Life at the Top

Lisa, however, was unwilling to concede. She had never suffered such mistreatment before, so she stood right in front of the two and blocked their paths.

“What do you want?” Wendy was slightly annoyed and she frowned as she spoke. Her tone was no longer as polite as it was when she had tried to keep their relationship neutral before. Rather, it was fierce now.

“Look, Miss Wendy, we’re all classmates here, so I’m telling you that the man beside you isn’t worth your time! I’m only telling you this for your sake because I can’t bear to witness it anymore.” Lisa huffed arrogantly.

“Not everyone can enroll in MBA, and those who do are all formidable in either their academics or familial background. But look at that nobody next to you? All he has is talk–you’re just degrading yourself by being with him.”

“Don’t say that, Lisa. We have to respect Wendy’s decisions.” Ben laughed as he spoke, his expression polite.

“Perhaps Wendy hasn’t met many people before this, and her limited social experience is why she’s an easy target for others to trick. She’ll know that there are more outstanding people outside after broadening her experience, and she’ll soon know better than to be with some ignorant idiot.”

Lisa replied calmly, “It’d be too late then.

a while and I’m sure you’ll realize that he’s very

she truly believed that she was doing the right thing and was trying

only fueled Wendy’s displeasure and

back of Wendy’s hand to

am I the nobody that’s all talk?”

was no way Jasper would stand still as someone degraded him

our conversation. If this is how you’re going to act, then I may as well make myself clear then. A nobody that’s all talk–that’s exactly what you are.

how much one year of MBA tuition costs? Do you know what kind of

you? You just like the fact that

you think you have the ability to give Wendy happiness and the life she wants to live? It costs a million per year for an MBA, so

she was from a higher social class and somehow that made her better than him. “You can’t even imagine how much money that is, but it is a different story for Ben. The President of the Haddock Chamber of Commerce is Ben’s father, and

imagine ever since the moment he was born,

with an on-the-road price of

his pant pockets and spoke, “And here I thought