Zhenny and Jasmine left the study room. The mother and daughter looked furious.“Mother, Grandpa is biased!” Jasmine clenched her teeth. “Adina is his illegitimate granddaughter! Does he have to back her up to this extent?!”“Jas, that’s why you have to work harder.” Zhenny suppressed her anger and said calmly, “Your surname is Yackley, so it’s only normal for Grandpa to not side with you. You have to be hundred times more capable than Daniel or Adina in order to inherit Jones Corporation.”Jasmine raised her chin smugly. “We are definitely winning this contest with the petrochemical project. I’ll trample Adina under my feet!”Zhenny shook her head. “Adina re-planned the resort project. If her proposal is implemented, the resort project’s profitability and influence will be comparable to that of our petrochemical project, so we don’t know if we can win the contest yet.”“They have to invest capital first for the tourism project. They must continue to invest in capital before they
Jones Corporation headquarters was a skyscraper. It was a landmark within the commercial arena. After several decades of steady development, the foundation of Jones Corporation now was deeply rooted in the Sea City. The succession contest kicked off. The internal management got even busier. Daniel went to the finance department with the documents.“Young Master Jones, what brings you here?” The Chief Financial Officer grinned and flipped through the documents Daniel had passed to him. “So, it’s about the investment funds for the resort. Mdm. Zhenny mentioned it to me this morning. I’ll stamp the document and release the funds now. Young Master Jones, please wait for a while.”Daniel waited patiently. The moment he received the funds, he frowned. “The preliminary investment funds required for the project is at least $1,500,000,000.”The Chief Financial Officer smiled. “The initial proposal stated the project required $1,000,000,000. I am doing my work according to the company’s p
Daniel was afraid that Adina would discover the truth, so he tried to hang up. Adina stopped him.“Daniel, did the finance department reject your fund request?” Adina asked. Daniel kept quiet. He did not want to upset her with the Jones family’s dirty tricks.“If Jones Corporation can only release $ 1,000,000,000, it will be their loss.” Adina smiled. “Pass my message to Graham, will you? He doesn’t have to waste time finding investors anymore. Someone is willing to make up for the shortage in the investment funds.”Daniel was stunned. “We lack more than $1,000,000,000 for the investment funds.” Finding investment funds was always the hardest job. Adina chuckled. “Just do it. Don’t worry so much about the investment funds. I’ll go to the site and see the progress after a couple of days.” She hung up.Daniel had not recovered from the news. It took him some time to remember to call Graham.Adina casually placed her phone on the table. She then wrapped her arms around Duke’s nec
He had seen Dillon many times before, but Duke had never met him as his son-in-law.“Mr. Winters, nice to meet you.” Duke got up calmly and shook hands with Duke.Duke politely said, “Father, you can call me by my name.”Dillon had been very nervous meeting him. But when Duke called him ‘father’, a smile appeared on his lips.Since Duke addressed him as his father, just like Adina, he was sure that both of them were very close. “Father, why are you here?” Adina served Dillon a cup of coffee. “Daniel said you fainted. I wanted to visit you in the hospital, but I couldn’t find time to do so.” Dillon stared at her with worry. “You’ve only rested for a night. Are you feeling better?”“I feel much better now. It’s not a big issue,” Adina said. “I planned to go to the site and take a look at the progress of the project, but Duke insisted on having me rest at home. I feel bored at home.”Dillon said solemnly, “You have to listen to Duke. Rest at home. You have Dan to take care of t
“Duke, can you tell me exactly what all this is about?” Flint asked. “Why does Addy suddenly want to find out about bio-intelligent chips? Bio-intelligent chips are common among the Rebellious Party in the Hestia Border. Why does she want to investigate it?”Duke said in a dull tone, “After I find out everything clearly, I will be sure to tell you. Right now, I will tell Blake to find you.”Duke hung up and sent a message to Blake.Just then, a courier arrived at the entrance of his mansion. Mr. Brown carried the box upstairs. Duke cut it open. It was the fingerprint membrane he asked someone to prepare for him this morning.He put on the fingerprint membrane on his index finger. He took out a small communicator and pressed his index finger on it.Tik! The line was connected.After three seconds, a man’s voice came from the communicator. He spoke in fluent English.“Boss, you finally contacted me!”Duke said in a cold voice, “Professor Elvis, how’s the latest progress of the re
“So? The way I see it you will not have the chance to impersonate me anymore,” said Duke. Earl stopped laughing.“Hmph!” Earl put out the cigarette he was smoking against the tabletop. A burnt trace was left behind. “Spill it out. Why are you looking for me?”Duke twiddled his fingers. “I have burned your underground biological company down. What do you have to say about it?”“Let it be. Do you seriously think I care about it?” Earl said lazily. “Is there anything else? If not, I have other business to deal with.”There were several naked women on his bed.“Regarding the bio-intelligent chips you previously sold, the buyers came to look for you,” Duke said calmly. “Something is wrong with the program. People who have been implanted with the chip behaved abnormally. They need the destruction program. You should handle this first.”“That’s very funny. Why should I work for you, huh?” Earl propped his hands on the table. His face was enlarged on the screen. “You’re impersonating me
The breeze outside was cold, and Adina was in her pajamas. Duke took a jacket from the hanger and quickly chased after her. “Addy, put on some clothes first.”But he was too late.Adina opened the car door and started the car. She drove out of the Winters family’s mansion in a rush.“Mr. Winters, what happened to Mdm. Winters?” Mr. Brown was shocked. “Mdm. Winters will catch a cold with so few clothes on. Please go after her. You must take care of her in that condition…”Before Mr. Brown even finished speaking, Duke drove the black sports car and went after her.It was a weekday. There were very few cars on the road. The weather was cold. There were very few pedestrians. Only two cars sped on the road.Duke dared not get too close to her. He was afraid that Adina would race her car without much care for her own life.Adina must be carrying out the orders from the bio-intelligent chip inside her body. He vividly remembered reading the reports of the victim. They carried out the
Outside the car, the cold breeze blew the leaves away.Adina looked down and said in a calm voice, “Whenever we’re at our most intimate moments, a mechanical female voice appears in my mind. The first time it appeared, it asked me to jump off the building. Later, as I grew closer to you, that voice asked me to leave you or forced me to spew nonsense…”She yanked at the strands of hair that had dropped on her brow. “I cannot resist that voice’s order no matter how hard I try, so I have to do what it says. Otherwise, my head hurts so bad until I give in to it. It is so excruciatingly painful that I sometimes wish I could just kill myself to end the pain.”“Addy…”Duke did not know what to say. He hugged Adina close trying to transmit all his warmth and energy to her.He could not take away her pain. But when he saw her so lost and helpless, he felt his heart constrict. Seeing her in pain hurt him so much that it felt as if a knife was thrust in his heart.What he wouldn’t give to s