When Sheldon heard this, he was extremely shocked, and he stood motionless in front of Charlie.He never would have expected that Curtis’s son would still be alive!He also would not have expected that Curtis’s son would suddenly appear in front of him!At this time, in addition to his nervousness, Sheldon was also feeling a little angry!‘Curtis Wade! Curtis Wade again! Ever since I got to know Helen, these words, ‘Curtis Wade’, have always been my nightmare. It was only until Helen’s whereabouts were completely unknown after she met with a car accident a few days ago that I was finally free from Curtis Wade’s shadow. But now, Curtis Wade’s son is actually here?! Where did this guy come from?!’When Sheldon saw that Charlie’s features and temperament were very similar to Curtis’s, Sheldon hardly had any doubts about his words at all.He simply stared at Charlie before he asked in a cold voice, “Even if you are Curtis Wade’s son, what do you mean by appearing in my room now?”“W
At this time, Charlie smiled as he asked him, “Do you know the answer now? If you do not know it, I can answer you once again.”After getting slapped twice by Charlie, Sheldon already felt very dizzy and confused.The severe pain made him feel as though he was on the verge of collapse. The only person who had ever hit him in his entire life was Lord Schulz, but even Lord Schulz had never hit him so hard before!He yelled at Charlie angrily, “Do you know of the Schulz family’s power and capabilities? Do you believe that I would be able to kill you in just a few minutes?!”Charlie waved his hand as he said disdainfully, “Stop it, Sheldon Schulz. You have already fallen into my hands, so you don’t need to continue pretending to be so powerful or vicious in front of me anymore. Also, you should not think that you will be able to use the Schulz family to overwhelm me. That is because my goal is not as simple as just giving you two slaps.”Sheldon asked nervously, “What is your goal?!”
As the eldest son of the Schulz family, Sheldon had already witnessed and experienced many different big scenes throughout the many years. However, at this time, when he was facing Charlie, who was in his twenties, he was in an unprecedented state of panic.He could not understand why this descendant of the Wade family in front of him would actually be so vicious. He actually dared to attack the members of the Schulz family, one after the other, without any scruples.Even back then when the competition between the Schulz family and the Wade family was at its fiercest, no one had dared to come up with such an unscrupulous tactic. After all, both sides were very strong and powerful. This was equivalent to two countries with nuclear weapons. Neither one of them would actually dare to go all out to fight the other.However, Curtis’s son, who was in front of him, did not seem to care about all this.He had even kidnapped Steven directly, and this in itself was already sufficient to prov
Charlie scoffed as he said, “What a piece of trash!”Sheldon blurted out, “What do you mean?!”Charlie yelled out loud, “I said that you’re a piece of trash! A complete piece of trash!”Having said that, Charlie pointed at Sheldon’s swollen face before he said coldly, “Rosalie is your illegitimate daughter, but instead of showing her love and care as her father, you used her as a tool to commit murder, and you instigated her to wantonly kill the innocent. The evil deed that she committed in Japan, annihilating the entire Matsumoto family, was all because she was acting under your order! You do not have any family affection! You are utterly shameless, cruel, unjust, and you are a useless father!”“Not only that, but Rosalie’s biological mother had stayed by your side for so many years, always doing her best to protect you. She even lost one of her arms because of you. After that, she gave birth to Rosalie for you. Yet, how did you treat her in the end? Have you ever openly acknowled
Every single one of Charlie’s words struck deep in Sheldon’s heart.At this moment, when he imagined walking up on the bloody throne with Jaime, Sophie, and Rosalie’s heads in both of his hands, he felt that his heart was about to instantly explode.His tears started gushing out as he blurted out loudly, “No! It’s not like that! I’ve never thought of using any of their lives in exchange for wealth and status! I’ve always been helpless and forced to do so! It was not my own will”As he spoke, Sheldon became even more emotional as he continued speaking, “My father was the one who had been doing all this! Moreover, every time he would make this kind of decision or whenever he would issue this kind of order, he would never tell me about it. I’m also in a lot of pain, but there is nothing else that I can do!”Charlie asked coldly, “Was there truly nothing else that you could have done, or did you choose to turn a blind eye to it?!”Sheldon knelt on the ground with a thump as he cried b
After he was done speaking, he hurriedly said respectfully, “If you let me go today, I can give you a huge sum of money as compensation. How about ten billion dollars? If that is not enough for you, I can give you more!”Charlie waved his hand. “Sheldon Schulz, you’re overthinking things. Anything else can probably be easily resolved with money, but in regards to this matter today, it’ll be completely useless even if you were to hand the entire Schulz family over to me.”After he was done speaking, Charlie sneered before he said again, “However, you can rest assured that I’ll not release this video to the public.”Sheldon asked in disbelief, “Are you sure that you’re not going to release the video to the public?!”Charlie nodded before he smiled and said, “At the very least, I have no intentions to release this video at the moment.”After he was done speaking, he looked at the time before he smiled and said, “It is about time. Come, let’s go. I’ll take you to meet some old friends
As Charlie and Isaac continued questioning and answering each other, Sheldon, who was next to them, was already scared out of his wits.He really would not have expected Charlie to actually be so vicious. Sheldon could not help but curse angrily in his heart, ‘He sends people to the dog farm?! Is he even f*cking human?! He sends people to Mount Golmin to dig ginseng?! Is this something a person would do?!’In truth, regardless of whether it was the dog farm, Mount Golmin, Mount Blackpine, or even Sierra Leone, those who were close and familiar with Charlie would no longer be surprised.However, in Sheldon’s opinion and as far as he was concerned, Charlie had always been living in the dark. So, Sheldon did not know anything about Charlie’s methods.It was also precisely because he was ignorant and did not know anything about it that he was immediately scared out of his wits as soon as he heard certain clues to his methods.As soon as he heard Charlie saying that he was going to tak
Helen could not help but laugh out loud. “Hahaha! What kind of dream is that?”Sophie smiled as she said, “The setting in my dream seemed to be by the bank of Yardi River, the place I used to go to fly kites when I was a kid.”As she spoke, Sophie said again, “Don’t you think that dreams are very strange? I was a young lady in my dreams, but I did not feel that it was out of sorts when I was dreaming.”Helen nodded. “What is so strange about it? You’ll always be very invested in most dreams that seem to be out of sorts when you are dreaming, and you’ll only feel that it is completely absurd after you wake up.”As she spoke, she sighed softly as she continued saying, “Sigh… I do not even know how many absurd and weird dreams I’ve had in my life. I dreamt that a dead person was still alive, and I even dreamt that I changed how I lived…”Sophie looked at Helen, and when she saw the regretful expression that could never be erased from her face, she could not help but ask, “Mom, do you
Charlie chuckled. "Don't sell yourself short, Mr. Hart. There are plenty of business folk who got so used to their comfort zone that they became caught in the illusion that they can be successful in anything they do. It's a mindset that leads to them blindly developing new projects and new competition, and then they end up losing big."If memory serves, there have been real estate businesses that started mineral water brands, search engines that tried the car industry, e-commerce sites attempting social media, and vice-versa. All of them are multi-billion-dollar companies venturing into new frontiers, but all to unimpressive outcomes."Pausing, Charlie then continued, "You've mentioned rising above the competition amidst the development of the new energy industry. That would get anyone's attention, and it is why I believe that you definitely will make a strong impression with your strategizing and knowledge of the basic principles."Yolden found it hard to refuse, seeing that Charli
Having lost it all, Jacob really looked like he wouldn't be getting back up.But fortunately, he had a pillar in the form of Elaine.In fact, Elaine would serve to be a container, whipping Jacob into shape if he got too full of himself.But on the other hand, now that Jacob was utterly despondent, she would be forcing him to smile and function in general.Elaine's attitude to the entire issue was clear as well. Even though Jacob had just lost his job, she would make him go shopping with her in Dubai even if he fell into a coma. Even if he was dead, she'd just cremate him and bring his ashes along.Hence, with Elaine's firm grip around Jacob's leash, he went on strolls, going shopping and taking selfies with Elaine everyday, eventually easing the toll on his mood and spirit.-Back at Aurous Hill, Charlie was preparing for Yolden Hart and Matilda Hall's wedding as it approached.Yolden was a schoolmate of his mother, Ashley Layna Acker, as well as Charlie's elder.And while Cha
"See you." As soon as Charlie hung up on Matilda, Don Albert's call came right after.He sounded nervous as Charlie answered the phone, saying, "Master Wade, I think I might have gone too far…""Wait, what's this about?" Charlie asked."Your father-in-law, of course…" Don Albert sighed. "You asked me to leave him hanging for a while, so I did. I even refused when he asked to book a room in Heaven Springs.""Well, that's not a problem, is it?" Charlie shrugged. "He and Zachary ganged up for some real mischief. As you are Zachary's boss, it's right that you refused him because you didn't appreciate what he did.""That's just it. I thought that approach was just right as well," Don Albert quickly said. "I wasn't playing nice when Mr. Bay of the Calligraphy and Painting Association called me either. That's when he said he'd try to save Jacob's position as vice-president, but I told him it's none of my business."I then hung up on him without much thought, only for Zachary to tell m
Meanwhile, Charlie was downstairs in Claire's office, waiting to pick her up and head home.That was when Matilda called him, asking as soon as he answered, "Charlie, do you know how Jacob is doing? He never answered any of my texts—is he going to be alright?""I wouldn't know," Charlie replied. "Both he and Elaine are in Dubai on a trip… What's wrong?""He resigned," Matilda sighed. "I only saw the public statement that the Calligraphy and Painting Association posted this afternoon. It says that he tendered the resignation himself, but it doesn't really feel that way. I wonder if he's at odds with other members of the association…"Charlie was actually surprised to hear that Jacob had resigned.He had told Zachary to expose the truth of the bronze sculpture fraud case to teach Jacob a lesson so that Jacob would understand the meaning of true pain.However, he anticipated that Mr. Bay would at least keep Jacob around with an unimportant job even if Jacob did lose some money and e
Falling apart in both mind and spirit, Jacob was crying as he disembarked and took a cab to the hotel.Elaine, who had been lying around for 24 hours, was stunned speechless as she watched him enter, crying like a child.In contrast, Elaine looked like a mother to Jacob just then as he threw himself into her arms and bawled, "Darling… That prick Mr. Bay screwed me over… I have nothing left now…"Taken aback for a moment that Jacob would bawl in her arms like that, Elaine soon came to her senses and patted his back as she comforted him, "Oh, stop crying already. Who cares about some Calligraphy and Painting groupies? We certainly don't! Just hear me out and don't ever go there again!"Jacob kept sobbing, "But I care… I want to go…"Annoyed, Elaine's hand that had been patting Jacob a moment ago slid down to his hip and pinched him viciously before he noticed."Ow!" Jacob yelped in pain, and he demanded indignantly, "What was that for?!""Shut up!" Elaine snapped, glowering. "I wa
Jacob couldn't even be bothered by the looks others were giving him, and he called Mr. Bay immediately.Mr. Bay had already gone home and was seated on the couch with his wife, watching his phone and waiting for Jacob to call and demand an explanation.Mr. Bay knew that he had to answer for this and that if he avoided Jacob, it may well be a confession that he had screwed Jacob over.So, to avoid unnecessary trouble, he decided to come clean with Jacob.Naturally, by coming clean, he meant passing the buck as his wife had suggested.Hence, as he answered Jacob's call, he immediately sighed in embarrassment, "Hey, Jacob. I'm so sorry about that…"However, Jacob was so furious he immediately started bellowing, "Mr. Bay! Are you fucking with me here?! You said that the resignation letter was more of a formality, but you just made it public instead! So, all those things you said about helping me were just a trap, was it?! You're despicable! And to think I've been so good to you, even
The repeated flights had left Jacob tormented.Even before he actually had the time to enjoy Dubai, he had already gotten sick of the place and didn't want to ever return.And on the flight, he couldn't stop his thoughts from going astray.Now that he was not getting back the money he had lost, his only hope was Mr. Bay.Fortunately, Mr. Bay was serious about his promise that he would at least save him a job as department head. That was why, despite his thoughts running astray, he never considered the thought that he would be kicked out of the Calligraphy and Painting Association.As soon as his flight landed, he didn't wait to turn off his phone's flight mode, waiting for the internet connection to return so that he could ask Mr. Bay about the meeting.Once he did, he received a ton of messages from public accounts to acquaintances—many had already found out that he had resigned from the post of administrative vice-president and wanted to ask how he was doing.And Matilda was
The Calligraphy and Painting Association was certainly efficient—soon after the meeting was dismissed, the news that the administrative vice-president had resigned was posted on their official page and social media.The notice was simple and never mentioned what Jacob had done, only that the administrative vice-president had asked to resign for personal reasons. The request had since been voted upon, and all members had agreed to it.And that was how a simple and short message kicked Jacob out of the Calligraphy and Painting Association entirely.In the city, other associations closely connected with the Calligraphy and Painting Association were the various cultural societies and circles of antique enthusiasts and the Senior University. In fact, most fans of the public page of the Calligraphy and Painting Association were from the Senior City, and every lecturer, student, and even guest lecturer were subscribed.As a matter of fact, that was entirely Jacob's doing. After his lect
There weren't that many members in the Calligraphy and Painting Association—just a handful over twenty.Hence, at Mr. Bay's request, everyone showed up at the conference at 1 pm.He chose the afternoon as there were a handful who were away on outreach, including Walker, who was subbing for Jacob's lectures.Once the entire Calligraphy and Painting Association save for Jacob was informed of the mandatory meeting, every member was there on the hour, seated primly and in attention in the huge conference room.Mr. Bay didn't waste his breath on the preamble either—as soon as he saw that everyone had arrived, he announced, "Everyone, I've gathered you here today because our administrative vice-president, Jacob Wilson, has been alleged to be involved in a certain malicious scheme."Last night, Mr. Wilson submitted his resignation to me, and after a discussion with my vice-presidents, we've all decided to hold a vote. It will be open to every member in the association as we will be decid