She was now especially curious about Song Wanyue's lawyer. She knew him because when she and her brother were beating up Xie Feng together, five kind - hearted onlookers came to help finish the job. From the perspective of the chain of events, Song Wanyue's lawyer was one of those five onlookers.
As far as she knew, her brother knew Xie Xinxin, and he also had a good relationship with Tang Xingwei, one of the five onlookers. Didn't that mean that her brother also knew Ji Zhoutong?
Rong Lan curiously looked back at her brother. But if her brother knew Ji Zhoutong, why didn't they greet each other just now?
Chu Hengyuan was feeling a bit flustered under the girl's gaze. But since she was doing something important, he didn't dare to go up to her and explain. He could only stay silent and planned to play it by ear when she asked.
Wang Tong flipped through the contract and took a deep breath. "Miss Song and Mr. Ji's contract is more detailed. We can just revise it according to this one." Although as an atheist, he didn't understand why the boss had him draft a contract with such strange terms, and he didn't understand why the lawyer the other side brought was so well - known that even he had heard of him. But he still had to be worthy of his monthly salary and quickly got into the state.
Song Wanyue could tell that Wang Tong was in charge of perfecting the contract this time. She gave a wink to her lawyer, signaling Ji Zhoutong to have a good talk with Wang Tong.
Ji Zhoutong understood the meaning in Song Wanyue's eyes. He nodded slightly without showing his emotions. He took a signature pen out of his briefcase and put it in front of Wang Tong. "Mr. Wang can mark the problems, and then we can discuss the revisions together."
Wang Tong picked up the pen, uncapped it, and first circled the number of a certain clause. "Mr. Ji just read the contract we provided. This clause is not quite the same as the one in the contract we drafted."
Rong Lan leaned over to look at the contract on Wang Tong's desk. Then she saw that the circled clause was - If the second - party (Song Wanyue) has a hard time living in the other world, the first - party (Rong Lan) can provide after - sales services including sending the second - party (Song Wanyue) back to this world.
After - sales services? Rong Lan frowned and looked at Song Wanyue in confusion. "What does this mean, Miss Song?" Weren't they chatting well at the beginning? Once she sent the person there, she couldn't bring her back. Song Wanyue had agreed to this at that time. If she went back on such an important principle, Rong Lan thought there was no point in continuing the talk.
As soon as Song Wanyue heard Wang Tong say "not quite the same", she became nervous. She leaned over nervously to look at the contract. Since Ji Zhoutong always said he was too busy, and she trusted his ability, she hadn't checked the contract. After seeing the clause circled by Wang Tong clearly, she realized that not checking the contract herself was the biggest mistake she had made in the past year.
She was just about to explain when Rong Lan spoke first. The slightly cold tone made her heart sink.
She waved her hands in a panic, her willow - leaf eyebrows knitted together. Her tone was urgent and nervous. "Master, you've misunderstood. This is not what I told the lawyer. What I told the lawyer was exactly the same as the contract the master prepared. Maybe, maybe I spoke too fast, and the lawyer was too busy at that time and remembered my words wrong."
Wang Tong twirled the pen in his hand. Listening to Song Wanyue's explanation, he hesitated to speak. He really wanted to refute. A lawyer of Ji Zhoutong's level wouldn't even mishear the client's words, let alone misinterpret them. Ji Zhoutong must have written this clause on purpose.
Ji Zhoutong, who indeed wrote the clause on purpose, heard Song Wanyue almost crying as she explained, but still didn't shift the blame to him. He touched his nose and lowered his eyes to explain. "This clause is indeed different from what Miss Song told me. But my original intention was to protect my client's interests. If my client insists that this clause is not needed, I will correct it."
Song Wanyue turned to look at Ji Zhoutong and then continued to apologize to Rong Lan. "I'm sorry. It's also my fault that I didn't check the contract in advance, so there was such a serious mistake in the contract. Master can rest assured that this clause will definitely be changed. We'll do it as we've agreed."
Listening to their explanations, Rong Lan's expression softened. "That's good."
To make up for his "major mistake", Ji Zhoutong didn't waste any time. He turned to discuss the revision plan of the clause with Wang Tong.
Rong Lan's eyes circled around Ji Zhoutong. The more she thought about it, the more something seemed off. No, it was very wrong. As a lawyer, how could he draft a contract without following the client's wishes?
What she didn't know was that the silent man sitting right behind her silently took out his phone and started looking through the group chat messages. He also thought that with Ji Zhoutong's personality, he wouldn't change the client's wishes in the name of protecting the client's interests. Ji Zhoutong had been a lawyer for so many years, and his reputation in the legal circle was that of an iron - blooded lawyer. Ji Zhoutong would protect the client's interests because the client's interests were his own, but he would never change the client's wishes to better protect the client's interests.
It seemed that a big juicy melon was right in front of him. He just didn't know if it was ripe.
Wang Tong and Ji Zhoutong discussed and revised this clause, and then made some small changes in a few other places. Finally, Wang Tong pushed the contract in front of his boss.
"I think there's no problem with the contract. Boss, take a look?" Although Rong Lan's trust gave him a lot of motivation, such an important contract still needed Rong Lan to read it carefully. After all... this contract was equivalent to an inheritance agreement.
Although he still couldn't understand the terms in the contract, like "the other world", "this world", "time - travel" and so on. If it weren't for Rong Lan being his boss, he would definitely advise Song Wanyue to run away. He would think that Song Wanyue had fallen into a huge scam. But since Rong Lan was his boss, as an excellent employee, he had to listen to his boss. Even if it meant helping the evildoer, anyway, the boss was always right.
Rong Lan didn't refuse either. She took the contract Wang Tong handed her, turned to the first page, and started reading from the beginning.
She trusted Wang Tong, but she still felt more at ease reading it herself.
Chu Hengyuan looked up at the girl who was lowering her head to read the contract, then continued to lower his head to look for the chat records. He didn't even bother to look at Ji Zhoutong. There were a total of seven people in the group. There were always a few people who were bored and often chatted. The chat records were so numerous that his eyes were tired from scrolling, but he still hadn't found what he was looking for. However, he remembered that someone in the group had mentioned something. For the sake of the juicy melon, he was willing to look for a while longer.
After going through the contract, Rong Lan nodded reassuringly and pushed the contract in front of Song Wanyue. "I think the contract is okay. Miss Song can take a look and check it again. If Miss Song also thinks there's no problem, we can print out this version and sign it."