Life at the Top

Although Charlie was lying on the bed, he was in good spirits. He waved his hands and said, “I’m okay. It’s just a broken rib. I’ve experienced all kinds of things doing farm work in the field back then. This minor injury is nothing.”

“Stop acting tough,” Sally said grumpily, “Do you think you’re still a young man in your 20s? Do you not know how old you are now? Don’t you think it’s time to change that attitude of yours?”

Jasper breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that his parents were fine. He then asked, “What exactly happened?”

Charlie was just about to speak when the door of the ward was kicked open.

A young man walked in with a sullen and sinister expression, cursing at Charlie who was lying on the bed, “F*ck! This wretched old man isn’t dead yet?”

As soon as he said those words, the expressions of everyone in the ward sank.

Henry stood at the door and was ready to listen to Charlie’s story, though when he heard how brusque this idiot who came out of nowhere sounded, he burst out laughing in anger.

“Where did this idiot come from?”

the people in the ward, he sneered and said, “What? You think I’m scared because you have more people here? I can get two cars full of men over to

you refuse to let this matter drop and insist on suing me for assaulting

out a stack of money. He tossed it on the hospital bed, sneering, “This

as the words left his mouth, a punch had already landed

It was from Jasper.

and Sally

anyone himself. This would have qualified as a souvenir if a photo

stood next to Jasper lest the man returned

hit me?!” The young man covered his face and roared at Jasper with a malicious look on his

a glance when he ordered Julian, “Julian, he broke my father’s rib. I want both of his arms

his hands that were like a tiger’s claws. After a quick interlock, two clicks were heard as the

He had just rushed back from the United States, hence the cash he was carrying