Her plan to live the life of freedom that she always wanted needed a lot of resources. It wouldn't hurt to earn extra cash by doing some freelance work.
Besides, Jin Liwei was filthy rich. A million was just pocket change for someone like him.
Ding!
Jin Liwei: "Deal."
Oh? He agreed quickly. Fine, then. She switched to her new, more secure e-mail account and typed.
Long Xiulan: "This e-mail address is more secure. Pay up first."
She sent him her bank account information.
She moved to another computer and worked on creating a new, personalized music software which would make it easier for her to compose music.
After a couple of minutes, her phone received a message. It was from the bank informing her that her account received a 5 million RMB deposit.
She raised an eyebrow. The man acted fast. She might as well work since he already paid her.
Long Xiulan: "I'll send the information about the companies within 3 days."
Jin Liwei: "OK. But if 3 days pass and you have nothing or what you send me is useless, I want a full refund plus interest. 10 million RMB."
Thief!
Long Xiulan: "Fine. Don't bother me in the meantime."
Jin Liwei: "I'll be waiting, Long Xiulan."
Arrogant bastard.
She went to work immediately by turning on all of the computers in the room. With all of them working at the same time, it was an impressive sight. In truth, she only needed a night to gather all information about the five companies, from what was made public to the most classified ones.
As long as there was an electronic trace, she would be able to find anything no matter how obscure. But a mountain of disorganized information was probably not what the arrogant man wanted. Thus, she told him to wait three days.
For the initial step, she let the software she created herself to automatically gather information. She didn't even need to oversee the process personally.
Looking at the time, she left the room for dinner, letting the computers complete the tasks she inputted by themselves.
She ate a Filipino-style dinner with Dom. The cook finally relented after Dom's constant bugging. He whined about how he felt homesick and wanted to eat some Filipino food. The cook told Dom that if he wanted to eat Filipino food, then he could go cook for himself.
So Dom tried cooking and it was a disaster. He had no culinary skills whatsoever. If the cook was any second later, Dom would've burned down the entire penthouse. The cook promptly kicked him out of the kitchen. Dom redoubled his whining afterwards. The cook couldn't take it anymore, so she especially researched and practiced cooking some Filipino dishes. Dom was, of course, ecstatic.
After a hearty dinner, Iris enjoyed a couple cups of hot
Afterwards, she composed music at her recording studio, until her phone received a notification informing her that some of the computers already finished the tasks they were assigned.
For the next two days, she spent almost all her time inside the computer room, only going out to eat, exercise a bit, and answer nature's call. After a lot of hacking and verifying accuracy, she translated the information into Chinese and organized everything into shockingly detailed and comprehensive reports about the five companies.
Information that even the companies themselves may not know was included in the reports. What Iris was about to send Jin Liwei were something that would completely destroy the companies, if given in the wrong hands.
She also included a recommendation for two of the companies, giving them a "clean" rating. As for the other three, well, if Jin Liwei had any decent judgment, he would not have any dealings with them.
53 hours since she started working on this job, she finally sent an e-mail to the arrogant man.
Long Xiulan: "See attached files. Send 590,025.73 RMB to my account for the expenses accrued while gathering information. See attached invoice. The original 5 million payment was only for the final reports."
She looked at the time. It was almost midnight. She stretched, yawning. Then she walked around the room, shutting down the computers one by one.
Her phone sounded. She walked over and checked.
It was a message from the bank notifying her that 590,025.73 RMB was deposited to her account.
Iris smiled. Turning off all the lights, she left the computer room, making sure that the door was closed, before heading to her bedroom to sleep.
Oh wow. I just noticed that we freaking broke through top 100!!!
What the fudge?!!! It's been only a freaking week since I published.
As of this moment that I'm scheduling this chapter, we're currently sitting at rank 91. It may still fluctuate (hopefully up & not down), but I'm super duper happy right now.
And because I'm super duper happy, I'll give all of you amazing people a double release tomorrow!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
P.S. Please continue to spare some power stones for Iris.
One of the most expensive, most sought-after, and most fortified exclusive villages in the country was Dragon Palace Homes. There were only ten properties in the village, but each of them occupied large expanses of land.
Security in the village was even tighter than that of the major banks and even comparable to the security team of the country's highest government officials. In fact, some of the property owners had private securities that were even superior.
Dragon Palace Home #10 occupied the largest land and the most impressive mansion in the exclusive village. This property's owner was Jin Liwei, President and CEO of the number one company in the country.
One needed to drive for about twenty minutes by car from the property's massive gates before reaching the palatial mansion.
The mansion was impressive, not only because of its size but also because of its glacial aura, just like its master. Jin Liwei lived alone in this huge house with his servants.
It was silent and chilly to the point that visitors would feel creeped out, like walking in an endless labyrinthine graveyard.
When Jin Liwei returned home from work, it was already night time. He ate a high class dinner alone on the long dinner table; his butler standing silently behind him, ready to serve him at any moment.
After dinner, he took a quick hot shower and changed into pyjamas. Then he headed straight to his home office to continue some of his unfinished work.
Ding!
His eyes lit up. Finally, an e-mail from the damn girl.
Long Xiulan: "See attached files. Send 590,025.73 RMB to my account for the expenses accrued while gathering information. See attached invoice. The original 5 million payment was only for the final reports."
He immediately opened the attachments. After some time reading the five reports the damn girl sent him, he inhaled sharply. The more he read, the more shocked he became. His pupils contracted.
A few days ago, he finally received the results of the second investigation he ordered on Galaktika. When the results matched what the damn girl said about them when they first met at the hotel lobby, his interest in her increased. He was burning with curiosity as to how she got such secret information.
After just a couple of days, five Russian companies immediately sent their own business proposals, showing interest in partnering with his company after hearing that he rejected Galaktika's offer.
The new proposals presented both in Russian and in Chinese and even in English translations reminded him of the damn girl.
He didn't know what came over him to send her an e-mail. Perhaps he wanted confirmation that it was just a coincidence that the girl got it right the first time. Surprisingly, the girl had the audacity to ask for a total of 5 million payment from him. Amused, he immediately sent the money to her.
When she told him to wait three days, he couldn't stop himself from laughing. He smirked.
What did she need three days for? Fine. Just humour the girl and see what she would come up with.
He wasn't really expecting anything. He just treated this deal as a joke to amuse himself. However, there was still a niggling hope inside him for the damn girl to repeat her accurate assessment. He didn't want to acknowledge this tiny hope, but it was still there.
But now, not even three days since they e-mailed each other, he didn't feel amused at the deal anymore. Not at all. Reading the detailed and comprehensive reports she sent him, he felt absolutely shocked.
Each of the reports were worth many times more than what he paid for. He immediately sent the additional bill of a little over half million that she asked for. He was even tempted to send her an additional million as tip but managed to stop himself.
If she made a similar report about his Jin Corporation and handed it to his enemies…he didn't even want to think about it.
He stood up and walked to the window, looking at the night sky outside. The black clouds covered the moon and the stars.
One thing was clear after this experience. If she was really the one who created these reports, then the damn girl wasn't someone to be offended. She could destroy anyone whenever she wanted to.
Even someone like him.
His lips lifted to a smile, his eyes glinting dangerously like that of a predator who finally locked on to its much-awaited prey.
"Long Xiulan, who are you really? What other mysteries are you going to show me?"
Ohmygah.
Remember how I was already happy breaking through top 100 at rank 91? We still freaking climbed higher!
We finished off last week's ranking at 76th!
What the freaking fudge?! Are you all kidding me?! You folks are so amazing!!!
So here's my promised double release today because you are all awesome and made me super duper happy.
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!
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