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.

it’d be another five to six years before someone my age

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

invested in something and it took up quite a

in his personal account, Jasper could easily meet the city branch’s annual

“You’ve already done a lot for me and I don’t want to bother you about this. Plus, you know how it is with target indexes, they change it every year. If

get back on topic. I came to look for you today because there’s something I’d

“How can I help

long learned to speak according to the

came to Jasper, John had no

using each other for mutual benefits, then the difference in their social standings and identities would

once looked down on John even when the other was no longer useful to him. If anything, Jasper would still take the initiative to contact John every three to five days and catch

in his promotion, though it was not by putting in good words for John.