"The money that you lent me last time…"
"What happened?" Wei Dong's half-sentence worried Huo Mian.
"I rented a storefront, right? The rent for the place was supposed to be cheap, around 200,000 per year for 800 square meters."
"Continue…" Huo Mian was getting more and more anxious, wanting to know what happened.
"I signed a five-year contract with the landlord at the time. Because he was so afraid that I'd go back on my word and it was also hard to find another person that's willing to rent that place, he forced me to sign for the full five years. I paid him 1,000,000 yuan in rent which means that this place is mine for the next five years. Guess what happened? After a couple of days, the city government suddenly informed me that they were interested in the land and ruled it to be a site for an ecological park, and they want to construct it right away. Then, because of the lease contract I had, I got more than 5 million in compensation…"
