Life at the Top

Jasper replied calmly, “Old Master Law is very kind, he’s been watching out for me a lot.”

Gale nodded. “Let us get back to the topic. You should know that Ian Hull is my student and a member of the Haddock Chamber of Commerce.”

Jasper gave a small smile. “This is the first time I’ve heard that he’s your student, but I do know that the both of you hold a close relationship. I knew about his identity as one of the business people from Haddock right at the start as well.”

“Yet you wish to fight to the death?” Gale’s eyebrow twitched as he asked.

Jasper looked at Gale, the older expressionless, and stood his ground. “He crossed my boundaries! He touched what he never should have!”

“The Hull family has to die!”

“If not the Hulls this time, then there would only be other families in the future.”

Gale replied calmly, “Young man, both of you made names for yourselves in youth. But Casey Charles had only come into power when he was in his middle-ages while you came into power the moment you made a name for yourself. There is too much hostility within you.”

wouldn’t say that I’m a hostile person, but it does depend on the

Gale looked at Jasper intently

Jasper waited silently and without a word for Gale

pavilion. The sound of running water and fishes swimming drifted over from a distance not too far away, breaking the silence

as if the relationship between Jasper and Gale, or rather Jasper and the entire Haddock Chamber of Commerce, was to

“I am not.”

speak, “I do not like Ian’s sinister and cruel methods.

owe the Hull family two favors. For the

favor, Ian had begged me to help him. I have accomplished

relationship I have with

atmosphere lightened

if possible, Jasper did not want to make an enemy of

were involved in a broad range of business and they were

unbeneficial for a rift to appear between Jasper and the spiritual leader of businesspeople from Haddock while