No. 1 Supreme Warrior

Chapter 751-800

Chapter 751 Andrew and Fiona were speechless. They wondered if these two women—these female bodyguards— had something going with jackie under their noses since they always stood for jackie and supported him. How could he stop working a job with a monthly salary of 20 million? Apart from that, how could these women say that the richest man was lucky to have jackie work as their family’s bodyguard?

jackie smiled bitterly and said to Fiona, “Mother, I betted one hundred million a game with Young Master Turner, and I won ten games back to back. Are you sure you don’t want this money?”

“We surely—” Fiona was about to say ‘no’ before realization dawned on her. “What?! One hundred million a game, you say? And you won ten games? Doesn’t that mean you’ve won a whole one billion?!”

“Yes, one billion,” came jackie’s calm-sounding reply, added with a shrug. “Do you feel that I should give it up just because Young Master Drake spoke up on his behalf?”

“One billion!” Andrew also exclaimed. This…this was too much! How did they settle with such large wagers?!

“That;s a lot! I thought it’d be around a hundred dollars bet per game, and at most, a thousand dollars. How did it come to a billion?! We must take the money! We can’t give up such a big amount!” Fiona grew increasingly excited when she thought about it.

She walked forward happily and patted jackie’s shoulder while saying, “Dear me! It’s all a misunderstanding. It’s alright to give up the job if it’s one billion dollars. This one billion is enough for us, and if we’re frugal, we don’t need to worry for the rest of our lives. One whole billion! jackie, you’ve made a really intelligent choice!”

“That’s right! How can we give up a billion dollars?” Andrew was just as elated as his wife, and he asked, “Have you received the money?”

“Don’t you worry. The money is safe and sound in my bank!” jackie said with a smile.

“Alright, the two of you bodyguards better follow me out later. I’ll go buy some ingredients, and we’ll cook a table full of dishes to celebrate!” Overwhelmed with excitement, Fiona went and patted jackie’s shoulders with both hands. “ jackie, I’ll reward you with a table full of dishes tonight. You’ve worked hard these past days!”

jackie thought about it and purposely brought the matter up once more as he spoke, “Umm… Mother, this job is really gone!”

“Hey, it’s fine to let it go. We can start a big company with this one billion. Why are we afraid? Let’s just be our own boss!” Fiona soon left with both bodyguards forthrightly.

“You’re really one-of-a-kind. Why didn’t you tell us about this right off the bat? You’ve frightened your mother and I!” Andrew said with a smile after Fiona left.

“Frankly speaking, Father, to be honest, I wouldn’t continue working as a bodyguard for the Drakes after I’m fired,” said jackie, “even if I don’t get this one billion. After all, I’m not such a shameless person!” jackie laughed and added, “It’s not about the amount of money; it’s about the dignity as a person.”

Andrew was embarrassed when he heard this. He opened his mouth but did not know what to say as; jackie was right.

Chapter 752 Timothy was already drunk, and coincidentally, it was at the period when Selena would finish working and leave her office.

With his mood soured, he drank to his heart’s content with Leo and the others before he got ready to go home.

As they were drunk, Leo asked one of his bodyguards to send Timothy home.

However, Timothy asked the driver to stop the car when they passed by Drake Dynasty Real Estate.

The Turner family’s bodyguard turned around and asked Timothy with a frown, “What is it? Do you feel like vomiting, Young Master Drake?”

“No, I need to go down. I’ve got something to do! F*ck, I’m getting heated just thinking about it. He’s just a bodyguard! How dare he refuse to give me face?” Young Master Drake smirked, got down from the car, and spoke to the bodyguard, “Wait for me here, I’ll be back soon.”

“Yes, Young Master Drake.” The man nodded.

Timothy soon entered the office, rather tipsy with the aftermath of the win he had.

“Young Master Drake, why are you here?”

“Young Master Drake, good day to you!”

Most of the company’s employees looked at him in surprise when they saw Timothy, even more so when they noted he was drunk.

“I’m here to take a look at how you guys are doing recently!” Timothy laughed and walked toward the purchasing department.

“Is she here?” Soon, he arrived at Selena’s office door. With that smirk still on his face, he opened the door, entered the office, and locked it.

“Why is Young Master Drake here? Why does he stink of wine?” The purchasing department’s employee, Felicia, asked her supervisor, Sonia with a frown.

Sonia smiled coldly and lowered her voice as she said, “Isn’t it obvious? I had a weird feeling for so long now. Why did they refuse to promote me to a manager and suddenly employed Selena Taylor to work as the manager here? Apart from that, the Drake family still treats her husband so nicely.” Sonia held her hands in front of her chest and said peculiarly, “Do you know why? Selena must be secretly involved with Young Master Drake. They must’ve done what they did in private previously. Today, the young master is obviously drunk and is horny. I’m sure he’s here to look for her in the office.”

“Tsk, tsk! If that’s the case, isn’t Young Master Drake slightly too eager? Selena will finish work in thirty minutes. Can’t he wait a little longer? Isn’t it better to wait for her to finish work and meet in the hotel?” asked Felicia.

“Hey, you don’t understand men. Some men get extremely excited after they have drinks. Who knows, he’s probably looking to try something new at a new setting!” Sonia explained.

…

“Young Master Drake, why are you here? Can I help you?”

Chapter 753 Selena frowned when she saw Timothy entering her office without prior announcement. Her guard was up when she realized he reeked of alcohol and even locked the door. She immediately stood up and walked out from behind her desk.

“Don’t be nervous!” Timothy laughed and sized up Selena under the influence of alcohol.

He always thought that Selena was utterly beautiful, but he was not interested as she was married and older than him.

In his drunken state, however, he felt giddy as he eyed how the formal dress on this woman accentuated her beautiful figure.

He took just a few steps toward Selena and said, “I just so happened to pass this place on my way home, so I’m here to take a look. I’d like to know what’s the development of South Hill Real Estate’s project. By the way, I heard that you’ve appointed the Taylor family to supply eighty percent of the project material?”

The corners of Selena’s mouth twitched when she heard this. She had been worried about how people would gossip about this behind her back.

Still, many days had passed without anybody saying anything. After all, the general manager had agreed to this and signed the agreement. Even he felt that the materials from the Taylor family were rather good.

Selena eventually relaxed. Regardless, the general manager had already mentioned this to James Drake and Miss Tanya; Timothy should have known about this much earlier.

She did not know why Timothy brought up this matter.

Selena smiled embarrassingly. “Yes. Young Master Drake should’ve known about this since long ago, right? The general manager already approved it. Your father and Miss Tanya also knew about it. They had visited the site and were satisfied with the materials as the quality was good!”

Timothy smiled and walked closer to Selena. “We’re definitely satisfied. I didn’t say that we’re not. This isn’t about the materials!”

“If there’s nothing wrong with the material, what is it?” Selena turned around with a frown and reached for a paper cup. “Young Master Drake, you must’ve drank lots of wine. Let me pour you a cup of warm water.”

Selena bent over at the water dispenser and fetched him a cup of warm water. Her alluring bent figure in her formal dress made Young Master Drake feel rather thirsty. He could not help but swallow his saliva. This woman grew increasingly seductive the more he looked at her.

Timothy’s imaginations began to wander as he continued to look at Selena.

With the cup of warm water at hand, Selena turned around toward him only to be stunned at his rather suggestive gaze.

Timothy immediately looked away when he saw Selena turning around. With a grin on his face, he said, “Miss Selena is too generous, but it’s not about the material. I know several material-supplying companies that have better branding, a longer history, and their quality is quite nice. The materials they have are indisputably reliable!” He paused here before continuing, “If that’s the case, I wonder why Miss Selena chose the Taylor family without even considering these companies? Is it possible that you have some hidden, selfish motives?”

Selena was slightly nervous when Timothy asked her this; this matter caused her quite the discomfort for quite some time. Although the Taylor family was not bad, Sonia had filtered the other material suppliers and did not pass them to her.

She knew about this, but she chose to ignore it for the Taylor family’s sake and signed the contract.

She never expected that Young Master Drake would purposely talk about this after the general manager, Miss Tanya and James had agreed to it.

Did the Drakes want to go back on their word?

This was the assumption and worry that plagued Selena.

After all, this project could help the Taylor family earn quite a revenue. It could guarantee their profit and healthy business development for the next two years.

The project had just started not long ago. It would be troublesome for the Taylor family if the Drakes changed their minds.

“Young Master Drake, are you saying there are several companies better than the Taylor family? I’m not very clear about this as Supervisor Neal is the one who did the research. In the end, she’s the one who compiled all pieces of information and handed them to me. Regardless, I felt that only the Taylor family is the most suitable one among all the companies she handed to me!”

With a smile on her face, Selena passed the cup of water to Timothy and added, “The agreement was signed and approved by the general manager. This proves that the Taylor family is entirely capable of such an important role.”

Chapter 754 “Is that so?” Timothy walked over to receive the cup of warm water, and he took another step closer and moved closer to Selena.

Selena’s faint body odor, coupled with her perfume, stimulated Timothy.

“Oh my!” His hand slightly trembled when he took over the cup, causing water from the cup to spill on Selena’s chest.

“Ah!” Selena yelped in shock, although the water was not too hot.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry… I didn’t mean to. Let me help you wipe that, Miss Selena.” Timothy was prepared for this. As he stretched out his hand toward her, Selena snapped.

“Go away! I can wipe it myself!” Selena was shocked at his advances and took a few steps backing away from him. Timothy was so in taking advantage of her, his hands merely a centimeter away from her attire.

Selena instantly took out several pieces of tissue paper and dabbed them at the soaked area on her clothes.

Timothy was rather disappointed at Selena’s quick thinking, but it did not erase his excitement at her flustered state. “Allow me to help you with that, Miss Selena,” he urged once more, “I’m good at it!”

“Young Master Drake, what are you talking about? Kindly respect our boundaries or I’ll get angry!” Selena’s face darkened when she discovered his true, dark intentions. She then angrily added, “If it’s work purposes you’re concerned with, I’ll make my reports. If it’s about anything else, please immediately leave. I’m not this kind of woman!”

It did not enrage Timothy when Selena vocally stated her stance; he merely smirked. “Miss Selena, stop acting. Do you think that I don’t know what kind of woman you are? You didn’t know your husband when you first met him, yet you married him the day you know him and slept with him right after. You even have a child with him!”

Timothy looked at Selena in disdain. “You slept with a man you just knew. How’s it possible for you to not be charmed by a handsome and rich young master like me? I’ve no intentions of marrying you; I’m not interested in married women like you. Still, you’ve got a nice figure, and you’ve got a rather beautiful face. What say you accompany me for a short while?”

Selena almost fainted due to anger, but she maintained her icy-cold expression and she scoffed, “Young Master Drake, you must’ve had too many drinks tonight. I’ll take this as you speaking nonsense, and I won’t argue with you!”

Selena then pointed at the door. “Now, please get out and stop disturbing me at my workplace. Your image would be destroyed if others knew about what happened here today!”

Selena had a point; Timothy was usually a gentleman in front of others. His actions toward her might very well be due to alcohol influence.

Still, he did not seem drunk, though he might have drank slightly more than usual.

Chapter 755 “You’re a woman! Do you think I, a man, would be afraid if others knew about this if you’re not? Also, who’d believe that you’re innocent? Won’t others say that you’re the one who seduced me for your

monthly salary of one million? Who’s in power here: you or me?” Timothy laughed and added, “You think about that, Selena Taylor, and you think it through. I, Timothy Drake, will have you now. You have no choice but to obey me!”

“In your dreams!” Selena was downright livid; she never thought Timothy could be so evil.

“You’d do well to think it thoroughly. If you don’t do as I say, I’ll terminate the contract with the Taylor family. The compensation is only around one hundred million, nothing too much, and we can afford it!” Timothy smiled coldly. “Secondly, I fired your husband, and he’s out of job now. What’ll happen to your family’s expenses now that he lost his monthly salary of twenty million?”

“What?! You…you fired him?!” Selena was taken aback by Timothy’s wicked words. This Young Master Drake was too much of a pain. She never thought he had that sadistic streak in him.

“Don’t be so agitated! I haven’t finished speaking!” Timothy smirked with an extremely definite expression on his face. “Think about it: You guys live in a big villa now with an entire family waiting for your support, and you’ve got bodyguards and workers you need to pay too.

“I fired your husband because he acted against me, and if you don’t submit to me today, I’ll fire you too. You purposely signed the agreement with the Taylor family for their wellbeing. I can fire you based on this point alone!”

“You evil man! Young Master Drake, I never thought you’d be such a despicable man!” Selena gritted her teeth in anger. She never thought Timothy would hold the matter against him.

She used to think that Timothy was a kind person like Miss Tanya. After all, siblings usually shared quite a few characteristics.

Apart from that, Timothy usually looked like a gentleman. She had no idea the man before her would have such a foul, wretched heart.

“Oh, I’m despicable?” Timothy laughed coldly after he heard what Selena said. “You’re making a false counter-charge. If it wasn’t for us Drakes, do you think that your husband would’ve had such a great job? Do you think that you’d have a great job? You guys were poor people looked down on by the Taylor family and others. You have the life you have now because you guys met us and befriended us. How dare you say that I’m despicable!”

Timothy merely shrugged when he noted Selena’s silence and cold expression. “Don’t you worry about it. As long as you promise me that you’ll serve me well this one time, I wouldn’t tell others about this. I won’t rescind the contract with the Taylor family, and you get to keep your job. A one-million salary is barely enough for your family!”

Selena gritted her teeth and was so angry that her face turned pale.

Timothy was pleased when he saw her rooted where she stood, wordlessly; he assumed Selena was complying due to the fear he instilled in her. After all, any other woman would know what choice to make, right?

He walked forward and pulled Selena into his arms. His face leaned closer to hers as though he was about to kiss her. “Miss Selena, just succumb to me. You lose nothing. After all, I’m the Drake family’s young master, son of Eastfield’s wealthiest man. No rich young masters in the entire Eastfield would dare compete with me. Moreover, your husband won’t know about this if you don’t tell him, understand?”

“You bastard, let go of me!” Selena was so angry that she resisted Timothy’s embrace and fought back.

Chapter 756 Timothy laughed at Selena’s struggle. “And why should I let you go? Just give in to me!” He pushed her onto the table with all his might, ready to grab her.

“Go away!” In her fear and panic, Selena kicked Timothy right in between his legs when he was close enough.

“Argh!” Timothy yelled in pain and fell onto his knees in a squatting position.

Selena instantly shot up as Timothy fell, merely sparing him a glare as she rushed toward the door. “Young Master Drake, you bastard! I quit!” Selena ripped open the door and rushed out right after.

…

“What’s going on? Manager Taylor ran out of her office!” Employees were startled to see Selena rushing out of her office.

“Did he fail? Manager Taylor’s hair seems to be ruffled up a little, but she opened the door and ran straight out. She seemed to have just cried, too,” said Felicia dumbfoundedly. “This doesn’t seem right. This shouldn’t be happening if they have something going behind the scenes. Shouldn’t she be very happy?”

“How would I know? Let’s go check it out.” Sonia immediately walked with Felicia toward Selena’s office. They peered into the office and discovered Young Master Drake on the floor: he had his hands over his private parts as he hissed in pain.

“How dare Selena Taylor do this?! What should Young Master Drake do if he can’t bear children in the future?” Sonia said angrily. She immediately went in with Felicia to assist Young Master Drake.

Meanwhile, Selena rushed to the parking lot. She pulled the door to her car open and went inside before crying out her frustrations. It took a while before she could reach out for a tissue paper to wipe her tears, and it was only after that was she able to calm herself down before she made her way home.

…

jackie was smoking in their yard when he saw Selena’s car entering the compound and was parked. “Honey, you’re back.” jackie walked over to his wife with a small smile on his face.

“Yes,” came Selena’s simple reply and went to sit with him quietly.

“Honey, I quit my job,” jackie started, his smile bitter as he spoke. “But truthfully, I was fired by Young Master Drake. No need to worry, though. Our family will still have money to rely on.”

Selena listened on and instantly recalled how she was almost taken advantage of by Timothy. Her nose twitched and her eyes turned slightly red. She looked at jackie upsettingly and said, “Honey, I… I’ve also quit my job. We are both out of jobs! What should we do?”

“You quit, too?” The news stunned jackie, but he could sense his wife’s unstable emotions. “What actually happened?” he prodded.

“That bastard Timothy Drake came looking for me in my office after he had some drinks. He even threatened me with the Taylor family’s agreement about sourcing materials and the fact that he’d fire me. He wants to take advantage of me and even forced himself on me when I refused him!

“Thankfully, I reacted fast and kicked his crotch at the given time. I managed to escape right after that.”

Face written with fear, Selena looked at her husband and blurted, “What should I do? I’d be in so much trouble if my mother knows I lost my job!”

jackie was livid at the details his wife told him. “F*ck… Is Timothy Drake looking for a death wish? I don’t give a damn if he does things to me, but how dare he go looking for you at your office? You didn’t even do anything to him!” jackie shot up from his seat and threw the cigarette butt onto the ground before stepping on it. His hands then tightened, balled into fists.

Chapter 757 “I’m going to get an explanation from him,” snapped jackie.

“Don’t! This is the Drake family we’re talking about here!” Selena was extremely frightened when she saw jackie’s impulsive look and took his hands into hers. “Honey, don’t go. It’s the Drake family, and it’s

not a good idea to offend them. Apart from that, he didn’t get to touch me inappropriately. While he did forcibly embraced me, I managed to break free!”

“That means nothing to me. What would’ve happened if you failed to run away in time? The Drake family has to give me an explanation! How dare he try to take advantage of you!” jackie’s fists tightened even more. He turned to Selena and, carrying her in his arms bridal-style, walked toward the car when he saw her hands still on his.

“What are you doing? I asked you to not go there!” Selena was flustered yet worried as he held her up like a princess, though it did not erase her anxiety. After all, the Drake family was a family that even first- class aristocratic families dared not offend. Could jackie succeed alone?

“Don’t you worry; I won’t kill Tanya’s brother as a sign of respect for our friendship. However, if he doesn’t kneel and apologize, I’ll show him no mercy!” jackie still had a darkened expression on his face. He placed Selena at the passenger’s seat before he went and sat at the driver’s seat.

“Honey, just let it go. I know you love me, but I don’t want to offend the Drake family! It’s not good to have another enemy,” coaxed Selena in an attempt to persuade jackie. She did not want him to act irrationally. “Apart from that, they’re the Drakes! They might have lots of masters with them!”

“Don’t you worry. Their masters are no match for your husband. He’s far more powerful than any of them combined.” Adamant and indifferent, jackie stepped on the gas pedal and the car soon raced out of the villa.

“Why are they going out again? Didn’t they just come back a while ago?” Several bodyguards who strolled around the perimeter not far away wondered what was happening when they saw the situation. At the same time, they felt jealous as they saw how jackie carried Selena in his arms.

“You’re so hard-headed! Why won’t you listen to my advice?!” Selena relented once she knew it was a point for no return for her husband. He wanted to confront the Drake family! The Drakes might turn

hostile against them if jackie went over and caused trouble!

More importantly, how could jackie oppose the entire Drake family’s masters?

…

Young Master Drake struggled in pain for quite some time before he could even stand up. He then walked out embarrassingly and returned to the Drake family mansion.

He was more than ready to go to bed as the drinks made him feel dizzy. The last thing he expected was for James, Tanya, and several masters of the Drake family to wait for him when he entered the villa’s living room.

“Father, Tanya, why are you guys here? Why aren’t you guys asleep yet?” Timothy’s face darkened as he sensed something was amiss when he noted several Drake family elders were present.

This only happened when something important had to be announced. Coincidentally, he had fired jackie, and it seemed that his sister had relayed the news to them.

James’ face darkened and questioned Timothy, “You know what you’ve done today, right?”

Timothy was utterly displeased. “Of course I do. I fired a mere bodyguard, no? Did you have to get a crowd here like this? Why did you ask the elders to come out?” came his somewhat apathetic reply as he sat down on the sofa.

James laughed bitterly. “What did I tell you? Did you ignore what I’ve told you? I asked you to not offend jackie and stay on his good side! Why didn’t you listen?!” James was downright livid at him and was close to fainting in his anger. His son made the worst move possible with his deplorable attitude.

Chapter 758 Timothy, at that moment, recalled how a marshal failed to defeat jackie. With a guilty conscience, he

blurted, “I didn’t know jackie could be so powerful! I thought he was just a head commander, unworthy of our family’s respect and admiration. I only knew this when a marshal from the Turner family failed to defeat him, and that was only after I fired him!”

“I’ve told you long before that he’s considerably on par with Kings of War. It doesn’t matter even if he’s just a one-star King of War! More importantly, he’s well acquainted with the Goddess of War. Can’t you see that? The Goddess of War willingly interacted with me because of our relationship with jackie!” James grew increasingly angry the more he thought about it.

“So what? I can just look for them tomorrow and ask them to return to work as usual!” Timothy had no choice but to obey his father after he thought about it. After all, many of the Drakes eyed him sharply and none went up to defend him.

“Think about his temperament! Do you think that he’s short of money if he really is a King of War? The country would’ve given him several tens of billions as his reward. We were extremely lucky that somebody like him was willing to work as our bodyguard. He agreed to work for us because he was bored with nothing to do.

“Do you think he’d still agree to it now?” James laughed. He knew jackie’s identity was not as simple as how he portrayed it, but jackie managed to keep himself incredibly low-profile and seldom exposed his true combat abilities to the public. This caused others to believe he was a mere head commander.

“How’s that possible? And does he really have that much money?” Timothy’s face darkened; he made a huge mistake if that was true. Still, as he recalled how ordinary jackie was and how he promised to be their bodyguard proactively, he still felt that his father’s beliefs were too overboard. How could such a rich person agree to be a bodyguard?

“Bullcrap. He’s definitely a King of War, so it’s only natural he has a lot of money!” scoffed James with a cold expression on his face.

“Why would he willingly work as a bodyguard if he has so much money? If it was me, I wouldn’t work as a bodyguard. I don’t want to be looked down at by others!” Timothy frowned. He glanced at Tanya who was beside him, and his eyes lit up. “Unless… The reason this guy works as our bodyguard isn’t for money but for women. I think he likes my sister. If that’s the case, it’s very easy to get into his good books. We can just marry Tanya to him, right?”

Timothy tried to find ways around the matter.

Though it took a while, Tanya noticed something peculiar in Timothy’s replies and said, “Wait, Brother. Did you say ‘them’ just now? What does that mean?”

Timothy scratched his head in embarrassment. “The thought of jackie talking back at me plagued me after I drank some wine… So I fired his wife in retaliation.”

“What?!” James’ chest heaved in anger when he heard this. “You… You! It’s understandable if you committed a mistake once, but how dare you make them one after another! You’re ridiculous! Even if jackie talked back to you, how could you fire his wife too?!”

“I… I told you! I was just unhappy at that moment!”

Chapter 759 Timothy tried to find an excuse for his actions.

“Aren’t you afraid of offending him? Let me tell you this: If you end up genuinely offending him, I… I can’t even save you!” James was so angry that he was at a loss for words. He had one son, and he turned out to be this.

“Impossible! Are you joking? We’re a first-class aristocratic family, and we have so many masters here with us! While I admit jackie’s good, I don’t believe we’d lose if everyone fights him as a group,” came Timothy’s somewhat apathetic reply. He did not believe jackie would be that terrifying.

James glanced at Timothy and announced coldly, “Oh, that’s right. We’re waiting for you here because we need to tell you something. I feel that you’re out of focus recently, so I’ve visited South City Group only to find out that it’s been losing money. Because of this, South City Group will be managed by your sister, Tanya starting from tomorrow. I suppose you can have a breather and a break of sorts.”

Timothy wondered if he had heard his father wrongly and looked at James dumbfoundedly. “What? Did I hear that right, Father? Did you just say South City Group?”

In Timothy’s point of view, Tanya was just a child and it was difficult for her to bear such great responsibility. Apart from that, he was the one who managed South City Group all this while, thus he believed no one should interfere with his business. South City Group represented half the Drake family group’s businesses, and the ability to manage this group represented the person’s identity in the Drake family.

It was because of this that Timothy had always been extremely proud of himself. He was the subject of people’s envious looks whenever he walked outside because the Drake family relied on him to manage their businesses.

While he also managed several smaller companies, those companies were nothing when compared to South City Group.

“Yes, you heard right. South City Group,” James said indifferently. “While your sister tends to shop quite often, I observed the companies she managed and they’re doing quite well. I believe your sister would do a better job than you if I hand South City Group to her!”

“Father, are you joking?” Timothy was still in disbelief. “Tanya… Tanya is just a young child. How could she be more experienced than me at business management? Apart from that, I’ve been managing South City Group all this time. I’m aware we’ve started losing money during these few months, but it’s temporary. We’ve raked up quite the fortune years before this. Do you not see the success I’ve accomplished?”

He stood up and got increasingly agitated. “You want to change the higher management just because the loss we experience these two to three months? Aren’t you afraid that Tanya would fail at managing the place?”

James laughed him off before he replied, “Don’t you worry. I’ve thought about it and discussed it with several higher-ups many times before I made this decision. You’re definitely unsuitable to continue working as South City Group’s highest management with your current situation and status!”

Suddenly, Harvey ran into the room with several other bodyguards. “Master, Master! Something bad is happening!” There was a deep frown on his face as he spoke. “Big Brother… No, jackie is here with his wife, and he wants an explanation from us. If he’s not satisfied with our explanation, he…he’d make his move!”

Chapter 760 “He… He’s too brash! What does he mean by ‘make his move’? Father, listen to him. His actions are a disrespect to the Drake family!” Timothy sucked in a deep breath when he heard what the bodyguards were saying about jackie. Admittingly, he was scared. Did Selena tell jackie what happened in the office?

He first recalled the fact that he did not manage to take advantage of Selena. It did not matter if Selena was embarrassed or she had the intention of actually manipulating the Drake family; she would not have told jackie about what happened between them.

The last thing Timothy expected was for jackie to look for him, and that meant big trouble.

Because of this, he had to provoke the relationship between his father and jackie.

“He’s doing too much. This is threatening our Drake family!” One of the Drake family’s masters was displeased. This master’s fighting abilities were much stronger than Spectre. He feared no marshals and was able to fight with Kings of War.

This master was the first one to stand up against jackie’s threats.

“Yes, what Elder Gordon says makes sense. This guy always acts like this, and we should put him in his place!” Timothy was relieved that someone shared his stance in the matter, and it was someone powerful to boot.

“How dare you agree to the master? He’s brave enough to say it because he’s got the power to back it up!” Tanya glared at his brother before looking at James. “Father, what should we do now? It seems that jackie is unhappy about Timothy firing his wife. He wouldn’t have come here if it wasn’t for this matter.”

“Tanya, what you’re doing here is uplifting others and destroying your own. How would we know that Elder Gordon isn’t his match without even attempting anything?” snapped Timothy.

“Yes, Miss Tanya. Are you looking down on us masters, or do you place too much faith in jackie?” Elder Gordon was slightly unhappy. He was considered one of the best masters in the Drake family though he had never fought with jackie. Tanya’s words blatantly meant she looked down on them and stated that they were not jackie’s opponents.

“Elder Gordon, don’t make a move without my order. jackie is here asking for an explanation, and he didn’t tell us straightforwardly what he wanted to do. This means that there are ways to settle this!” James thought about it and said, “Let’s go and discuss it with him. It might work if we apologize and ask them to return to work tomorrow.”

Many people nodded and they followed James outside.

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James and his company eventually arrived at the mansion’s front door. jackie and his wife, Selena, stood right outside in silence.

As everyone gathered, Tanya was the first to walk forward and offered her apologies. “ jackie, I heard that my brother fired Sister Selena in anger. I’m very sorry for that,” Tanya spoke solemnly. “My brother tends to speak nonsense whenever he’s drunk. He was just in his feelings, so please don’t take him seriously.”

“Indeed. Timothy was angry, so whatever he said was only out of his emotions. Go back, rest, and come back for work tomorrow.” James was pleased with how understanding his daughter was, and jackie might reconsider his actions after he heard Tanya’s sincere words. After all, was it not petty to be calculative with a drunk person?

“Come on, jackie, let’s just leave it at that.”

Chapter 761 Selena was slightly afraid when she saw that many people in front of her. Most of the bodyguards were also there. Soon, there were one to two hundred people at the Drake family’s side. She immediately persuaded jackie.

However, jackie still stood there and did not move. He looked at Timothy coldly and said, “Timothy, come over, kneel, and apologize to my wife. Kowtow three times and I will let things slide. If not, you’ll regret it when I make my move!”

“Bastard, aren’t you being too much?!” Elder Gordon could not handle it anymore. He was originally cranky so he walked two steps forward, looked at jackie, and said, “This is the Drake family! Do you know who Timothy is? He’s the eldest young master of our family! It’s fine to directly address him by his name, but, how dare you ask someone as honorable as him to kneel and kowtow to you! You’re being really arrogant!”

jackie looked at this old man coldly before saying. “I’m speaking to Timothy so please don’t interrupt our conversation!”

“You…” Elder Gordon was extremely angry and held his hands into fists. “Sure. They all mentioned that you are strong and since you dare act so presumptuously in front of the Drake family mansion, let me try you!”

“Elder Gordon, stop!” James immediately stopped him.

He smiled at jackie after Elder Gordon stopped. “ jackie, my son really acted impulsive after several drinks. I hope you can understand him!” James paused here before continuing. “How about this. You guys can come back for work and I will pay you double your salary next month. Apart from that, I will pay you one hundred million as compensation. How does that sound?”

As the richest man in Eastfield, James had already made a huge compromisation by saying this.

“Master Drake, I’m sorry but what happened today cannot be solved with money. If it wasn’t because the Drake family treated me well and I consider Miss Tanya as my best friend, everybody here would have died, and you would be waiting for your bodies to be collected!” jackie raised his hand and pointed at the people in front of him. His tone was plain but his words were extremely domineering.

“Honey…” Selena was speechless. She knew something like this was going to happen with her husband’s character. The Drake family had already taken such a huge step back but jackie still refused to back away.

“You f*cker!” Elder Gordon could not hold it back any longer. He forgot James’s instructions, stepped forward, and rushed toward jackie with his hands balled into fists.

jackie curled his lips into a cold smile when he saw how the other party initiated the attack. He balled his hands into fists and punched toward the opponent too.

With a slightly dull bang, Elder Gordon flew outward. He flew several meters away before stepping on the ground and stabilizing his body.

“You can’t take such a small amount of my force. How dare you act arrogantly in front of me?” jackie glanced at the opponent in disdain. He had a kingly aura and a contempt for the world as he spoke.

Elder Gordon was shocked. jackie’s punch seemed simple but the power in it was so terrifying that it threw him into the air while jackie was still standing there firmly.

What jackie said also caused him to be afraid!

Chapter 762 ”Elder Gordon, stop! Are you refusing to listen to me?” James also noticed that Elder Gordon was definitely not jackie’s opponent.

However, he had already made a move. After his failure, he could only stand there and glare at jackie.

After all, he might die very miserably if he rushed forward and fought jackie. If he stopped right now, he would lose his face.

Elder Gordon humphed coldly after he heard what James said. “Young man, I’ll bear with it today because my master asked me to. However, this is the Drake family mansion, if you dare act rampantly, I will not hold back anymore!” Elder Gordon retreated after he said that.

The corners of Timothy’s mouth twitched several times. He finally noticed that if Elder Gordon acted alone, he was definitely not jackie’s opponent. Apart from that, Elder Gordon was someone who loved to protect his dignity. He left these words just so he could exit with honor.

“Alright, jackie. How about this? It’s fine if you and Miss Selena don’t want to come back to work. This time, my son was the one who acted impulsively. I will give you eight hundred million. How about that? Let’s agree to let it go! ” After thinking about it, James gritted his teeth and proactively said.

In his opinion, this amount of compensation was already more than enough. Apart from that, he just found out that his son fired the two of them not too long ago. He was slightly unhappy when jackie did

not want to let this go.

However, he knew that he could not offend jackie, so he could only hope that he could spend money to avoid disaster.

“Honey, why don’t we just let it go. Eight hundred million is already a lot!” Selena bit her lips and persuaded jackie.

It was a pity as jackie still sneered. “Master Drake, I would have killed your son if it weren’t for Tanya! My request is simple, he needs to kneel down and apologize to my wife. He also needs to slap himself ten times. Otherwise, I will take action!”

” jackie, aren’t you asking for too much?” Even Tanya got angry. She looked at jackie in disbelief. “My brother shouldn’t have fired you nor your wife. After all, your wife did nothing wrong. No matter what, my brother is the young master of the Drake family. How should my brother continue living his life if he kneels down and apologizes to your wife? You even asked him to slap himself in the face.”

” jackie, please consider this. Eight hundred million is really a lot, why don’t you think about it again?” Yvonne bit her lips. She did not expect jackie to make this matter such a huge ordeal. This was somewhat unlike the jackie she knew.

However, jackie sneered and said, “there is nothing to consider. It doesn’t matter if Young Master Timothy fired my wife. However, he tried to take advantage of my wife after several drinks. He went to the office, locked the door, and tried to forcefully take advantage of my wife. If my wife hadn’t found the opportunity to kick him and escaped, she might have suffered!”

Having said that, jackie looked at Yvonne and questioned her. “Miss Yvonne, would you easily forgive such a person if you were in such a situation? If someone harassed you and gave you some money to silence you, would you be able to forgive that person?”

“How’s this possible? Brother, you…you actually treated sister Selena…” Tanya finally realized that jackie’s anger was not just about Timothy firing his wife. It turned out that her brother actually went to the company alone and tried to rape jackie’s wife.

If this happened to another man, they might have been afraid of the Drake family or they might have chosen money to avoid disaster.

However, if it was a burly and hardcore man like jackie, it was impossible to ask for his forgiveness.

“He…he’s talking nonsense!”

Chapter 763 Timothy was so frightened. He could only grit his teeth and refused to admit to it when he saw so many people looking at him.

“Nonsense?” This time, even Selena could not stand it and looked at Timothy bitterly. “Timothy, I didn’t expect you to be a coward who dared not admit to what you did. If you say so, why don’t we head to the company and ask the people there? We have so many employees, do you think they didn’t hear anything?”

Timothy’s face instantly turned blue and purple when he heard what she said. Yes, it was definitely difficult to explain what happened previously.

Originally, he could tell people in the company that it was Selena who wanted to seduce him. Many people would have believed what he said. Now that jackie has brought his wife to his house, nobody would have believed him if he used this excuse. That would be extremely troublesome.

“You…you bastard!” James finally realized what a nasty thing his son had done. He stepped forward and slapped Timothy with all his might. “I’m really disappointed in you. I thought that you had just fired the two of them, I didn’t expect you to try to force Miss Selena. No wonder jackie is so angry!”

Elder Gordon, who originally felt that jackie had gone overboard, finally realized that he was almost manipulated by Timothy. If he was in this position and his woman was almost raped by somebody else, he would have killed that person early on.

As for jackie’s action of asking Timothy to kneel down and apologize while slapping himself ten times was actually very kind of jackie. He did this because of his history with the Drake family and he was giving Tanya face.

Timothy, who was slapped in the cheeks, covered his face in anger. “Father, you…you actually hit me because of this? I admit that I was impulsive at that time. I had too many drinks and Selena looked really pretty. She even had a short skirt on. Isn’t that very normal? Besides, I was unsuccessful in my attempt!”

“unsuccessful? If you succeeded, none of you here would leave Eastfield alive!” jackie sneered after he heard this, and walked step by step toward Timothy.

His eyes were filled with a murderous aura. The aura was the same one that sent shivers down everyone’s spine on the battlefield.

“Do you still feel that you did nothing wrong? I gave you a chance, but you didn’t cherish it!” jackie approached step by step and his voice was very low. He had a scary and invisible aura around him that made people feel repressed.

“You fool, why aren’t you kneeling down and apologizing yet? Hurry up and do what jackie said! Kneel down and apologize to Miss Selena. Hurry up and slap yourself!” James was very frightened. The other masters in the Drake Family stood there and were all frightened too. They knew that jackie was about to take action.

After all, Timothy did make a mistake this time and they were all embarrassed to make moves.

“I won’t apologize! I’m the young master of the Drake family, why should I apologize to them?!” Timothy gritted his teeth and looked at jackie. He did not believe that jackie would dare take action. After all, the Drake family was the biggest known power in this province.

jackie directly jumped up and kicked Timothy on his crotch. Timothy flew outward.

The next second, Timothy hit the ground far away and fainted.

Chapter 764 Timothy’s pants seeped with fresh blood. It was a frightening sight.

The corners of James’s mouth twitched. His features were twisted into a grimace, but he did not let a single word slip from him.

The entire area was completely silent—so silent that you could hear a pin drop!

This was the Young Master of the Drake family, and yet jackie had lashed out against him all the same. Now he just lay there, and no one knew if he was still alive.

“Master…”

Spectre stepped forward, frowning. He did not know what to say.

He knew that James’s heart was filled with excruciating pain.

“Come forward all you like, if you wish to avenge him. But I’m afraid that you won’t be able to bear the consequences once you make the first move!” jackie said, expression stony.

Although James’s insides were twisted with agony, he forced himself to smile. “It’s all right, jackie, so long as you let off some steam! Just say the word if you need any more compensation!”

jackie gave a wan smile. “No need!”

He wheeled around and left, taking Selena with him. “Don’t worry. Your son isn’t dead. But I can’t say for certain if he’ll be producing any heirs in the future.”

Selena glanced behind her shoulder, afraid that the fighters and the bodyguards employed by the Drake family would rush forward. She only released a sigh of relief once they got onto the car and drove off.

“Are you sure Timothy won’t be rendered infertile from that kick of yours, Dear? James only has him as the only son, after all. Won’t he try to take revenge in the future? I know you’re venting your anger, but I’m still afraid!”

Selena frowned, her expression morphing to that of concern.

jackie glanced at her and managed a mirthless smile. “Don’t worry. James is smart enough. He won’t cause trouble for me even if his son can no longer produce heirs for their family. I’ve already been kind enough to him by sparing his son’s life. No man has the right to touch my wife. You suffered so much for me and our daughter’s sake. You paid the price for so many years. I won’t let you go through any more humiliation!”

Warmth filled Selena as she heard him speak such earnest words. She pursed her lips before she spoke, “All right then. I just never expected that you would have no fear even with the Drake family! This is far beyond my expectations!”

jackie did not know whether to laugh or cry after he heard that. “Dear, would you be touched or frightened if all nine of the Gods of War came to your birthday party?”

Selena went speechless for a while when she heard that. Then she rolled her eyes. “What are you saying? It’ll be an utmost honor even if only Lana came. How can all nine of the Gods of War come? Besides, they’re so busy, and every second of theirs is extremely precious. How could they have the time to spare for me?”

Here, Selena seemed to think of something, then she said jokingly, “Don’t tell me that you’re the master of the nine Gods of War? Each of the Gods of War is strong in their own way, and they’re extremely powerful. If they even had a master, he would not even be human!”

jackie gave a curious expression. Did his wife just tell him that he was not human right to his face?

He gave a brittle smile and asked, “What is he then, if not human?”

“A god!”

Selena spoke in a matter-of-fact tone, “What kind of a person would a master of the nine Gods of War be if not a god? But of course, there’s no one like that. In the future, don’t simply joke that you’re the master of the Gods of War. It’ll be troublesome if someone were to write a report about it and spread the news about you.”

Here, Selena drew a finger across her throat. “You’re writing yourself a death sentence if you anger the Gods of War,” she said. “It won’t get any better just because you’re good friends with Lana. A joke like this is too frightening!”

jackie placed his hand on her thigh when he heard that, flashing a small smile. “All right. I’ll listen to you, dear. I won’t claim that they’re my disciples anymore, okay? But I still hope that they can come over and celebrate on the day of your birthday!”

“You hope?”

Chapter 765 Selena did not know whether to laugh or cry. “What use is there in hoping? Why should I have hope if they’re not going to come!”

“Do you really want them to come? Then I should invite them over!”

jackie smiled and spoke in a confident tone, “I believe that they’ll definitely preserve my dignity!”

“My goodness. You’re speaking as though you had plenty of dignity, to begin with!”

Selena rolled her eyes at him. Then she noticed that his hand was on her thigh. She picked it up, cheeks flushing. “Drive properly and don’t put your hands everywhere. Seriously!”

“Looks like you’re embarrassed!”

jackie chuckled. “I’ll place it everywhere when it’s bedtime. How about that?”

The pink on Selena’s cheeks deepened. “I can’t be bothered with you, you pervert! Now we’re both jobless, and you’ve offended the Drake family. I just pray that James really won’t come for us, like what you said!”

“Don’t worry. He would have done something just now if he wanted to take revenge! Would he have let us leave just like that?”

They quickly arrived at the villa. After he parked the car, jackie said, “Oh, right. Let me tell you how I was fired by Timothy!”

“Oh, yeah. I would have forgotten if you hadn’t mentioned it. Timothy said that you talked against him. What on earth happened? Weren’t you doing your job just fine for the Drake family?”

Selena immediately asked as the thought popped into her head.

“That’s because I struck big today—I won a bet worth one billion dollars just like that!”

jackie got down from the car. “So don’t worry. I earned a billion dollars today,” he said, grinning. “We’ll be fine even if you stay at home and become a housewife. We can even go for a honeymoon when we’re free!”

“Our child is already so big, and you’re still thinking of a honeymoon? Only you could think of something like that!”

Selena’s heart was leaping in delight. She wound her arm around jackie’s and walked toward the villa’s entrance. “So tell me, how did you win the billion dollars?”

“Billiards. Because…”

jackie then told everything that had transpired in the morning to Selena.

“You learned to play that fast? You’ve never played it before, but you just knew how to play once you got into it. And you won a billion dollars?”

Shock rippled throughout Selena when she finished listening to the story.

…

At the moment in the Drake family’s residence.

After jackie left, Tanya ran over to check on Timothy, who was still unconscious. She furrowed her brows and looked at her father. “What do we do, Dad?”

“What else can we do but to quickly take him to the hospital? If jackie says he’s not dead, he’s not dead. We need to get him to the hospital immediately. Let’s pray that Timothy will still be able to have heirs. But his future will be even more uncertain if we’re a second too late!”

James immediately declared before ordering his men to take his son to the hospital.

He released a sigh. “Seriously. Why would Timothy dare to do something like that? He really dug a grave for himself!”

Chapter 766 “Master, are we really going to let this slide just like that? The young master… He’s…”

One of the fighters stepped forward and asked James.

Although he could not say that the young master did not deserve it, jackie had just brought his wife to the Drake family’s residence and beat Young Master Drake into a pulp. Plenty of passersby outside would have seen everything.

This was a cause of extreme humiliation for the Drake family. Fortunately, not many people had witnessed the incident, but the Drake family’s reputation had really been trampled on.

“I really think there’s no way out of this. jackie is too strong. There’s no way to take him on by oneself—at least for me!”

Elder Gordon finally spoke up after he thought about it. In reality, he wanted to say that it would be useless even if all of them went for jackie at the same time. He tried to tone it down though, for the sake of their dignity.

“It’s obvious that jackie has full confidence, judging from how he spoke just now. He’s very sure of himself. So all we can do is to forget about this incident!”

James gave a helpless smile. “I’ve already chided Timothy so many times, but he simply refused to listen to me. Never mind that he fired both jackie and Selena, but he actually dared to touch the latter. Ah. If it were you, wouldn’t you think about killing him? jackie had been considering the relationship between us from before, and his friendship with Tanya, that’s why…”

The fighters could do nothing but bob their heads in obedience when they heard him say that, keeping as quiet as they could.

“Dad, we’re missing a procurement manager in South Hill Real Estate now that Miss Taylor has quit her job. What do we do?”

Tanya added after she thought about it, “Besides, I’m afraid that it’ll turn awry for us if the Taylor family continues to be in charge of that project…”

James nodded his head. “You’re right. If news of how jackie had beaten your brother up gets out, and how we did not retaliate, the Drake family will definitely become a laughing stock. We should be stirring up some trouble for him, after all. How about this? You take charge of South Hill Real Estate and make Sonia take the position of procurement manager. I pray she doesn’t let me down!”

Tanya nodded her head. “I’ll get Sonia to terminate the contract with the Taylor family. And we won’t compensate for the breach of contract either. Let’s just do that as our ‘retaliation’. It won’t be so embarrassing for us if word of this gets out then!”

Hearing those words fall from her mouth felt like a joke. The Drake family was the strongest, richest family in the entire Eastfield. It was extremely embarrassing that her older brother had been beaten—and beaten into that state. This sort of retaliation was truly a joke, but it was better than nothing. It would convey the Drake family’s stance toward the matter.

Elder Gordon considered everything carefully before he made a suggestion, “Master, why don’t we just tell everyone that the young master’s injuries are not too serious even if they’re actually serious or if he becomes impotent. This way, we’ll only be dissolving our cooperation with the Taylor family because he was not too seriously injured. It won’t be that embarrassing if we put it that way.”

James thought that it made sense. “You’re right. We’ll go over to the hospital in a while and check up on my son. His condition must be kept a secret. We’ll get the doctors to diagnose that he has mild injuries from a fistfight. There’ll be nothing serious!”

After jackie and Selena went back, they quickly showered and went downstairs, sitting together at the table for dinner.

“Selena, jackie has been fired by Timothy!”

Fiona smiled. “But it doesn’t matter. jackie won a billion dollars from billiards,” she said. “One whole billion! He lost his job, but it’s great that he has a billion to his name now. We won’t have to worry about having no money in the future! This money doesn’t belong to the entire Taylor family. It belongs to us!”

Chapter 767 Selena gave a bitter smile. “Ma, jackie already told me about this,” she said. “Actually, I’ve been fired as well. No—I quit. I didn’t want to do it anymore!”

“What!”

The smile on Fiona’s face immediately froze. “ jackie had been fired for lashing against Young Master Drake, and he had lashed out because of the billion dollars in the first place,” she said, stupefied. “This is completely understandable, but why did you quit? This is an entirely different matter.”

Selena flicked her gaze between jackie and Fiona. “It’s nothing. I just don’t want to continue doing that job any longer,” she lied, fearing that her mother would fret for her. “It’s pointless to me. More importantly, my subordinates don’t cooperate with me, and they even talk about me behind my back!”

“You’re out of your mind, Selena. jackie doesn’t have a job now, and neither do you. Plus, your salary was so high!”

Andrew shook his head and took a sip of wine. “But it doesn’t matter now. You’ve already quit, so now we’ll just have to be wise with the money we have. It should be enough.”

“You’re right, Dad,” Ben chipped in, grinning. “We only need enough money to live on. We can’t be like Ma, who only has eyes for money. We should always be satisfied with whatever we have!”

“What are you saying, you brat? What sane person would give up their chances of getting more money? Why shouldn’t we want more, knowing that we could have more?”

Fiona glared at her son. “Besides, ten billion isn’t a lot either. It all depends on how you spend it. I heard that a jeweler in Eastfield has recently crafted an extremely expensive necklace. It’s entirely laid with

diamonds, and more importantly, it’s one of its kind in the entire world. There’s also a huge ruby as its main jewel. It’s absolutely gorgeous! It’s called ‘Heart of the Abyss’, or something like that anyway!”

“Really? It’s just a necklace though. No way that it’s worth more than a hundred million!”

Ben smiled and spoke nonchalantly. He raised his glass of wine and took a sip from it. “The taste of this red wine is splendid, and it cost over twenty thousand dollars. This is a luxury to me already!”

“You’re so narrow-minded. They say that that necklace is worth more than 900 million dollars—almost up to a billion!”

Fiona continued, “There’s only one of its kind in the world. But more importantly, this necklace is the jeweler’s true treasure. They don’t have any intentions of selling it off. They’re just putting it on exhibition at a critical moment!”

“Pfft!”

Ben spat some of his wine out. “What the f*ck. That’s way too expensive!”

“What are you saying? Of course, the necklace is expensive!”

Fiona rolled her eyes at him. “If only I could afford something like that!”

jackie was surprised as well when he heard that. He took a sip of wine. “Such an expensive necklace would definitely look good on Selena. Ruby…I remember that you like red!”

Selena flashed a bitter smile. “What use is there to like it? No way I can wear something like that. Besides, they won’t sell it even if we want to buy it!”

Chapter 768 jackie could only manage a smile. “Mother, where is this necklace housed?” he asked Fiona. “Why haven’t I heard of this!”

“It’s on the second floor in Tamsin Mall—the biggest jeweler there. The jewels they sell there are seriously expensive,” she replied. “A regular person would be too embarrassed to walk in there. Any item of theirs is easily worth over a hundred thousand!”

Fiona paused here before continuing, “I so happened to catch their advertisement banner while I was passing by. That’s how I knew. They imported the jewel from Gin City, and they’re preparing to exhibit it in a few days. It’s being advertised on television too!

“No regular person would be able to dream of wearing it!”

Andrew gave an indifferent smile. “The rarest things are the ones that are the most expensive in this world. Of course, the necklace would be so expensive, if it were the only one of its kind. It’s normal for it to be worth over 900 million!”

“More importantly, no one has ever worn that necklace before. It’s been used for exhibitions. They had wanted to find someone to help shoot an advertisement, but it seems like there are no celebrities who were suitable to wear it. Their boss is a very crafty person!”

Fiona said, smiling.

jackie and the others went upstairs after they finished their meal.

“Oh, I can finally sleep in tomorrow now that I don’t have to go to work!”

Selena smiled bitterly and loosened a breath. “But I’m still a little worried, dear. What if the Drake family doesn’t forgive us and come to us looking for trouble? I really suspect that that kick of yours has rendered Young Master Drake impotent!”

jackie thought about it for a while. “It’s very likely that he’ll have to be castrated,” he said. “No way about it though. Who said that he could bully my wife? No one bullies my wife like that!”

After he said that, he glanced toward Selena. A wicked grin spread across his lips. “Dear, why don’t we get all tangled up tonight, since you don’t have work tomorrow?”

Selena’s face immediately reddened when she heard this. “Oh, quiet. You’re such a pervert!”

“Can’t help it. You’re too beautiful!”

jackie chuckled and planted his lips on Selena’s.

For the remainder of the night, Selena felt extremely tired. When she woke up the next morning, it was already ten o’clock.

“Thank goodness I don’t have to go to work today. I’d be extremely late otherwise!”

Selena’s lips twisted into a wry smile when she saw the time.

She craned her head around—only to find that jackie was already gone. “What on earth? He’s not working anymore either. Since when did he disappear?”

At the moment, jackie was already outside the biggest shopping mall in the city. He took the elevator and got off on the second floor, heading toward the exclusive jeweler’s shop.

He went straight for the entrance. A young, pretty saleswoman welcomed him. “Welcome, sir. Are you looking for any gems in particular?”

jackie nodded his head. “I’m here to buy the ‘Heart of the Abyss’!” he said. “Where is it?”

The saleswoman was stunned when she heard that. She recollected her wits after a few seconds had passed. “Ahem. You’re such a jester, sir,” she said, smiling. “The Heart of the Abyss is extremely expensive. Not just anyone can afford it. The necklaces we have on public display here are already worth 100 to 200 thousand dollars. We only have the best products here. Besides, we shipped the Heart of the Abyss here for an exhibition. It’s not for sale!”

“Isn’t it worth 900 million dollars? I’ll pay two billion. How about that?”

jackie believed that anything could be bought so long as the price was right. After all, a necklace like that was still a product.

Chapter 769 “Are you joking, sir? It’s 900 million dollars, and you’re increasing its worth to two billion?”

The pretty saleswoman was tickled by jackie’s words.

Another saleswoman walked over after she heard that. “Go out and take a closer look at the advertisement outside our store, sir. Is 900 million written there? If the Abyss is worth merely 900 million, everyone should just sell all their assets to buy it first. They’ll be earning big dollars after they get it!”

“It’s not 900 million?”

Frowning, jackie walked out; the two pretty saleswoman tailed after him.

He looked at the price tag, scanning through the chain of ‘0’s right after the digit 9. He silently counted the zeroes twice, and shock suddenly seized him. “It’s nine billion! Seems like my mother-in-law miscounted and missed a zero there!”

“Why don’t you take a look at our other merchandise, sir? It’s clear that you can afford it, and we carry plenty of exquisite necklaces here. The Heart of the Abyss is definitely not for sale. And it’s not worth just 900 million dollars—it’s nine billion!”

The first saleswoman to have greeted jackie gave a wan smile.

Although jackie was wearing regular clothing, she noted that he dared to pay two billion dollars. He was probably a wealthy man who liked to keep a low profile.

However, his mother-in-law had missed a zero in her calculations, causing him to run into this kerfuffle.

She believed that he would have given up on the necklace long ago if he knew that it was worth nine billion dollars. There was too big of a gap between 900 million and nine billion; that single digit made all the difference. No one would spend that much money to buy such an expensive necklace.

That was why jackie would certainly give up on the Heart of the Abyss if she said that. It was way too expensive. Even someone from a second-class aristocratic family would have to think twice before buying it.

“Oh my. What a coincidence, jackie. What are you doing? Buying jewelry for your wife? A diamond ring, perhaps?”

At this moment, a young man walked in, a beautiful young woman in tow. Several bodyguards trailed behind them.

jackie immediately flashed a frosty smile when he recognized the intruder. It was Kelly, the young master of the Gold family, and Cecilia Taylor.

“I’m buying a necklace. What diamond ring? I’ll bring my wife over to pick it out herself when we’re both free!”

jackie replied, a mirthless smile twisting his lips.

“Take your time!”

Kelly guffawed before turning to another saleswoman. “Bring out all the expensive diamond rings here, as well as the bracelets and earrings and necklaces and whatnot. I want the entire set!”

“Thank you, dear!”

The smile on Cecilia’s face brightened. She lifted her chin slightly, pride etched over her expression. “You’re so nice to me, dear. Unlike someone else who doesn’t have money and is too embarrassed to

bring his wife over to pick out a ring. He’s probably scared that she’ll choose an expensive one, and he won’t be able to bring himself to spend the money. It would be so shameful for him!”

“Really? Then I want to see how much your husband is willing to pay for you, exactly. You’re going to wear them during your wedding, right? Aren’t you afraid that no one would even attend your wedding, let alone someone to look at it when you wear it?”

jackie chuckled after he heard that, casually standing to the side and anticipating the jewelry they would pick out.

“You kidding me? I’m getting married. And what about you? You’re just throwing a birthday party for your wife. You’re the one who’ll be crying then!”

Cecilia rolled her eyes at him, picking up a ring and slipping it onto her finger.

Chapter 770 “I like this, babe! Can I get it?” Cecilia asked.

“Of course. You’re going to wear this on our wedding day. It’s about 50 million dollars, and it’s all worth it so long as you like it. Just buy!”

Kelly grinned.

“Oh, this necklace is so pretty. It’s a little expensive. About 100 million dollars!”

Soon enough, Cecilia had her eyes set upon a gorgeous necklace. It was expensive, even compared to the other items in the shop.

“It’s not expensive at all. It’s nothing. This necklace looks good. You’ll definitely be the brightest star on the wedding day while wearing this!”

Kelly laughed.

After a while, they chose quite a few pieces of jewelry. The bill totaled to over 300 million dollars.

They paid for the jewelry, then they noticed that jackie still had not bought anything. Cecilia smiled. “What’s wrong? You’re too shy to choose anything? Are you scared that we’ll laugh at you, saying that it’s too cheap? Didn’t you just win 90 million dollars from my man here? You should have quite a bit of money on you now. Furthermore, you have your own money, so you should have about 200 million in total. Yet you don’t dare to buy anything too expensive?”

Kelly went along with her and said, “don’t forget, my dear Cecilia, that he just boasted about throwing a birthday party that would rock the entire city. If he buys all this and spends hundreds of millions, he won’t have much left. He’s spending a lot of money already—reserving the hotel, stuff like that. That’s why he’s just buying all these jewelry as a mere token!”

Cecilia pretended a look of realization. “Oh, that’s right! I almost forgot. He won’t even be able to afford the banquet if he isn’t careful with his money. Or he won’t be able to afford a lavish meal. He’ll be a truly laughing stock then!”

She paused here before continuing leisurely, “Besides, no one pays that much attention to jewelry. So it’s enough to simply buy something that’s worth ten or twenty thousand!”

“That’s right. Let’s go, Cecilia. He’ll be too embarrassed to pick something out if we linger here. Let’s quickly go and get out of his hair. We’ll let this poor son-in-law choose some cheap stuff for his wife!”

Young Master Gold laughed. He came before jackie, looked down upon jackie with his head held high, before sauntering out of the store, along with Cecilia.

After they left, jackie only noticed that the saleswoman who had been ready to bring out a few items for him was giving him a strange look.

“So you’re that son-in-law!”

She gave a bitter smile. “It’s all right so long as you mean it. No need to compare yourself to those people!”

He gave a small smile when heard this. “Don’t worry. I’m not going to compare myself to trash like them. After all, a family like the Gold family has no right to compare themselves to me!”

“You talk big. But why don’t you actually pick something out?”

The saleswoman who had sold Cecilia her jewelry gave a cold smile from the side. “They don’t have the right to compare themselves to you? It sounds as though you’re richer than them. Then buy something! I want to see what you buy!”

jackie could not be bothered with her. He turned toward the first saleswoman. “I’m going to buy the Heart of the Abyss because my wife likes it—at least, I trust that she will like it. Besides, she’s the only woman who’s beautiful enough to wear it!”

The saleswoman was speechless. She gave a wry smile. “Sir, that friend of yours said that you only have 200 million dollars on you. The Heart of the Abyss is nine billion, not 900 million! You’ve verified that fact for yourself just now. More importantly, we have no intention of selling it!”

“Nine billion?”

jackie furrowed his brows. He thought about it for a while before speaking: “How about this? I’ll pay 20 billion! I thought that it was worth 900 million, that’s why I offered 2 billion. I never thought that I’d miss a zero there. Then allow me to add a zero to my offer as well. I’ll buy it from you for 20 billion!”

“20 billion!”

Chapter 771 The saleswoman before him exchanged a glance with the plump saleswoman who had sneered upon jackie. They both took sharp intakes of breath.

“Sir, are–are you sure that you said 20 billion? Did I hear wrongly?”

The saleswoman gulped. She suspected that she was hallucinating.

“You didn’t hear wrong. Your boss is a businessman. I don’t care about how big your jewelry business is, but businessmen are out to make money. I know that you won’t be able to make a decision as big as this. So why don’t you call your superior and ask about it?”

jackie said after thinking about it.

“All right. I’ll talk to our manager!”

The saleswoman rushed into the office and called the manager out.

Yet the manager was not able to call the shots either. He smiled at jackie. “Sir, we don’t display the Heart of the Abyss outside. Instead, we keep it inside for safeguarding. I can’t make the final decision, but you’re in luck. Our district manager who oversees for the Southwest district, so happens to be here. Please follow me, sir. I’ll take you to see him.”

“All right!”

jackie nodded his head.

He was quickly led into a tunnel by the manager. They wound their way in for a good few meters before the manager opened a heavy steel door. They entered the room.

A beauty in her thirties was lying on the couch. It was evident she was tired, and she was closing her eyes and resting.

“Manager Lowe, didn’t I tell you to not disturb me if there isn’t anything going on? We’ll be putting the Heart of the Abyss on exhibition tomorrow. I’ve been meeting with the media, and I’m tired. I need a good rest today!”

The middle-aged woman wore a crisp white shirt, and she radiated a powerful aura. After she said that, she looked at jackie. “Why did you bring a man in?” she asked impatiently.

jackie ignored her. His attention was already pinned onto a necklace inside a glass casing that stood in the middle of the room. A jewel the color of dark blood was its crowning glory, and the other gemstones sparkling in its circumference made it seem even more otherworldly. It was magnificent.

“So this is the Heart of the Abyss. It’s beautiful. No wonder it’s selling for such a high price!”

He commented as he walked over and observed it.

“Hey! Who are you? Who told you that you could just waltz in here? Don’t you dare get close to the Abyss!”

The beauty shot up to her feet and gave jackie a warning glare. This was an extremely expensive item. What if he was up to no good?

“Manager Lynch, this customer wishes to buy the Heart of the Abyss. That’s why I brought him in!”

Store Manager Lowe explained to the district manager.

jackie also studied Manager Lynch. He could tell that she was no ordinary woman. Judging from her eyes and her taut, yet relaxed position, she was probably a good fighter.

“We’re not selling!”

Manager Lynch relaxed a little after she heard that. “Manager Lowe, it’s not like you don’t know that there’s only one of its kind in the world. This is our crown jewel, and we use it specially for publicity. We’re just bringing it here for an exhibition. I may be the district manager of the Southwest, but even I can’t do much. Besides, this item is not for sale!”

Chapter 772 “I’m sorry, sir, but we’re not selling this. Our manager was not clear about this. I apologize for wasting your precious time!”

It was evident that the beautiful manager before him was slightly unhappy, but she knew that not any person could think of buying the Heart of the Abyss. That was why she flashed a radiant smile at jackie.

“Ma’am, this man here is offering us 20 billion dollars. That’s why I wanted to ask you about this. He’s offering a huge sum. What if the people up top consider selling it? I was afraid that you would pin the blame on me if we missed the opportunity!”

Store Manager Lowe’s eyes flickered toward Manager Lynch’s. He spoke hesitantly.

“20 billion?”

Naturally, Manager Lynch was surprised when she heard this number. Her lips parted. This man was offering too much.

This was just a necklace. Was it worth it to spend that much money on it?

The necklace was very beautiful though. Any woman would like it.

“Can you make the decision, Manager Lynch?”

jackie gave a wan smile. “I simply must obtain this necklace!” he added.

“I–I’ll ask the boss at our headquarters. I’ll immediately video call him!”

Manager Lynch gulped and whipped her phone out. She immediately video called her boss.

“Miss Lynch, why are you video calling me? We’re going to put the Heart of the Abyss on display tomorrow. Make sure that you perform your bodyguard duties well, all right? We cannot afford a single mistake!”

An old man with frazzled hair sat on the other end of the line. He chuckled as he spoke, and he looked very approachable.

“Boss, we have a customer here who wants to buy the Heart of the Abyss…”

Manager Lynch looked at jackie, who stood behind her. She angled the phone so that he appeared on the screen as well.

The smile on the old man’s face instantly hardened. “Miss Lynch, the Abyss is worth nine billion, but didn’t I say that its value is worth far more than that?” he answered. “There’s only one of its kind in the entire world. Besides, the Heart of the Abyss is our treasure. It’s not for sale. We won’t be able to find anything to replace it anytime soon. More importantly, this is what we use to promote our store!”

Manager Lynch reacted quickly, as though she understood something. “So what you’re saying is that the Heart of the Abyss holds unparalleled value, right, Boss? Including the advertisements and being our signature product!”

The old man nodded his head. He smiled towards jackie. “First of all, sir, I thank you very much for showing interest in our products, and for admiring the Heart of the Abyss so much. But we cannot simply sell this to you…”

Manager Lynch pondered for a while, then she cut in before the old man could finish his sentence: “But this man is offering us 20 billion dollars, Boss. Are you sure you don’t want to consider his offer?”

The old man on the phone creased his brows, obviously considering the offer.

After a while, he gave a bitter smile. “I’m sorry, sir…”

jackie realized that 20 billion was not enough to persuade the old man, considering how he rejected the offer.

“30 billion!”

jackie took a step forward and told the old man.

The old man was taken aback for a moment. “Sir, you’re really making this difficult for us. There is implicit value in that necklace…”

“40 billion!”

jackie offered again.

“But…”

The old man was growing speechless…

“50 billion!”

Chapter 773 jackie was too tired to continue with the negotiation drama. The sign of hesitation plastered on the other party’s face grew more and more obvious, it meant this ‘Heart of the Abyss’ was truly not ordinary jewelry.

Besides, to jackie, 50 billion dollars was nothing.

“Are…are you sure? 50 billion?”

The boss was visibly elated with the price.

“boss, do I look like I’m joking?”

jackie loosened a chuckle in return.

“You have the deal!”

“We thank you so much for choosing our ‘Heart of The Abyss’. I, on behalf of Daxia Juwel, am willing to give away 200 million dollars worth of other jewelry for you to choose!” The boss added excitedly.

“Wow! Just about right! I need to purchase some diamond rings and earrings too!”

jackie’s mood lightened, letting out joyous laughter.

“Glad to be doing business with you!”

“Me too!”

The boss hung up the video call on his mobile phone. He was ostensibly elated for customers like jackie —generous and magnanimous. It was his first time in his lifetime encountering such a customer.

When the commoners purchased pieces of jewelry in their shop, the most frequent question they asked was if there were any discounts or free gifts.

Meanwhile, this guy did not even ask for a discount nor gift but instead raised the price, billions by billions. If they were not the ones dealing with jackie today, they would not believe such a customer existed. It would be extremely hard to believe that this was true.

“Sir…sir, do you really mean it?”

The good-looking manager asked in a trembling tone, her hands shaking. For a person who was able to shout out 50 billion dollars in such a casual manner, his net-worth must be at least a trillion, perhaps even more.

Furthermore, this man’s whole being was sharp, he was standing straight, and firm and his eyes shot out a ray of perseverance, which made her feel that this man before him must be a veteran who had just returned from the military. This was because an ordinary man would not have such a unique aura and temperament.

“Pay with a card?”

A credit card coated completely with predominant golden color was presented before the manager. jackie chuckled and gestured to her to take the card.

The first thought that came into Manager Lynch’s mind was that this card was privileged and elite, though she had not seen this type of card before. She bobbed her head frantically and then turned to the store manager, “Quickly get the POS machine over, and I will pack up the ‘Heart of the Abyss’ for this gentleman!”

“All right!”

The female store manager flashed a warm smile and left the private room.

Few lines appeared between jackie’s brows; a strange feeling stirred within him. Why did not Manager Lynch pack up the necklace for him first and then went out to swipe the card together? After all, he still had to leave the room and pick the other jewels.

Never did he expect, once the store manager left the room, Manager Lynch shot him a few alluring gazes while packing up the ‘Heart of the Abyss’. Then she slowly leaned towards jackie and breathed out slowly, “Dear Sir, can I have your Twitter account? In the future, if Daxia Juwel produces or stocks in some fine accessories, I could send you some photos!”

jackie’s face sunk in the next second; he was speechless. It seemed like the way he raised the price just now had made this good-looking district manager’s heart beating fast.

Although the salary for such an executive was certainly not close to low, in the face of such a generous and manly jackie, she was somewhat moved and unable to resist his personal charm.

jackie flashed a wan smile, “I don’t normally come to these jewelry shops. I bought this necklace for my wife!”

jackie was hinting to the other party that he was married. As long as the other party was not a fool, she would not press further on the matter of Twitter.

After Manager Lynch had packed up the necklace, she handed it over to jackie, her eyes were completely filled with amorous colors. “It’s just adding friends on Twitter. Don’t tell me you’re scared of a lady like me?”

As she spoke, she caressed jackie’s hand while handing the jewelry box over. Her tone was provocative and suggestive.

Chapter 774 However, jackie admitted that the manager before him was indeed gorgeous and charming, no matter her temperament or her body figure. Those eyes of her were even more seductive yet captivating. If jackie were the other ordinary man, he would have fallen into her erotic trap.

He grabbed the box and smiled indifferently, “I don’t think this is necessary. After all, our house is not very far from here. If I’m in need of buying any jewelry, I can just drop by here and see!”

Signs of disappointment flashed in Manager Lynch’s eyes; she was disheartened at jackie’s words. A dirty trick suddenly popped up in her mind and then she pretended to twist her ankle and fell into jackie’s embrace. “Ah!”

jackie’s immediate reflex was to support her from falling further and helped her to stabilize. “Are you alright?”

“I’m sorry, I’m so sorry! These high heels are too high and uncomfortable. I nearly tripped because of them!”

Manager Lynch’s face was kissed pink, and she was tongue-tied at the situation. She had already acted so proactively, and yet jackie did not show any hint of being attracted! It seemed like jackie was truly not interested in other women, even a beauty like her.

She had never behaved in such a sultry and dirty way; she did not budge in the slightest in front of any other average wealthy people, even looked down upon them. After all, she had always been a conservative person, and coupled with her high academic qualification and salary, she would naturally have an eye for a perfect man like jackie.

Many filthy rich young masters had been wanting to hook her up, but none of them succeeded as she did not give them any chance. Today, this man before her was not only good-looking and with a benevolent temperament, but also his manly behaviors had captivated her, especially during the moment he raised the price billions by billions. Money to him was nothing but stacks of toilet papers—he did not care at all. Such a man had completely fascinated her.

Besides, this was also her first time being so proactive in pleasing a man. She wanted to be conquered by this man; she wanted to become his proudest trophy.

However, this man did not even bother to spare her a gaze.

“Sir, please swipe your card with this POS machine. Also, our boss has informed us that you still have 200 million dollars for the other jewels. I will show you the way later!”

Store Manager Lowe entered the private room with a POS machine in her hand. She quickly let jackie make the payment.

“Manager Lynch, I’m sorry for interrupting your break time. I’ll follow Manager Lowe to pick some other necklace and ring!”

jackie gave a faint smile and went out of the room with Store Manager Lowe.

The awkward smile on Manager Lynch’s face disappeared in the next second the two left. She closed the door feebly, feeling a little lost. Her eyes turned towards the direction of the place where the Heart of The Abyss was once placed, and her heart sank deeply.

“Oh ya! Manager Lowe, I need a favor from you. There’s something I need you to pass on to Manager Lynch in a while!”

After choosing the ring, earrings, and bracelet, jackie quickly thought of something and turned to Store Manager Lowe. “Could you help me to pass on this message to her? That the Heart of The Abyss has already been sold to me, and you won’t be able to exhibit it tomorrow! Hence please announce to the public that it has been sold. As for the fact that I bought it for 50 billion dollars, I hope this can remain a secret. Could you please help?”

“Do you mean we keep the 50 billion dollars as a secret?”

Store Manager Lowe was stunned at jackie’s request. “Sir, if we announce that the necklace was sold for 50 billion dollars, wouldn’t it be great for you in front of your friend and family? Sir, you’re too low profile!”

‘this is not about me being low profile. If my wife knew that I’ve spent 50 billion for a 9 billion worth necklace, she would scold me! She will say that I squander hard-earn money.

jackie explained in a casual tone, a warm smile showing on his face.

A flash of enlightenment, at the same time, a flicker of envy stirred within Store Manager Lowe when she heard his explanation. “I’m envious of your wife! You’re so willing to spend money on her and consider everything for her!”

“By the way, if you and Manager Lynch are available on that day, feel free to come to my wife’s birthday party!” jackie chuckled.

Chapter 775 “No way! Are you serious? We can come too?”

jackie’s invitation elevated Store Manager Lowe’s mood that she almost jumped for joy. A birthday party by a big shot was the sweetest dream that one could have! Besides, those who would be attending the party were definitely not ordinary people. They must have possessed certain statuses in Eastfield.

“Absolutely! Just come over empty-handed and tell the guards that you got my permission!”

After giving some thought to the matter, jackie showed another warm smile and then left the shop.

“Wait. That’s not quite right. Isn’t he only the adopted son-in-law? Can a son-in-law have so much money?”

After jackie exited the door, Store Manager Lowe, who had finally calmed down, thought of something and yelled in surprise. “This fella is too low profile. 50 billion for a necklace? Just wow! No wonder he promised to give his wife a birthday party that will shake the whole Eastfield. He’s so damn rich!”

The first thing that jackie did once he arrived at home was to hide the Heart of the Abyss, only then he went to search for his wife.

At this time, Selena was strolling leisurely in the garden.

As soon as she saw jackie approaching her, she shot him a blank look. “ jackie White! You disappeared early in the morning! Where did you go, huh?”

jackie let out adorable giggles, extended his hands into his pockets, and pulled out several boxes. “Look, your birthday is around the corner. So I went out to buy you some nice accessories!”

“What? How could you go without me? Are you trying to surprise me?”

Inside Selena’s reprimand, hid a hint of happiness; a giggly smile plastered on her face. She took one of the boxes and opened it. “Did you purchase in Daxia Juwel? Their accessories are exorbitantly expensive. Here, look, there’re gems on it, it must be expensive, right? And all these things added up must have cost you a lot!”

jackie smiled lightly, “It’s not expensive, it’s merely over nine million!”

“What the heck? Over nine million dollars, and yet you said it’s not expensive?”

Selena almost fainted at the number. Few lines formed between her brows, and she started to nag in a firmer tone, “No, dear, no! Your act is called impulsive purchase! You’re basically squandering money. Both of us don’t have a job right now and yet you spent so much money on these. If everyone in our house spends like you do, what do you think will happen to our savings? Even if you’ve won 10 billion in billiards, you shouldn’t squander like this!”

Nonetheless, these reprimands of Selena’s are like sunshine flooded into jackie’s chest—he felt warm and elated. He wrapped his arms around Selena and pulled her into his embrace. “You silly. This is our first birthday celebration together, I’d break my bank for it!”

“Hey, hey, let me go. Others are watching!”

Contentment filled her heart as her face turned rosy pink.

“ jackie White, you stupid brat. You’re so heroic, huh? I just got to know that you’ve beaten Young Master Drake up! Are you trying to dig a grave for yourself?”

At this time, Fiona returned from her shopping and started to yell at jackie as soon as she spotted jackie in the garden.

“Mother, yes, I did beat him up. I went to Drake’s residence last night. And that’s because he deserves it. As for the reason why I hit him, you don’t have to worry anymore. I’ve already settled it!”

jackie smiled dryly and admitted the deed without hesitation.

“Get out from our house, now! You’ve offended the Drake family, aren’t you having a death wish? I don’t even bother to find out why you beat him up, it must be because he fired you and Selena, and you feel displeased with his action! But you can’t hit people because of that either!”

Fiona pointed at the gate, gave him a dismissive wave of her hands, yelling jackie to get out.

Chapter 776 “The heck are you talking about, Ma? Young Master Drake deserved a beating. Anyway, what’s over is over. I don’t think jackie did anything wrong. He helped me to release my anger—that’s why he beat Young Master Drake up!”

Selena was extremely angry when she heard what her mother said. She snarled at Fiona.

“I wouldn’t want that to happen to you either, Selena. But he’s from the Drake family. Offending them is like signing your death certificate!”

Fiona was truly worried.

“What’s going on, Ma?”

Ben and Andrew walked out and asked, their expressions furrowed in concern.

Fiona released a sigh and shot jackie a vicious glare. “I just heard that this fellow had gone and beaten the young master of the Drake family up,” she explained to Ben. “Isn’t it infuriating? I heard that Young Master Drake is still being hospitalized, and his condition is uncertain!”

“No way. Weren’t you being a little brash, jackie? We understand why you spoke against him in the first place—you did it for the billion dollars, right? Even if speaking against him would mean embarrassing him in front of everyone. And of course, Young Master Drake did go overboard by firing Selena as well!”

Andrew stepped forward, his brows drawing together. “But it’s too much, isn’t it, beating up a young master just because of that?” he continued, “They even offered the two of you jobs in the first place. They’re stronger than some first-class aristocratic families. Aren’t you afraid that they’ll destroy the entire Taylor family?”

“That’s right!”

Fiona interjected immediately, “So shouldn’t we chase him out now? He invited disaster upon himself. He shouldn’t drag us into it!”

Ben spoke up after thinking for a while, “Ma, it’s true that jackie was being rash, but he did lash out for Selena’s sake. We don’t have much choice now. The past is all in the past. All of us should just leave together. I think James Drake won’t let us off that easily no matter what we say since his son has been beaten up. We can’t just single jackie out. The rest of us won’t be able to escape either!”

“That’s right. Why don’t we all leave together? It hurts my heart to think of leaving this villa, but we can bring our valuables along with us. Most of our money is in the bank anyway that can be easily accessed with our cards!”

Fiona instantly suggested, realizing that Ben’s words made sense.

“Don’t be afraid, Father, Mother. They won’t come to us looking for trouble!”

jackie flashed a bitter smile as he watched everyone fly into panic mode. “Think about it. I brought Selena along last night and caused a ruckus for them. They would have done something about it yesterday if they really wanted to retaliate. Furthermore, it’s already this late into the morning, but they haven’t sent anyone over. Do you really think they’ll come? If you do, wouldn’t they be scared that we would take off sooner?”

Realization dawned upon Ben when he heard jackie’s words. “You’re right. If they really wanted to find trouble with us, they probably would have done so yesterday night or this morning. They wouldn’t have waited until now.”

“Hmm. That’s true…”

Andrew also seemed to realize that the idea made sense.

“But I really think that the Drake family won’t let us off so easily. It’s possible that they prioritized sending Young Master Drake to the hospital because he was so badly injured. Maybe they’ve already sealed off all the roads leading out of the city. We probably won’t even have a chance to escape. They’ll come for us once their young master has fully recovered!”

Fiona was still fearful—to the point that her imagination began to run wild.

“Ma, all this actually happened because Young Master Drake tried to take advantage of me. He was a little drunk last night when he came into the office, and he tried to get all touchy. jackie only beat him up after he knew about this! I believe that even the Drake family themselves would think that this was rational. Besides, jackie is so strong. It’s likely they won’t cause trouble for us!”

Selena cast a side-glance at jackie, then she explained everything in his place. She did not want him to bear the responsibility alone.

“What? That Young Master Drake actually tried to…”

Only then did Fiona understand that jackie had beaten Young Master Drake up for other reasons, and not because of the job-related incident.

Chapter 777 She gave jackie a long look. “All right. I wrongfully accused you just now,” she said. “I thought you had gone and beaten the young master up because of what happened to Selena and your job. You really do have a valid reason for beating him up then, if that had happened!”

“Ma, how did you know about this anyway?”

Selena asked Fiona after she thought about it.

“Oh, I overheard a few people gossiping about it when I was out shopping. It gave me such a scare that I immediately rushed back!”

Fiona patted her chest, but she was still anxious as she thought about it. “But what if the Drake family lashes against us in secret, instead of broad daylight? That will be even harder to prevent. I really think that we should all just stay at home and not go out at all!”

“No way, Mom. I’ve just opened my cybercafé. I need to make sure that everything’s running smoothly for these few days, especially when we’re getting so many customers!”

Ben spoke with a smile, “I trust what jackie said. If he says that they fear him, they fear him. They would have come looking for us a long time ago otherwise.”

“No way. It’s not like we lack the money from your cybercafe business. I won’t be able to live on if you ever die!”

Fiona did not dare to allow Ben out alone.

“Elaine, take a few of the other bodyguards and follow me!”

Ben waved Elaine and a few other bodyguards over; they had been standing at the side.

“You won’t worry if I’m going out like this. Right, Mom?”

After Elaine and the others walked over, Ben said to Fiona, grinning.

“Fine. Go on then!”

Fiona waved her hand helplessly.

…

“Master, Master! Good news!”

At this moment, a man from the Eagle clan ran over to Master Neuman, smiling.

“What’s going on? You seem excited!”

Lee asked, smiling bitterly.

“Good news. I heard that Young Master Drake has fired jackie and his wife, and the young master tried to make a move with the wife. So jackie brought his wife to the Drake family’s residence and beat the living sh*t out of Timothy Drake. He’s still in the hospital now!”

The middle-aged man grinned as he reported everything.

Lee’s eyes immediately brightened when he heard that. He quickly leaped to his feet. “Really? Fantastic! This way, we won’t have to act so fast for now. We’ll wait and watch what happens. Offending the Drake family is practically digging your own grave. Let’s see if the Drake family helps us to get rid of that little punk.”

“Of course the Drake family would do something. James Drake has only one son, after all!”

The middle-aged man said, smiling.

“Mmhmm. Seems like the gods are smiling upon me!”

Lee lifted his chin ever so slightly, his gaze filled with excitement.

Chapter 778 “Tell everyone that we’re halting operations for now! We’ll wait and see how the situation is after two days!”

In a flash, Lee’s good humor had been restored. It would be fantastic if the Drake family were to kill jackie off. He would not have to do a single thing then.

“Fantastic. Absolutely fantastic.”

…

Ken Clark was excited as well. He guffawed as he came before Ivan, Neil, and Xena before taking a seat.

“What’s going on, Young Master Clark? Looks like you’re excited about something!”

Ivan flashed a mirthless smile. He had finally recovered from his injuries, and he could return to the Taylor family’s residence. He also thought about introducing Xena to his family sometime during the next few days.

When he thought about the expressions on Ben’s and the others’ faces, delight jolted in him.

“ jackie has gone looking for trouble again. He really doesn’t quit playing with fire.”

Ever since Young Master Clark had stepped foot into the coffee shop, he did not stop grinning. “I think we won’t need to create trouble for him anymore. He has signed a death wish for himself now.”

“What? Really? Who did he offend this time?”

Neil immediately knew that jackie had gone and offended someone else again when he heard that. After he thought about it, his eyes brightened. “Don’t tell me he’s offended a first-class aristocratic family this time? Now that punk isn’t afraid of us. But he’ll be in big trouble if he offended a first-class aristocratic family!”

He did not expect Ken to shake his head. The latter earnestly tapped his index finger against the table. “He didn’t offend a first-class aristocratic family this time, but the Drake family!”

A frosty smile spread across Ivan’s lips as he registered the words. “You’re joking, Young Master Clark. jackie has good relations with the Drake family, especially since he’s constantly by Miss Tanya’s side after he was hired as their bodyguard. He’s constantly shadowing her, and they’re pretty much good friends. Why would jackie offend them? He’s not an idiot!”

“It’s all because of the billion dollars! That punk’s head must have been high at the prospect of that much money!”

Ken laughed. Then he told everyone about what he had heard in detail.

“So that’s what happened. He just pretended that he did not know how to play billiards and swindled Young Master Turner of one billion dollars. Tsk. Leo’s probably really good in billiards. No one would believe jackie if he claimed that he had just picked it up. It’s obvious that he’s good in the sport if he was able to beat Leo!”

“No wonder Young Master Drake could not suffer the sight any longer. So he helped to speak up, saying that jackie had gone mad for insisting on a billion dollars because he wanted money. And he didn’t spare Young Master Drake’s reputation! That was probably why Young Master Drake was so angry that he went looking for Selena Taylor!”

Ivan gave a wry smile and took a sip out of his cup of coffee. “Ah. What a pity. I had hoped that jackie would embarrass himself to no end during Selena’s birthday party and that he would just curdle out of shame. Who knew that he won’t be living for more than a few days now!”

Xena, who was sitting beside him, thought about it for a while. “But jackie is the son-in-law of the Taylor family, Ivan,” she said, anxiety laced in her tone. “Won’t the Drake family retaliate against the Taylor family as well in a moment of anger?”

Ivan furrowed his brows at the idea. “I don’t think so. We didn’t offend them. Besides, jackie and his family have never lived with us before. James is a reasonable man. They would suffer plenty of losses if they really tried to fight us, especially since jackie is a good fighter.”

Right at this moment, a phone rang out.

Ivan gestured for everyone to remain silent before picking up the phone, getting onto his feet.

His expression darkened as the call went on. “F*ck. jackie is really dragging our entire family through the dirt!”

“What’s wrong, Ivan?”

Xena quickly asked.

Chapter 779 She was a little worried. What if Young Master Drake suffered from serious injuries and his father was absolutely furious? It would be troublesome if they acted against Ivan and the others.

It was a small possibility, but it could not be completely ruled out.

Besides, it had not been easy for her to become Ivan’s girlfriend. It would be extremely unfair if she were to be dragged into this and get killed along with everyone else. She would not even get a chance to enjoy her life for a short period of time! She could not let that happen.

“The Drake family called to inform us that we’re officially withdrawn from the Southern Hills development project. And they won’t give us any compensation for breaking the contract!”

Ivan gave a bitter smile. “The old man is super angry right now. He’s calling a meeting for all members of the family.”

As he spoke, his eyes suddenly lit up. “Let’s go then. There’s no time like the present. Come with me, Xena. Since the old man has called all the Taylor family members for the meeting, I’m sure that Selena, jackie, and even Ben will be there. Since they’re all there, I’ll introduce you to everyone then. I’ll let them know that you’re my girlfriend!”

Xena furrowed her brows. “Is–is it appropriate to tell them about me now?”

“Of course it is!”

Ivan splayed his arms. “Everyone will be there. If I introduce you and everyone knows that you’re my girlfriend, jackie won’t kill you off just like that, right? It wouldn’t do if the Taylor family found out. After all, I’m their cousin! It’ll be insurance for your life, announcing this. If I don’t announce it, what if jackie secretly kills you to exact revenge for Ben? What if he says that he didn’t know you were my girlfriend?”

After Xena heard that, she too, thought that it made sense. She nodded her head. “All right then. I’ll go with you. But I’m not prepared for this. I’m so nervous. I didn’t even bring any gifts!”

Ivan took her hand. “No need to buy anything. I’m just going to introduce you because this meeting happened to be now. Don’t worry. I’m here!”

“Ah, I would go over and see the look on Ben’s face if I actually had a reason for going.”

Ken burst into laughter.

“Don’t worry, Young Master Taylor. Old Man Taylor will certainly be angry because of how the Drake family had canceled all their plans, but it’s not your fault. It’s all because jackie beat Young Master Drake up. That’s why the person to be reprimanded will naturally be jackie. The old man will give him thorough hiding!”

Neil flashed a cold smile as he spoke.

“That’s right. I didn’t do anything wrong. Nothing to be worried about!”

Smiling, Ivan brought Xena out.

jackie and Ben and the others also received calls. They all went to the largest hall in the Taylor family’s villa.

There were plenty of couches and stools all around. The Taylor family would use this space to discuss important matters whenever they cropped up.

At this moment, Old Man Taylor’s expression looked grim. The people around him all dipped their heads as well. The atmosphere was thick and heavy.

The doors gradually opened. Selena, jackie, and the others strode in.

“Hmph!”

Old Man Taylor harrumphed when he saw jackie. It was clear that he was furious.

“Grandpa, is there something wrong? Why did you summon us over?”

Selena managed an awkward smile, asking tentatively. During the call earlier, Cecilia simply told them to come over and admit their mistakes, huffing angrily. She did not speak about the entire situation.

Chapter 780 “What’s wrong? What’s wrong! Of course, that hotheaded husband of yours went and caused trouble again!”

At this moment, Ivan walked in with Xena, a humorless smile on his lips.

“Ivan, why did you bring her here? Isn’t she Ben’s girlfriend?”

Theodore could not help but furrow his brows when he saw his son walking in with Xena.

Ivan gave a wry smile. He cast Ben a purposeful look before speaking, “Yes, Xena was Ben’s girlfriend. But he’s useless. He’s already in his twenties, but he’s still a good-for-nothing. Of course, Xena would want a more established man!”

Here, he smiled at the audience and introduced her, “Everyone, this is Xena jackieson, and she’s my girlfriend. And we’re a match made in heaven.”

Ben’s expression soured, and redness limned his eyes although he was well aware that Xena was a cruel and horrible person. A woman like her was not even worthy of his affections, but he had been with

her for a long time. His heart still ached when he saw her.

“Oh. So she’s your girlfriend now? Congratulations! It’s only right that a beauty is paired with a prince, instead of some neet who only knows how to play video games all day. It would be a miracle if the girlfriend of someone like that didn’t run off!”

Cecilia spoke sardonically after she heard that, folding her arms across her chest.

“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Of course, there would be someone willing to pick up what Ben sees as trash. Birds of a feather flock together, after all!”

jackie gave a mirthless chuckled when he heard that. “But those who keep money-minded women will live to regret their decision!”

“That’s right. I’ve never seen such a shameless person in my life!”

Selena also huffed angrily, furious in place of her brother.

“You…you’re saying that we’re shameless? That we’re trash?”

Ivan was furious now. He took a step forward and glared at jackie.

However, he quickly thought of something, and his anger quickly dissipated. Instead, he gave a wry smile. “ jackie, not sure if you’ve been feeling kind of weak lately?”

jackie was going to die after ten more days. What use was there in arguing with a person who was sentenced to death?

jackie was stunned. He immediately knew what Ivan meant when he said that. The other man was trying to pry and see if he had taken the poison, and if there were obvious symptoms now.

He wore a surprised expression on purpose. “That’s right. I’ve been a little out of it lately as if my limbs are weak. But what does it have to do with you?” he said to Ivan. “Isn’t it normal to feel lethargic during the summer?”

Ivan’s heart was delighted when he heard jackie admitting to that. Still, he maintained his composure as he said, “You look like you could use some rest. That’s why I asked!”

“Enough! I wanted to have a meeting to speak about certain matters, not for the both of you to argue!”

At last, Old Man Taylor snapped impatiently.

He waited until everyone have quiet down before speaking, looking at jackie as he did so. “ jackie, do you know what your brash decision of beating Young Master Drake up has cost us? Do you know the losses the Taylor family will suffer?”

Chapter 781 “You’ve got some guts, jackie, beating the young master of the Drake family like that. I think you should just get out of the Taylor family. Stop dragging us along with you!”

One of the Taylor family members huffed angrily.

“That’s right. That’s Young Master Drake we’re talking about, jackie. Sure, you offended some young master of a second-class aristocratic family before, but we wanted to preserve our family’s reputation plus you’re a good fighter, and you are friends with the Goddess of War. We wouldn’t want to cause you trouble so long as you didn’t overstep your boundaries. But you took this for granted. Now you’re so wanton, daring enough to hurt Young Master Drake!”

Another family member was furious as well. He was afraid that all of them would be dragged into the matter because of jackie’s action.

Fiona gave an awkward smile as she stepped forward. “Don’t worry, Grandpa Taylor. Nothing will happen,” she said to Old Man Taylor. “ jackie had a good reason for beating Young Master Drake. It’s not

just because the young master fired him and Selena. That man wanted to take advantage of our Selena, and jackie was absolutely livid when he knew about this. That’s why he beat that man up!”

Here, Fiona pounded her chest. “But don’t worry. We definitely won’t bring the Taylor family into this,” she promised. “The Drake family won’t simply murder the innocents, right? The most they’ll do is kill our family!”

“You really know how to talk, Fiona!”

Theodore chuckled. “You’re not even part of the Drake family. How would you know that the Drake family won’t lash out against us in a fit of anger?”

In reality, Fiona was not sure of herself as well. At this moment though, she could not give in. “It’s simple. They would have created a lot of trouble earlier if they had wanted to do so. jackie had beaten that man up yesterday morning, and it’s already noon the next day now. But I don’t see the Drake family’s people coming over. So they definitely won’t come over. After all, jackie has a good relationship with Miss Tanya!”

“No way!”

Ivan interjected immediately, “He’s the young master of the Drake family. They have so many good fighters. How can they just let this slide? I really think that the best thing to do now is to surrender jackie to the Drake family. Make him kowtow and admit his mistakes and ask for forgiveness!”

“Why am I the one who should kowtow and ask for forgiveness when he’s the one who tried to touch my wife? Are you kidding me, Ivan Taylor? Do you think I’d do something like that?”

jackie chuckled, his expression nonchalant. “It’s best if they don’t come over. If they do, I’ll kill off every single one who steps in!”

“You said it yourself!”

Old Man Taylor looked straight at jackie. “Since you were the one who caused this mess in the first place, I hope that you’ll be able to bear the mistake yourself when the Drake family comes. Don’t drag the Taylor family into this!”

“Don’t worry. I won’t!”

jackie promised.

“You won’t? Grandpa, he’s already dragged us into this. The Drake family isn’t cooperating with us anymore. Southern Hill Real Estate was a huge project, and they don’t want to collaborate anymore. We didn’t earn anything this time instead we made huge losses!”

Ivan was extremely furious. He shot a glare at jackie. “You damn idiot. Did you really think that you didn’t drag us through the dirt?”

“Ah. Nevermind. We’ve suffered huge losses, but Young Master Drake had disrespected Selena by trying to touch her. He deserved to be beaten up!”

Old Man Taylor heaved a sigh. “We simply lost a hundred million just like that. It’s a huge blow to the Taylor family, but we won’t starve to death,” he said. “I just pray that the Drake family won’t come looking for us, out of consideration of the friendship they had with jackie!”

Right at this moment, a bodyguard of the Taylor family rushed in. “Master, we’ve just got the news!” he breathed excitedly. “Young Master Drake only suffered minor injuries. There won’t be any complications!”

Chapter 782 After knowing that jackie had beaten up Young Master Drake, the first thing the Taylor family naturally did was to send out their bodyguards to inquire about the situation.

Old Master Taylor heaved a huge sigh of relief upon learning that Young Master Drake only suffered a minor injury. Since the wound was not serious, perhaps Master Drake would not be so upset with them

and make a huge fuss out of it. At most, he would find a hitman to slit jackie’s throat, after all, others were not involved.

“Thank God, it’s only a minor injury. Thank God!”

Old Master Taylor plonked down onto the armchair; everyone could see that the boulder in his heart was lifted.

Selena and jackie exchanged glances and hints of dismay were obviously displayed in their gazes.

The kick from jackie yesterday was not feeble at all. His kick was so powerful that Young Master Drake passed out the next second.

It was impossible for his injury to be mild and most likely, he would be impotent from that kick.

Nevertheless, jackie and Selena were no fool, it was obviously a beautiful white lie that the Drake family had spread. Since they were covering the truth, it meant that Master Drake was a sensible person, or at least he was smart that he should not make a hoo-ha out of this.

“But, Grandpa, though Young Master Drake was only mildly injured, the South Hill Real Estate project is now down the drain. The Drake family won’t allow us to continue with the project anymore. Who will make up for the losses?”

Ivan could feel raw anger boiling in his blood knowing that jackie was the culprit for the huge loss. He could not just let this b*stard off the hook; he desired to find a way to cast him out of the Taylor family.

“I’ll pay for the loss!”

However, to everyone’s surprise, jackie stepped forward and proclaimed aloud. “Isn’t it just a hundred million or so? I’ll pay!”

“Hmph! Don’t be ridiculous! Have you thought about it? What money are you gonna use to pay? The billion you won from Young Master Turner? Don’t forget you’ve promised to hold a party that will shake the entire Eastfield for your dearest wife!”

Ivan’s face immediately lit up at jackie’s words. Since this b*stard wanted to pretend to be some tycoon and offered to make up for the losses, why not?

“ jackie, what nonsense are you spewing about? You and Selena are both jobless now! How can you afford to take up such responsibility?”

Fiona nearly had a heart attack and her eyes rolled to the back of her brain when she heard what jackie had said. She immediately pulled jackie back to her side as she reprimanded.

“Indeed, he should be responsible for this loss! If it wasn’t for him, this big project would not have flush down the drain just like that!”

Theodore immediately chimed in with a serious and firm tone. “Since the loss was caused by jackie, it’s natural for him to pay for it!”

“Yes. They’re right! Selena’s birthday doesn’t have to be grand, just a few confetti, wines and pizzas will do. It’ll be Cecelia’s wedding on that day anyway, the whole Taylor family probably don’t have spare time to celebrate with Selena. Oh ya! You really don’t even have to prepare a lot of food, since all the big shots and local authorities will attend Cecelia’s wedding.”

Cecelia’s mother echoed as she stepped forward.

Fiona was burning with anger that her eyes were like two fireballs that could burn jackie into ashes anytime. This brat clearly did not bring his brain along with him today, otherwise, how could he spew such nonsense?

Since jackie and her daughter were both jobless, jackie, perhaps, only had a couple of millions left. And the 90 million dollars that jackie won from Kelly Gold in gambling had been given to Fiona as well. Now, the issue was about the loss amounting to 100 million dollars and this brat had actually said that he would bear it.

Old Master Taylor nodded in agreement after giving the matter some thoughts. “ jackie, this is indeed your fault and since you’ve said you’d be responsible, then you should transfer 100 million dollars to the company’s account!”

“Hmmm. You’re right. It’s indeed something I should pay for!”

jackie bobbed his head and asked for the company’s account number from the butler, which then he transferred 100 million dollars over.

Seeing that jackie was such a responsible man, there was a hint of respect shown in Old Master Taylor’s eyes. The anger that was swirling inside him a moment ago had dissipated now.

“All right. Since Young Master Drake did not suffer a major injury, I hope they won’t continue to look for trouble. But jackie, if they do come to avenge Young Master Drake, I hope that you’ll step up and bear the consequences. Don’t drag us down this abyss!”

“Don’t be preoccupied, Grandpa Taylor. They won’t dare to come, and if they really do, they’re practically digging their own graves.”

Chapter 783 jackie chuckled in return. His words made the crowd rendered speechless.

This freaking snob had become more and more braggy. The other party was the Drake family; not some other small shrimps, and he actually dared to say such a thing.

jackie and the others went back to their home not long after.

The next two or three days, the Taylor family were living in a state of fear; whenever any of the Taylors went out, it was necessary to bring along dozens of bodyguards.

While in jackie’s villa, Fiona did not let jackie and Selena out at all cost; everyone must stay at home.

After two more days had passed and there were no signs of the Drake family then Fiona felt a huge relief. It seemed like the Drake family was not planning to avenge Young Master Drake.

…

“Hell no!”

The head of Eagle Clan—Lee Neuman—who had waited for several days for an explosive battle between the Drakes and jackie, was tongue-tied at the current situation. How could he have imagined that the episode of jackie beating up Young Master Drake would be settled in such a perfunctory manner?

Although the Drake family had announced that it was only a mild injury, Timothy was the young master of the Drake family after all. How could the Drakes swallow this anger?

In the end, the outcome was only that the Drake family had discontinued the South Hill Real Estate contract with the Taylor family. Nothing else other than that.

“James Drake, such a coward! He’s really…”

Lee was speechless for a while. He initially had planned to use James Drake to get rid of jackie, but he had never expected that the Drakes were such cowards!

“Master, I think it’d be better for us to follow the original plan. James Drake is a meticulous and careful man. And since the Young Master Drake was only mildly injured, and since the other party does not want to pursue further, we basically can’t do anything!”

The middle-aged man looked at Lee and spoke.

“Right. It looks like that’s the only way to go!”

Lee balled his fists firmly and responded.

“We’ve to capture a few men from the Green Sky Hall. Once jackie kills our men, we’ll kill those men as well! Only that way we can frame the Green Sky Hall for the deed!”

After pondering on the matter, Lee reminded the middle-aged man carefully.

“Don’t worry, Master. We’ll first capture three guys from the Green Sky hall and take away their tokens. It’s much more easier this way. The moment our men die, the men from the Green Sky Hall will die too!”

The middle-aged man revealed a sinister grin.

“All right. Go ahead!”

Lee gestured a wave of dismissal toward the man.

…

“Dear, there are only ten days away from your birthday! Let’s go out and have a stroll on the street!”

jackie held Selena’s hand in his as he laughed.

“Honey, we haven’t made any reservation with the hotel, right? Why don’t we do that now? And I think there aren’t many halls to choose from right now. Damn! Why did this freaking Cecelia have to do her wedding on the same day as our party! Not many people will come to our party then!”

Selena flashed a bitter smile and continued, “But…hmmm…this isn’t bad too. The billion would be enough to cover everything, but then now, perhaps, you are only left with a few hundred million. We

should spend wisely, just a few tables here and there and some basics will do. Let me calculate… I think 10 million should be enough to pay for everything!”

“My dear wife, please don’t worry about it. I’ve booked the hotel!”

jackie smiled lightly and continued, “Just relax and wait for your birthday!”

Chapter 784 “No way? You’ve booked it? Which bodyguard have you sent to make this reservation for you?”

Selena was at a loss for words. A few obvious lines formed between her brows as she spoke, “How many pax have you booked for? And how much have you paid for it? I’m afraid that our current savings are not enough to cover everything, then it’ll become a problem! We don’t have much money left, you better don’t spend it all!”

“Honey, don’t worry. Relax, sit back, and wait for the day to come. I promise you the surprise will be amazing!”

jackie giggled as he pulled Selena outside. “Let’s go, my dear! Let’s go out for a walk, we can go shopping and then pay a visit to Ben’s cybercafe to see how it’s going now!”

“How is it going? His cybercafe’s first-day opening was yesterday!”

Selena replied with a bitter smile.

“Huh? Yesterday was the first day? Why didn’t he say anything about it? I can’t even send him a bouquet of flowers to congratulate him!”

jackie’s feature morphed into one of the true surprises when he heard the news.

“It’s okay, I’ve sent a bouquet over. He kept reminding me to keep it a low profile, so we didn’t really celebrate the opening. Only in the evening, we all went out together for a simple meal as a celebration!”

When the last syllabus dropped, Selena could barely conceal the sudden flare of joy within her that her face lit up. “It looks like Ben has really grown up. He’s much more mature than before!”

However, not long after the two strolled around the area, a scene of three men following a bunch of young girls appeared before them. One of the men was actually pretending to be blind, putting on sunglasses and using a pathfinder cane, and the young girls before them were wearing miniskirts.

“What the heck!”

jackie’s face sank deeply at the scene before him. Then he said to Selena, “Selena, look over there! Those people who’re pretending blind, they must be from the Green Sky Hall. It looks like they’re taking photos of the girls’ undergarment again! Bunches of b*astard! They just couldn’t stop doing dirty deeds, could they?”

“What the…”

Selena looked toward the direction that jackie had pointed, and she could feel anger rushing through her blood vessels. However, she quickly thought of something and turned to jackie, “Wait, jackie, you’re not going to intervene again, are you?”

“Honey, you know me, there’s no way I’m going to turn a blind eye to such a thing!”

jackie ended his last word and strode hastily toward the group of men.

He had already warned the Green Sky Hall not to continue such dirty deeds and the other party made the promise as well.

He thought that the people of Green Sky Hall would naturally keep to their words, so he did not think much about it and send someone to monitor them. Never did he expect that they were still doing this dirty business under his nose.

It looked like the other party pretended to say one thing in front of him but remained as a fox behind them —sly and sneaky. They did not take jackie’s words seriously.

“Hmph! In that case, if I don’t send some of you to hell, you guys would think that I’m a paper tiger!”

jackie walked up to the three of them and snarled, “How dare you still do such dirty deeds!”

“Ah!”

Those three young girls wheeled back and saw a man following behind them, wearing sunglasses and pretending to be blind with the guiding cane in his hand, pointing gently at his feet.

The three girls yells their lungs out and stumbled back a few steps in fear.

“Motherf*cker! Who the heck are you? Do you have a death wish?”

The guy who was pretending to be blind removed his sunglasses without hesitation. In the next second, the three of them surrounded jackie.

“No, I think you’re the ones who have death wishes!”

jackie could not bother with all the nonsense anymore. He leaped two steps forwards, swung his arms, and threw out three blasting punches onto each of them.

“Ah!”

Chapter 785 The three girls were so frightened that they ran off at a lighting speed.

jackie, on the other hand, squatted down and pulled off the tokens from the men’s waist. There were three words carved on the tokens—Green Sky Hall.

“Hmmm. It looked like these three are some honourable underlings in the Green Sky Hall, otherwise they wouldn’t have these tokens.

jackie let out a frosty-cold chuckle. His fists clenched tightly.

“ jackie, you could just teach them a lesson! Why did you kill them!”

Selena quickly ran towards jackie and questioned in a worry tone. “You’ll have offended the Green Sky Hall now that you’ve killed their men. This is the Green Sky Hall! I heard that behind them, there’s a stronger and more powerful figure! I remember the name is called something like what, Kingston Hall? That Kingston Hall is nothing but the greatest of all Halls.”

“My dear wife, don’t you worry about it. I have a good relationship with the Goddess of War, Lana. We’re basically best buddies!”

jackie laughed wholeheartedly at his wife’s concerns and threw the token aside before taking Selena’s hand and whispered, “Hmmm. We’ve no plans today, why don’t we pay a visit to Lana’s God of War Manor?”

“Are we really going? Will she agree to meet us? After all, she is the strong and mighty Goddess of War!”

Selena’s plump and rosy lower lip was in between her teeth. She felt that jackie was overconfident. It was true that jackie had saved Lana’s life on the battlefield, but Lana had returned the favor!

jackie’s plan to play Lana a sudden visit, was it really a good idea?

“C’mon! It’ll be okay, don’t worry!”

…

“Everything went so freaking well!”

While inside a car in the distance not too far from jackie and Selena, a man was incomparably excited. “That’s too great! It’s too f*cking great! I thought that jackie would’ve questioned them which hall they belonged to and make them kill themselves or something along that line. I didn’t expect that jackie was so hot headed and actually killed them without hesitation!”

“Boss, what should we do next?”

The two other men inside the car asked.

“What should we do next? Are you dumb or retard? Get out and dispose of the corpses! It’s better to burn them and get rid of any evidence. Then we’ll go back and kill the three real Green Sky Hall men that we captured the other day!”

An evil grin appeared on the middle-aged man’s feature. “I’m pretty confident that jackie will definitely go to the Green Sky Hall and make a huge fuss of the matter!”

The middle-aged man and the other two, went off to kill the three men from Green Sky Hall after handling the three breathless bodies, and then they returned to Eagle clan and reported to the Head happily.

…

While currently, jackie and Selena were chatting and strolling nonchalantly in a mall. They went to pick a pair of jade bracelets for Lana, the Goddess of War, then not long after they arrived at Lana’s manor.

In front of the manor, there were several bodyguards hired by Lana. It seemed like they were recent hires because apparently Lana did not want others to simply pay a visit to her and disturb her life. That was why these bodyguards were hired.

“Gentlemen, we’re from the Taylor family, this is Miss Selena, and I’m her husband. I’ve come to pay a special visit to the Goddess of War!”

jackie smiled and spoke to the bodyguards.

“The Taylor family?”

One of the bodyguards was dumbstruck for a moment, then he waved his hand. “I’m sorry but both of you better leave the manor. Even if a first-class family like the Georges, the Monts and so on, came to visit, our Goddess of War wouldn’t see them. Not to mention that you’re merely some Taylors!”

“He’s right. There was once James from the Drake family came to pay a visit, he was shooed away!”

Another bodyguard guffawed mockingly.

“Oh, then I shall trouble you to inform the Goddess of War about our arrival. I believe if you’ve informed her, she’ll definitely see us!”

jackie chortled in a disdain manner. If he were not afraid of his identity being exposed, he would really give these guys a good scold. He came here to visit his own disciple, yet these shrimps dared to stop him. If Joseph Smith, Fernando Campbell and Ethan Hays witnessed this scene, they would have laughed their head off.

Chapter 786 “Sigh! Bro, it’s not that I don’t want to help you. Even if I inform the Goddess of War, it’ll be in vain!”

A bodyguard let out a defeated sigh. “The outcome will be the same—she won’t see you!”

However, he went inside as jackie told even though he had shown impatience in his tone.

“Sir, Ma’am, the Goddess of War has a visitor today—the Queen of War—from another city. She deliberately flew a thousand miles to visit our Goddess of War. I heard that they have a close relationship. And this Queen of War is one of Goddess of War’s subordinates too. So I guess the possibility of Goddess of War willing to see you today, is non-existent!”

Another bodyguard sneered coldly at jackie and Selena and cast them a disrespectful stare.

These people were from the Taylor family, a family who was lucky to be upgraded to a second-class family recently, and yet desired to meet the Goddess of War. Not to mention that jackie was merely an adopted son-in-law of the Taylors. He was confident that the Goddess of War would definitely shut them out.

Soon after, the bodyguards who had reported the incident all ran out at the speed of light, staring at jackie and Selena in reverence. “Sir, Ma’am, the Goddess of War has agreed to see you. Please follow me!”

“No way!”

The other bodyguards involuntarily released exclamations of shock. They never thought that the Goddess of War Lana would actually agree to see jackie and Selena.

Soon enough, jackie and Selena were brought into a hall in the villa. A Queen of War in her thirties was chatting with the Goddess of War.

“I have such esteemed guests. I never thought that the two of you would come to see me today!”

Selena seemed a little nervous. There was a Queen of War and a Goddess of War right before her, and both of them were from the very top of society. Even though she had met bigshots before, there was no way she could remain calm before such eminent figures.

“Hmmm. Not bad at all! Your house is well furnished! How opulent!”

Selena did not at all expect jackie to be so comfortable at Lana’s manor; he did not greet nor salute politely to Lana and the Queen of War, instead he started roaming around and admiring the decoration.

Selena quickly pulled the corner of jackie’s sleeve to remind him of the courtesy.

Only then did jackie arched his hands before the two ladies and greeted politely. “It’s my pleasure to meet you, the Goddess of War, Lana Zechs and the Queen of War, Queenie Lynch!”

“You know me?”

There were signs of shock and surprise in Queenie’s eyes. A moment ago when Lana heard that jackie was here, she was flabbergasted with joy and could barely conceal her delight. She did not even think twice before ordering her bodyguards to let jackie and Selena in.

Therefore, she was a little bit curious about this man— jackie White, wondering who this man really was, to actually be able to get such high regard and respect from Lana.

“I often heard of the Goddess of War mentioning your name. Hence, I naturally know who you are! Queenie Lynch, the Queen of War, who is not only good-looking but also her Flying-Dagger technique is impeccable. Especially the battle at the mouth of the River Hartmonth, it was marvelous and made you famous since then!”

jackie chuckled and spewed those words out slowly.

“You…this…I…”

Queenie’s cheeks were immediately kissed pink at jackie’s words. How could this stranger before him know her so well?

The most shocking news was that he said that Lana often mentioned her to him. Did this mean that he always mingled with Lana? In that case, the identity of this adopted son-in-law of the Taylor family was clearly not simple.

“ jackie and Sister-in-law, welcome to my humble abode. Just make yourself comfortable. jackie is like my brother, always taking care of me, so don’t feel shy or anything, okay?”

Chapter 787 What shocked Selena further was that Lana took the initiative to lean forward and shake her hand. Lana smiled at Selena warmly as she welcomed them with open arms.

“This…How can this be okay?”

Selena was flattered and astonished, at the same time, she did not know how to respond.

“What’s not okay with that? As I said, jackie and I are really close, best buddies that kind of close. So it’s natural for me to call you sister-in-law.

As Lana spoke, her expressive eyes looked towards jackie and then only wheeled back to facing Selena.

Seeing such intimate behaviors between both of them, reminded Selena of the episode that happened last time. Although the rumor of jackie being the sugar baby of Lana was purely a misunderstanding and jackie did not meet with Lana at all afterward, Selena could help but feel doubtful of their relationship.

The relationship between jackie and Lana seemed beyond the ordinary ‘good’. Moreover, Lana called her ‘sister-in-law’, could it be that the two of them truly had an ambiguous yet romantic relationship?

Even if jackie was not Lana’s sugar baby, such a relationship only happened when the two had reached somewhat an ambiguous romantic level, otherwise, why would Lana allow them in so easily, and she was being way too enthusiastic about their visit.

“Oh right! By the way, this pair of bracelets is from jackie and me. We pick it for you, hope you’ll like it, the Goddess of War!”

Selena flashed an awkward smile. She quickly thought of something and handed over the gift box to Lana.

“Really? Wow! You shouldn’t have! Mi casa es su casa. Just treat my house as your own, you don’t have to buy me anything!”

Lana laughed joyously, and then continued, “Feel free to walk around! I’ll ask the kitchen to prepare a few more dishes and we’ll have a few drinks at noon later! I’m so, so, so happy that you guys can come today!”

Lana disappeared from the living room to find the chefs right after she finished her sentence.

More questions and doubts were mushrooming inside Selena’s heart. She felt that the relationship between jackie and Lana was not simple. Besides, Lana had mentioned several times that just treated her house as their own, could this be a hint of something?

“Could it be that they have a relationship beyond friendship, and they want me to have mental preparation first?”

Selena bit her rosy lips as she murmured to herself. It would not be a bad idea if jackie were to have Lana as his second wife and everyone lived together.

After all, jackie was a man who liked to stir up troubles. He had just offended the Drake family a few days ago. This behavior of his was too worrying and made the people around him unable to sleep well at night as they were afraid of revenge from the Drake family.

Hence, if jackie was together with Lana, then even the Drake family would not dare to offend any of them. Besides, Lana was an attractive woman with such an alluring good figure, and she had high status as well. It was a blessing for jackie to be with her.

“Dear, what’re you thinking about?”

jackie noticed that Selena was pondering deeply about something, he could not help but let out a small smile. “C’mon, let’s go outside for a casual walk. It’s really nice and wide here.” He took her hand as he

spoke.

After saying that, jackie turned his head, faced Queenie, and said, “Dear Queen of War, would you like to join us for a stroll outside?”

“I’d rather not. I’ve already walked around with Goddess of War a moment ago. Please go ahead without me!”

Queenie laughed warmly. If she agreed to walk with them, she would be the third wheel. How could she be the third wheel when she saw the couple was all lovey-dovey?

“Dear, Lana was not bad at all. As a Goddess of War, she’s not arrogant nor brazen!”

When they were outside, Selena asked jackie and looked at him like a sneaky thief. She wanted to study his reaction.

“Well, she’s indeed a good woman!”

jackie bobbed in agreement. Lana was his disciple, of course, he knew that she was good.

Chapter 788 Hope bloomed inside Selena when she heard jackie’s opinion on Lana. It looked like jackie had a good impression of Lana. In that case, was it possible for them to be together? Or perhaps they had been in an ambiguous relationship that was beyond friendship for a long time?

At least, jackie did not reject Lana like how he did to Sharon George.

“You really think that she’s a good woman? I think the same too!”

Selena lowered her head as she verified. Then she continued in a lower voice, “If…If both of you think highly of each other, then…then… I think, dear, you can have her as the second wife. I totally accept it!”

jackie’s eyes were as wide as saucers and his jaw dropped to the ground upon hearing what Selena had spewed. “Huh? What’s wrong, honey? What nonsense are you talking about? I do think that she’s a good woman but I don’t think of her in that way!”

“But, what’s wrong with that? Since both of you feel good about each other, we might as well think in that direction. And perhaps you will slowly develop feelings for her!”

Selena burst out. “Besides, if you are together, I don’t have to be afraid that you’ll get into trouble and die one day! Because Lana can protect you!”

“She protects me?”

A speechless look covered jackie. “It’s more like I protect her!”

“Stop spilling nonsense again. She is the Goddess of War, how could you protect her? Do you even have that ability to protect her?”

Selena did not know to laugh or to cry at jackie’s account. She held his hand and continued, “Anyway, don’t you think it’s really strange? I’m referring to the Supreme Warrior. Who this Supreme Warrior really is? I heard that he is incredibly powerful, beyond all Gods of War. But unfortunately, no one has ever seen his face, so I’m curious!”

jackie tried his best to hold back his laughs, at the same time, his cries when he heard it. Inside his mind, he was murmuring to himself ‘not only you have seen the Supreme Warrior, but also you’ve built a family with him!’.

A smile escaped from his mouth. He wrapped his strong arm around Selena’s waist and said, “Honey, why are you so excited whenever you talk about the Supreme Warrior? Don’t tell me you’ve fallen in love with him, who’s the strongest and most powerful man in Daxia? Okay. If this man who happened to like you and asked you to marry him, would you say yes?”

In the next second, Selena shot jackie a deadly stare and rolled her eyes. “What nonsense again, why would I say yes to him? My husband treats me so well, you’re enough for me. Besides, the Supreme Warrior is so good-looking and powerful, and holds a high position in this country, even if he’s able to notice my existence, I’m not worthy of a powerful figure like him!”

“Okay, what if, what if you’re worthy?”

jackie smiled bitterly and pried further.

“Well. That won’t work either. You’re more than enough. “

Selena wrapped her arms around fane in return and pressed her face into jackie’s chest. Her face was red and adorable.

“Silly, you’re more than enough too!”

In the distance, Lana, who was standing near the door, sneakily took a picture of the lovey-dovey couple in the garden and sent it to the message group.

In this group, there were Nine Great Gods of War, except jackie.

Usually, the chatting group was as quiet as a mouse, only a few messages popped out from time to time.

“Wow, Lana, did I see it wrong or what? It’s our Master!” Abner Young—one of the Nice Great Gods of War—exclaimed excitedly in a text he sent.

“Oh My God! I haven’t seen Master for a long time, is that woman the Mistress? The photo is only showing her back, I’m sad that I can’t know what the Mistress really looks like!”

Ethan Hays, who was in the midst of treating someone, was equally excited after seeing the message in the group.

“Unfortunately, our Master does not want us to disturb his tranquil life. Otherwise, I really hope to pay a visit to Eastfield and see how our Mistress looks like. From this photo, even it’s only her back, I can already deduce that she’s a beauty!”

Fernando Campbell, another God of War, could hardly contain his happiness as well.

Chapter 789 Soon, Sam Johnson and the other Gods of War started to have a heated discussion inside.

“Lana, I’m really envious that you get to be with our master. Oh my, such luck!” God of War Ethan Hays said in excitement.

“you guys don’t know this yet but our master is trying to do a wedding ceremony for his wife on her birthday. Master’s wife doesn’t know about this yet and only thinks that our master is planning a birthday party for her. However, I’ve already booked a hotel as per the master’s instructions and he’s already given permission that all of you can come if you want to. Firstly, you cannot expose his identity as the Supreme Warrior; secondly, nobody can expose the fact that he’s your master. Decide what you want to do yourself!” Lana had a smile at the corner of her lips and sent another message to the group.

“What?!” Ethan grew increasingly excited. “That’s great. We finally get to meet our master after a long time and enjoy ourselves in Eastfield. I heard that there are many pretty women here. Let’s see if I can get a wife here!”

“How’s that possible? Ethan, you’re a God of War. Aren’t there loads of pretty ladies waiting in lines to have blind dates with you after you went home? You are still single? You have really high requirements!” God of War Abner Young replied in surprise.

“By the way, can I bring my family members? Lana, I would like to bring my wives. I have two wives now!” Fernando Campbell asked in the group.

“Fernando, you’re doing really good! You actually married another wife?” Lana said in surprise. “How can you be seduced so easily?!”

Fernando continued to say. “Well, what should I say? There are so many pretty ladies that I had to give in to their seduction. I grew fond of a girl I knew from my younger days! How about you, Lana? You should get someone! However, you do need to be careful as you’re considered rich and have a high status nowadays. Observe those men carefully as some of them might be pleasing you in order to use your power!”

Lana smiled and replied. “Don’t worry, Fernando. I understand this very clearly in my heart. Master has already informed me that everybody who wants to bring their family members can do as they please and treat this as a trip. However, the hotel I booked doesn’t have a helipad. If any of you plan to come over in your private helicopters, you would need to park it on the empty space outside of the city and come in via car!”

“Alright, we got it. Thank you, Lana! There are still ten days and I really look forward to it!” Fernando replied.

“Okay, I shall stop here as master and his wife are walking over. I’m going to keep them company as I want to have some drinks with our master’s wife later!” Lana once again sent a message that caused all Gods of War to be envious before placing the phone in her pocket.

“How’s it? Do you like it? James Drake really has a good taste and this place has got a really nice design!” Lana smiled and asked when she saw the duo walking over.

“It’s quite nice. I wonder how’s the Supreme Warrior Manor? We should go take a look in the future!” jackie smiled and said.

“I don’t think you can go in and the most you can do is peek from the entrance!” Selena smiled bitterly. When James knew that the Supreme Warrior and Goddess of War were coming, he purposely ordered

people to build a Supreme Warrior Manor and God of War Villa as gifts for both of them.

Pitifully, the Supreme Warrior had never appeared until this day. Looking forward to his appearance in Eastfield was like a dream.

However, the Supreme Warrior Manor was still useful as the Supreme Warrior could use it for his vacation anytime he traveled to Eastfield.

Chapter 790 Queenie Lynch was surprised as she could clearly feel how close jackie was to Lana.

After they had lunch, they went outside for a stroll.

jackie looked at Lana and asked when Selena went to the toilet. “Have you done what I asked you to help me with? Is the hotel booked?”

“Don’t you worry, I’ve already booked the hotel, wedding dress and everything else! The wedding dress is a gift from the shop. What should I say? They forcefully gifted the best dress of their shop to me when they knew that I’m the Goddess of War. I think that Selena will definitely look pretty in it!” Lana smiled and continued saying. “As for the hotel, they decided to give us a 50% discount on everything after they knew that I’m there to book the entire place!”

“A 50% discount?!” jackie was embarrassed when he heard. “Aren’t they afraid of losing money?”

“Hey, you need to understand that I’m the Goddess of War. My appearance at their hotel is automatically an advertisement. The owner won’t be losing any money with a 50% discount. Their future business will surely improve when they use me as their subject of the advertisement. These businessmen are very smart!” Lana rolled her eyes at jackie before saying happily.

Beside them, Queenie was dumbfounded by what she heard. Were they joking? jackie actually asked Lana to secretly run errands for him? Apart from that, it seemed that Lana really enjoyed helping him.

What was going on between them? She started wondering if both of them had some ambiguous relationship between them when she saw how close they were.

“Alright, keep this a secret!” jackie nodded and looked at Queen of War Queenie. “Queen of War Lynch, kindly keep this a secret too!”

“Don’t you worry as this has nothing to do with me. I think I will be going back tomorrow!” Queenie smiled. She did not live there and was only here to pay her superior a visit.

“Queenie, you cannot leave because you will definitely regret it if you leave today!” Lana smiled, glanced in the direction of where the toilet was before continuing speaking to Queenie. “Let me tell you about it. jackie prepared a wedding ceremony for Selena and it is disguised as her birthday dinner. He’s prepared to surprise Selena and all the other Gods of War are rushing over to attend it. Don’t you want to meet Fernando Campbell, Ethan Hays, and the others?”

“What?!” Queenie was startled when she heard this. “Lana, did I hear correctly? You’re saying that they are all coming here? All 8 Gods of War are coming over to attend the ceremony?”

“Definitely! Do you think I will lie to you?” Lana smiled and said.

“Oh my god, that’s awesome! All the Gods of War are coming over? Oh my god, I…I can’t even dream about something like this. They are actually…” Queenie was so excited that she did not know what to say and her voice was trembling.

The Nine Great Gods of War seldom had the chance to gather when they were on the battlefield as they were always leading their team and fighting the enemies. It was considered as a big occasion when two Gods of War gathered at the same place. It would be such a sensation if all nine Great Gods of War gathered at the same place!

It seemed that she had made the right choice by coming over here.

However, she soon realized a problem. Who was jackie? Why was he so capable and was able to get all Nine Great Gods of War to join his wedding ceremony?

A person suddenly flashed through her head. This person had on a dragon-shaped mask and was a stronger master than the Nine Great Gods of War. This person was the strongest master amongst the entire Daxia army.

This person was the Supreme Warrior. All this while, nobody had ever seen the Supreme Warrior’s true appearance. Was it possible that jackie in front of her was the Supreme Warrior?

“Is…is it possible that you’re my idol, Master Su…Supreme Warrior?!”

Chapter 791 Queenie’s chest heaved in excitement as she looked at jackie, starry-eyed.

Queenie’s spot-on guess made jackie flustered. It seemed that he made the right move when he asked the other Gods of War to find an excuse when they came over.

“You must be! I’ve seen you on the battlefield once. Your height and figure definitely matched the Supreme Warrior!” gushed Queenie once she picked up on jackie’s silence.

jackie nodded. “Keep it a secret for me, alright? I don’t want others to know that I’m the Supreme Warrior.”

“But of course, I’ll keep it a secret!” Queenie was so excited that she almost cried.

“Ahh!” Queenie shrieked animatedly and rushed forward to hug jackie, unable to control her impulses. “I’m so excited! I’m so, so excited! I can’t stop myself! I need to hug my idol!”

“Queenie, Selena’s coming back!” Queenie’s actions stunned Lana speechless. Lana then turned to look and spotted—not too far away—Selena coming out of the toilet.

Selena’s jaws seemed as though it was unhinged when she noticed what transpired in her absence; she wondered if she was hallucinating. What was going on? Did they not say that it was Lana and jackie that had an ambiguous relationship? Why…why is Queenie hugging jackie?

She could not put two and two together, even when she thought about it deeply.

Although Queenie was not as beguiling or voluptuous as Lana, she was a beautiful woman in her own rights. Was it possible that these two women were in a relationship with jackie?

Selena smiled feebly before she made her way toward jackie.

Queenie was surprised when she heard Lana’s warning and quickly let go of jackie, though her nerves were still frazzled with excitement. This Queen of War—who was highly regarded by others—became jackie’s fangirl at that instant.

Queenie tried her best to maintain calm. She smiled and explained embarrassingly, “My apologies, Selena, I was too excited. I just… I just happened to realize that jackie looked very much like an idol I know, so I couldn’t help myself!”

“Idol?” Selena wondered what was going on. She looked at jackie cautiously but was unable to make out who jackie looked like. She admitted jackie was rather handsome, but he did not share a semblance with any famous idol. Was it a lesser-known idol?

“Yes, it’s… It’s someone very strong in our division. He’s my idol!” Queenie quickly thought about it and explained herself.

Selena finally realized what Queenie was talking about. “Oh, I see. You’re talking about someone in the armies. I racked my head for anyone in particular, but I just couldn’t find the idol match!”

They rested there for some time before jackie left with Selena.

The moment the two left, Lana turned to look at Queenie. With a bitter, disbelief smile, she said, “You almost exposed the Supreme Warrior!”

“I… I couldn’t help myself. This is the first time I faced the Supreme Warrior! Oh my god, I actually managed to hug him just now! I’m going to talk about this until the day I die!” Queenie grew excited once again, and her dignity as the Queen of War was nowhere to be found.

Chapter 792 Queenie’s antics stunned Lana, and the latter said, “You should wait for another ten days! By then, the other Gods of War will be here and you’ll be able to take a photo with them. You’ll get the chance to talk all about it all you want by then, don’t you think?”

“Yes, you’re definitely right!” Queenie grew restless when she thought about it, and with a smile on her face, she added, “I never thought I could attend the Supreme Warrior and his wife’s wedding ceremony. This means that I’m able to witness a historic moment!”

“Look how excited you are!” Lana laughed. “Are you still in a rush to go back now?”

“No! Definitely not! Why should I go back? I have to stay here and attend the wedding!” Queenie thought about it and continued saying, “By the way, since this is the Supreme Warrior’s wedding, how much should I give as their present? How about one billion? Would that be too little? No, no, I need to give him two billion. After all, this is the Supreme Warrior’s wedding, and one billion is too little to represent my sincerity!”

Lana was speechless. “Queen of War Lynch, it’s best if you stay calm, alright? It’s too much if you give him one or two billion. Wouldn’t you expose his identity to others if you did that? Wouldn’t others start questioning it? Apart from that, I don’t think the other Gods of War would give that much of an amount!”

“If that’s the case, how much should I give? I’m going crazy, I can’t think straight!” Queenie was still very excited.

…

Once they got out of the God of War Mansion, jackie and Selena got on a taxi and headed straight to Ben’s new internet cafe.

“It seems the internet cafe is doing great! Business seems to be good!” beamed Selena, followed with a short chuckle as they looked around the second floor of the internet cafe.

Meanwhile, Ben was talking with the cashier. Surely, the people who came with him—such as Elaine, who was there to protect him—were also enjoying themselves.

Out of the blue… “Excuse us! Excuse us!” Several gangsters rushed in with baseball bats at hand. They pushed jackie and Selena away with arrogant expressions on their faces as they strode.

“Is Ben in trouble?” Selena was slightly worried when she assessed the situation.

“I don’t think so.” jackie frowned. “How’s it possible that he offended someone when he just started his business? I think these people are here to cause trouble.”

The gangsters walked behind the counter before one of them said aggressively, “Our boss said that your internet cafe is interrupting ours. It’s best if you close up tomorrow, get it? If not, we’ll break every piece of equipment in here!”

“We’re in your way?” Ben scoffed after he heard this and said, “You guys are going overboard. The business of your internet cafe is bad because your service is bad. Apart from that, your equipment is bad and old, and you’re here to wreck the place because business is bad?”

One of the men—with yellow-colored hair—raised his chin as he knocked on the counter lightly with his baseball bat. “Young man, we don’t care about those things. Just close up tomorrow or we won’t be holding back!”

“Does your boss have a death wish?” Elaine and two other pretty bodyguards walked over, expressions darkened with anger.

“Oh, and we have three beautiful ladies here. Tsk, tsk! I never expected this. No wonder business is good here… They have pretty waitresses!” One of the men swallowed his saliva when he saw those three pairs of legs that could go on for days.

“Big Brother, look at the words on their clothes. Taylor family’s bodyguard? What’s going on?” Another man was slightly afraid.

The yellow-haired man merely scoffed, “Don’t be afraid, they’re just some women. We have so many people with us! Do you think that we can’t settle it? What bodyguards would blatantly state that they’re bodyguards on their clothes? They’re just lying to us, in an attempt of an intimidation tactic!”

Chapter 793 “You’re right. This is the first time I’ve seen bodyguards with their positions blatantly written on their clothes!” The man who was initially afraid relaxed at the thought. “These ladies look really stunning. Is it possible that this internet cafe provides some other special services? Why else would their business do so well if it isn’t true?”

“Oh yeah. Why didn’t I think of that?” The yellow-haired guy’s eyes twinkled as he gulped his saliva.

“Bastards!” Elaine and the two other bodyguards looked at each other before charging forward at the same time. In a blink of an eye, the entire group of gangsters fell to the ground as they groaned in pain.

jackie smiled. “It seems like I don’t have to intervene, someone else will settle this for me.” It seemed that his choice of employing more bodyguards was a wise one.

At the very least, they could protect his family under most circumstances.

“Let’s go!” The gangsters struggled for some time before they could get back up on their feet. Horrified, the gangsters ran away like drowned mice while their eyes were filled with dread.

“Sister, Brother-in-law, why are you guys here?” Ben, upon noticing jackie and Selena, welcomed them with a smile.

“We’re free and have no work to be completed, so we came over to see how you’re doing!” Selena looked at Ben with a pleased smile on her face. Ben had finally grown up.

“Thank you for thinking of me fondly, Sister. Have you guys had lunch? Do you want to have something? My treat!” Ben chuckled.

“Oh, we’ve eaten already. We’re just here to take a look, nothing more!” assured jackie with a smile. “It seems like your business is doing good. We’re happy for you.”

It was then when Ben lowered his head. Shyly, he blurted, “Sister, Brother-in-law, there’s something I’d like to tell you guys. I… I’m in love!”

“When did it happen? Who is it? It happened so quickly!” jackie and Selena were surprised when they heard Ben’s announcement. After all, Ben had not been in contact with other girls and was busy with the internet cafe all the while.

“It’s… It’s Elaine.” Ben pulled Elaine’s hand shyly and introduced her to them.

Elaine’s blush seared across her cheeks as she meekly said, “Master, do…do you guys approve of us?”

jackie was over the moon. “Nonsense, of course we do! How can we not approve this?” Elaine was no doubt a nice girl, yet nobody knew she would date Ben after they spent these few days together.

“I’m absolutely thrilled with this!” Selena was just as excited. She said to Ben, “Ben, I can see that Elaine is a good girl, and she’s a thousand times better than Xena. Don’t let her down, alright? You have to

cherish her well!”

“Don’t worry, Selena. He’s a weakling, so he won’t even dare hurt my feelings. We’ll be fine as long as I don’t hurt him!” said Elaine jokingly, a sweet smile adorning her face as she did. “Moreover, he’d never win if we ever fight.”

Chapter 794 Only then did Selena recall that although Elaine seemed obedient and cute, she was no regular girl. Her martial arts was better than Ben by a hundred times.

Still, she knew Ben was someone who cherished his girlfriend with all his heart, so she was sure he would not bully Elaine. They were indeed a match made in heaven.

“Alright, I’m really happy that the two of you are together. We’ll be taking our leave now.” Selena smiled and was about to leave with jackie.

“Selena, since you’re already here with jackie and this is an internet cafe, why don’t you guys spend one to two hours here? Come support my business!” came Ben’s cheeky reply.

“Are you kidding? Do you think we’re people who like to surf the internet like that? Alright, that’s it. Bye!” Selena turned around while waving at Ben.

Meanwhile… “Ahem, ahem! Elaine, I hand Ben to you. He’s a shy person and doesn’t take the initiative to make moves most of the time. We know this because he had been with Xena for a long period of time, yet he didn’t touch her. Be more proactive, okay?” teased jackie.

“Master, what are you talking about? I’m a girl! How can I take the initiative if the guy isn’t actively doing anything? I’m no loose woman!” Elaine’s face blushed a crimson color. She never thought that there would be times when the highly respected Supreme Warrior would make such jokes.

“Oh, Elaine, you’re just asking for it!” Ben glanced at Elaine before quickly kissing her on her cheek.

“Ah!” Elaine never thought Ben would act so boldly and kiss her in front of so many people in the internet cafe. This caused her to instantly turn very shy.

This was also the first time Ben did something so boldly, and he ran far away after he kissed Elaine as if he was afraid she would hit him.

Chuckles escaped Elaine’s lips as she saw Ben scurrying away. “Come over here, I won’t hit you! Don’t make me look like a shrew!”

“You… You won’t hit me? You’re not angry?” Ben was in disbelief as he carefully walked toward Elaine.

Suddenly, Elaine grabbed onto him tightly and pulled him closer so she could kiss his cheek. “Hmph. I want to kiss you too! You can’t be the only one who gets something out of this!”

“Oh my!” Ben jumped in excitement, and many people in the internet cafe started clapping and cheering after they saw this.

Ben chuckled with glee as he gushed to the crowd, “That made me so happy! I’ll treat every customer here to two hours of free time!”

“Thank you, Boss!”

“The boss is the best!” Every customer in the cafe cheered at Ben’s announcement.

Pleased with the turn of events, jackie and Selena happily left.

Chapter 795 Selena felt at ease. She used to worry how Ben led his life in a muddle, and she was also worried about him marrying Xena. She knew it in her guts that Xena was no good for Ben; the girl was terribly calculative and liked to fake things.

Elaine was much purer when compared to Xena, and it helped that Elaine was much prettier as well.

As they both had clear schedules for the day, they both went to pick up Kylie from school.

Needless to say, Kylie was over the moon when both her mother and father came to pick her up from school. Her excitement was written all over her face.

Everybody rested well that night.

…

Fiona woke Selena and jackie very early in the morning.

“What is it, Mother? I still want to continue my beauty sleep. Why did you wake me up so early in the morning? I don’t need to work nowadays,” muttered a disgruntled Selena. She slept rather last night, and it transpired after jackie’s suggestive comment about having a second child. Of course, they both slept late.

Selena wanted to wake up much later as she was still very tired. She never thought that her mother would wake her at eight in the morning.

“Listen to me: One of my best friends who married a person overseas has returned after ten years since her last trip back. She’s called me and wants to treat us to a meal!” chirped an obviously excited Fiona.

“She’s treating you to a meal, Mother, and you can go alone in that case. Why do you need to wake us up? We’re not interested to eat with your best friend. We don’t even know her!” Selena was dumbfounded at her mother’s reasoning. She rolled her eyes at her mother and was prepared to go back to bed.

“Get up! Don’t go back to sleep! There’s a reason why I’m waking you guys up. This is not just a normal meal. My best friend’s father has caught a very weird disease, and since jackie knows how to cure people, I think he can go and help take a look.” Fiona pulled Selena back to sit up. “Since your husband

is going, you need to accompany him and go too. Apart from that, this best friend of mine is rather wealthy overseas! I heard that they operate a really big company there!”

“Are you being serious? Sure, jackie knows how to cure people, but he can’t cure every illness, right?” Selena looked at jackie as she pouted.

jackie smiled. “Well, I can cure almost all illnesses. Even Ethan Hays’s medical skills aren’t as good as mine.”

“Fine. And you’re starting to boast again,” Selena conceded, though a small smile appeared on her face. “Alright, let’s go. Let me tidy myself up and I’ll tag along for food.”

“That’s right. Isn’t it nice as we’re able to enjoy a big meal without paying anything?” With a pleased grin on her face, Fiona then told Selena, “By the way, bring your most expensive bag and put on your expensive jewelry, Selena. I remember how we were once poor, and I can see that even my best friend looked down on me. Hmph! Now that I’m rich, I’m never going to let a repeat of that happening.”

“Mother, you don’t seem like you’re going to a reunion with your best friend. It seems like you’re only going to show off.” Selena grew frustrated. Was it necessary to parade herself before others?

“Nonsense! I’m rich now, and it’s only right that I get to flaunt however I want to. Years ago, she snatched a man that I really liked and that man fell for her money,” Fiona said angrily. “Eventually, she found out that this guy had relationships with several other women at the same time, and she went overseas after they broke up. Who would’ve thought that she’d marry a man while she’s out there, and that man is also from Daxia!”

“Wow, Mother, I didn’t know you had quite the story from way back then!” said Selena with a smile after she finished washing her face. “So you married my father later on, huh? You got your hands on a young master from a third-class aristocratic family?”

“Absolutely not! The Taylor family wasn’t a third-class aristocratic family at that time, though they were considered as a wealthy family who does business!” came Fiona’s straight-forward reply, not beating around the bush. “It’s a pity that your father is a disappointing person and doesn’t have much talent in businesses. I spent my life in a wretched way even though I’m married to him.”

Chapter 796 Fiona’s comment on Selena’s father—her own husband—stunned Selena to the point she had no proper words to say. She rolled her eyes at Fiona. “Mother, Father is a very nice person. He’s at least a person who doesn’t talk much and is quite honest. He’s considered as a responsible person and isn’t hard- headed, and you should be satisfied with his character. Apart from that, he’s never looked at other women all this while, right?”

Fiona instantly snapped just as Selena finished speaking, “Him? I wouldn’t mind if he gets another wife if she’s a really capable person. On the flip side, if she’s incapable and still wants another wife, I’ll teach him a good lesson!” Fiona paused here before continuing, “On a second thought, if she’s capable and can give me ten million monthly so that I can spend to my heart’s content, I wouldn’t even bat an eye if he had two or three other wives!”

jackie and Selena were speechless when they heard what Fiona said. It seemed that Fiona was really infatuated with money.

“Let’s drive the Rolls-Royce,” said Fiona right as jackie was about to enter a different car. She chuckled before adding, “This car is much more expensive than the other cars!”

jackie and Selena were dumbfounded for the nth time due to Fiona’s choices and words. They could only agree and boarded the Rolls-Royce and left.

…

The Rolls-Royce entered the compound of a grand-looking hotel, and they parked at the underground car park before they went to the lobby via the lift.

Fiona looked around before greeting a woman in her forties standing not too far away from them. “Oh my, Irene! It’s been a long time! I barely recognize you!” She led jackie and Selena toward that woman.

“Fiona, it’s been a long time!” The woman had on extremely heavy makeup and a branded bag in her arms. As Fiona and her company came closer toward her, Irene added, “You look good, Fiona! You’ve been doing a great job maintaining yourself, and you look rather loaded too. This… This bag is from Hermes, right? Tsk, tsk! You’re a rich woman now!”

Irene then turned to look at jackie and Selena. She smiled and asked, “And these two are…?”

“This is my daughter, Selena, and my son-in-law, jackie,” Fiona replied with a smile. She was satisfied when Irene herself noted how rich she had become.

“Oh my, your daughter has grown up! She’s got such a great temperament and a real beauty to boot. The daughter of our class belle is undeniably beautiful!” Irene praised them.

Fiona’s grin never left her face. “Oh you, stop talking about it. Being the class belle was ages ago!” There was no lie; Fiona was the most beautiful girl in their class back then.

“Oh, yes! This is my husband, Lawrence Watson, and my son, Jayden Watson!” Irene introduced the men standing beside her with a smile. One of them was her son and the other was her husband.

Chapter 797 Despite his portly body size, Lawrence’s height gave him the image of a burly man. He had a cigar in his mouth which he was half-way done with.

He measured Selena and Fiona for some time before he smilingly said, “I’ve heard from Irene that her best friend here is the prettiest woman in her class, and now that we’ve met face-to-face, I see that

you’re indeed stunning. Your daughter is all grown-up, yet you’re still so charming. You look like you’re in your thirties.”

“Oh my, Mr. Watson, you’re too generous! This best friend of mine was also one of the prettiest girls in our class!” Fiona could not control the smile on her face. The group of three in front of her were people from the upper class, and their twenty or-so bodyguards were men from foreign countries. The bodyguards—including two men of color—looked rather strong.

Fiona looked at the slightly chubby young man by their side. “Your son also looks handsome!”

jackie was bewildered by Fiona’s choice of words. While Jayden was no ugly man, he was not handsome either.

“They all say that. What can I do? All rich people look handsome!” Jayden wore a rather arrogant smirk as he added, “Daxia seems to be doing quite well and is developing quite quickly, but I feel that the air here isn’t as good as America. The environment there is so much sweeter and nicer compared to this place!”

jackie was downright pissed to hear such words. Had it been any other man instead of the son of Fiona’s best friend, he would have slapped him with all his might. This guy was from Daxia. How dare he say something like this just after living several years overseas?!

“Is that true? I’m so sorry that you have to suffer here. I wonder why you still came back if the air here is so bad!” While jackie could not put him in his place right then and there, he could not help slipping a comeback at Jayden.

“If we didn’t have things to do here and didn’t need to send my grandfather back here for treatment, I wouldn’t have returned!” Jayden glanced at jackie and smiled coldly. “Your wife and mother-in-law are dressed up so well, but you’re dressed so badly. Can’t you dress up since you’ll be having a meal in such a high-class hotel?”

jackie merely chuckled. “It doesn’t seem bad at all. This clothing is worth a few thousand dollars, and I think that this is good enough!” jackie looked at the clothes on him. His clothes were quite new and clean, so he did not feel that there was anything wrong.

He would not have bought such expensive clothes if Selena and Fiona had not asked him to buy several better clothes. In his opinion, clothes were extra. He never thought such clothes would be ridiculed by others.

Still, what Jayden said made sense as Selena and Fiona wore clothes worth ten thousand a piece. Compared to them, what he was wearing seemed out of place.

Fiona’s face darkened when she heard jackie’s reply. She recalled how she only reminded Selena to dress up nicely in her haste, so much so that she forgot to remind jackie. She saw him wearing new clothes so she thought that he had worn something much more expensive. Fiona never thought what he had on was something only worth several thousand dollars.

With a sheepish smile on her face, Fiona sheepishly chuckled and said, “My son-in-law isn’t a particular person. We actually have lots of clothes that are worth tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands. He’s just dressed casually today!”

Fiona then hardened her gaze at jackie as she said, “Look at you. You’re here to meet the honorable Mr. Watson! How can you dress so casually? Please take care of your image in the future, alright?”

jackie was rather unhappy with that. Fiona asked him to please the other party when they were such arrogant people. Was it only because they traveled to many countries and were well-off people?

“It’s okay, it’s okay… Let’s go downstairs now! I’ve already booked a private room for us!” Lawrence laughed and alleviated the situation.

Chapter 798 “It baffles me how a man who’s daft in picking clothes to wear for certain occasions could get such a beautiful wife! I wonder how you get so lucky.” Jayden looked at jackie again before he turned to walk toward the lift, his eyes filled with contempt.

“I…” jackie balled his fists tightly and was ready to run right for him.

jackie only managed to take one step forward before Selena interjected him.

She stopped him with her eyes, and it was only after everyone else had gone before them did she say, “Why do you care about what trashy people like him say? Let’s ignore him, and we’ll leave after we finish our meal. People like this leave a bad taste in my mouth. I wouldn’t have come had it not been Mother forcing us to come!”

“Alright.” jackie quickly stamped down his anger after Selena coaxed him, and he told himself to not drop to the levels of such trashy people.

…

The group of people soon entered a well-decorated private room.

“Everybody can order what you like to your heart’s content. To be honest, I grew up overseas and I seldom eat this kind of food. I don’t really like the food here!” Young Master Watson sat down and still had an aloof attitude.

Selena and Fiona smiled embarrassingly before taking up the menu and started ordering dishes.

“Jayden, be careful when you speak. Although you grew up overseas and you seldom stayed at Daxia, your mother and I are Daxians. By default, you’re also a Daxian, with Daxian blood running in you. Do you understand?” Lawrence eyed his son sharply as he continued, “The war that happened between both countries not long ago is quite embarrassing for people with our status.”

“Embarrassing? What’s so embarrassing about that? Didn’t Uncle Watson just say that we’re all Daxians? This is nothing embarrassing, right?” jackie casually replied with a smirk.

“Sigh… Although we’re Daxians, we’re considered Americans since we’ve lived there for quite some time, and this goes especially for my son. He’s been living there from a young age, and he seldom returns to Daxia. This is his third time back here, and we were the ones who specially wished that both countries didn’t go into war because we have feelings for both countries!” Lawrence sighed and had a helpless expression on his face.

jackie started smiling coldly again once he heard this. “So that’s what you mean. After the rather detailed explanation, it seems like you two are almost becoming residents of both countries. This is really ridiculous! How can you not know where you’re from? What’s the difference between this and being in two relationships at the same time?”

Jayden instantly slammed his palm against the table as he shot up from his seat, his hardened gaze fixed onto jackie in anger. “What’s with all this talk? If it wasn’t because your mother-in-law and my mother are best friends, you won’t be walking out of this hotel in one piece!”

“Really? Just with these people?” jackie laughed and stood up after he heard what Jayden said. “I’m going to be honest with you: Your bodyguards are nothing in my opinion!”

Lawrence intended to reprimand him, wanting to show his anger, but he said nothing when he saw Jayden getting angry.

Lawrence smirked a cold smirk at jackie’s boisterous reply. “You’re rather arrogant for saying such things. It seems like you’re good at fighting. If that’s the case, do you want to test your strength with my bodyguards? You can choose who you want. How about that?”

“One? Are you really looking down on me? They can all come at me for all I care!” jackie smiled coldly and looked at their bodyguards in disdain. Most of these bodyguards were Americans, and both men of

dark skin seemed rather powerful. It so happened that jackie wanted to test himself out.

Chapter 799 “Sit down, jackie! What nonsense are you talking about? We’re here to eat, not to fight!” Fiona was so angry that she almost fainted. They were here to have a meal and to see if jackie can help treat Jayden’s grandfather. It never occurred to her that the situation would turn sour; she forgot that jackie was a man who liked to cause trouble. It escaped her to remind him.

Fiona disliked Jayden, but she was aware he was still so young. Could jackie just not let him be?

“Mother, I’m not here to fight. I’m here to exchange experiences with them!” jackie rubbed his fists and walked to one side of the room.

“Are you sure you want to do this, young man?” sneered of the bodyguards—an American—with a condescending smirk. “You have to know that our countries are enemies. Aren’t you afraid that this fight will disrupt their peace?” The other party was obviously implying something to jackie.

“I’m really not afraid of this!” jackie thought about it and signaled them as he added, “After all, you guys won’t be able to beat me.”

Jayden cackled. “You’re really arrogant!” He then turned to Fiona and said, “Auntie, food isn’t served yet. This son-in-law of yours must be quite a show-off person. This is good, such a person needs to be punished so that his arrogant ways can be corrected.”

Lawrence chimed in with a pleased grin, “What Jayden says makes sense. Let’s just treat this as an entertainment program, that they’re entertaining us before our meal. This is quite a good idea!”

Fiona was at a loss for words upon hearing what the father-and-son duo had to say. She could only offer a sheepish smile as she spoke, “Alright, it seems like there’s no other way around it. However, everybody needs to be careful. It’s just a test, so don’t go overboard!”

“Madam, that’d be quite difficult. Your son-in-law asked us to attack him altogether; he’s basically mocking us!” One of the dark-skinned men walked two steps forward and balled his hands into fists. “Still, I know I’ll be able to settle this matter!”

The man then grinned widely, his pearly white teeth seemingly gleaming. He then rushed forward like a panther, and he seemingly blinked rather closely to jackie—fast as lightning—and aimed his punch toward jackie.

“Such speed!” jackie’s expression seemingly morphed into one of surprise at the man’s speed. These bodyguards were really strong, and this dark-skinned man’s power was almost the same as Elaine’s.

“Are you afraid now, young man?” The black man in front of him smiled when he saw jackie’s surprised look. His fist was just a short distance away from jackie, and he wanted to see if this arrogant young man could meet his punch.

“Your speed really surprised me, but…” jackie curled his hands into fists and made his move speedily. His fist met the opponent’s fist in a powerful collision.

Uprooted, the man zipped through the air and landed on the floor. He felt a sweetness at his throat and vomited blood.

“You’re no match for me!” jackie stood straight and waved his hands at the other bodyguards. “You guys can come at me together!”

Chapter 800 “Let’s get him! I don’t believe this!” The brawny bodyguards looked at each other before they rushed toward jackie.

Despite their numbers, none of them managed to even graze a strand of jackie’s hair before they fell to the ground. The men were either clutching onto their stomach or chest in pain, their faces pale as well.

Several people moaned in pain as their ribs had been broken.

Lawrence and Jayden’s face darkened when they saw their bodyguards lying on the floor.

“A group of useless rubbish. How dare you guys claim that you’re mercenaries?” scoffed Jayden as he stood up in anger. “You can’t even win over a young man! I don’t understand this!”

“Young Master, we’re not rubbish. This young man is genuinely too powerful and we can’t beat him, honest!” One of the men had his forehead covered in sweat due to pain. “Young Master, my rib is broken! I need to go to the hospital!”

“Get out, all of you! Get out!” Jayden asked his men to go to the hospital with a cold expression on his face.

Fiona’s best friend, Irene chuckled shortly before she smilingly said, “Fiona, this son-in-law of yours is rather strong. Although he doesn’t have good etiquette, he’s really good at fighting!”

“He’s quite good! He didn’t waste five years in the army, and I heard that he’s a head commander!” It was plain to see that Fiona was happy when she heard how Irene praised jackie.

Jayden sat down angrily and mumbled, “So what if you know how to fight? You’re just a dumb fighter! What kind of masters can’t we get if we’re rich? I can even get the number one assassin!”

“Young Master Watson is really good at this!” jackie laughed and sat down casually. “However, that barely intimidated me. I wouldn’t be afraid even if you invite the Ten Great Assassins here! Of course, you’d have to spend a great amount of money to get them working for you!”

“ jackie, stop talking nonsense! You can’t make such jokes!” Fiona was startled when she heard what jackie said. Who did he think the Ten Great Assassins were? Every member was frighteningly powerful and deadly; jackie could not make such jokes even if it was for a bluff.

jackie looked at Fiona and said with a smile, “Mother, I’m telling the truth. I’m not joking!”

“Well, well! You’re quite arrogant when you speak!” Jayden laughed before pretending to be a gentleman. “You don’t need to worry about it. We Watson family aren’t petty people, and we won’t send assassins to kill you just because you hit our bodyguards just now. Apart from that, we don’t need to get assassins if we really want to kill you. There are many masters in our Watson family, and those who you just fought were bodyguards of lower ranks. You’ve seen nothing yet!”

“The dishes and wine have been served, so let’s eat,” came Lawrence’s announcement. “Young jackie is indeed rather skilled in fighting. After all, it’s quite difficult for him to fight so many bodyguards alone. His five years spent in the army weren’t wasted after all!”

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