Mu Jinyu looked at Huang Qiuhua's bewildered expression and also asked in confusion, "Didn't you just say you are Huang Qiuhua?"
"Yes," Huang Qiuhua nodded.
"Qiu Huai is just a chrysanthemum, isn't it..." Mu Jinyu explained, "You should be clear about what a chrysanthemum represents now, shouldn't you?!"
Hearing Mu Jinyu's words, Huang Qiuhua's face turned red in an instant.
But her blushing was not out of shyness; she was furious!
Mu Jinyu thought she was embarrassed because he had spoken the truth, and continued to say, self-assuredly, "You mention Huang Qiuhua and bring up Sister Mei's name, then you tell me you'll offer me hundreds to thousands times more compensation..."
After a pause, Mu Jinyu looked at Huang Qiuhua seriously and said, "Your words are just a subtle hint for me to treat your hemorrhoids or something related to proctological diseases, right?"
"You say... I... I need treatment for hemorrhoids?!"
On hearing Mu Jinyu's words, Huang Qiuhua shivered with anger and glared at him as if she wanted to kill him!
Seeing her finally admit it, Mu Jinyu smiled and said, "You don't have to shy away from treatment. I mean no mockery. Young people, it's normal to have mishaps; but treating such diseases, is overqualifying for me, so you better go to the hospital."
After another pause, Mu Jinyu said, "It would probably cost only a few hundred to a thousand; there's really no need for you to seek me with such an excessive price hike for treatment. After all, my treatment charges are a million, you've marked it up by a hundred times, that's a hundred million. Going to a hospital, you wouldn't need that much money."
"I... you?!!!"
Huang Qiuhua looked at Mu Jinyu standing in front of her, speaking nonsense so seriously it almost seemed genuine, and she was so angry she was nearly smoking from her ears!
Having said that, Mu Jinyu looked up curiously at Huang Qiuhua whose face was flushed and body trembling incessantly, and said earnestly, "I am also speaking so much because you are a friend of Sister Mei."
The implication was that he was being verbose because she was a friend introduced by Mei Yinxue; otherwise, he would not spare the chitchat and would have just taken action and blackmailed her out of that hundred million.
But actually, the main reason was that Mu Jinyu didn't want to treat proctological diseases!
They were just too dirty!
After listening to Mu Jinyu's ramblings, Huang Qiuhua was nearly driven to a rage-induced hemorrhage!
It turned out that she had been talking to him for quite a while about working with him, yet this guy hadn't heard about her from Mei Yinxue at all, and for some baffling reason, he related her name to proctology!
"Breathe... in..."
Huang Qiuhua kept taking deep breaths, then exhaling slowly, constantly reminding herself, 'Don't get angry, don't get angry. You came here today to recruit him, not to deal with him. Once he's under you, then you'll deal with him properly!!'
For quite some time.
Huang Qiuhua had just barely suppressed the urge to flay Mu Jinyu alive and eventually squeezed out a faint smile as she explained, "I'm not here to treat your illness! What I mean is, come work for me. Whatever Mei Yinxue can pay you, I can pay you a thousand, a hundred thousand times more, or even... if I become the overlord of Jianghu in Jiangnan one day, I can share half of my territory with you so that we stand as equals!"
"You mean..." Mu Jinyu narrowed his eyes after listening to Huang Qiuhua's offer and cautiously asked, "You want me to work with you and not interfere with your plan to kill Mei Yinxue?"
Mu Jinyu was no fool. His earlier words had been purely because Huang Qiuhua had been unclear, leading him astray, but now Huang Qiuhua had made her intentions quite explicit, and he immediately understood what she meant.
He also guessed that this woman might have been the mastermind behind the car accident when he first met Mei Yinxue.
"Exactly!" Seeing that Mu Jinyu was no longer babbling nonsensely, and had regained his composure, Huang Qiuhua nodded and said, "I originally had several chances to kill Mei Yinxue in one fell swoop, but all these opportunities were ruined by you. At first, I was very annoyed and was planning to deal with you, but I am a person who cherishes talent the most and cannot stand to see talent buried by mediocrity. Seeing you frustrated under Mei Yinxue's command, I set aside my prejudices and personally came to invite you to work with me..."
"Oh." Mu Jinyu responded to Huang Qiuhua's words with a single word, but said nothing more, his gaze wandering, seemingly lost in thought.
Noticing his peculiar attitude, Huang Qiuhua thought he was reluctant to leave Mei Yinxue's beauty and scoffed, saying, "Are you unwilling to leave that woman, Mei Yinxue? Let me tell you, that wretch has always been too self-important, no man has ever caught her fancy. Although you are highly skilled, you might not earn her respect either. If you choose to work with me, I can arrange for beauties of equal match to her beauty for you!"
"Well..." Mu Jinyu blinked, his expression hesitant, caught in indecision.
Seeing this, Huang Qiuhua thought she had a chance and quickly said, "What are you still hesitating for? One is a demeaning woman who will never respect you no matter how you please her, and the other offers you a reign over half of Jiangnan's underworld and unparalleled beauties at a nod, do you really need to hesitate?"
She paused, then piled on more chips, seductively saying, "Even more, if you insist, I can even delay killing Mei Yinxue, let you play with her for a while. After you grow tired of this wretch, then killing her wouldn't be late..."
"Alas..." Mu Jinyu suddenly sighed deeply and said somberly, "Your words might be very tempting to someone else, but unfortunately, I am not very interested in power or beauties, and working with you would mean taking on too many risks. Better not!"
"You?!"
Seeing Mu Jinyu's rejection, Huang Qiuhua's eyes widened in disbelief; she truly could not comprehend why Mu Jinyu would decline her offer.
Then, narrowing her eyes and her tone gradually chilling, she said, "Are you being willfully ignorant, still indulging in that wretch's beauty and opposing me?"
Mu Jinyu shook his head and said, "Not at all, I'm not indulging in her beauty; like I said, I don't care much for power or beauties."
"So, you are determined to oppose me?"
As Huang Qiuhua spoke, her gaze turned colder, and her palm subtly lifted, readying her Dark Energy!
Mu Jinyu shook his head and said, "I really don't want to oppose you. Sister Mei is also a friend of mine, as long as you stop targeting her, I won't oppose you either!"
"So, we can't be friends, can we?" Huang Qiuhua mocked with a cold laugh.
Mu Jinyu nodded and said, "Almost, unless you..."
Huang Qiuhua interjected, "If I had made your acquaintance before she did, you would have helped me against her?"
"Not at all." Mu Jinyu shook his head and explained, "If you were not so disagreeable, I could have made friends with you!"