If You Made This True Story Into A Film,

no one would believe it!

 a Chinese businessman decided to hire a hitman to eliminate a local competitor, surnamed Wei, who had filed a civil court case against his enterprises, the businessman was willing to pay a total of 2 million ($282,000) to have Wei taken out, and contracted the services of a man Xi Guangan to get the job done, well the assassin thought out of the box, Xi decided that it was easier to just subcontract the job to someone else, pay them half of the 2 million fee, and just ask the client for more money. He passed the job over to another man named Mo Tianxiang along with 1 million yuan ($141,000), and then went back to Tan to ask for another 1 million yuan. The businessman agreed, but only after getting proof that his rival had been dealt with. Then things got complicated…

Mo Tianxiang, the “hitman” who was supposed to take care of Tan’s rival on behalf of Xi Guangan, decided he didn’t want to do the dirty deed either, so he contacted a man named Yang Kangsheng to carry out the killing, offering him 270,000 yuan upfront, and an extra 500,000 yuan after the job was completed. Only Yang didn’t want to get his hands dirty either, so he tried to pass the job along as well, offering a certain Yang Kangsheng 200,000 yuan and, another 500,000 yuan upon completion. As you’ve probably already guessed, Kangsheng offered another man, Ling Xiansi, a measly 100,000 ($14,000) to take out Wei. By this point, the fee had gotten so small that Ling decided it wasn’t worth the effort, so he decided it made more sense to just let the victim know and get him to fake his own death so he could get paid,

above the plot, anyway, back in April of 2014, Ling, the final of the five so-called hitmen, met up with Wei at a coffee shop and tried to convince him to fake his own death, now this is where it gets good, with the businessman (the hit) thinking outside of the box, he thought it was a good idea to go to the cops instead, Ling was arrested, and he spilled the beans, as did all the other contracted hitmen, all the way to the man who came up with the whole plan, Tan Youhui, fast forward to today, a Chinese court recently issued the punishments in this very bizarre case: Tan Youhui: 5 years in prison, Xi Guangan: 3 years and six months, both Yangs: 3 years and 3 months, Mo Tianxiang: 3 years, Ling Xiansi: 2 years and 7 months, the story appears here at Sohu, as I mentioned, if you made it into a film no one would believe it, or would they? I am only making a few posts today as I will be off early as I am travelling to Maidstone, sorry about that.