Winner Takes All

The fragrance of sandalwood lingered in the room.

Steve sat and waited patiently.

The look in his eyes was unreadable.

Creek...

The door opened.

"Mable, you've come." Steve stood up and said.

Minister Mable had a serious look on his face, with a look of tiredness. He slumped in a chair, poured a cup of tea, and drank it.

Then he slowly said, "don't mention it. YK announced the pending of the trade, and the West Shantytown is in chaos. Your diamond son-in-law's four sales centers were all crushed! I was trying to rescue the situation."

"That's what I'm here for," Steve said.

Mable lifted his eyebrows, "continue."

Steve hesitated a little and said, "About Jack being my diamond great son-in-law, what is this exactly about?"

"Can't say." Minister Mable shook his head and refused.

Steve was anxious, "you and Lansing kept mentioning diamond son-in-law. When something like this had happened, Amber is worried and so do I." Hearing this.

Minister Mable's eyes lit up at once.

He smiled meaningfully as he looked at Steve and said, "Steve, don't blame me for not reminding you. You have to help Jack!"

Minister Mable paused deliberately for a more comfortable sitting position before continuing.

"With your financial resources, trading on a commercial complex in this city is a piece of cake for you. The real estate value of the West Shantytown would be stable again if you lay your helping hands. There will be hope to save Jack's agency, and this would be your investment in Jack!"

"And I can guarantee you that your investment would make you steady profits. About how much you could make from it, that depends on how far the limits of your diamond son-in-law's growing ability is." "Limits of growing ability?"

Steve's eyes flickered. He caught the main point.

The "limits of growing ability" that Minister Mable mentioned made him feel very abrupt and very strange.

As he knew, Jack was indeed a young and talented man.

However, he was not close at all to the "diamond son-in-law" described by Minister Mable. Obviously, the part that Minister Mable concealed from him was the real inside information of Jack.

After inhaling a deep breath, Steve looked abrupt and firm, "Okay, I'll invest."

"Hahaha..."

Minister Mable began to laugh suddenly and held his fist in thanks to Steve, "thanks, my old friend, for your help. The west Shantytown is stable now. I, a man with many responsibilities will now be relieved." Steve was stunned and he immediately realized. Then he complained playfully, "You're an old fox. You've been preparing for this since you entered the room, right?"

If the real estate in West Shantytown was gone, Minister Mable with many responsibilities on his shoulder would be utterly exhausted too.

If Minister Mable could not stable the real estate value, it would be a failure for him too.

Minister Mable laughed and said, "sigh... Years of friendship is nothing compared to your future son-in-law."

Steve smiled but said nothing more.

Now that the decision has been made, whether, for the sake of his daughter or the sake of his years of old friends, he had to invest.

...

The situation worsened in the next two days.

The tide of public opinion grew stronger and stronger.

The danger was approaching DT Real Estate Agency.

And the real estate value of West Shantytown fell by twenty percent in just short two days!

Such a terrible slump caused the anger to rose and was unstoppable in the crowd of buyers of the houses in West Shantytown.

Also, the industry and the haters on the internet deliberately smeared the truth, making them fall into the worse unstoppable situation.

In DT Real Estate Agency.

Everyone was in a state of panic.

Everyone knew, if the real estate value continued to collapse, the real estate project in the West Shantytown will cause the end of DT Real Estate Agency.

It would be even more devastating than the bankruptcy before this!

Risk and return have always been proportional to the rise of real estate values. DT Real Estate Agency had been investing all on it and once the risks are exposed, DT would be in great danger. Inside the office, Jack looked out of the window silently.

He had learned from Mr. Ward that Drago would buy two pieces of land in the West Shantytown. Although he knew doing that would not be much of a use, it could help him gain some time. Gaining extra time would be good enough for now.

All he can do for now was to find a way to delay the time for the "burst" in the West Shantytown.

The result, after all, still depended on the Hughes family. Would his father win or Madam Hughes!

The battle was an internal battle of the Hughes Family.

It was out of his hands.

Even for Jack, the Hughes family was the sky for him.

But now, the sky has changed!

The only thing he could do was wait for the sky to decide the winner!

If his father managed to quickly suppress Madam Hughes, then the West Shantytown would be peace at once.

But if he couldn't, or if Madam Hughes put him off too long. He would lose the battle.

The notification of a message from his WeChat sounded.

It was from Mr. Ward.

Jack tapped into the message.

The message was simple: Master, a letter came from the Hughes family!

Letter?

Jack was in doubt.

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Before he could reply to Mr. Ward's message, his door was pushed open by Lone Wolf.

"Bad news, Mr. Hughes."

Lone Wolf looked panic, his attire was in a mess, "The buyers are at the front of the lobby entrance of the building. They are trying to break in to get an explanation from you. We're unable to stop them anymore."

"Oh?"

Jack smiled, "I'll go down and meet them then."

"What?" Lone Wolf froze.

The crowd was already in chaos.

One of the security guards bled on the head due to the ambush of an angry buyer. And Mr. Hughes wanted to go down and meet them?

"We could not avoid this. Running away would make the situation worse quicker!"

Jack smiled bitterly. What he must do now was to buy more time. He'll have to do that even he had to linger on in a steadily worsening condition or endure humiliations.

"Got... Got it."

Lone Wolf nodded and hurried followed him.

In the front entrance of DT Real Estate Agency.

By this time, it was already full of people.

The voices of anger and condemnation were deafening.

Some even held up signs and rushed frantically into the building.

The building security and the security guard of DT Real Estate Agency were desperately blocking the door. They were mostly injured.

Outside the crowd, many onlookers were holding their mobile phones and taking videos. Media reports were there too!

When Jack and Lone Wolf arrived at the ground.

A shout broke out from the frenzied crowd.

"Jack Hughes is here!"

In an instant, the buyers who were trying to break through the building were more violent.

"Mr. Hughes, leave, leave now..."

One of the DT security guards shouted.

Slap!

As soon as the security guard shouted, one of the buyers in the crowd slapped his face. The security guard's nose bled at an instant.

Jack looked loss and he stared at the security guards who were trying their best to stop the crowd.

He said aloud. "Let them in. I'll give them a reasonable explanation."

Whoosh!

Just as Jack spoke, a beer bottle was thrown in his direction.

Smash!

The bottle hit Jack on the head and broke apart, scattering to the ground.

And blood flowed down from Jack's forehead to his face and dripped to the ground.

"Damn you! I don't want your explanation. I want my money back!"00000