Life at the Top

It was a family of three that arrived, including Darrel who Jasper had a slight memory of.

The moment they arrived, Sally immediately went over to greet them.

It was evident that the three of them felt nervous and cautious when they stood in the magnificent villa, for they did not even dare to speak too loudly.

The three of them would glance at Jasper from time to time, wanting to say something only to swallow their words back down.

“Sigh. I heard that Jasper has become an outstanding man and is earning so much money he’s making our ancestors proud, but this is way greater than what we expected. This villa couldn’t have been cheap, right?”

Darrel’s mom, Aunt Honey, spoke enviously.

Sally sat by the side, her expression filled with pride. Jasper being praised made her happier than when people praised her.

“Sigh, Jasper must’ve suffered quite a bit to earn the money he’s got today.”

the point with having too much money anyway? How can you even spend it all when you’ve

of cigarettes from his pants pocket.

was evident that they had gone out of their way to

Darrel courteously passed the cigarette to

polite and careful Darrel was being, Jasper took the cigarette and smiled. “What do you

years of temporary work with the county government after I graduated college, but I resigned in the

was about to speak when Honey interrupted him, “Darrel just doesn’t know how

he wants to open a hotpot restaurant. Not everyone can open a hotpot restaurant, okay? But he’s just

just want to open any sort of

and asked, “Oh? What kind

eyes shone at Jasper’s question. He pulled out a deck of pictures he had prepared from his pocket. Handing them to Jasper, he spoke, “This is what I saw

took a look at the pictures and immediately had an

the hotpot restaurants in the pictures were not as systematic or standardized as they were in his past life, its trend toward becoming the country’s number one hotpot

This was Hello Hotpot.