“Your approval?”Harvey chuckled.“You’re only selling building supplies, yet you act like you belong in the government! This is way beyond your authority, is it not?”“How dare you?!” Mari screeched.“Don’t you know the rules here?”“Every single renovation and transportation business here belongs to Robbins Supplies!”“Everyone has to report to us before anything!”“We’ll punish anyone who buys their own materials and renovates on their own!”“Do you understand me?!”Mari slammed the table with a righteous look.“Of course I don’t. What does my renovation have to do with you?” Harvey replied.Mari chuckled coldly.“Do you really not understand? Or are you just pretending?”“I’m being as clear as I can!”“If you’re renovating on our turf…”“Either you buy our building materials and earn our approval before you start working…”“Or you pay a hundred and fifty-thousand-dollar fine!”“You choose!”Mari gestured for a subordinate to hand a price list for building material
Harvey smiled.“That’s fine. I’m not that experienced, anyway…”“I’d like to see who’ll smash up my place later.”“I’ll show you!”Mari chuckled coldly; she had no intention to force Harvey to make a choice.The roar of engines were soon heard outside.An arrogant voice filled the air.“Which one of you b*stards is taking advantage of my cousin?”“A lot of people want to die in this day and age, huh?”Someone kicked open the car door.“Speak! Who are you?”“I never go against people without any background!”A young man in sunglasses strutted out, followed by around eight people behind him.“Do you know who I am?” the man asked with a cold laugh.“I belong to the Newgate Chamber of Commerce!”“My big brother’s Kellan Ruiz!”“You’ll suffer a horrible death if you go against him!”“Hopefully the name scares you. If not, then get ready to die!”After hearing those words, Mari glared at Harvey and laughed wickedly.“You’re finished! You’re definitely finished!”“Kellan?
The fighters of the Newgate Chamber of Commerce ran fiercely toward the restroom.Mari and the others were completely baffled.They couldn’t accept that the fighters were useless against Harvey.“Not bad. You got me some free workers here.”Harvey chuckled.“Anyone else you want to call over?”“I need a lot more people here!”Mari and the others weren’t stupid. Judging from the situation, they knew that Harvey had an extraordinary identity.They were all gritting their teeth, pretending not to hear what Harvey had said.After looking into Harvey’s eyes, Mari gritted her teeth and waved her hand.“We’re leaving!”The others turned around, preparing to step out.“What’s this?”“What do you think this place is?”“You come here to threaten me and delay my work, then you leave just like that?”“Do you think you can just do whatever you want here?”Harvey smiled calmly.“What is it that you want?”Mari clenched her teeth.“Go over there and dig out all the poop for three
Harvey was a lot freer after letting Castiel handle the front desk. As such, he started planning on how to lure in Evermore.While he was taking a few sips of his tea, Thomas approached him with two other people in tow.At a closer look, the two were actually Saul and Lola—the two people who should’ve been trying for a baby at home.Harvey invited the three to sit in Leona’s favorite gazebo.After pouring them each a cup of tea, he smiled at them.“Why the long faces? Did something happen?”Saul quickly slammed his knees to the ground, kneeling. “I’m sorry, Sir York,” he began in a trembling voice.Harvey quickly lifted him up, frowning. “What’s going on? Why are all three of you here?”Harvey felt it strange to see such an odd group together.“This isn’t about Thomas. I got the wrong person on my side…”The usually graceful Lola let out a bitter chuckle.“After Golden Estate fired Thomas’ ex-girlfriend, that woman sold every single detail about the company to our compet
Harvey frowned and reorganized all the information he just got.“To put it simply, the geomancy expert picked out the lands for us to buy, and that information is strictly confidential.”“And after Sydney leaked all that, competitors like Blazer Estate are trying to raise the prices of those lands and make things harder for us.”“Under these circumstances, the expansion of our company will be at a full stop. Is that what you’re saying?”“Yes!”Saul nodded, his eyes cold.“I sorted out the whole process before getting here.”“Ronnie and us had exchanged blows quite a lot of times before, but this is just completely shameless.”“He’ll skin us alive if we make a wrong move.”Harvey nodded.“Ronnie Lee…”Lola looked at Harvey with an apologetic look.“I heard rumors that Golden Estate’s competitors are banding together under Ronnie’s lead.”“They’re trying to scalp the lands we’re buying while also forcing us to sell our lands for half the price.”“If they actually do all thi
“Everything’s out of the bag at this point. Since Ronnie raised the price of the lands we were supposed to buy, the government wouldn’t just lower it back for no reason.”Harvey poured himself a cup of tea and took a sip.“I need to know one thing: how do we solve the entire situation with Ronnie and the others at a complete loss?”Golden Sands was given to Harvey, but this was still his first business in the city.He decided to put in a little more effort. It’d be bad if people talked about his first business here being a flop.“First, we need Ronnie and the others to give up on attacking Golden Estate. When the government turns a blind eye to the increasing prices, everything will be back to square one.”Lola gripped her cup, but she couldn’t take a sip of her tea at all.“That’s impossible. People like Ronnie won’t give up so easily after finding such a good opportunity.”“Second, we must quickly find better land and change our ways to market our products, giving us a better
Harvey pondered for a moment before pointing at the junkyard.“Here.”“As long as we have that land, our real estate business will flourish, We’ll become tycoons of Golden Sands in an instant!”Saul chuckled helplessly.He knew that Harvey was well-versed in geomancy, but he didn’t think that Harvey was all that good at appraising land.Many geomancy experts had already been to the land. Everything was completely ruined because of all the trash surrounding the place.Harvey would turn into the joke of the city if he chose that place impulsively.That said, Saul wouldn’t dare speak his mind since he owed Harvey a huge favor. It’d be too disrespectful if he said anything.“What do you mean by that?” he asked after pondering for a moment.“Simply put, after this, we’ll be the only ones who can sell houses,” Harvey replied.‘What did he just say?’Upon hearing those words, Saul chuckled inwardly, feeling bitter.He quietly cursed Harvey for choosing a land like that so irrespon
Lola wasn’t that serious about Golden Estate, but she didn’t want her failure to turn Saul into the upper social circle’s laughingstock.Thus, she wanted to stop Ronnie no matter what.Everyone in the meeting room felt a cold chill run down their spine. They wanted to speak up, but they dared not utter a single word.Lola glared at the higher-ups, disappointed.They had been given high pay despite never lifting a finger, yet they couldn’t even function properly at such a crucial moment.Lola then glanced at a newly-hired consultant—the chief geomancy expert, Franklin Failes.With his experience, helping a few high officials in a single year would allow him to live the rest of his life in glory and riches.He came to be the chief geomancy expert since nobody was able to replace the previous one who had quit.The Robbins family used a lot of connections to get Franklin here.Even though he had just got into the company, he enjoyed a high status.“Do you have any ideas, Master