing "Mr. Chen" so often felt a bit awkward.

"I’m Lu Mingzhe, and she’s Zhao Wan. Chen Mo, you can just call us by our names."

Lu Mingzhe also gave a simple introduction for the two of them.

"Brother Lu, Sister Wan."

Chen Mo smiled faintly. He still knew his manners.

They were a few years older than him, so there was nothing wrong with calling them "brother" and "sister."

"Let’s add each other on WeChat. If there’s anything I can help with in the future, feel free to contact me."

The couple both took out their phones to add Chen Mo on WeChat.

After adding each other, they chatted for a little while longer.

"DRING~"

Just then, Lu Mingzhe’s phone rang.

"Hello?"

He didn’t try to hide it, answering the call right in front of Chen Mo.

"What?!"

"It was him?"

After hearing what the person on the other end said, Lu Mingzhe’s face first showed astonishment, then he hung up, his face filled with rage.

"What’s wrong?"

Zhao Wan looked at her husband in confusion, not understanding why he was so angry after a single phone call.

"That was the police. They’ve finished the interrogation, and those three confessed everything."

Lu Mingzhe took a deep breath, suppressing his anger, and explained the situation to Chen Mo and his wife.

It turned out the three had confessed everything under interrogation.

According to the two middle-aged men, they were following the middle-aged woman’s orders. She paid them 300,000 yuan each, and the three of them kidnapped Lu Mingzhe’s son, Xuanxuan.

The middle-aged woman was the younger sister of the Lu family’s nanny. She often came over to help her sister and had gotten familiar with Xuanxuan over time.

So, she made a deal with Xuanxuan: he would sneak away while playing at the park yesterday evening.

She even taught him which direction to run to avoid the surveillance cameras so he wouldn’t be caught and taken home.

Then, she would take him to watch *Boonie Bears* for days and nights on end.

There would be unlimited KFC and Coke, as much as he could eat and drink.

When Xuanxuan heard this, his eyes lit up, and he agreed without a second thought.

So after he snuck away from the park, the middle-aged woman and the two men put Xuanxuan in a suitcase.

To prevent him from screaming, they even fed him a small piece of melatonin to make him fall asleep.

But he woke up in the middle of the night and couldn’t get back to sleep. To stop him from clamoring to go home, they had no choice but to let him watch *Boonie Bears*.

However, the child was used to living in a large villa. Not only was the TV volume loud, but he also liked to jump around.

As a result, he woke up Chen Mo, and eventually, the police showed up at the door.

They could only threaten Xuanxuan, telling him that if he made any more noise, the police would take him home.

The kid quieted down immediately.

They bought him KFC and Coke for lunch today, which made him perfectly happy, and he completely forgot about going home.

That is, until the police showed up and busted them all in one go.

The reason why the woman didn’t call Lu Mingzhe for ransom after taking Xuanxuan was also revealed.

She was also following someone else’s orders. A third party had paid her two million yuan to make Lu Mingzhe’s son disappear for a few days.

After a few days, she was to secretly return Xuanxuan home, after which she would receive another one million yuan and arrangements to leave the country.

As for the two men, Xuanxuan didn’t know them anyway, so they were supposed to just go their separate ways.

Even if they were caught, she wouldn’t care, as she would have long since left the country.

Based on the clues she provided, the police caught the person who had ordered her to kidnap Xuanxuan.

This person was the driver for the boss of a certain tech company.

At first, he planned to take the fall for everything, insisting it was all his own idea.

But under professional interrogation, it didn’t take long for him to spill everything.

According to his confession, his boss had given him five million yuan and told him to find a way to make Lu Mingzhe’s son disappear for a few days.

His hometown happened to be the same as Lu Mingzhe’s nanny and the middle-aged woman, and he knew the latter worked at the Lu family’s home.

So, he found her and arranged the whole thing.

And so, by the time the money trickled down through layers of outsourcing, the initial five million yuan was whittled down to just 300,000 yuan for each of the two men.

And the boss of that tech company was someone Lu Mingzhe was naturally familiar with.

It was his biggest competitor for the overseas deal he was supposed to negotiate tomorrow!

Right now, the police were on their way to his company to arrest him.

This was why he was so stunned and furious.

To resort to attacking family in a normal business competition—it was utterly despicable.

He had a complete disregard for the law.

After hearing the whole story, Chen Mo fell silent as well.

High-level business warfare: technological breakthroughs, capital contests, corporate negotiations...

Real-world business warfare: prying open a rival’s safe to steal their company seal, pouring boiling water on their money tree, and protecting your own seal with a sword.

And, of course, outsourcing the kidnapping of a competitor’s son layer by layer.

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