The taste of coffee is worth its price

  On the way back, the girl told Zhang Ziliang that she had some private matters to attend to tonight and couldn't accompany him, so she brought him out to make up for it.

  Zhang Ziliang responded vaguely and even he himself didn't know what he had just said.

  The next morning, Zhang Ziliang arrived at the negotiation site as scheduled and began the final round of negotiations. The atmosphere was extremely intense, with both sides refusing to give in like before, but Zhang Ziliang had absolute confidence and control to secure the project at the current price.

  Two hours later, the other party's principal suggested taking a break and had Zhang Ziliang sit down in a corner, instructing his men to bring over two cups of coffee.

  After the coffee brought by his subordinate was taken away, the other party turned back to gaze at Zhang Ziliang and smiled: "Director Zhang, I heard that you have a special fondness for coffee, is that true?"

  Zhang Ziliang was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and said, "Oh, I haven't studied coffee, I just drink it occasionally."

  "Really? I heard that Director Zhang is quite a coffee connoisseur. What's this about good men being like good coffee, and good women being good coffee; and what's this about strong coffee being the man of coffee, but at night, real men need to appreciate Cappuccino! Oh, right, I forgot to say that Cappuccino is the most romantic coffee for women. What? Did I hear wrong? Director Zhang doesn't know anything about coffee?"

  Zhang Ziliang's face suddenly turned pale, he stared tightly at his opponent, his eyes almost spewing fire.

  The other party smiled indifferently at Zhang Ziliang, bent down to pick up the laptop on the ground, opened it calmly, operated for a few seconds, and pushed the computer over, with the screen facing Zhang Ziliang: "If Director Zhang is not satisfied with this cup of coffee, I have also prepared a rare and top-grade white coffee for Director Zhang."

  "This white coffee is great, no wonder Director Zhang likes it. It doesn't contain any impurities or additives, and it retains the original, natural flavor of coffee without irritating the stomach or causing heartburn. Why is that? Because it's natural, of course! Even if you drink a lot, it won't harm your body! Director Zhang, take a look! Oh right, Director Zhang, do you think your leader would like this rare white coffee?"

  Zhang Ziliang was as if he had been suddenly drained of all the blood in his body, cold sweat dripping down, almost paralyzed: what he saw on the computer was exactly what happened between him and the girl yesterday afternoon in the recording studio behind that coffee shop...

  The video is clearly edited by a master: the high-definition screen shows Zhang Ziliang's expression very clearly, but the woman's face is always invisible. At first glance, the movements of people around are all in sight, and the shooting angle is also carefully arranged, because it looks like a group of men and women are in a large room, just moving on the spacious floor...

  Half an hour later, Zhang Ziliang signed his name on the contract with a trembling right hand! And that contract exceeded the highest price that Zhang Ziliang could control by three points. In other words, this project was nearly 80 million more than the national budget!

  Zhang Ziliang, who had lost his soul, returned to the hotel and calmed down slightly. Holding onto a glimmer of hope, he first went to the hotel's coffee shop, but was told that there was no such person there.

  The manager of the coffee shop was given several hundred yuan, and he found the waiter who had helped him order coffee that day. The waiter recalled: "That day, after I finished ordering coffee for you, a beautiful young woman came over and said she was your friend. She said you were waiting for her here, and asked me to give her the coffee, saying she wanted to play a joke on you."

  Zhang Ziliang was disheartened and left dejectedly.

  Zhang Ziliang, who had no hope, wandered to the courtyard where the video hall he went to yesterday was located, but a "For Rent" sign was hung outside the door!

  Up to this point, Zhang Ziliang completely understood that all of this was a setup specifically for him, and the mastermind behind it was the agent of the company he had been negotiating with, whose goal was his project!

  I remember that day in the coffee shop, after the girl ordered a cup of "Irish Coffee", she said: "A beautiful mistake!"

  Zhang Ziliang also understood what the girl's ambiguous smile yesterday meant!

  Thinking of the girl who had ruined herself, for some reason, Zhang Ziliang couldn't bring himself to hate her. He clearly thought that the girl would never appear in front of him again, and involuntarily, he felt a sense of disappointment and loss!

  Zhang Ziliang returned to the hotel and threw himself on the bed, staring blankly at the ceiling, with no one knowing what he was thinking!

  The next morning, the housekeeper from the guest room department came to clean the room on time. Seeing the "Do Not Disturb" sign hanging outside Zhang Ziliang's door, he smiled secretly and turned away.

  At 6 o'clock in the evening, when the service staff got off work, they handed over to their colleagues who came to take over and said that Zhang Ziliang's room had not been cleaned, feeling a bit strange. After discussing with each other, they finally decided to report to the leader.

  The team leader called the hotel's security personnel. In the case of knocking on the door without response, they opened the room door with a spare key and found that there was no one in the room.

  A few people who had let out a sigh of relief thought that Zhang Ziliang might have forgotten to take off the sign when he went out, after all, this was also a common occurrence. After complaining for a few sentences, they left the newly arrived service staff to clean up and the few people departed together.

  No sooner had they just walked out a few steps, than they heard the waiter's terrified scream coming from the house. The security guard quickly rushed back first, and the two people following behind immediately heard the security guard's shouting!

  A few seconds later, there were two more screams, which sounded particularly piercing in the empty corridor!

  In the bathtub, Zhang Ziliang was soaking in the water with his bare body, a water knife thrown beside his right hand, and blood had already coagulated on his left wrist, with a trail of blood stains winding down to the ground. On the wet floor tiles, large patches of blood-colored lotus flowers were blooming eerily and strangely...

  Three days later, the forensic identification result was announced: Zhang Ziliang was a suicide!

  Half a month later, an undercurrent quietly surged up in the business circle of G City: A commercial espionage organization called "Dark Night Gate" had landed in G City, and its members were all young women who were not only beautiful but also talented and brilliant, known to outsiders as "Dark Night Beauty Gate".

  For a time, the wealthy people in City G were all frightened and changed color when mentioning women...