The middle-aged man's gaze swept over Du Ming with an icy stare, and he shrank back for a moment before quickly regaining his composure. "Mr. Du," he said, "how could I possibly let this young lady go? Without her, how could I have handed you over?"

  Du Ming's face sank as he looked at him and said, "What do you mean? What do you want?"

  "It's nothing," said the middle-aged man, "just a small matter, I want to cooperate with you."

  "Collaborate? I don't have money to collaborate with you."

  "You don't have money? You will soon have it, or you can easily get it."

  The middle-aged man smiled and said, "Let me introduce myself, my name is Fang Zhicai, I am the chairman of Xingyu Group."

  Du Ming furrowed his brow, recalling for a moment before remembering that Xingyu was the name of that rough stone market.

  Du Ming said coldly, "What? I hit your subordinate, and now you're coming to me for revenge? What's the point of bothering a girl like that?"

  "Hey, Mr. Du misunderstood," Fang Zhi said with a wave of his hand. "I'm not here to seek revenge, I told you, I'm here to discuss cooperation."

  Du Ming raised an eyebrow, and Fang Zhi continued, "That day in my original stone market, with a capital of only 200 yuan, you easily made a profit of one million, and if you were willing, you could have made even more, all thanks to your eyes."

  Du Ming seemed to understand Fang Zhi's meaning, and Fang Zhi looked at his expression and said, "I'm actually a jade stone businessman from the beginning, but I've been in the jade stone business for decades, and I don't have Mr. Du's skills. I will inevitably make mistakes sometimes, but you seem to never make mistakes no matter what, this ability is really admirable."

  "Now, I'm sincerely inviting you to cooperate with me. You help me identify the raw stones and I'll do the business. In the end, there will be benefits for you too. What do you think?"

  Du Ming glanced at Fang Zhi, "You keep saying you want to cooperate, but you set up a meeting in such a place and bring a hostage. I don't see any sincerity."

  Fang Zhicai smiled and said, "I'm not afraid that Mr. Du won't be willing to come, or if he comes, he won't be willing to cooperate. I can only ask Miss Yan to come together with me to persuade you to do business with me."

  Fang Zhicai took out a large piece of jade rough stone from the trunk behind him, "Mr. Du, come and take a look at the quality of this rough stone?"

  Fang Zhicai said as his subordinate's knife got closer and closer to Xian Chuchu's neck, Xian Chuchu let out a sharp cry of fear.

  Du Ming glanced at Yan Chuchu's side, knowing that Fang Zhicai was threatening himself. He let out a cold snort, and Fang Zhicai's subordinates handed over the original stone to Du Ming.

  Du Ming took the rough stone and examined it carefully, saying lightly, "The quality of this rough stone is very high, and when opened, it's likely to be ice-type jadeite, or even possibly glass-type. It's absolutely A-grade material. With this alone, if we put it on the market, it can sell for at least tens of millions."

  Fang Zhicai was overjoyed when he heard the news, and excitedly ordered his men to bring back the original stone. "Good, good, I didn't misjudge after all."

  He said, looking at Du Ming, "Mr. Du, you see, we cooperate very well, this original stone, if I make money, at least I can give you 10%."

  "Is this what you call cooperation?" Du Ming sneered.

  Fang Zhicai's face fell, "Mr. Du, you should be able to see the current situation clearly, this is not a time for you to negotiate conditions with me."

  Du Ming raised an eyebrow, "Oh, is it?"

  Fang Zhicai waved his hand and the thugs around him immediately closed in on Du Ming, ready to beat him up.

  Du Ming glanced at them disdainfully, raised his hand and knocked one person down, then stretched out his leg and kicked another.

  The last time, Du Ming and Li Yu Lan turned the entire Yuan Shi market upside down. Fang Zhi only knew that Du Ming was good at fighting after that. This time, he brought people who were carefully selected high-level experts, but in Du Ming's eyes, they were completely insignificant.

  Dozens of people surrounded Du Ming, thinking that even if he was tough, he could take down one person at a time, but it was impossible for him to beat so many people alone.

  But these dozens of people were nothing in Du Ming's eyes, and he knocked one down every few seconds. These dozens of people were just a matter of one or two minutes, and they were all knocked down by him.

  He knocked everyone down, Du Ming turned his head and stared at Fang Zhicai with a cold and murderous gaze.

  Fang Zhicai was frightened and took a few steps back, "You, you..."

  Du Ming walked up to him, and Fang Zhi suddenly remembered that he still had a hostage in his hands. With a wave of his hand, "Du Ming! Yan Chuchu is still in our hands! Don't be too arrogant!"

  As he spoke, Fang Zhicai's men had already pressed their knives tightly against Yan Chuchu's neck. Du Ming saw this and stopped in his tracks. Fang Zhicai let out a sigh of relief.

  "Du Ming, don't pretend to toast but not drink or you'll be punished with a penalty drink! Yan Chuchu is in our hands, if you're not willing to cooperate, I have plenty of ways to torture her!"

  "Oh, is it?" Du Ming said coldly and suddenly raised his hand to make a gesture.

  Du Ming's gesture was just finished, and a gunshot suddenly rang out from afar. The man holding Xian Chuchu's head was immediately shot in the head and fell to the ground.

  Immediately another gunshot rang out, and another person standing guard nearby also fell to the ground.

  Fang Zhicai was stunned, Du Ming sneered and quickly walked to Yan Chuchu's side, untied the rope from her body, and helped her up.

  She leaned against Du Ming's chest with a wronged expression, and Du Ming comfortingly patted her back.

  Fang Zhicai looked at Du Ming with a terrified expression, suddenly turned his head and ran wildly towards the outside of the factory.

  Du Ming gave Fang Zhi a cold glance, ignoring him, and softly comforted Yan Chuchu in his arms, "Are you hurt?"

  "Chu said in a low voice, 'No.'"

  "It's good that you're not hurt, it's all my fault. Lately, I've been putting you in danger, but from now on, I'll take good care of you."

  Xiangchu nodded and widened her eyes at Du Ming, "Uh-huh."

  At this time, there was a commotion outside the door. Li Yulan dragged Fang Zhicai in and threw him in front of Du Ming.

  Fang Zhicai had already been beaten until his nose was blue and his face was swollen, and he humbly begged for mercy from Du Ming, "I was wrong, Mr. Du, spare me."

  Du Ming sneered, "You're thinking of begging for mercy at this time?" As he spoke, he kicked Fang Zhi in the face with one foot. "The people from Xingyu always like to bully women, which really pisses me off!"

  Fang Zhicai was kicked flying, but he actually crawled back, kneeling on the ground, "Please, Mr. Du, I really didn't mean to hurt Miss Yan, I was wrong, spare me!"

  "Hmph," Du Ming glared at him with disgust, grabbed his collar and lifted him up, gave him over a dozen slaps, beating his face to swell on both sides. "Alright, I'll spare your life this time, just a lesson for you today, don't ever touch my woman again!"