Life at the Top

That night, in a coffee house in the province, Jasper met with John after a long time.

“You’re finally back. I’ve called you to meet up so many times but you weren’t in the province.”

John laughed as he spoke, pulling Jasper into a hug when the two met.

Jasper chuckled. “I was working on something in Swallow Capital for a while, so it took me some time to get back… But I have to say that I was surprised to hear that you’re also in the province when I called. I thought you were still over in the towns.”

At that, John smiled. “Thanks to you, I got transferred to the city branch as their vice president in charge of the credit system. I just came back to the province to participate in the provincial ICBS presidential study meeting.”

“You got promoted? That’s got nothing to do with me. I’m pretty sure it’s all your hard work.” Jasper smiled.

John shook his head. “You know how it is with banks, we’re evaluated by deposit indexes. The accounts you opened with me alone already doubled, tripled our outlet’s indexes.

been for such a great client like you, it’d be another five to six years before someone my age could ever be a vice president in charge of the credit system in

chuckled. “Tell me if you need to raise more deposits. I can

move at least ten billion worth of cash. Even if he had invested in something and it took

billion in his personal account, Jasper could easily

want to bother you about this. Plus, you know how it is with target indexes, they change it every year. If we meet it this year, then they’ll just raise it for the year after. I’d much

topic. I came to look

can I

learned how the social system worked, John had long learned to speak according to

Jasper, John

for mutual benefits, then the difference

him. If anything,

not by putting in good words for John.