Life at the Top

“A set-up.” Jasper shrugged and passed the invitation to Chad.

Chad took a look and reacted completely differently from Jasper by immediately frowning at its content.

“Melody Electronics wants to invite us for a joint product launch? And they even invited a few television and newspaper representatives?”

At that, Chad instantly reacted. “This is the MP3 player manufacturer that’s been advertising their products all this while?”

“Exactly. And they have a domestic license to manufacture the MP3 player,” Jasper spoke calmly.

Chad frowned and spoke, “So they’re just intending to make a fool out of us in front of the media, then.”

“That’s why I called it a set-up. I’m afraid this isn’t as simple as making a fool of us. They’re going to use the power of the press to completely kill our product the moment it launches.”

Jasper had a calm expression on his face. He could already imagine how excited and proud Conrad must have looked when he made this decision.

though Conrad’s move was rather surprising and sudden, Jasper was not angry

that only Jasper could plot against Conrad and not

two of them were merely trying to spot weak points while they attacked and countered each other, in hopes to

way to counter Conrad. However, it was not a lie that

was still the one attacking now,

decided

attend, Mr. Laine,” Chad suggested with furrowed

when I attend. The roles in this set-up haven’t been decided

how Jasper had already made up his mind, Chad nodded

agreement, Jasper

shone brighter as Jasper

first call was to