Life at the Top

“Everything is going smoothly.

“As things stand, we have used up 600 million dollars. According to our original plan, 200 million dollars from the total of a billion dollars will remain as our backup funds. Once we get our hands on 800 million dollars worth of shares, we can start taking action,” Valentine said.

“At our current pace, we can start taking action the day after tomorrow as there’s still one more trading day tomorrow. We will start carrying out our plan at about nine o’clock in the evening on the day after tomorrow during Nasdaq’s trading time.”

“The day after tomorrow?”

“It must be fate. The topping-off ceremony of his project at Southface River will be taking place on the day after tomorrow. I wonder if Jasper Laine will be so touched by our massive gift for him that he’ll lose sleep over it at night,” Conrad said with an unreadable expression on his face.

Valentine chuckled when she noticed that Conrad was in a good mood. “I’m not sure if he’ll be touched, but he’ll surely lose sleep over it,” she remarked.

Conrad guffawed loudly.

…

thrown into a state of turmoil after Jasper’s

sky outside was still pitch black, but the meeting room within the company was brightly lit up. Jack scolded each

incident as I’ve indeed become complacent. I’ve been

see that the moment we get too relaxed, we’ll encounter a crisis. Mr. Laine managed to discover it

hold responsible for this

more than ten people in the room, nothing else could be heard except

that moment, someone knocked on the door of the meeting room. Jack’s

projected on screen right now,” the secretary said in a cautious

are you waiting for? Project it

and began

chart during this period appeared on the huge projection screen in

room was involved in financial trading. Thanks to Jasper’s guidance, they managed to detect the unusual parts of the data after