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.”

head. “I wouldn’t say that I’m a hostile person, but it does depend on the situation. Are you perhaps planning

that, Gale looked at Jasper intently but did not reply right

waited silently and without

lake pavilion. The sound of running water and fishes swimming drifted over from a distance not too far away, breaking the silence between them. The scenery around them was splendid but the atmosphere in the

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

“I am not.”

his calm expressions when he continued to speak, “I do not like Ian’s sinister and cruel methods.

and I owe the Hull family two favors. For the first favor, Ian’s

to help him. I have accomplished that

I have with Ian has

atmosphere lightened with Gale’s

not want to make an enemy of the powerful Haddock Chamber of Commerce

broad range of business and they were

and the spiritual leader of businesspeople from Haddock while he was still developing his