Seeing this.
Mr. Faust almost lost his composure. Thinking Su Ning simply hadn't caught on, he silently cursed her for being stupid, but patiently emphasized his words to make it even clearer:
"The funeral is over, and the shareholders' meeting will begin in just a few days. No matter how much money you have, it's impossible to find enough ships in such a short amount of time. But I have them. Do you understand?"
"I think I understand a little now."
Su Ning nodded thoughtfully, a hint of a smile finally appearing on her face.
Smiling at the father and daughter across from her, she said:
"I didn't expect you to be people who so deeply understand gratitude. Miss Faust dares to love and hate with true authenticity, and Mr. Faust is a wonderful father who dotes on his daughter. To think you'd be willing to give me the ships for free just to ruin Antonio's plans..."
"Wait."
He had been enjoying her words at first, but things started sounding increasingly wrong.
Mr. Faust frowned and asked uncertainly:
"Excuse me, was there a translation error just now? Did I hear the word 'free'?"
"Damn it, how can you doubt my professional skills!"
The translator was the first to get anxious.
This concerned his paycheck. After angrily saying this, he turned his head and, having finished translating, added aggrievedly: "I can swear to God, I absolutely did not make a mistake."
The next second.
His good employer, as if growing golden, shining wings, proved his innocence.
"There was no translation error."
The smile on Su Ning's face instantly vanished. In a stiff, highly impatient tone, she said: "Isn't the matter very simple? Antonio wants to dilute my shares, you have ships, and I saved your daughter. You came to my door to thank me, so doesn't that mean you're going to provide the ships to me for free?"
"This way, you get to thank me and simultaneously crush Antonio's hopes."
"Killing two birds with one stone."
Mr. Faust was completely dumbfounded, speaking in disbelief:
"Do you have any idea how much those ships are worth? Furthermore, I have to refund Antonio's deposit and pay the penalty for breaching the contract."
"Is it a lot?"
Su Ning retorted, then said lightly, "Sorry, I subconsciously judged you by my own standards again. Perhaps for you, it is a huge sum of money. To be able to sacrifice so much for your daughter, it seems my evaluation of Mr. Faust was a bit too low."
"I like fathers who dote on their daughters just like my dad did. Tell you what, I can help you."
She paused slightly at this point.
Across from her, Mr. Faust felt a surge of expectation...
"How much do you need? I can lend you what you lack, and I'll only charge ten percent interest if you pay it back within a year."
"You actually want interest?"
"Of course," Su Ning frowned. "Ten percent interest is already very low. What private loan is as lenient as mine? I advise you not to be too greedy, otherwise it will ruin your good fortune."
Who exactly was the greedy one here?!
Mr. Faust was so angry his lips trembled, his chest heaving up and down, and his eyes dizzy. How could there be such a shameless person in the world?
"Ding. Detected that the host is rich and heartless. The anger value of a non-plot character has reached its peak. Rewarding ten thousand yuan."
Although he was just a commoner.
He was also the first entity to be squeezed dry after the reward pool cap was raised.
He still had some prestige.
Unfortunately, Mr. Faust didn't know how special this treatment was. Gritting his teeth, he said:
"I won't borrow money from you... because these ships are absolutely not free. If you want them, you must pay." He directly doubled the price. Weren't you rich? Then pay a bit more!
Only after saying this did he feel his anger subside a bit.
Beside him, Miss Faust, who had been quiet all along, also raised her head and looked smugly at Su Ning.
Waiting for her to compromise.
Who knew that the cold face would indeed show emotional fluctuations—sudden realization, then pity, before turning to look at her?
"So your dad doesn't love you."
"No wonder you'd like someone like Antonio. Birds of a feather flock together."
Miss Faust was stunned for a few moments before she reacted.
"Nonsense, of course my dad loves me."
"How ridiculous. If he loved you, how could he not even manage to repay a debt of gratitude for you? Say no more. I know people like you always deceive and brainwash yourselves, just like Antonio, who always thought his parents' affection was the crystallization of true love, but in the end..."
Su Ning sneered and shook her head.
Everything was left unsaid but clearly implied.
"You, you..."
Faced with such sophistry, Miss Faust had a thousand words in her heart, but ultimately couldn't get past "you," instead contributing a wave of rewards to Su Ning just like her father.
It could be considered a father-daughter tag team.
"Enough."
Mr. Faust comforted his daughter with a few words, then looked at Su Ning with a cold sneer:
"What debt of gratitude? Who doesn't know you just did it to show off your methods and play Antonio for a fool? You weren't that kind-hearted at all. On the contrary, I sacrificed my reputation in the business world to risk coming here to tip you off, and I even provided you with a solution."
Speaking up to here, he softened his tone and said with absolute certainty:
"Of course, for God's sake and my daughter's, I won't ask you to repay me. However, I hope Miss Su understands that this is Portugal, not the dusty East."
"The employees and shareholders of Swire Shipping naturally stand on Antonio's side. You only have one choice, and that is to buy my ships!"
As his voice fell.
His aura also reached its peak.
Beside him, Miss Faust looked at her father with admiration.
In an instant, the room quieted down so much that you could hear a pin drop.
"Are you finished?"
Su Ning said carelessly, waving her hand with an extremely dismissive attitude. "Then get out."
????
What kind of reaction was this?
Mr. Faust was stunned for a second and looked at the translator, only to be glared back at fiercely. The translator said gloatingly, "Do you need me to repeat it? That's right, Miss Su told you to get out."
The father and daughter were unceremoniously kicked out.
In the end, they angrily left behind a single sentence—
"You will regret this."
............
The translator translated truthfully. After thinking about it, he still said worriedly:
"Although Mr. Faust doesn't have the good reputation he claims and is actually quite cunning, the Faust family does have a lot of power in the shipbuilding industry. Other shipyards might truly not have that many ships."
Su Ning believed these words.
In these barbaric lands, it was a given that the less conscience one had, the better their business did.
Who knows how many people they had scammed.
Truly rich and heartless!
Su Ning once again sighed at her own kindness—even though the rewards from these two NPCs had been squeezed dry, she was still willing to strike out for justice on behalf of their victims and crush their hopes of getting rich.
System: ...
Holding back again and again, it still couldn't hold back:
"How exactly did you strike out?"
"By not buying their ships," Su Ning said with an expression that screamed 'you don't even understand this?' "I painfully turned down a perfectly justifiable opportunity to spend a massive amount of money. I guess I'm just too capable; I'm earning rewards faster and faster, but my spending hasn't caught up. Sigh, with so much money, how am I ever going to spend it all?"
The system was rendered speechless.
In reality, she was just afraid of being taken for a sucker in all that nonsense just now.
Actually, there was one sentence Su Ning strongly agreed with.
The reality was that this was Portugal... In this era, foreigners held a widespread disdain for Eastern faces. At the slightest sign of vulnerability, opportunists would swarm in a frenzy like bloodthirsty leeches in a rainforest.
Still, it was such a shame.
Su Ning let out a soft sigh.
