Life at the Top

Within a high-end residential area in the province, Nauritus City.

Zayden Hanks now lived in a double-storey terrace house.

That was right. Zayden Hanks had returned from Harbor City.

Zayden Hanks had undergone a major transformation since the confrontation between the Hanks and Jasper Laine in the province, after being sent to Harbor City by his father.

He was much more thinner than before, and kept his hair long and tied into a ponytail at the back of his head.

The feminine clothes that he was clad in did not look out of place on an ordinary man like him. On the contrary, he emanated an indescribable sense of cold slyness.

Zayden’s father, Sylva Hanks, was sitting in the room as well.

Sylva seemed to have aged by more than a decade within half a year’s time. His slightly hunched figure was perched atop the sofa as he stared at his son, who was standing by the side of the window and looking down at the view of the Southface River.

did you come

Sylva finished talking, Zayden turned around and smiled at his father. “Father, I know what you’re going to ask me. That’s right, I’ve come back

fingers, which had a cigarette in between them, trembled. A flurry of ashes fell onto the ground as he spoke in a bitter voice, “Things are different from how they were in the past. Too many things have happened in the

up a real estate company with Jasper Laine. In addition to the supermarket industry,

River, right? Those tall skyscrapers are proof of

were in the past. We’ve lost to them back then, so

site in Southface River, which was now the talk of the town. “What a lively area. They haven’t stopped the construction even though it’s

municipal and provincial governments greatly prioritize this project, even the officials from higher

results, it’s likely that it’ll become a benchmark project for the construction of new urban areas in other cities within the country. By then, it’s significance will

what right do we have to go against Jasper Laine

don’t trample upon your own prestige by amplifying their status,” he said

of the Laws from Harbor City. Before gaining their support, he was nothing. Back then, he was simply a nobody in the