Life at the Top

“Are you still hiring?”

Adele was eager to try her luck

Jasper laughed and said, “I’m afraid I can’t afford to hire a rich lady like you.”

“Oh, you don’t understand. I’m fine with being a consultant,” Adele said excitedly.

“A consultant? I guess that’s possible.”

Jasper rubbed his chin and said meaningfully, “Though I have been looking for a better secretary, are you interested?”

“Okay, do you dare to hire me as your secretary?”

Adele covered her mouth and smiled.

“If you dare to try, why wouldn’t I dare to hire you?”

“If you dare to hire me, why won’t I dare to try?”

The two seemed to be in a fight.

At that moment, Jasper, who had just gotten the orange juice, was the first to concede.

“That’s enough. You’re the dignified Miss Brown so why are you messing around in my company? My humble company can’t stand you causing a commotion.”

Adele replied unhappily, “Who said that I’m here to mess around? My family’s situation is quite special. They’re never taken the business part seriously, but I like it, and yet no one taught me how to run a company. I think your system is what I have been looking for.”

“Many foreign corporate cultures can be used for reference. I also combined many foreign experiences into designing this framework.”

What Jasper said was not a lie.

derived from this era. It was not groundless. Adele leaned over slightly. She stared at Jasper and pointed to his nose. Then,

moment and smiled bitterly. “It’s indeed impossible… But running a company is not just about management and corporate culture. More importantly, if a company is alive,

looked at Jasper, waiting for him

and reluctantly admitted, “Well, as long as you

herself, no one in the country could compare with her. While serving in these two entities, Adele had shown business skills and talent that a lot of businessmen could not hope to develop within

to work

“Of course.”

Adele nodded vigorously.

can’t work from nine to

problem. You can be my special assistant cum my business consultant. In terms of annual salary, you are not short of money so it’s not appropriate to give you more than the average. We’ll just decide on 1 million tentatively. Your other benefits will be on

“Deal!”

meeting unexpectedly allowed Jasper to find someone to fill the position of his special assistant secretary which had been vacant for a very long time,

of them expected before

you complete the Sunrise Land

immediately began to settle her original purpose behind

for the military attaché at the embassy?”

“Although I don’t know what’s the purpose of you wanting to mortgage so much gold to Sunrise Land so eagerly, I always feel that you might have some evil plans. Thus, to relieve you of some worries, I decided

“Very…”

“Initially, the only thing that I was worried about was that the Sunrise Land government would be driven to desperation and would renege on a debt and not give

expect you to

moment of rare

the people in Sunrise Land, she

result, her second uncle brought her to his

clarified the matter after some persuading. Then, not only her second uncle, even her older brother came to know

the comprehensive consideration of the higher-ups, they finally issued an ‘informal’ order

thing was very mysterious, but it was nothing more than a game

know what Jasper wanted to do

government knew and how they came to learn about it, both Adele and Jasper had no clue. “Heh, don’t