Ding Maofu watched him with a smile and said, "What are you panicking for? Life is like this, full of risks, yet opportunities coexist."

The middle-aged man paused, "Mr. Ding, what do you mean?"

Ding Maofu raised his eyebrows and smiled as he continued to frenziedly refresh his email inbox, saying, "The group wants to see Shen's Holding's attitude and figure out their bottom line. If we don't handle this well, they will let us take the blame, and if necessary, they might even hand us over to Shen's Holding to deal with as they see fit."

"But that is the worst-case scenario," Ding Maofu sneered. "The recipe of the dishes from Datong River has been lost, and I believe the person I encountered yesterday is the one who stole their recipes. If we can get our hands on those recipes, we could skyrocket to success."

"Will the big shots at the group company promote us?" The middle-aged man's eyes lit up.

Ding Maofu sneered and glanced at him, "Are you stupid? No matter how much they promote you, it would just be to make you a minor leader in some company. Datong River is one of the top restaurants in Huaxia, and their dish recipes are priceless!"

"With those recipes, if we hire some excellent chefs, we could totally become our own bosses."

Looking at the middle-aged man, Ding Maofu smiled and said, "Then I would be the boss, and you the general manager. We would go into franchise business, soaring high and making a fortune. Why would we need to serve the Long Yan Group like this, doing their dirty work and always worrying that they might let us take the blame?"

The middle-aged man's eyes shone, "Mr. Ding, rest assured, I will definitely follow you."

"Then first go and calm those thugs down. Give them some money to shut them up," Ding Maofu said coldly.

"Yes, Mr. Ding, I'm on it," replied the middle-aged man.

After the middle-aged man and the youth left,

Ding Maofu frowned at his email inbox and muttered, "I must not have guessed wrong. That kid definitely stole the Datong River recipe. But why hasn't he contacted me yet?"

Meanwhile,

Ding Maofu anxiously waited.

At the same time, Shen Qiang was in the chairman's office at Shen's Holding, smiling as he looked out of the window.

"Her name is Jiang Hanyang, but no one knows if that's her real name, so many people like to call her the Heroic Thief. She's a highly righteous person and a Cultivator. Her background is very mysterious."

"The first time I met her, she scammed me out of thirty-seven million," he said.

Shen Qiang laughed, turning to Bianyi, "She swindled thirty-seven million from you? What happened afterward? With your personality, you wouldn't let it go just like that, right?"

Bianyi laughed, "Of course I couldn't let it go like that. But in the game of deceiving and setting traps, she is very skilled and cunning. So, I just threatened her using her own people and managed to get back twenty million. The other seventeen million, I had to write off."

"Because her Cultivation is very high, if pushed too hard, I feared she would kill me."

Shen Qiang laughed and said, "Don't try to fool me; I know you. You're someone who would sooner die than part with his money. She must have something on you; otherwise, you would never tolerate a loss of seventeen million. You would not only have recovered every penny but also continued to demand more, extorting her thoroughly."

Bianyi gave a dry laugh, "Boss, you really do understand me well, indeed that's what happened. At the time, I was handling other matters, and she discovered it. If I hadn't reached an agreement with her, she would have sabotaged my plans, which would have caused me losses of over a hundred million."

Shen Qiang smiled and said, "What do you think of her? Is she worth recruiting?"

Bianyi paused for a moment and then said, "She's adept at setting schemes, meticulous in her thinking, beautiful and very attractive, with high Cultivation, usually low-profile, but at the same time, she's inherently very proud. To recruit her, simply having money won't suffice."

Hearing this, Shen Qiang chuckled and said, "Just give your suggestion directly, no need to beat around the bush."

Bianyi responded seriously, "If you want her to work for you, you first have to prove that you are more formidable than her, secondly, she and I are different, I would do anything for money, but she only does what she thinks she should do. So, I advise you to give up this idea."

"First, in the realm of deceiving and scheming, you couldn't possibly beat her, second, she is a woman who is too full of herself. She isn't the type who would do whatever you say, This means, she will think you are incompetent, and then she'll be disobedient. In short, she just doesn't have the necessary qualities to be a good employee."

Shen Qiang laughed and said, "It's funny you're advising me to give up on the idea of recruiting her. Does this mean you feel threatened by her, thinking she might jeopardize your position?"

Bianyi laughed, "I am a master of extortion, she is just a petty swindler, she can't be compared to me at all, she will never be a threat to my existence."

Shen Qiang said calmly, "Alright, since you believe so, I am relieved because I suddenly think that if I let you two confront each other to see who can really be the top guy at Shen's Holding, that process would certainly be spectacular."

"She would lose miserably," Bianyi said blandly as he lay on the couch, "She might manage to deceive people, but she has principles, and I don't, so I'm more unrestrained and stronger. If she tries to compete with me, she doesn't stand a chance at all."

Looking at the obviously unconvinced Shen Qiang, Bianyi laughed and said, "Of course, for someone like you, even more unprincipled than I am, perhaps you could win."

Shen Qiang looked at Bianyi seriously and said, "I like people with principles because that means they won't do anything too outrageous."

"It also means that whatever she does, she will be restrained," Bianyi interjected.

Shen Qiang, leaning back in his chair, said, "Having one person without principles is enough; your objection makes me even more interested in that woman."

"If you want to sleep with her, that's not the problem," Bianyi glanced teasingly at Xiu Ju before chuckling, "but you'd better keep personal and professional matters separate, and I think I should remind you not to trust her completely just because she is working for you, she's a swindler, a petty thief."

Glancing at Xiu Ju's expression, Bianyi chuckled and said, "Of course, she's also a stunning beauty with a perfect S-curve body, snow-white skin, and very delicate."

Xiu Ju gave Bianyi a cold look.

Shen Qiang laughed and said, "I will consider your advice, but now you can leave."

Bianyi left with a smile.

After he left, Xiu Ju said, "You heard him, Bianyi has figured out that you want to sleep with her, and you haven't even told me the truth?"

Shen Qiang helplessly said, "Xiu Ju, don't be fooled by that bastard Bianyi, he's probably snickering right now, waiting to hear us argue."

Xiu Ju gave Shen Qiang a displeased look and said mockingly, "Ha, what's there to fool? I actually think you are rather looking forward to being conned by that long-legged swindler!"

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