Life at the Top

After walking out of the restaurant, Jasper bid Vita and John goodbye.

“Well, since we didn’t get to eat the blowfish today, looks like you’ll have to go and look for something else to eat, Vita,” Jasper joked.

Vita smiled wryly and said in a slightly embarrassedly tone, “The dinner was supposed to be something great. Who’d have thought that this incident would destroy everyone’s good mood.”

“What do you mean destroy?”

Jasper glanced at John and said with a smile, “I was in a pretty good mood tonight. Weren’t you, John?”

John understood Jasper’s intention and internally exclaimed to himself how smooth and slick a person Jasper was. He told Vita, “It’s fine, Vita. Don’t worry about something so insignificant. We’re all friends here, so let’s not dwell on what’s already happened.”

Vita nodded, feeling much less conflicted as he replied, “You’re right. I’ll owe you guys this meal then, and invite you out again when I find something good later.”

“You better tell me in advance. I’ll eat less for breakfast so I can eat more out of your wallet,” Jasper said.

The three exchanged a look before laughing out loud. Jasper had originally planned to talk to the two a little longer before his phone suddenly rang.

Seeing that it was a call from Jake, Jasper knew that the other would not contact him so late at night unless it was something important.

“Alright. I still have a few things to do, so let’s talk more in the future,” Jasper said as he opened the car door.

Neither John nor Vita asked him to stay. The two each promised to meet again before they watched Jasper’s Bentley drive away.

“Sigh. I remember the first time I saw him when he wanted to buy a plot of land in Waterhoof City. He was just a slightly wealthy businessman back then.”

reaching higher and higher

had truly shocked him. It also made him understand that Jasper’s level had long surpassed his

trait of someone who remembers his roots. Now that I think closely about it, excluding the brief times when we helped him at the very beginning, he’s been helping us the whole time

of the Faith Country subbranch, I’ve become the vice president of the Agricultural Bank’s Southeast Province branch. Your achievements are even better. From a normal office manager to Waterhoof City

of people better experienced, from better families, and more capable than we are. Yet, out of all

value our relationship with Jasper. Furthermore, Jasper’s always helped us when it

huge gap between us. If he doesn’t mind it, then

right. I was just

is it?” John asked

banking system to pursue

changed. He knew that what happened tonight had changed Vita’s life plan, so he replied solemnly, “This is

about it. We can ask Jasper what he thinks later on. Everything should go much smoother with

***

tonight’s incident had changed Vita’s life. After all, the

looks, I can confirm that there’s someone, or a group of people, who has their eyes on our movements. They’re also targeting us, causing us to lose a

our current orders might go against the market trend, but we shouldn’t lose more than

the amount of our investments, our losses will also only continue

we might lose an extra 400 million after we’ve

will cost our losses to

the time the incident occurred. This was an amount that Jasper and Jake had calculated together. However, the 600 million had suddenly become 1 billion. This additional 400 million loss was not a small amount in comparison to

“Yes,” Jake replied clearly.

icy wind could blow away the scent of alcohol around Jasper

don’t know whether this is one person or a group of people targeting us, let alone