In the corridor outside the ward, Melody was riding a wooden horse, while the three boys surrounded her.Harold leaned forward and grinned. “Mel, I’m your brother. Come on, call me ‘Hal.’”Melody tilted her head and softly said, “Harold.”“Hey, no. You should call me ‘Hal,’” Harold corrected her. “I’m your second eldest brother. You should call me ‘Hal.’”“Hal,” Melody said obediently.George walked over too. “I’m your eldest brother. Mel, can you call me ‘Georgie?’”“Georgie.”Melody was very compliant. She just said whatever they wanted her to say.Alden was quite frustrated. His mother and sister had been taken away now. He was devastated.“This is your third eldest brother.” Harold pointed at Alden as he spoke.Alden’s face immediately darkened. He pursed his lips and said, “Harold, I’m older than you. How can you be the second eldest and I the third eldest?”“Dad said I’m older than you!” Harold shook his head pridefully. “I’m the older brother, and you’re the younger b
Alden took his phone out and captured a photo of Shura’s back.“What does ‘Shura’ mean?” Harold asked with a puzzled expression after he snapped out of his daze.George rolled his eyes at him. “Did you learn English from your PE teacher?”Harold felt insulted as he stroked his chin. “George, you know that I feel sleepy whenever I attend English class. I don’t have the talent for language. You can’t blame me for that! Mel, don’t you agree?”“Shura’s a character in a comic,” Melody softly said.Harold became speechless.Even Melody knew the term, but he was clueless.No wonder his dad did not give him a company to manage. Was it because he was too stupid?”George glanced at Alden and nonchalantly asked, “Do you know that man with the mask?”Alden put his phone into his pocket and shook his head. “I don’t know him.”He really did not know him. He had never met Shura. He had only heard about the man from K.Shura was not a hacker, but his presence was more terrifying than that o
The temperature in the ward instantly dropped to zero.The man in the silver mask pulled out a chair and sat down. His gaze was extremely hostile and profound. “Why? Can’t I return to Sea City?”“You better disappear in three days,” Duke firmly said. His gaze was as sharp as a knife.“I haven’t visited Mom. How can I leave so quickly?” The man chuckled. “Duke, I’m your elder brother. We’re twins. You don’t have to keep ridiculing me. It really upsets me.”Duke gritted his teeth. “You don’t deserve to be my brother.”The man in the silver mask played around with his fingers, and his gaze gradually turned cold. “Duke Winters, I owe you nothing. Don’t you talk to me like that! If we must distinguish between right and wrong, you’re at fault too. If it weren’t for you, would I be in such a miserable state? You owe me. All of you owe me!”The man became slightly irritated.Duke stared at him with disdain. “You deserve it. Don’t blame everything on someone else.”“Yes, I deserve thi
At 2.00 pm, Serene returned and knocked on the door. Then, the two of them took the documents and prepared to go to Elitos Corporation’s office in Sea City.While they walked to the elevator, they met Mr. Roberts and his secretary from the company next door.Adina smiled and nodded to greet them. “Mr. Roberts, where are you going in a hurry?”Just as Mr. Roberts was about to speak, his secretary cleared his throat and said, “We’re going to meet a client.”They were going to Elitos Corporation for the bid too, but their success rate was not high, so it was not appropriate to announce it right now. It would not be too late if they won the bid later.Adina nodded. “I have something to do as well. Goodbye then.”The two groups entered two separate cars in front of the office building.Then, the two cars moved toward the same destination at the same time.Half an hour later, the cars stopped. Serene pushed her car door open and got out before she also saw Mr. Roberts and his secreta
Elitos Corporation had just moved to Sea City. They had rented an office building but had not established their project team yet.On this day of the large tender, not only did they have to recruit a chief programming designer, but they also needed to hire staff for the process control room, product operators, a full process planning team, technical consultants, and more.Bidding Arena 1 was a few hundred square feet, but it was filled with people who had come to bid.Those who were qualified to bid there were the top players in their respective industries, and every one of them appeared ambitious.Adina sat in the last row. Her gaze was indifferent, and her expression was calm.Serene felt a little anxious, but when she saw how calm Adina was, she gradually relaxed as well.“Hi, I’m the general manager of Philly Corporation. I’m here to bid for the position of general site controller. What about you?”A man, who had been sitting at the side, came over and greeted Adina. He even
“Please support us, Technical Department.”The staff members in the office were all over the place.“Miss, who are you? Who allowed you to come here?”The staff member, who had acted as the host earlier, saw Adina standing in the corridor. He frowned as he walked over and chased her out.However, the moment he saw Adina’s face, the annoyance on his face instantly disappeared.Men would usually tolerate women more, especially if they were gorgeous women.“This is Elitos Corporation’s internal office. Outsiders are prohibited from entering this section. Please leave.”Adina looked around indifferently. “Where is the person in charge of your company? Please bring me to him.”The staff member frowned. “Mr. Wynters will not see anyone at this time. It doesn’t matter who you are or why you’re looking for Mr. Wynters. Please come again tomorrow.”“Elitos is being attacked by hackers. If you don’t stop the hackers in time, I can confirm that all the funds in your company account will
Adina recalled the staff description on the Elitos brochure. There was only one name: Mr. Earley Wynters.When this man visited her in LaStar Technology Corporation previously, he had mentioned that his name was Wynters. So, he should be the person in charge of Elitos Corporation’s project in Sea City. Elitos worked on Internet and IoT development. They did not have anything to do with the human biological tests that Mr. Wynters had talked about before.Adina thought of a lot of things, but it all hit her in less than a second.The people in the meeting room simultaneously looked at her. When they saw Adina, they sighed in relief.For some reason, Mr. Wynters hated women getting close to him. Now that this woman was there for who knows what, she could probably bear some of Mr. Wynters’ fury for them.“Ms. Daugherty?”Earley’s gaze was cold and angry, while he flashed her an evil smile.He wheeled around in his chair before he stared at Adina in an unfriendly and intense manner
Earley dusted off his index finger. “Pretty much.”Adina nodded to acknowledge that she already knew.She took out a document from her bag and indifferently said, “Since it’s just a ‘pretty much,’ that means I still have a chance. This is the chip solution that I wrote. You can have a look at it if you have the time, Mr. Wynters.”She placed the document on the meeting desk before she turned around and left.Earley stared at her back and only picked up the document from the table after she disappeared from the corridor.His skin tone was slightly tan, and the ends of his fingers were dark with a thick layer of calluses.He flipped through the documents, and they were filled with professional technical terms.Although he was not a professional technician, he had slowly started to understand that aspect of things after taking charge of this project.There was only a rough systematic framework in the proposal, and there was very little content. It also seemed a bit crude, but the