Chapter 707: 707: Cooperation

“With your relationship with Cindy, if you directly ask her for help, regardless of whether it’s for everything related to opening a restaurant in Belfard or for helping you expand your connections and introducing some opportunities, she probably won’t help you.”

Wendy Clarke couldn’t deny this.

That night at the party, Cindy’s attitude towards Wendy was very clear.

Moreover, before that, Wendy didn’t even know that Cindy had married Adrian Zhekova.

Can this be called a good relationship?

“Are you going to repeatedly use your leverage to threaten her?” Edward Lopez chuckled, “Good steel should be used on the cutting edge, and leverage should be used on important matters.”

“If you use your leverage on trivial matters, it will become worthless,” Edward said.

“So-called equal exchange, what you need Cindy to do for you must be worth the leverage you have in your hands. It’s not appropriate to use your leverage to exchange for trivial matters.”

“What do you mean by trivial matters? For example, the things you mentioned earlier about opening a store, to me, those are all insignificant matters, not worth mentioning.” Edward spoke with great confidence.

Those things that Wendy found difficult, she still needed to find people to help with.

To Edward’s eyes, these things were not even worth mentioning.

It would even be annoying to talk about them.

It’s embarrassing to have to ask for help with such small matters, let alone solve them yourself.

“If you need to rely on threatening Cindy to solve these small matters, what will you do when you encounter bigger and more difficult situations in the future?”

“Are you going to take out your leverage time and time again? Or do you have a lot of leverage?”

Edward chuckled, “But in my opinion, whether you have one piece of leverage or many, the effect is the same. Even if you threaten her once and change the leverage, the result is the same.”

“At that time, what Cindy will see in your eyes is not how much leverage you have changed, but how many endless threats you have made.”

“How long do you think Cindy can tolerate you?”

“If you only have this one leverage, it will be even more difficult. Relying on this one leverage to threaten her again and again, how long do you think she can tolerate you?”

“One day, Cindy will get tired of being threatened by you, and she will no longer accept your threats. What will she do to deal with you?”

“After all, Cindy is Adrian Zhekova’s wife and can be considered part of the Zhekova family. Just like you want her to help you because you value her connection and means as a daughter-in-law of the Zhekova family.”

“But similarly, with her connection and means as a daughter-in-law of the Zhekova family, it would be relatively simple to retaliate against you and make you speechless.”

“Are you afraid of me?” For some reason, Edward suddenly changed his tone and quietly asked Wendy.

Wendy’s expression changed unconsciously, not understanding Edward’s meaning, so she asked cautiously, “Young Master Lopez, what do you mean by this?”

“You don’t need to be nervous.” Edward smiled easily, “I don’t want to do anything to you. I just wanted to ask you if you would be afraid if I were really angry and wanted to deal with you.”

“But, looking at your reaction, I know your answer already.” Edward confidently stated.

It was evident Wendy was afraid.

That’s why her reaction was so intense and so nervous.

So, even on the day of the party when she saw him lose face, Wendy didn’t dare to underestimate him.

Because Wendy knew that dealing with her would be too easy for Edward.

Wendy was at least still a little sensible and had this much self-awareness.

“To you, crushing you is as simple as crushing an ant,” Edward said.

“You don’t need to take offense at what I said.” Edward chuckled, “Because the Zhekova family crushing me is as simple as crushing an ant. As a daughter-in-law of the Zhekova family, it would be easy for Cindy to deal with me.”

“You can count for yourself. Dealing with you is already so easy for me, and Cindy, who can deal with me just as easily, would easily capture you, wouldn’t she?”

“In fact, she doesn’t even have to personally arrange anything. As long as she says a word, you’re finished.”

Hearing Edward’s words, Wendy’s complexion was very bad.

Did Cindy really have that much power?

While she knew the Zhekova family was formidable, she didn’t have a concrete understanding of how formidable they actually were.

That’s because she was too far away from the Zhekova family and had no interaction with them.

She hadn’t provoked the Zhekova family before now.

It wasn’t that she was virtuous and self-aware; she just didn’t have the opportunity.

She didn’t even have the qualifications to provoke the Zhekova family.

So that’s why she couldn’t experience the consequences of offending the Zhekova family.

Now that she heard what Edward said, Wendy didn’t feel any realism to his words.

She still found the consequences he mentioned to be very vague for her.

Right now, Wendy could truly be described as feeling no fear in her ignorance.

Edward spoke again, “For now, let’s put aside the matter of you repeatedly threatening Cindy with your leverage, causing her to finally have no other choice but to deal with you.”

Why was Edward so sure that Wendy would definitely threaten Cindy repeatedly?

Because Wendy was greedy.

As long as Cindy agreed to her once, Wendy would taste the sweetness and definitely want more.

“Let’s talk about the leverage you have in your hand. There is always a day when it will be useless. If you solve some minor troubles now, what will you do when you encounter major troubles in the future and it becomes useless?”

“That’s why I said we should cooperate. I can help you solve these minor problems. Keep this leverage for yourself. If there’s something big in the future that I can’t solve, then you can go find Cindy.”

Edward thought to himself, how much trouble could Wendy really get into?

Wendy’s level of contact was just that, and no matter how ambitious she was, she couldn’t reach a much higher position.

That’s why Edward was confident that he could resolve any problems she encountered.

Moreover, talking about the future is just a matter for the future.

First, get the leverage in Wendy’s hand, and then decide whether or not to help her solve any real trouble in the future. Isn’t that a matter of his own decision?

“Wouldn’t this be more useful for you?” Edward said.

Wendy was not stupid, so she asked, “You said that a piece of leverage used too many times becomes useless. If you use it once and I use it again, will it still work?”

Edward chuckled, “Using it many times indeed becomes useless, but one or two times is still useful. Haven’t you seen those social news stories? Those who call the police are the ones who have been threatened multiple times and can’t stand it anymore. Weren’t the threats from the first and second times accepted and the other party’s requirements met?”

“Why don’t you think carefully about it here? Agreeing to my conditions and cooperating with me will only benefit you.” Edward said.