If everything followed the contract’s terms, even his godfather stepping in wouldn’t help.
So Wei Xinghuo quickly pointed at Xu Fei, turning to Yao Dehai with a pitiful plea, “Mr. Yao, listen to me! This whole mess is his fault! He did all this. Just now, he even tried to kill me to silence me, and that forged contract is in his hands…”
Hearing Wei Xinghuo’s words, Yao Dehai instantly caught on—the real culprit was right there.
“So it’s you, huh? You’ve got some nerve forging our Yao family’s free transfer contract! Hand it over, let me see it!”
Yao Dehai snatched the contract with a swift motion and glanced at it, ready to pronounce judgment. But then he froze. The signature on it was uncannily authentic, almost identical to the Yao family head’s!
There was a little secret only the Yao family knew: Yao Mingxu, the head of the family, had a signature that looked sloppy but was specially designed.
Whether you looked at it right-side-up or upside-down, his handwritten signature always formed the three characters of “Yao Mingxu” without fail!
Yao Dehai had been so furious earlier that he hadn’t noticed he’d grabbed the contract upside-down.
It was only when he saw the signature that it clicked.
For the Yao family, anyone who could get their hands on such a free transfer contract was no ordinary person!
Especially lately, only one person had recently received such a contract: the great benefactor of the Yao family, the divine doctor Xu. So Yao Dehai tentatively glanced at Xu Fei and asked, “Might I ask, are you the divine doctor Xu?”
Xu Fei, seeing this, realised the man had likely guessed his identity. With a faint smile, he replied, “I don’t change my name or hide my title. I am indeed Xu Fei!”
At those words, Yao Dehai’s heart skipped a beat. He thought to himself that Wei Xinghuo had nearly dug a grave for him!
If this misunderstanding led Yao Dehai to offend Xu Fei, even dying a hundred times back home wouldn’t be enough to atone for it!
Yao Dehai whipped around, clutching the contract, and glared at Wei Xinghuo.
“Do you have any idea who he is? A figure like this shows up, and instead of handling his paperwork properly, you go out of your way to make trouble for him and even accuse him of forging our Yao family’s contract?”
“Wei Xinghuo! I think you’ve had it too good these past few years and lost your head, haven’t you? Don’t think I don’t know about you skimming money through your connections here. I’ve got the annual financial reports in my hands—I just never bothered to say anything.”
“But your family’s Commander Wei seems to despise sneaky, underhanded dealings the most, doesn’t he? What do you think his reaction would be if I showed him this?”
Those words struck right at Wei Xinghuo’s weak spot. With a thud, he dropped to his knees, his face full of guilt as he stammered, “I… I’m sorry! I didn’t know if the contract was forged or not, I was just spouting nonsense! Please, Mr. Yao, let it slide this time. I’ll leave Wangjing Tower right now, and we’ll have nothing more to do with each other—how’s that?”
Seeing Wei Xinghuo beg, Yao Dehai realised that agreeing now would mean Wei Xinghuo’s work this year would be for nothing, and he wouldn’t even have to settle the year-end accounts. That was a pretty sweet deal.
