Life at the Top

Jasper sat unmoving in his seat even after Conrad had left.

Wendy arrived soon after. After he stood and exchanged seats with her, Jasper beckoned to a waiter to order a table’s worth of food.

“Conrad has pretty good taste. The food at this restaurant is quite good.”

As Jasper spoke to Wendy, he ladled a helping of her favorite chicken onto her plate.

Wendy blinked as she gazed at Jasper, asking, “How did the discussion go?”

Jasper smiled and said, “It went just as I expected it to, but there were also some surprises.”

He did not keep anything hidden from Wendy as he relayed the details about the conversation he had with Conrad, making sure to emphasize the request Conrad brought up.

Wendy had a solemn expression on her face as she nodded and said, “The request for a loan must not be agreed to!

“After all, no matter who is responsible for applying for the loan, the bank will have to assess the company’s assets regardless. Once the loan is approved and becomes an overdue loan, the bank will seek out the lender and legal representative, which would be you and the new company.

“Both parties need to repay the loan, but Conrad Monty would not have to shoulder even an ounce of responsibility.”

“That’s right,” Jasper said calmly as he spat out a bone. “This is where Conrad’s schemes came into play.

but with great power comes

be blamed if anything were to happen to the company. If he takes out a loan of 2.5 billion dollars and fails to make the repayments, the bank will come looking for

said angrily, “What a despicable person he is! We must not make any promises

to send some professionals over to conduct some field research and he said he would take good care

could you have made a blunder at such a critical stage? If he’s already made that many preparations, there’s no way your experts can find anything when they arrive at the scene. They’ll tell you that everything

but I’m only doing this to placate

at Jasper as she frowned and asked, “What are you planning

chuckled and said, “Conrad’s plans are about to

from me. Everything will seem fine at first when I’ve invested enough

be mined. Thus, that would cause a breach of contract, and the state-owned enterprises who have already

of having to pay the state-owned enterprises for breach of contract and the bank interest on the loan principal, or I can deny everything and fight a lengthy legal battle with both parties. However, I

up becoming the winner with the 2.5 billion

people exist in the world?! Jasp, we should ignore him

a single cent,

on Wendy’s plate. Smiling, he said,

that very moment, Conrad had already

having a video call with Kennedy who was

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