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.”

the owner of Ned’s Pawn Shop. If you think that you can’t take it

was tall and broad, and his

furrowed his brows slightly. “Could you laugh

you just say that I’m noisy? Do you want to

Julian, who had been standing behind Jasper all this while, stepped forward. From his stance, it was evident that he would forcefully hold down the 190cm-tall Ned if he even showed a sign of starting a

following you around that it makes you better than all of us? How dare

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 look bad on all of us if someone were to get hurt

replied, “Fine. So you’re not completely

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

to the designated seats

at Jasper threateningly and grinned wretchedly. He used his hand and gestured