Life at the Top

Looking at this scene, Kai pursed his lips slightly and asked John, “Is… is Mr. Laine always this laid-back?”

John gave a wry chuckle. “Perhaps extraordinary people have extraordinary traits.”

As he spoke, John lay down on another sofa and advised, “You should also rest for a little. We still have business to handle in the afternoon.”

Kai grimaced and replied, “I’m not in the mood for taking a nap. Both of you go ahead and rest; I’m going to look up some news on the internet.”

Kai sat down in front of the computer as he said this. He began checking through and scrutinizing every bit of news related to the poor cotton harvest.

When the groggy Jasper was woken up by Kai, it was already 1.29 pm, just one minute away from the markets opening.

At practically the same time that Jasper woke up, the office door was pushed open, and Samuel walked in with a sneering face.

He took out a cheque from his breast pocket and slapped it down onto the table noisily, saying with lofty arrogance, “Open your sorry eyes wide and take a good look at this. It’s a cheque worth 6 million dollars. Take it if you think you have the chops.”

to admit defeat and beg for

turned to look at Kai and asked,

the screen nervously. When he heard Jasper’s questions, he immediately responded, “The

to 16000 dollars, an increase of20 bucks increase

suddenly shrieked, “There’s a long green line—it’s rising. A large buy order just came in—it’s still rising! It’s 17000

saw that at present, the price of cotton futures had surged to 17050 dollars for every tonne and it

futures had finally stopped at a price of 18980 dollars. It was then followed by an announcement and a sudden drop. The closing price that day had ended

numbers, Jasper ordered, “Use the profits

morning. If they were to do it again, the risk

at all and used the

coldly. He did not say anything this time; he merely bided his time patiently and waited to see when this

was such a high-risk venture that even a veritable god of stocks and shares would not dare play in the market. Did a callow youngster like Jasper think

the price continued going up, from 17000 dollars to 17500 dollars, and then to 18000 dollars. It was like a slap in

another being broken, it was as if the flow of capital had gone mad, and everyone was beginning to rush into the futures market to get