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.”

myself. I’m Ned, the owner of Ned’s Pawn Shop. If you think that you can’t take it anymore and want to pawn the land off, I promise I’ll give you a

and broad, and his

brows slightly. “Could you

Jasper fiercely. “Did you just say that I’m

From his stance, it was evident that he would forcefully hold down

think because you have a bodyguard following you around that it

calm down. This is the city

and replied, “Fine. So you’re not completely stupid, Wright. I’ll let him

at 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 for something in Reed City, so

the designated seats of the representatives from

grinned wretchedly. He used his hand and gestured the slicing