Right then, Vanessa, who was next to Brandon, purposely put her cutlery down and made some clinking sounds. That attracted all of their attention.Next, she looked at Richard while she sarcastically said, “Dad, I heard some people talking. I’m not sure if this is true or not, please tell me.”“What is it?”“I heard that you gave 5% of the family company’s shares to Emma. Is that true?”Richard’s face immediately darkened.He still took it to his heart. He had not been willing to do it, but under that kind of situation, he had been forced to make a choice between 5% of shares and the family’s ancestral plaque.Vanessa was asking about it in the present, so he shook his head and sighed.“It’s true.”“Huh? Dad, are you mad?” Vanessa looked unhappy as she said, “Although the Hill family is not a big family, we still have some background. How could you let a woman hold the shares? Harvard hasn’t had anything yet! You have to know that the Hill family will be managed by a man. Our Ha
Vanessa also knew about Richard’s “difficulty”. She could take this chance to get Richard to give Harvard some benefits.True enough, Richard responded by saying, “Vany, can you really treat my problem?”“It’s not a big deal.”“If you can treat me, I’ll also give you 5% of the company shares.”Vanessa smiled and said, “Dad, look at what you’re saying. Would I not treat you if you don’t reward me with shares? Also, I’m just a woman, I can’t be the head of the family. Why should I take the shares? I’m not as shameless as someone else.”Richard nodded. “That’s true, but I also can’t accept your kindness for nothing. Why don’t we do this? If you cure me, I’ll give the 5% shares to Harvard. What do you think?”“Well, Dad, you make the decision. I’ll listen to you. I have no comment.”The two of them cooperated so well that everyone in the room could tell that they were biased toward Harvard, but what else could they say?They knew that Emma’s 5% of shares had been given to her after
“If you remain stubborn, you won’t only harm yourself, but you’ll even harm Emma.“Brandon, you’re extremely disappointing!”Johnson was so angry that he trembled. He even wanted to stand up to give Brandon a slap.However, the reality was that he really did not have a better solution other than getting angry.Richard shook his head. He was very disappointed in Johnson and his family. If he knew that this would happen, he would not have invited them over. It was so embarrassing.He placed the medicine directly in his mouth, drank some water, and swallowed it.Within three minutes, he really stopped burping.“Hey, Vany, your medicine is really working.“I just ate it, and I’ve stopped burping. I’m good now.“If you had come back earlier, I wouldn’t have suffered these past two days.”Vanessa chuckled as she said, “Dad, my medicine is effective, right? What’s hilarious is that somebody looked down on my medicine just now, and he spoke so arrogantly. Haha! It’s making me laugh s
It was not that Richard did not want to retain his image, but he really could not control it!In the span of one minute, he had farted countless times. As time passed, the frequency of his farts became higher, as though he was rapping.He felt so uneasy that he wanted to find a hole and bury himself.He anxiously asked Vanessa, “Vany, this… how do I solve this?”Vanessa was taken aback too. It had just been a little burp. Theoretically, he should have immediately recovered after taking two pills. Why was he still… She felt so anxious that she scratched her ear and touched her jaw. She totally did not know what to do.As Richard farted more frequently, the people basically could not stay in the room.Everyone got up to leave.However, Thomas drew a napkin from the table and split it into two pieces to block his nostrils. Then he took out a small box and walked to Richard.“Grandpa, sit still and don’t move. I’ll help you get rid of this fart.”“You?”Richard looked at Thomas
Thomas opened the box he was holding, revealing multiple needles of different lengths and thicknesses.Vanessa understood what she was seeing. “Thomas, are you thinking of performing acupuncture on Dad?”“Yes.”“Haha, stop that. What is the use of a few needles? It’s simply a trick to deceive children.”Thomas said indifferently, “Acupuncture has a long history. Don’t look down on it.”Vanessa was agitated and angry. “All right, I want to see what a few needles could do.”Thomas did not say much. He asked Richard to sit properly and performed acupuncture on him.One needle. Two needles. Three needles.After the needles entered one by one, the effect could be immediately seen. Richard stopped farting, and his stomach stopped growling.Everyone was stunned. It turned out that Thomas really had some skills. “Am I fine now?” Richard asked.“I just opened some channels to let the gases out temporarily. Now, I need to repair your intestines and stomach. I promise that you won’t c
On the way home, Johnson sang loudly as he was happy.Emma kept shaking her head. Her father was depressed for a long time, so he had needed to vent it out. Luckily, they had Thomas today. Otherwise, Johnson might have ended up even more depressed.As she thought of this, she looked at Thomas and asked, “Thomas, I never knew. When did you learn medical skills?”Thomas simply made up a reason. “A group of professional doctors came to our company recently to teach us some medical knowledge for free. I thought it was very useful, so I spent some money and attended a class. Recently, I have been learning acupuncture and other things with those doctors.”Johnson gave a thumbs up. “Well, not bad. It is useful to learn some medical skills during your free time. Even if you’re not going to be a doctor, you can treat us when we fall ill in the future.”Since this was a good thing for the whole family, no one objected to it, nor did they continue to ask questions.Thomas could learn whatev
“I hope you can be accommodating and give me another week, Mr. Hudson.”Conley put down the teacup. “I gave you two months, but you couldn’t do it. Now, you only need one week to subdue Thomas? Impossible.”Donell said, “The thing is that New Year is in a week. According to the custom of each year, we will have a very grand New Year’s Eve concert on New Year’s eve. I heard that besides us, Scott’s Remembrance Cultural Arts Entertainment will also organize a New Year’s Eve concert this year as well. At that time, the two companies will fight against each other. I already arranged a very detailed plan to make Scott’s Remembrance Cultural Arts Entertainment’s concert mess up and make them be the laughingstock.”Conley’s eyes brightened when he heard that.Since he could not find a suitable candidate right now if he made Donell step down, he might as well give him this chance. It was only one week, so it was not too long.It would be best if he succeeded after giving it a try. If the
Thomas was very happy. He spread out the large pile of A4 papers on the table. However, for a person like him who had no artistic sense, he could not understand musical notation, let alone the symbols on the papers.Besides, they were everywhere and scattered.Jonah smiled and walked over. He took out a blank A4 paper and took a pen from the table. Then, he started to write on the paper. He sorted, merged, and revised the content on other papers. Finally, a wonderful song was completed.“Here you go. It is done now.”Jonah put the paper down. This time, it was much tidier and cleaner.Anna picked it up and read it carefully. Then, she said with great satisfaction, “Mr. Dunkley was indeed the godfather of music. As long as the recording of this song is completed, it will definitely be a hit. I have to find an artist suitable for this song to sing as soon as possible. There are many talented newcomers recently, and they have to be trained.”As she said, she handed the manuscript to
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