Chapter 512: Chapter 512

Kang Junjia picked up the handset and listened to the person on the other side.

"Mr. Kang, our bosses are very angry. Because you are all people within Changda, and have a very intimate relationship with Xiao Jianming, yet you knew nothing about this matter."

In response to the other party’s claim, Kang Junjia argued, "That house is their private property as a couple. Initially, our target was the company, and we did not think to take that house."

"Our boss had heard from you that the house was mortgaged to the company, so he decided to move on the company first, then take the house."

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Kang Junjia and Lin Jiale both felt an extreme sense of eeriness. What did the other party want with that house? The value of the house surely could not compare to that of the company.

"You are mistaken, terribly mistaken," the other person said angrily, about to curse them as a bunch of stupid pigs, "It’s because of you idiots that the other side got there first and took the house. That house, it’s not just of immense market value, its value will only increase due to the continuous rise in mainland property prices, becoming a very substantial asset. And you fools will never know that the house is closely linked with the Changda trademark!"

Kang Junjia and Lin Jiale were stunned, they were practically dumbfounded.

What? The Changda trademark? Why the Changda trademark?

Lin Jiale immediately took out his own phone and looked up Changda’s business trademark. As a company that made its fortune in real estate, real estate had almost become the symbol of Changda, so no one had ever doubted that Changda had used the image of a house as one of its registered trademarks. But, who could have imagined that the image of the house in Changda’s registered trademarks actually had a real-life counterpart?

The two men, Kang Junjia and Lin Jiale, looked at the house in the Changda trademark, their eyes growing wider and wider, almost bulging out.

They had been blind not to have noticed such an obvious similarity all along.

The unique feature of the Xiao Mansion was its octagonal rooftop terrace. Among all the buildings in the world, none were as peculiar as Xiao Mansion, with its octagonal rooftop terrace that seemed so incongruous with the rest of the house.

Kang Junjia remembered once humorously saying to his in-law that the terrace atop Xiao Mansion was like a foreigner wearing a Chinese octagonal hat, completely out of place.

At the time, Xiao Jianming just smiled without saying a word. Kang Junjia only knew that the house belonged to Ruan Ruzhen, not Xiao Jianming, and that it was inherited from Ruan Ruzhen’s ancestors, so the couple couldn’t just change something handed down from their ancestors casually. Therefore, Kang Junjia never had any suspicion.

Now, it had to be said, Ruan Ruzhen and her ancestors were nothing short of geniuses.

"Mr. Luo Ke—" Kang Junjia took a breath, on one hand, he had to admit his long-standing oversight, on the other hand, he couldn’t help but reproach the other side, "If you all knew about this, you should have told us earlier. What? Just because we have become partners, you still don’t trust us?"

"We didn’t know until recently," the other party now sharply turned the conversation, very confidently absolving themselves of any responsibility, "It just happened that these days, as we were considering taking control of Changda, we naturally had to consider the trademark ownership issue of the other party. It was our professional legal team who raised the doubt; they found out that all of Changda’s registered domestic and international trademarks are based on this house. When Changda applied for trademark registration, they even explicitly stated in the documentation that the trademark creation was based on this house, so, of course, it inevitably infringes on the property rights held by the owner of the house. Before, when the company’s controlling shareholder and the house’s owner were the same person, there was no problem. Now, if the two are different, the house’s owner could file a lawsuit against Changda for trademark infringement at any time."