“Little Prince, Fabian has asked multiple times if you’re willing to join their Empire Meet. How would you like to respond?”
Dominique’s smile grew slightly cold when he heard him.
“They’re just a circle made up of over-hyped and ignorant trust-fund children. What else to respond but to tell him to get lost as far away as possible! Tell him I’m not interested!”
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“The little prince and Fabian? They have no reason to be acquainted.”
In the hotel, Henry was filled with confusion.
“One of them is from Waterhoof City while the other’s in Harbor City.”
“Waterhoof City’s Royal family doesn’t have any
means to join the Harbor City market.”
“Nor did Harbor City’s Atticus family show any desire to make money in Waterhoof City.”
“The Royal family is a local and long-standing wealthy family here in Waterhoof City. The family’s started their business here even before the Republic. The Royal family controlled the Waterhoof City before the Republic and they’ve been developing further all this while no one knows how terrifyingly powerful they are now.”
“But about the Royal family. They have businesses everywhere but their family’s powers don’t reach beyond Waterhoof City. I suppose it’s a smart move to protect themselves. But there’s almost no contact with rich families from Harbor City.”
“As for Fabian, the Atticus family’s businesses are mainly local in Harbor City or somewhere in the southeast region. There’s almost no business with the mainlands but I did hear something about searching for things to invest in the mainlands these years.”
“Still, there’s not much chance for contact.”
Henry said everything in one breath and his mouth was left dry after he was done. He took the cup of water and drank it in large gulps before he placed it down and asking Jasper, “Did you meet the little prince?”
“That neither dark nor bright expression of his makes your hand itch to slap him, doesn’t it?”
Jasper was still trying to process Henry’s prior information when he heard the man again. He replied exasperatedly, “His expression just leans toward something more sinister but gentle. It wasn’t even as exaggerated as you claimed.”
Henry snorted and replied, “When it comes to acting pretentious, he’s the best of all I’ve met. It’s like he doesn’t care about anything at all like he’s got no doubt in everything. You know what I’m talking about, right? That disgusting high and mighty attitude of his.”
Jasper thought back to the course of meeting Dominique and rubbed his chin. “You got that right about loving to act pretentious.”
“Haha,” Henry cackled. Then he looked at Jasper mysteriously and said, “I just received news of something you’d definitely be interested in.”
“Fabian that d*ck got a bunch of people together to make some organization called the Empire Meet. He’s currently inviting all sorts of people in.”
Jasper frowned at what he heard. “Empire Meet?”
“It’s a club, filled with rich children from powerful families like Fabian. The only difference is that people invited are rich children that have already begun to take up the family business. So they’re not all trust-fund children.”
Jasper frowned and replied, “He’s got to be planning something big with something like this Empire Meet.”
“Heh. It’s not as easy as you think. Fabian’s reputation among the circle is horrible so excluding the few that are close with the Atticus family, there aren’t many people willing to join him.”
“Not to mention that everyone knows how strained Fabian’s relationship with Kayden is. The larger the business Kayden and his dad, Half-the-Harbor Langdon, are doing, the fewer people are willing to risk offending Kayden to join Fabian.”
“There’s quite a lot of people waiting to watch him make a fool out of himself now.”
Yet Jasper shook his head and said, “He wouldn’t do this out of the blue unless he’s certain. Who knows, maybe he has a secret trump card?”
“Well, it’s got f*ck all to do with me anyway nor would he invite me. But I’ll help you keep an eye out on who joins this Empire Meet. These people will be your enemies.”
“I’m starting to realize that you’re very suited for intel gathering,” Jasper said genuinely.
“You wish. I’m going to Swallow Capital tomorrow,” Henry suddenly told him.
“For Jill?” Jasper asked.
Henry snickered. “She’s going abroad for a competition next week and she’ll be leaving for a week. So I thought I’m going to go visit her.”
“Find a chance and tell her about your identity if you’re serious about her, lest the situation gets out of hand one day. And try to hint at it with your dad too. You know how important marriage is for families like yours.
“Elope behind your dad’s back and it’ll get really messy when he finds out,” Jasper reminded.
Henry rubbed his face and said grimly, “We’ll deal with that later. I still haven’t thought that far yet. I’m pretty sure my dad will say no to this.”
“But I will find a chance to tell Jill the truth, then try and meet her family. I’ll do a check on what kind of family she has and see if her relatives have any ulterior motives about my identity.”
“If they do, then that’s that. If they don’t, then I’ll bring it up with my dad.”
Jasper was relieved when he heard Henry’s plan.
The romantic story of Prince Charming and Cinderella in dramas and novels are all fake, after all.
Take Henry before him for example, no matter how much he liked Jill, he still had to give up on her if his family was against it.
Henry was not stupid either. If Jill and her family have the intention to further their relationship with Henry because of his familial background, then he would most likely sever ties and turn against them ruthlessly as well.
All in all, a young master like Henry might be arrogant and a trust-fund child, but he wasn’t a brainless idiot. If anything, this man was much smarter than ordinary people.
While Jasper and Henry chatted, someone knocked on the hotel room door.
Seeing Lisa stand outside nervous and anxiously, Jasper’s gaze turned pensive.
