Life at the Top

Marcus strutted into the room arrogantly with a heavily tanned man next to him who was named Ned.

The two entered the room and their eyes immediately fell on Jasper.

Seeing how calm Jasper looked while sitting, Marcus snickered and walked over to him. Marcus raised his hand to knock on the table before Jasper as he spoke, “I heard that you paid a big amount just to have this bidding meeting here with me, Mr. Laine? Is there even a point to this?

“If I want you to have it, it’ll easily be yours. But if I don’t want you to have it, you can spend as much money as you want and all you’ll be getting is trash.”

Jasper looked at Marcus and spoke, “Oh? Now I’m curious how exactly you consider 1,500 acres of land trash, Mr. Coine.”

Ned scoffed beside him. “Are you actually stupid or are you just pretending to be stupid, outsider?”

“Without Mr. Coine giving the red light, it doesn’t matter if you’ve bought it or not. There’ll be people troubling you every day and you’ll have no other choice but to leave it empty in the end.”

of Ned’s Pawn Shop. If you think that you can’t take it anymore and want to pawn

was tall and broad, and his

slightly. “Could you laugh softer?

you just say that I’m noisy? Do you

stance, it was evident that he would forcefully hold down the 190cm-tall Ned if he even showed a sign

you have a bodyguard following you around that it makes you

Chad quickly stood up and smiled apologetically. “Mr. Adkins, Mr. Coine, please calm down. This is the city hall’s meeting room, after all. The bid will begin soon. It’ll

gave a carefree smile and replied, “Fine. So you’re not completely stupid,

“You wanted this bid, so you have no one to blame when you regret it later. You’re not the first to fight me

Ned and turned to the designated seats of the representatives from Reed

stared at Jasper threateningly and grinned wretchedly. He used his hand and gestured the slicing of