(Phew, dropped 40 ranks again. Alright, let's do another limited-time event. Starting now, for every 10 additional monthly passes, I'll add a chapter! This chapter is to make up for yesterday. After today's three chapters, starting from 380, add one more chapter at 380, five at 390, six at 400, seven at 410... stopping at noon tomorrow. The original additional for 30 tickets is not accumulated. Toward the end of the month, brothers with monthly passes, please help out!)

Boss Liu was terrified, and Secretary Zhou even more so. From her perspective, she didn't know that the knife tip was always piercing between the fingers, she thought Li Yan was planning to chop off all of Boss Liu's fingers, scaring her into a series of screams and muffled noises, and she quickly closed her eyes.

When the two of them reacted again, they found that Li Yan had already let go of Boss Liu.

"Write a note! After I sign it, I'll let them clear the account when I return."

Boss Liu nodded blankly, with a trembling hand took out a pen and a notepad, and wrote a simple note, indicating a payment of 2 million in cash to Paradise Group to settle the debt. As for whether the account could be cleared, it wasn't something he could consider at this point.

Li Yan took a look, put it away, picked up the two big bags, and left.

Watching his silhouette, Boss Liu found all five of his fingers twitching like playing piano keys, it was completely the other hand writing earlier, now nervously watching his own hand, feeling like the fingers were still there, but as though they were not his own, completely out of control.

Secretary Zhou, hearing the silence, opened her eyes, seeing that Boss Liu was fine and Li Yan had already walked out, she breathed a sigh of relief. She then noticed the knife on the ground and kicked Boss Liu, signaling him to pick up the knife and take the money back. Three million!

Boss Liu's soul hadn't returned yet, and at this moment calling him to get the knife, he didn't have the guts for it.

Not until he heard the door close outside did his heart fully settle. He rubbed and slapped his left hand with his right hand for a while, regaining sensation to his left hand that was not directly frightened.

Hearing Secretary Zhou's mumbling sounds, Boss Liu remembered and reached out to remove her tape.

"Quick, quick call the police! Tell the security to stop him!" Secretary Zhou couldn't care about saying anything else. Since he didn't dare to take the knife himself, getting the security to hold the person and then calling the police would surely be fine.

Boss Liu looked at her with a gaze as if she were an idiot. If it weren't for that chaotic knife display just now, he might have had the courage. After all, getting knocked out initially didn't feel like anything, but just now Li Yan held him down, he couldn't move an inch, and those seemingly random knife chops were actually very precise. Just a slight deviation could have chopped off both their fingers!

If his fingers were just used for experimentation, that would be one thing, but Li Yan pinned his fingers on his own, which meant his own fingers were also at great risk. What does that mean? It means his intimidation was filled with confidence. To control the fruit knife so well requires vision, wrist strength, calculation, and control, for him to dare press his own hand down shows he was completely confident with his knife work.

"You may not want your life, but I want mine!" Boss Liu snorted coldly.

Aside from their argument and Secretary Zhou pondering how to trap his money, Li Yan with two big bags of money drove straight back to the company. On the way, he conveniently deposited his own share at the bank, after counting, there was over a hundred thousand in change, which Li Yan deposited into Huang Ying's account. This was something he had arranged with Huang Ying before, saying he could transfer money directly to her account if needed.

After finishing, Li Yan returned to the company with the two million.

He took a big bag of money straight to the president's office. As an ordinary manager, wanting to see the president anytime wasn't that easy, the girls outside wouldn't let him in. They, unlike Ke Yunyun, couldn't directly notify Zhang Yurong, they just asked Li Yan for his name, identity, and purpose, they would report when the president was available, and Li Yan would come over when notified.

The King Yama is easy to meet but little demons are hard to deal with, Li Yan believed he could call Zhang Yurong, and she would probably see him immediately, but doing so would certainly reveal to the office secretaries that his relationship with the president was not ordinary.

"Then I'll see Assistant Ke!" Li Yan paid them no mind, directly carrying the bag inside, arrived at Ke Yunyun's desk, and placed the bag heavily on her table.

"What are you doing?" Ke Yunyun frowned, stood up, crossed her arms in front of her chest, coldly staring at Li Yan, and gave a glare to the clerks who followed, as if saying, this is the president's office, how can you let someone break in recklessly? Can't stop him, can't you call security?

Seeing her still mimicking Zhang Yurong's expression was amusing to Li Yan, he directly pulled the zipper open: "The task given to me by the president yesterday, I've completed it! I don't have time to make another trip, just give it to Director Zhang and she'll know."

They poked their heads to look, surprised to see a bag full of red, all cash. Although with their status, even seeing millions or billions might be commonplace, numbers are just numbers, nothing compares to the impact of cash.

Carrying such a large bag of money, seeing the president? What for? Offering a bribe doesn't need to be so flamboyant, does it?

Seeing Li Yan about to leave, Ke Yunyun quickly called him: "Manager Li, wait a moment, I'll report to the president right away. Xiaoya, pour Manager Li a glass of water!"

She immediately picked up the internal phone and called Zhang Yurong in the office inside, reporting quickly, "Director Zhang, Li Yan from the Planning Department has brought in a huge bag of money..."

This unclear report startled Zhang Yurong, who quickly rushed out.

In the outside office, everyone was whispering, guessing why Li Yan brought so much money over and wondering what task the president might have arranged. Seeing Zhang Yurong coming out, they promptly returned to their work positions.

Zhang Yurong came over and was shocked but also thought she understood what was happening. She said to Li Yan, "Come inside and talk!"

"Director Zhang, this money..." Ke Yunyun quickly asked. This big bag of cash was placed on her desk, hindering her work, and she couldn't move it.

"Send it to the Finance Department!" Zhang Yurong instructed concisely and went inside.

Li Yan tossed the note written by Boss Liu to her, "Remember the information Director Zhang asked you to give me yesterday? That company wanted to default on a debt. I've retrieved it. Could you help deliver it to the Finance Department?"

"But how can I move it?" Ke Yunyun said with a grim face. If it was Li Yan, she could face him coldly, but since it was her boss who instructed her, she didn't dare vent her frustration on Li Yan.

Seeing her seemingly powerless, probably struggling even just at home, Li Yan laughed, "Assistant Ke, Director Zhang asked you to send it to the Finance Department, but didn't require you to carry it there yourself. Can't you have someone from Finance come to pick it up? They couldn't retrieve the debt, but now the money is at the company, they should come to take it away, right?"

"Yes, yes, thank you!" Ke Yunyun thought it made sense and for the first time warmly thanked Li Yan.

Li Yan didn't wait for her thanks; after speaking, he had already entered Zhang Yurong's office.

"Close the door!"

Zhang Yurong was already inside, waiting for him.

Li Yan closed the door and sat down across from her.

"You collected the debt? You settled it in just one morning?" Zhang Yurong was full of doubt.

"Of course, what kind of person am I? You ask me to do something, I won't spare any effort," Li Yan smiled deliberately again, "Besides, with such great rewards, bravery is a must! You've promised me a hundred, eighty-thousand reward, I'm just a poor guy, naturally I'm motivated!"

There was no one else here, so Zhang Yurong didn't beat around the bush and asked directly, "Why couldn't the company's finance or legal department retrieve it, yet you solved it quickly when you showed up? Why is it all cash?"

After asking, fearing that Li Yan might try to bluff, she asked more directly, "Did you use some illegal means?"

Li Yan knew she was worried about his safety, so he explained with a pre-thought excuse, "It's not that they're ineffective, but rather the wrong method. In any department, when dealing with outside small companies, we always have an air of superiority, a domineering attitude. For ordinary small companies, for future cooperation, they naturally won't dare offend Paradise Group and will obediently follow our rules.

But this company clearly wasn't planning on long-term collaboration and just wanted to pocket this deal. They weren't afraid of not having future cooperation and had decided to default on the debt, so no matter the Finance Department or Legal Department, they faced them with the same stance. Even if it goes to court, the process will drag!

Zhang Yurong relaxed a bit, "And you? Your method?"

"Since phone calls, faxes, and even lawyer's letters don't work. I certainly had to abandon the big company's demeanor and use the most common approach—visit them directly! But rest assured, they're just con artists and insolvent debtors. I pretended to negotiate business, chatted for a while to gain trust, saw their boss, and revealed the truth. He claimed no money, but then..."

Li Yan briefly recounted the opponent's deceitful tactics without detailing the process, only mentioning he broke through to where Boss Liu hid the money and threatened to visit daily, persuading each debt collector to broadcast widely, eventually getting Liu to pay.

"Unexpectedly... you're quite skilled at debt collection..." Zhang Yurong said thoughtfully while looking at him.

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