Stuck in a Chinese novel - Chapter 103

Chapter 103: Legal consequences (Bonus: Review)
This is the bonus chapter of the week thanks to the review of Paradoxical_smile. Thanks for the review and enjoy.

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Chapter 103

As they entered the condo that was being renovated, there was no worker in sight. Wei Jun knew what this signified. They were slacking off. They would later make an excuse that they were taking a dump, eating something or they were just taking a break because there was too much work because they were short-staffed.

“Shall we wait then?” The lawyer, whose name Wei Jun had already forgotten, asked. Wei Jun nodded but walked forward and began to throw everything on the ground. He kicked the bucket of paint and spread it out everywhere. Then he kicked the structures down.

All in all, before the lawyer could even say something, everything was kicked down and destroyed. The work that Wei Jun had destroyed was a day’s worth and the appearance of the condo was completely destroyed. It would take twice the amount than before to fix it.

“What… What are you doing?!” The lawyer loudly asked.

“Just shut up and stand aside. I will deal with everything.” Wei Jun said before he picked up a hammer and began to beat up the wall. Once he had destroyed a good portion of the wall, he moved to another one, then another one, and then the last one.

If before it took twice the amount, now it would take four times the amount to just fix this place, let alone renovate it. Then Wei Jun simply sat on a table where various tools were placed. The lawyer left stunned, couldn’t say anything to the overwhelming presence of Wei Jun.

He just quietly stood aside, keeping some distance from Wei Jun. After a few minutes, almost a quarter of an hour, a man came into the condo while he whistled a rhythm. However, when he saw the state of the condo, he was left stunned before his gaze went to the two individuals in the condo.

“What?! WHAT IS THIS?!” He was outraged, of course he was but Wei Jun stood quietly and said, “That’s exactly what we want to know. What is this? How is this place looking worse than before? Who did this?”

When instead of receiving an answer, he was bombarded with a bunch of questions, even in his angered state, the worker was taken aback. “What? What bullsh*t are you spouting? Obviously, I didn’t do it and you were here.”

He tried to shift the blame to Wei Jun and the lawyer but Wei Jun said, “Well, it wasn’t us. So it could have only been you. Or maybe someone snuck in and destroyed everything. Do you know anything about this?”

When presented with a third option, the worker hurriedly assented and said, “Yes, yes. It could have been someone else. I didn’t do it.”

“It could be.” Wei Jun said. The worker sighed in relief but not for long when Wei Jun asked, “But wasn’t this place under your responsibility? Where were you when this accident happened?”

The worker was taken aback but he didn’t panic. He simply replied, “I was just getting something to eat. It’s a hard job and I’m alone at the site.”

Wei Jun didn’t say anything about that and pulled out his phone, he pointed the camera at the worker and asked while waving the contract in his other hand, “Tell me, mister. Can you read?”

“What?” The worker was taken aback and confused.

“I’m asking whether or not you read this contract before you signed it?” Wei Jun elaborated.

The worker didn’t know what it was about so he replied, “Yes, yes I did.”

“No one rushed you, made you sign it in a hurry?” Wei Jun asked again. Still confused, the worker replied, “No. No one did.”

“Good.” Wei Jun turned off the recording and said, “Now you cannot use this fact in court when we sue you for contract breach and destruction of property.”

“What?” Momentarily confused, the worker asked as panic washed over him. What was this bullsh*t? How did he breach the contract?

Wei Jun spoke up before the worker could say anything, “According to this contract if the work isn’t done before the stated time, the construction company, you, has to present plausible reasons for this tardiness. Your excuses so far are late delivery, worker injury, and failure of any confirmation from the Ruan company. As for the shortage of staff, because of the worker injury, no other worker was replaced even though your construction company boats twenty-three workers, nine of whom are currently free. Do you deny any of these facts?”

After the lengthy explanation from Wei Jun, the man couldn’t even speak up. All of the facts stated were true and there was nothing that could be done about it. However, before he could even speak up in his defense, Wei Jun continued once again.

“Another clause in the contract states that if these conditions aren’t fulfilled in the allotted time and a plausible reason isn’t given, the construction company would have to pay us back twice the amount promised.” Wei Jun closed the contract and looked at the worker.

“Seeing as the work hasn’t been finished and no plausible explanation has been given according to the records of the construction company, we would like to ask you to compensate us for the cost and damages. If you do not, it would be considered a breach of contract and we will take this issue to the court.” Wei Jun ended his explanation, leaving the lawyer stunned and the worker panicked.

“What?! You can’t do that!!” He protested to which Wei Jun simply replied, “Yes we can. And we will.”

Wei Jun then crossed his eyes and stated the rest of the consequences, “And we won’t end it at that. We will spread rumors that you, the construction company, tried to swindle one of the strongest families in the Yuan Yin city. No matter what you do, the union won’t protect you. Whether we win the case or not, it won’t matter. You would have already gone bankrupt due to all the court hassle and it won’t end at that either. You will be finished in this industry; no one will employ you.”

When the consequences that waited for him and his company ahead were heard, the man lost all hope. He was sure that the union wouldn’t help if the matter escalated so much.

Once again, Wei Jun was the one to continue the conversation, “Now here’s what we are going to do. You are going to complete this work, free of cost. Of course, that includes fixing everything and renovation. If the work isn’t done to our satisfaction, we will sue you in court. Am I understood? Oh, and you have three days to finish all of it. If not, we will have no choice but to do what you dread so much.”

“But… but that’s too short of a time.” The worker tried to reason, he had submitted already after hearing the consequences but the threat to work faster was unreasonable. No one could fix this much damage in three days.

“Then put in your nights as well. Pull your workers from other work and put them in this one. If this work isn’t done by Thursday night, eight pm, then I don’t need to remind you for the umpteenth time what we will do, am I clear?” Wei Jun curtly told him the solution as he began to walk out of the condo, beckoning the stunned lawyer to follow him.

On the way to the car, and on the way back to the office, the lawyer couldn’t help but stare at Wei Jun again and again. To call the earlier handling impressive was too short of a praise. The way Wei Jun had handled the matter was something even professional lawyers couldn’t do.

Not to mention how Wei Jun finished the matter without even knowing the name of the man and the name of the construction company. Wei Jun handled the entire issue from just party ‘A’ and ‘B’ perspectives.

And the last point to praise was how Wei Jun put the construction company in place and shifted all of the blame on them. Not only had he destroyed their work, but he had caused more damage that prevented the construction company from shifting the blame on them since the work was their responsibility. Naturally, any damage was their responsibility as well.

Wei Jun, on the other hand, had forgotten about the issue. He was focused on other things at the moment. Wei Jun’s conversation with Lin Ruan earlier revealed that there were very few opportunities to get close to her. What Wei Jun needed to do was create an opportunity. And for that, he knew just the person who could make it happen.

But for that, he needed to keep the protagonist as far away from Lin Ruan as he could. And it just so happened that the protagonist had a meeting with his new drinking buddy. Wei Jun had an opportunity at hand that he might not get again.

So without a delay, he left the car and contacted Li Wei. Li Wei had rested the entire Sunday and gotten back to work today. She had decided to put off killing the Quan patriarch yet and Wei Jun had no problem with it.

So in the meantime, it was business as usual. “Yes, boss?” Li Wei asked from the other end to which Wei Jun replied, “Is there a way to attack someone and point the finger to someone else?”

To Wei Jun’s ambiguous but obvious question, Li Wei simply replied gleefully, “Of course.”