Conrad and Colin were already in the conference room. After Jasper led Henry, Julian, Dwayne, and several of his employees into the room, the main door was closed.
The shareholders meeting had officially begun.
Countless forces and individuals in Southeast Province stared at the main door of the conference room.
In a sense, this was Jasper and Dawson, both emerging bigwigs, challenging the veterans of Southeast Province, the Monty family.
The result of this battle could potentially affect the trend of the entire upper class circle in Southeast Province.
In other parts of the country, the hot money market institutions involved in the mineral industry and even the real estate industry had their eyes fixed on this event today.
The shareholders meeting had a much wider scope of influence than anyone would have imagined.
In the conference room, Jasper and the group’s arrival caught everyone’s attention immediately.
After exchanging glances with Colin, they both tore their gazes away. Jasper was about to speak to Henry when he heard a fit of laughter.
Conrad walked toward them with open arms.
Obviously, he was here to greet Dwayne, not Jasper.
Conrad and Dwayne seemed really close.
“It’s been half a year since we last met, Dwayne. I remember you have rheumatoid arthritis, are your legs better now?”
Jasper mulled over Conrad’s deliberate show of friendliness.
Dwayne seemed a little awkward, but he still hugged Conrad lightly and said in a polite tone, “Thanks for your concern, Mr. Monty. My legs are much better now.”
“Much better means that they haven’t completely healed, then.” Conrad seemed to be unaware of how awkward Dwayne looked. He finished his sentence with a smile and turned around to say to Benjamin, “Remind me to send Dwayne a jar of my old medicinal wine after this. That’s the best cure for rheumatism. Even my father is drinking it.”
Benjamin said delightfully, “Alright, Mr. Monty. I’ll make sure to remember that.”
Dwayne waved his hands immediately and said, “You’re too kind, Mr. Monty. Should we get straight to business first?”
“Straight to business?” Conrad gave Jasper a meaningful look and said, “Of course, we should get straight to business.”
As soon as Conrad said those words, Benjamin said sarcastically, “I wonder what’s going through some people’s heads sometimes. Just because he got lucky and earned some money, he thinks he has become the richest man in the country? He should probably look at himself in the mirror and see who he really is.
“Just because he has a bit of stinking money, he thinks he can lay his fingers on everything? Be careful, because you might not even know how you got killed.”
Benjamin looked at Jasper as he said those words, sneering. “I’m talking about you, Jasper Laine. I really wonder what’s going on inside that head of yours. Why are you even holding this shareholders meeting? Just so you can get humiliated?”
“Does that have anything to do with you?” Jasper asked.
Benjamin said in disdain, “It has nothing to do with me, of course. Mr. Monty is a really understanding man. Since you’re so eager to be humiliated, I will very reluctantly work with him to give you a proper humiliation then.
“You’re holding a shareholders meeting just because you bought some shares on the share market? How hilarious! The shares you hold are only enough for you to do inconsequential things like that.
“Are you ashamed and angry because you’ve failed to acquire Skyward Aluminum after announcing it? Haha.”
Henry was most annoyed when someone behaved excessively complacent in front of him.
He cast sidelong glances at him immediately.
“Do you hear a dog barking? F*ck, I think only the boss has the right to speak here, don’t you think? You’re just a f*cking employee. Who do you think you are?”
“You!” Although Benjamin was furious, he still panicked when he caught sight of Henry’s sinister expression that seemed to be waiting for him to go berserk.
As soon as he panicked, Henry cut him off and spoke first.
“You what? I’ll drag you to a cesspit and throw you in if you keep looking at me with those smug eyes. Watch me!”
Henry’s words left more than a dozen people in the conference room dumbfounded.
