Anna asked in puzzlement, “Thomas, what do you want to do again?”Thomas smiled and did not answer. Instead, he asked a completely irrelevant question.“Is there any tea in the company?”“Tea? Yes.”“Bring some over. Also, prepare the hot water to make some tea at any time.”“Do you have any guests coming?”“I don’t have one now, but some guests will come over later.”As soon as he spoke, the secretary walked in and said, “Ms. Caspian, Mr. Mayo, Edwin Smith, the boss of Younique, wants to meet you.”“Edwin Smith? What is he doing here?” Anna was pretty confused.“He’s the guest I was waiting for. Invite him here,” Thomas said. Soon, Edwin was invited into the office.This time, he showed a bright smile on his face, but everyone could tell that his smile was quite fake. Behind his smile, there was dissatisfaction and bitterness.“Hello, Ms. Caspian, Mr. Mayo, we meet again.” Edwin took the initiative to walk forward and greet them.Due to the last incident, Anna was not wi
“If I release ‘It’s Always Been You’ on Younique, I want all the profit.”Edwin had been a businessman for his whole life, and he had seen all kinds of ridiculous requests. But, he had never seen such a rude request.‘You want it all?’‘Why should I still broadcast for you? To suffer the loss?’Even Anna was also stunned. She had been working in cultural arts entertainment for many years, but she had not seen such a greedy person like Thomas either. Honestly, when Edwin had raised it to 60/40, Anna had already felt that they could accept it.If Thomas did this, how would Edwin agree?Edwin looked bitter. “Mr. Mayo, aren’t you troubling me?”“Do you feel troubled? You may leave now.”“You!”Edwin gritted his teeth. He wanted to leave, but after he thought about everything, he could not help but shake his head.He could not leave.He sighed. “Okay, as long as you’re willing to release the film on Younique, I will give you all the profit. I don’t want any!”Thomas nodded. “Dea
Hegemony Entertainment, CEO’s office.The atmosphere was a little dour.Donell looked at the data on the computer screen. He was so furious that blue veins could be seen on his forehead, and he clenched his fists very tightly.In a deep voice, he asked, “Soren Harlow, please explain what is going on now. Why were the views of ‘Knowing a Woman's Heart Best’ so high on the first day, yet they have dropped so dramatically in the subsequent days? Besides, the total length of viewing isn’t equal to the clicking volume! What does this mean? Did everyone shut down the page after they clicked in to view it and watched it for less than two minutes?”Clearly, Donell was right.Soren and Rowena stood together, and they felt extremely embarrassed.After the “success” on the first day, they thought that the film would become famous. Who would have known that it was just a false start?The click volume of the film had been high because the traffic of the top three streaming sites was high in
He gave Iris a kick right in the belly, and it put Iris in so much pain that she squatted down. She covered her belly with her hand in agony.“Witch, you dare to slap me?“I’m going to kill you!”Soren moved forward and grabbed Iris’ hair before he raised his hand and gave her a slap.In an instant, a large group of staff gathered from the surroundings.Rowena quickly moved forward and whispered, “Mr. Harlow, please calm down. This is Mr. Cedar’s place. If you make a big scene and let Mr. Cedar see it, he will scold you again.”Soren nodded. He released his hand and pointed at Iris. “I’ll spare you this time because of Mr. Cedar. If you dare to make a fuss again, I’ll slap you to death, witch!”After he spoke, he spat on Iris. Then, he brought Rowena and left pridefully.Iris felt hurt and humiliated.She squatted on the floor and cried sobbed. Everyone around her was laughing at her, and nobody walked forward to pass her a tissue.Hegemony Entertainment was totally a rubbish
Iris did not rush back home. Instead, she casually walked on the street.She really wanted to commit suicide.But she really wanted to see Nelson for the last time.Her life was so oppressive that it made her nearly unable to breathe. It was only after she wandered until the night became dark that she went back home with a tired body.When she opened the door, the situation made her feel shocked and angry.Soren and Rowena were holding each other while naked, and they were in an extremely steamy situation.A sense of hopelessness emanated from Iris’ body.She did not care when he was involved with that woman in the company.But, he even brought the woman back home?“Soren Harlow, can you be more shameless? This is our home, our home!”Soren sneered. He got off Rowena’s body, casually put on a jacket, and coldly said, “This is my house, not yours. Witch, without my permission, you’re not allowed to come back here. Do you understand?”Iris’ face was full of bitterness.“We've
The sky became completely dark.Soren had called Trey and his gang to come over. So, they pridefully walked in the direction of Soren’s house. “Trey, what kind of woman has Soren arranged for us this time?”“Hard to say. His tone made it sound like it’s not a young and beautiful woman.”“Of course. If it’s a young and beautiful woman, he would do it on his own. That old pervert would only leave some old women to us every time.”“Just be happy, okay? It’s good for an ugly man like you to have an old woman to sleep with. Do you still hope for a young woman?”A group of them talked noisily.Halfway through, they saw a man standing under a street lamp.He leaned sideways against the street lamp while he held a cigarette in his hand. He raised his head and gently breathed out smoke. The hair on his back was tied up in a braid, and the end of the braid had a bright red poisonous sting.The most unique part was his hand.His right index finger had a very long nail. It was dark red,
Soren was a smart person. He clearly felt that something was wrong, and he immediately wanted to close the door.But Scorpio acted faster.Bang!Soren was kicked into the house. Scorpio pridefully walked inside and closed the door.“What do you want?“Money?”Scorpio ignored Soren. He walked straight to Iris who was tied up on the chair, swiped with his finger, and cut the rope.He breathed out smoke. “Madam Cruz, you may leave now.”“Huh? Um…” Iris was still a little dumbfounded. She did not know what was going on. Scorpio indifferently said, “After you go out, turn left and walk straight along the road. Someone will be there to pick you up.”“Oh, okay.”Iris also could not be bothered. It was better to be saved by someone than being injured by Soren.She left the house and walked straight along the road according to Scorpio’s instructions.Meanwhile, only Scorpio, Soren, and Rowena were left in the house. Soren leaned on the wall and reached out to take a baseball bat
The car finally stopped in front of a villa. The car door was opened, and Thomas helped Iris to get out of the car. Then, the two of them walked into the villa one after another.Thomas passed the key to Iris.“Ms. Cruz, this will be your house.”“How… How can it be?”“You don’t like it?”“No, you shouldn’t spend so much.”Thomas smiled. “I always remember that you took care of our family previously, so this doesn’t cost much. Besides, you’re in a dispute with Soren, so divorce is a must. You won’t be able to stay in his place, so you will need a new place to stay, right?”Iris thought about it, and she felt that it was true. So, she did not turn him down anymore.She asked again, “Oh yeah, who’s the man who saved me just now?”Thomas did not answer directly.“The person who saved you is not important. What matters is that you are safe.“Besides, Ms. Cruz, please forget the person who saved you. Forget everything.”At the moment, Iris could tell an indescribable feeling emi
No one knew how far down the title Emperor of Luck was inherited.They had finally caught Luck.Following that, Eric leaped into action and reeled in his haul as fast as he could. With that, all the remaining accomplices of Luck were caught in one fell swoop!The two million innocent citizens were saved, as all of them took the antidote.Once again, Thomas saved the day.In order to express their gratitude, the citizens decided to erect statues of Thomas in Celandine City and many other cities as well.In the House of Vistaria.Phoebe ran towards her father hurriedly. She then smiled at him and said, “What did I tell you, dad? Thomas will definitely turn things around, right? I won!”Declan was so agitated, that he started tearing up.Thomas was really too amazing. He was capable of turning things around, even in such a predicament.At the same time, the curse that had plagued the Mars family for over a thousand years was finally broken. From then onwards, Declan was finally
Luck was dumbfounded. Why was Thomas still alive and kicking?“No need to doubt your own eyes. I am indeed still alive.”The crowd parted, making way for a very familiar figure. It was Thomas, the very Thomas whom the public watched him die.As he walked, he said, “Our previous research has already reached ninety-nine percent completion. But no matter how hard we tried, the final one percent remained out of our grasp. At that time, I thought that perhaps the only way was to drink the Ancestral Water and experience the poison itself, which would allow me to have a breakthrough for the final one percent.“And that was what happened. I managed to do it.“After drinking the Ancestral Water, I finally understood what the one percent was and successfully created the antidote for Ancestral Water. Now that the antidote has been created, it will sever your connection with the Ancestral Water.“You will not be able to kill anyone anymore.“You have lost, Luck.”Lost?Luck's eyes were wi
It was obvious that Eric could not afford to take a gamble this time. But he had no choice. His only choice was to listen to whatever the other party said and prepare a helicopter in twelve hours’ time.That was not all. He was also supposed to request for his superiors to help Luck get out of the country.The thought of it made Eric furious.“Damn it!”He left in anger to deal with the rest of the matter.The sky of Celandine City was covered with clouds.The patriarch, Declan, was in his garden in the House of Vistaria. He stared at the withered flowers as he grieved.His entire life was spent supporting Mr. Cole in hopes that he would be able to create an antidote to Ancestral Water. But at the end of the day, Mr. Cole accomplished nothing.His two disciples — Capricious Holy Hand Elliot, and Thomas — were both dead.There was no one in the world who was capable of creating the antidote for Ancestral Water anymore.“Alas...” Declan sighed. It seemed that it was impossible
At that moment, the general public was suddenly dumbfounded, as if struck by lightning. Everyone was down in the dumps.Many of those with poor psychological strength directly collapsed on the ground.They believed Thomas' death could be exchanged for their own safety, but who knew, in the end, they got nothing, and Luck, as usual, used their lives as a bargaining chip to force the authorities to listen to His Majesty's words.No antidote to Ancestral Water would ever be created by chance.The lives of people were still in His Majesty's hands.Whenever luck wanted them to die, they would die without any ability to resist.However, this was not the most frightening part. What was even more frightening than this was that the only person who could create the antidote to Ancestral Water had been forced to die alive by them.It would be impossible to create the antidote to Ancestral Water without Thomas.Mr. Cole and Elliot had all died, Thomas was the last person who mastered the
Eric sighed deeply, "Thomas, even though things have reached this point, you still remain so kind.""I have nothing to say except to choose death because the research failed." Thomas let out a long breath. "Before I die, I want to talk to my family on the phone."Originally, Emma and the others came to Celandine City because they wanted to be reunited with Thomas.Who knew it had turned into a life and death situation?The world was like a chess game; everything was unpredictable.When Thomas was video calling with his family, Emma was already bathed in tears at the other end. She was crying and shouting at Thomas to not be impulsive, and saying perhaps there was still room for things to turn around.That was what she thought, but it was not the case.Every minute Thomas dragged on, more people perished as the result of Ancestral Water, and the crowd’s fear and rage grew.Thomas’ life no longer belonged to him."Honey, take care of the baby."I love you."Those were Thomas’
For such demanding research, half a day was really too short.Thomas had recruited the best doctors and researchers he could find to work on a detailed study of Ancestral Water.In the past, it was difficult to achieve breakthroughs in the research on Ancestral Water. That was because figuring out how to create an antidote for the Ancestral Water was challenging. On the other hand, it was also because obtaining the Ancestral Water was incredibly difficult. Because they only had a few samples, the results were underwhelming.However, it was different now. Because the entire city's water supply had been turned into Ancestral Water, they were able to collect the samples at their convenience. This made it much easier for Thomas and the others to get the materials.With Thomas in charge, hundreds of researchers were conducting a massive study in just half a day. Unfortunately, things did not go according to plan.Thomas still failed. “We almost got it.“We were so close to makin
How sinister. “All we want is nothing but—safety.“As long as we’re safe, we definitely won’t make it difficult for everyone. If we’re safe, no one will die.“Now then, I have a small request to make to ensure everyone’s safety.“I demand that Thomas drink Ancestral Water immediately! This person is a real hassle for His Majesty, and we must keep him under our control for our own protection. Please forgive us for the inconvenience.“We'll only give everyone half a day to consider this. The emperor will begin killing people if Thomas does not step forward and drink Ancestral Water by this afternoon.“Okay. I've said everything I wanted to say. Goodbye.” The TV screen went dark, and so did Eric's face.He kicked the trash can over and said fiercely, “What is this? You're the only person in the world who can create an antidote for Ancestral Water’s poison, Thomas!“Once you drink Ancestral Water, you’ll be controlled by them!“Won't you have to obey Luck's every command by the
After listening to Thomas’ description, Eric also displayed a look of shock and said two words, “As expected.”What did he mean by, as expected?Was it possible that Eric knew that Luck was behind it from the start?“Thomas, follow me.”Eric took Thomas into an empty ward and locked the door. The two sat in the corner of the ward.He whispered, “There is a piece of news that I haven’t announced to the public, that is, besides Celandine City, there are more than ten cities that have problems. Do you know which cities they are?”Thomas’ eyes lit up. He already knew what Eric wanted to say.At the previous meeting, Eric had clearly stated that more than ten cities across the country had been controlled by Luck. Now, there happened to have more than ten cities where residents had been poisoned.Was there such a coincidence?Thomas said, “The residents are poisoned by Ancestral Water. Over ten cities are all under the control of Luck’s forces, so it is almost a certainty that Luck
“I didn’t. I saw the news early in the morning and was shocked. I haven’t dared to drink a sip of water until now.” Pisces took a deep breath and said, “Is this a natural disaster or a man-made disaster? It’s really terrible.”No matter whether it was a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, it was no small matter.Soon, Thomas drove to the hospital.Eric had been waiting here for a long time. As soon as he saw Thomas coming, he quickly let him enter the ward.He saw a patient lying on the hospital bed with his eyes closed, and his body was trembling. Although it was very hot, he was as cold as if he had just been lifted out of the freezer.A doctor walked over and said, “Mr. Mayo, let me tell you the general overview of the current situation.”The virus was spread through water sources.After drinking water with the virus, the virus would lurk in the human body.However, lurking did not mean that it would cause an outbreak.At present, over one hundred thousand people had b