More than thirty years had passed. However, there was nothing else that Curtis had left behind for her aside from some old photographs and memories that she could never forget.Not to mention, any token that Curtis could have possibly left behind to relieve her of her sorrows. It was also simply extremely difficult even if Helen wanted to visit Curtis’s grave and pay her respects to him.Now, she could finally buy over the old mansion that he used to live in. Therefore, Helen felt as though she finally had somewhere to store all of the emotions and feelings that she had held for more than thirty years.Sophie had mixed feelings when she saw her mother bursting into tears.She felt sorry for her mother because she had been so infatuated and deeply in love with someone else for so many years, but at the same time, she also felt sympathy for her father, who had been with the wrong woman all his life.However, when she thought about the fact that her father had cheated on her mother p
Isaac quickly drove the car over. As Charlie was about to get into the car, the owner of Treasure Pavilion, Finn, ran out in a hurry and asked nervously, “Master Wade, why are you leaving so soon?”Charlie replied calmly, “I suddenly have something to deal with, so I will not be staying any longer.”Finn hurriedly asked, “Master Wade, are you dissatisfied with the services provided by Treasure Pavilion?”Charlie waved his hand and said, “No, it has nothing to do with Treasure Pavilion.”Finn heaved a huge sigh of relief before he hurriedly asked, “By the way, Master Wade, are you interested in any of the items that will be auctioned off today? If there is something that you are interested in, please let me know, and I will certainly help you to get it!”Charlie shook his head before he smiled and said, “There is nothing that I am interested in at the auction. The reason why I came here today is simply to join in the excitement. So, you don’t have to worry too much.”With that sai
The staff wiped off his sweat as he explained, “Madam, the starting price for the mansion that you are buying is only $880,000, and the highest market price for this mansion is only $1,300,000. The current price that you are offering to pay for this mansion is nearly fifty times more than the highest market price. Are you sure that you really do not need to think about it again?”Helen shook her head and said with firm determination, “I have already considered and thought about it clearly. I do not need to think about it any further. Please help me get it done as soon as possible.”Several staff members exchanged glances with one another before one of them suddenly spoke up and said, “In that case, we will proceed to handle the subsequent payment process for you, then. Do you have enough money in your bank balance?”Helen nodded. “Yes.”“Okay.” The staff braced himself as he took out the POS machine and said, “Madam, please make sure that the single-day transaction limit for your b
Steven was a person without any morality or virtue.As for Cadfan, although he was also an unscrupulous person without any morality or virtue, at the very least, he would always scheme and plan carefully before taking action.This kind of person would generally act like a benevolent person that was full of morality, but they would often be the dregs of society.However, the main point was that no one would be able to tell that they were the dregs of society.Lord Schulz had been scheming throughout his lifetime, and he had done many vicious and wicked things in this life, but the only time that he had truly gotten caught was when his plan to deal with Rosalie had gotten completely exposed.In most cases, Lord Schulz was very good at putting on an act.At this time, Lord Schulz already regarded Steven as his future successor. So, he earnestly said, “Steven, you have to understand the rules of survival and what you should or should not do in the upper-class society. In short, you h
This was similar to those martial arts sects. The head of the sect would always pass on all the core martial arts skills and techniques onto the next successor of the sect, but not to any of his other apprentices. This was to ensure that the strength of his successor would always be higher so that he would not get overthrown by his own men in the future.In the past, Lord Schulz devoted himself to teaching all of his methods and strategies to his eldest son, Sheldon, every day. As for his other sons, he had never taught them any real strategies at all.But now, Lord Schulz had already chosen to completely abandon his eldest son, Sheldon.After removing his eldest son, the next most ideal heir in his heart to inherit the Schulz family from him was none other than his second son, Steven.Therefore, he planned to train Steven well from now on.At this moment, Lord Schulz thought, ‘I have at most ten to twenty years to live in the future. If I were to train and teach Steven from now o
Listening to Lord Schulz’s words, Steven was excited for a moment and queried, “Dad, do you have any good ideas to make Helen’s death flawless?Lord Schulz laughed coldly. “I have asked my men to look for an A-class fugitive who has committed a capital crime. His family was paid ten million as a resettlement allowance for him to flee to Aurous Hill.” Steven hurriedly asked, “Dad, you plan to ask a fugitive to kill for us? Lord Schulz answered indifferently, “Yes, the fugitive will do the deed. However, the whole plan is not as simple as you think.”Lord Schulz continued, “I have also asked my men to disclose this information to the local police in Aurous Hill. I believe that very soon, the Aurous Hill police will manhunt this fugitive in the entire city. He has committed many murder cases, so once he is caught, he will surely die. Thus, he would naturally flee for his life during the manhunt.” “By then, he will be like a headless fly, running around Aurous Hill, and then coi
Lord Schulz looked at the time and said, “If there is no deviation from the original plan, that A-class fugitive should be arriving at the auction site in ten minutes.” Steven hurriedly asked, “Dad, ten minutes… won’t Helen have left by then?!” “Nope!” Lord Schulz laughed coldly, “Helen should still be handling the change of property ownership. This process is cumbersome and impossible to get it done overnight. Since she desperately wanted that villa and now that it was successfully auctioned to her, she will be very serious in giving her cooperation to smoothen the process.” Nodding his head, Steven sighed in relief. However, he quickly thought of something and queried, “Dad! Sophie is together with her! Will there be any unexpected incidents?” Steven knew that Lord Schulz loved his granddaughter, Sophie, a lot. What Steven was worried about most was not Sophie’s safety, but whether Lord Schulz would stop the plan because of Sophie. With a slight change
At this moment, Aurous Hill. A man donning a face mask appeared at the subway station near Treasure Pavilion. There were many security cameras in the subway station. Some were security footages, and some were the city’s Skynet monitoring. There were also some newly added high-end cameras equipped with facial recognition ability. All these years, with the advancement in technology, facial recognition had emerged successfully from science fiction movies into the lives of normal human beings. Not only were phones able to support facial recognition, more importantly, the police also had a huge amount of data that was closely related to the facial recognition system. The biggest advantage of this system was the speed at which the system conducted a mass screening. For example, assuming hundreds of people walked head-on and there was a fugitive in the mix. By relying on only one police officer to examine every person one by one, the efficiency was not only
Pausing, Charlie then said, "I'll call Steve to drop by later too. I'm sure folks in Aurous Hill won't know him, but your potential troublemaker might.""I-Is that really fine?" Yolden blurted."What's not fine about it?" Charlie chuckled. "He has been treated like a tool ever since he came to Aurous Hill, and now that he has a chance to strut about, he wouldn't ask for more."Yolden appeared slightly relieved at that, and Charlie asked, "By the way, where's Paul, Matilda, and Autumn?""Getting their makeup done," Yolden replied. "Paul's my best man while Autumn's the maid of honor.""Good," Charlie nodded with a grin. "Don't worry—the wedding's going to be a success."As they spoke, Matilda stepped out of the dressing room in a stark-white wedding dress, flanked by Autumn and Paul.Seeing Charlie, Autumn nodded politely, "Good morning, Mr. Wade."As Charlie nodded in turn, Paul started, "G-Good morning… Mr. Wade…"Seeing that he was nervous and tentative, Charlie knew that he
As Yolden and Matilda were remarrying after living abroad for years, the wedding ceremony was much simpler, skipping Oskian customs and having a simple wedding reception for their guests at the hotel hall.There weren't that many guests either—aside from their children and close friends, only a handful of Yolden's colleagues at Aurous Hill University were invited.As the celebrant, Charlie didn't have much to do and was mainly the emcee.He brought along his jacket as he headed out to Shangri-La, not wearing it immediately so that Claire wouldn't guess that he was attending Matilda's wedding.Arriving at the Hanging Gardens before the guests were supposed to arrive, he found Yolden working with the staff to finalize the preparations.Seeing Charlie, Yolden approached him and said, "Thanks for coming this early, Charlie."Noticing that he was a little tired, Charlie asked in concern, "Had a bad night?"Yolden nodded, sighing, "Paul's uncle caused a huge mess. Both Matilda and I a
Tarlon nodded. "How do you suggest we find them?"Fleur scowled. "There's no rush. There are things which I'm still confused about, so just keep a close eye on the Ackers and the Wades for the time being. Report to me right away if anything important comes up—don't afford our enemies any opportunities to exploit.""Yes, milady!" -The next day, more news outlets were covering the joint project between the Ackers and the Wades as word continued to spread.However, neither family revealed too many details, be it the name of the company, who was the CEO, or the scale of their business.While the public was dying with curiosity, nothing else was known.Still, Aurous Hill's officials were especially interested, with the town hall visiting the Ackers the next day and showing utmost sincerity by leasing a whopping 2-million-square-meter land along the southern highway. Still, the condition was for the Ackers to come true on their promise to propel the city's economy to 15 billion US d
Fleur had repeatedly mentioned the conspiracy theory of Ashley using a body double over the last twenty years.Tarlon had investigated from many different angles, but everything from the gender, age, dental records, to body figure pointed to the fact that the deceased was Ashley Acker.And yet, Fleur had never bought it, insisting that Curtis was prepared for them just because Curtis' son had gone missing soon after.There was no way Curtis would save his son but not his wife, and the disfigured corpse only added fuel to Fleur's suspicion.Thus, over the last twenty years, Fleur had kept a close eye on the Ackers, arranging for two 'scholars' to be embedded amongst their ranks as sleeper agents. She went that far all to determine if Ashley was dead or had faked her death.However, the scholars had since been killed in action, and they had no spies within the Ackers left.As for Tarlon, he still doubted Fleur's theory even now, but he remained respectful as he spoke, "Milady, I mu
Meanwhile, on the edge of the South Pole, Tarlon Griffin rushed outside of Fleur Griffin's room, knocking the door gingerly as he announced, "I have news, my lady!"Fleur didn't respond, but the thick wooden door between them slowly opened as if pushed by an invisible force.Tarlon entered to find Fleur seated on the floor with her legs crossed at the ankles. Her eyes remained closed as she molded her Reiki, asking, "What is it?"Tarlon quickly answered, "News from Oskia. The Ackers are partnering with the Wades on a joint venture into electric-powered vehicles."Fleur slowly opened her eyes, asking quietly, "And you're telling me because?"Tarlon quickly explained, "It just came out of the blue, so I thought I should report it to you right away."Fleur sighed. "After I tried and failed to wipe out the Ackers so many times, they wouldn't dare set foot stateside. If anything, they must have decided to seek asylum in Oskia by offering a substantial investment, and it's a base whe
Silent for a while, Matilda then asked Yolden, "Do you think I can do it?""Yes!" Yolden nodded without hesitation. "You definitely won't have any problems!"Matilda sighed, shaking her head. "We traveled far abroad to study while we were young, but we didn't return to Oskia to help the country's development. It's been thirty years since, and now that we have returned to the country at the same time, I definitely wouldn't turn down such an opportunity to help."Pausing, she then said, "That said, major corporations make it a point to not hire family members. Forget spouses—employees aren't allowed to date, and one of the two will be asked to resign if necessary."Don't you think it's inappropriate since we are legally married, having gotten our certificate and all? And if we set these precedents, we would have trouble asking other employees to follow that policy. You are going to be a CEO, so you need a very clear answer on this issue."Yolden shrugged. "In the first place, that p
Yolden nodded slightly. "He does.""My gosh…" Matilda murmured. "That's too much… Ashley's son? A member of the Acker family and the Wades?!"Pausing, she then asked in confusion, "Wait, if Charlie has so much power and influence, why would he permanently reside in Aurous Hill… No, why would he be content as Jacob Wilson's son-in-law? Does Jacob know who he really is?""Definitely not," Yolden shook his head. "There were some compelling circumstances, and his identity is a sensitive one. That's why I'm asking you to tell no one except Paul—and even then, you should only tell him if he can keep the secret."Matilda was sharp enough to pick up on the reasoning, too. "Charlie's hiding because of his parents' accident, isn't he?""Yes," Yolden sighed. "He has his plans, but I didn't pry since I can only do that much, let alone help him on that.""Got it," Matilda nodded repeatedly. "Don't worry. My lips are sealed… And you just said you're resigning? Are you going to help with this e
"That would be Ashley Layna Acker," Matilda replied without hesitation. "She was our age, as well as a major investor in Silicon Valley, while we were only starting to get our first clients. It's no exaggeration to say that she's the shining example in many case studies when it comes to business."Pausing, she then continued, "And she used to be your classmate, right? I remember you mentioning that in our conversations before.""Yes," Yolden sighed emotionally. "She was a classmate and the star of our generation."Matilda nodded but soon shook her head, "Wait, weren't we talking about Charlie's car company? What does that have to do with Ashley Acker?" "Here's where I let you in on a secret," Yolden said. "But first, you have to promise me that you won't tell anyone except Paul."Matilda nodded without hesitation. "Don't worry—if it's a secret, I won't tell Paul either."Yolden scratched his head. "Actually, Paul should know. We are going to marry soon, and he's my stepson, lega
In fact, the legal department of major enterprises covered many responsibilities, the chief of which concerned intellectual property, which was why veterans were needed to lead.Additionally, Charlie trusted Matilda's accomplishments in the legal field, especially since she had worked in the United States for years.With Curtis Autos' intended expansion worldwide, that meant the legal department should also know the laws of countries abroad, ready to file or respond to lawsuits at any time. After all, competitors may use the law to impede their growth, along with the government applying unfair policies to impede their development and impact on local businesses.Moreover, Charlie considered Paul young and therefore lacking in experience, not to mention that it was not likely he would abandon his family's law firm. As such, the ideal solution was to poach Matilda for now.As for Matilda, she was still in the dark and had no idea what she was in for, asking Charlie in confusion, "Lega