Chapter: Chapter 557: The Price of LoyaltyThe days following his confrontation with Mark felt like an endless storm to Justin. The stench of betrayal hung over him like a cloud, darker and heavier than any he had ever known. It was not just Mark's actions that wounded him; it was the realization that even those he trusted most were capable of turning against him. His empire, his family, the people he had built everything for, none of them were safe.In the quieter times when Justin wasn't surrounded by the unrelenting demands of his empire, the loneliness of the entire thing settled on him,In the silence of his penthouse, the cold glass walls offer no comfort. He knew this day would come. But it's still painful. The idea that someone he trusted, people who have stood by him for many years, can decide to betray him.It cuts deeper than any opponent that he had ever faced. But he didn't have the leisure to brood over it. The fight with Ethan was far from over, and Mark was just one casualty in this war. The loss of loyalty
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Chapter: Chapter 556: ReckoningThe room was silent when Justin re-entered. His expression was cold and disbelieving. There was no need for an explanation to the group still seated around the table for what had happened. The tension hung in the air. Every person in the room knew, it seemed, instinctively that a bomb had just gone off.And the consequences will cause serious damage. Mark sat at the head of the table. His fingers tapped the polished wood nervously. His usual confident demeanor was gone. It was replaced by a feeling of discomfort radiating from him. Justin could see it in the way his eyes avoided his gaze. But there had been more-something darker, something deeper. Silently, Justin walked toward the tabletop; his footsteps rang harsh in the otherwise silent room. Mark's eyes flicked up, catching everything else for the briefest instant before quickly looking down.“Everyone out,” Justin said, his voice harsh, commanding. There was no space for dissent.The team, sensing the heaviness of the moment,
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Chapter: Chapter 555: The Enemy WithinJustin sat in his office, staring at the files Mark had delivered earlier. The quiet hum of the city outside his window was a stark contrast to the storm raging inside him. A leak found in his own company—what he thought was kept safe—had just turned into a full-blown leak. People close to him are betraying him. And he didn't know who it was.In his head, Mark's words played on repeat, but it was the stabbing betrayal that hurt the most. He had single-handedly built this company as anything by steel-back-end deals, through a relentless strategy, and with the will to establish iron-clad grounds for its existence. And now, someone within his entire circle began tearing it all apart and selling to the highest bidder. A slap against the face, and Justin wasn't certain how to take it. He instantly picked the phone, dialing Mark's number. It rang once and twice, and right then came Mark's voice.“Justin?”“Where are we with the leak?” Justin’s voice was clipped, every word laced with an
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Chapter: Chapter 554: The Forgotten FoeUpon waking, Justin felt gnawing uneasiness. He had won relatively hard and long, but as he walked in the office that morning, something was not right; the air felt heavy, the tension intense and indiscernible. Somehow, Justin couldn't seem to shake an inner feeling that someone was still perhaps watching, waiting for just the right moment to make his move.“Good morning, Mr. Drogonuv,” Mark’s voice broke through the silence as Justin walked into his office. The assistant’s usual upbeat tone was tinged with something more serious. “We need to talk.”Justin raised his eyebrows but waved his hand for Mark to continue. "what happened?" Mark's expression was tense, and Justin immediately felt a sense of urgency in the room.“It’s about the company’s recent movements. "I notice a few discrepancies in our financial reports. At first, I thought it was simply an oversight, but I now doubt it," Justin's heartbeat sped up. “What kind of irregularities?”“A few transactions that don’t add up.
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Chapter: Chapter 553: A New HorizonThe dust has settled. But the war was not truly over. Ethan's fall from grace was swift and unyielding. But Justin knows the road ahead isn't without challenges. As the remnants of Ethan's empire collapsed, Justin is forced to face the reality that his tireless victories have come at a terrible cost.The meeting room is quiet. It was the silence that came only after a fight. Board members who were once concerned about Justin's methods, Now they looked at him with a different respect. They understood the stakes, the price paid for survival in this ruthless world.But for Justin, respect is not as important as the weight of his decision. He sat at the head of the table, looking around at the face he was leaning on. Mark stood on the side. His normally confident demeanor was now marked with a delicate caution. Ava sat across from him. Her eyes narrowed as she examined the information in front of her. “Ethan's downfall has left a void in the market,” Justin said in a low but firm tone,
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Chapter: Chapter 552: The Final BlowThe days that followed the media explosion were chaotic. Ethan’s empire, once a towering structure of influence and wealth, was now a crumbling shell. He had endured the tumult of the tragedy caused by the scandal of Samuel Dayton, more than anything that Justin had ever expected. It had spread so far and caused investors to back out. But Justin was well aware that it was not yet over. He was indeed cornered, but that did not mean he was out of the game.One evening, Justin sat in his office, the dim light from his desk lamp lighting up long shadows on the wall. His thoughts are sharp and organized. With no room for complacency at this moment. It is time to end it all. Ethan has been a thorn in his flesh for far too long. And Justin knows the only way to truly destroy him is to take away everything that matters to him.As he searched through the documents on the table Mark walked in with a solemn expression. “we have a situation. Ethan is trying to play his last card. Word is that
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Rise of the Rich and Powerful Jamie Ashford
On the day Jamie lost his mother to cancer, he also lost his only accommodation and his girlfriend. Years of torture, humiliation and servitude from his stepfather and stepbrothers, Jamie was nothing more than a miserable bastard to the Reynolds, one they so desperately needed to do away with. His mother’s death was their perfect opportunity as his stepfather evicted him from his house, abused him and his dead mother publicly, and ordered the doctor to sell her corpse to organ harvesters.
His stepbrothers made a spectacle of him and his dead mother, treating them as though they were worse than animals. And to crown their hall of humiliation, they took his girlfriend and cost him his job. With everything lost, there was nothing to live for anymore. Jamie owed the hospital over $100,000 and his boss over the same amount. His life was at risk, his existence was meaningless, and everything was set against him…
Except for a sudden alert of $10,000,000,000 and a call from the world’s richest and most powerful man, claiming to be his grandfather. Jamie wasn’t a bastard after all; he had a family—a rich and powerful family at that—and he was their rightful heir.
With a net worth of tens of trillions of dollars and the power to shut down the world with the snap of his finger…
What fate awaits all those who did him wrong?
What end has he destined for those who mocked his dead mother and her dignity?
What was in the heart of the trillionaire for those who made his life hell and paraded their measly change over him?
Revenge is best served cold…Or whatever temperature the Rich and Powerful Jamie Ashford wants!
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Chapter: Chapter 560 In truth, the babitech glove that had just appeared in Jamie's hand didn't really do anything. Rather, it was a way to keep any more secrets of his from being exposed.Before coming here, Jamie had anticipated that he was going to be forced into using his energetic rhythm manifesting while fighting the Reynold brothers. With evidence of what both Jonathan and Nathan are, there is very little to no doubt that they possess the potential of S-Rank dark entities. Therefore, Jamie needed a way to.use his powers without making it clear that this is biologically his evolved power.Because once that is known, the Reynold brothers would immediately figure out that Jamie's strength isn't coming from manufactured drugs, but rather, he's either a soldier of AS99 Organization pretending to be an ordinary human his whole life…..….or Jamie is actually a blood-born member of the Ashford clan. Now, with the firmer, the Reynold brothers are less likely to believe it. After all, if Jamie was truly a
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Chapter: Chapter 559 Nathan squinted his eyes which had long been turned completely black. He decided this was the time to strike. Clearly, his younger brother couldn't take down Jamie without letting the King of Beasts take over him completely.Despite how big Jonathan's figure had become, a serious kick and a lunch from Jamie's relatively smaller figure were able to make him groan and fall back every time.Jamie had just knocked the huge Jonathan a couple of steps back, calmly running swiftly over a tree trunk that had been snapped and thrown his way, and was about to aim a punch at Jonathan's throat, when he picked up on a presence coming at him. There were multiple presences, and they had him flanked, coming at him from all directions.From a distance, Nathan had a sickening smile with one hand casually outstretched. “Gotcha!” Jamie was impressed by how suddenly they came at him. He had aimed that punch at Jonathan, ready to deal him a severe blow that would require more than a few minutes to fully
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Chapter: Chapter 558 Jonathan never got to finish those words as something brutally smashed against him, which sent him crashing a hole right through a tree trunk and creating a dent in the second one right behind the first one. Nathan and the armed men watching the scene were stunned into silence by the sudden change. The force that had retaliated against Jonathan, blasting him right through one tree trunk and deep into the next had occurred so fast that none of them saw it coming.Nathan wanted to yell out for his little brother, instinctively worried that he might be injured right now, but he quickly clamped down on his own mouth, assuring himself that it would take far more than this to seriously injure Jonathan.Meanwhile, Jamie stood in the spot from where he had been struck deep into that tree a moment ago, not even looking roughed up in the slightest.Instead, he grinned as his eyes danced around at the shocked faces of the armed men, despite the clothes covering the lower half of their faces.H
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Chapter: Chapter 557 Nathan pointed at Jamie as he yelled out his order for the armed men to gun down Jamie. “Kill that bastard!”By the time the first gunshot was released, Jamie had moved with incredible speed, grabbing the dead armed man who was unfortunate to be slashed in the throat by the sheer force of a rope.Jamie had accidentally killed this guy, but was now consciously using his dead body as a shield.The first bullet, followed by tens of bullets, was unwillingly accepted by the corpse. Jamie calmly held up the dead man as a shield before rushing towards one of the gunmen and throwing the corpse straight at him, causing the guy to fall.Jamie was ruthless as he stomped on both hands of this armed man, crushing his wrist before that man could pull another trigger.“Arrrrrgh!” The man screamed following the sickening crunch of his bones being snapped under Jamie's foot, as he had casually stepped on a really dry fallen branch in the forest.Jamie has activated 30% of his true strength to fight t
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Chapter: Chapter 556 At this point, he was sure that the Reynold brothers held an intention to kill him tonight. This was already them venting through these subordinates. He deduced that Nathan and Jonathan would humiliate him some more once he arrived at the final destination.He was proven right upon arrival.As soon as the car came to a stop, Jamie was still bound while being carried out of the truck and thrown to the ground. With his senses, he could feel the dark energy from two people whose feet he was lying close to.Nathan and Jonathan. It's them, and their usual suppressive hold on their true aura was weakened in purpose. They wanted to use their powers on him.Jonathan looked absolutely glad at the sight. “Holy shit! If we knew that we could have easily reduced this bastard using just his mother's necklace, we would have done it a long time ago.”Nathan nodded his head, glaring coldly down at Jamie. “The St. Mary Hospital shares that Dad wanted, and the many other losses we suffered. All of it
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Chapter: Chapter 555 Once Jamie got into visible range, these guys relaxed and put away their night vision goggles, watching Jamie approach them with the huge bags. They held up their rifles to intimidate Jamie, just in case he was bold enough to stash away some guns in those bags of money.One of them led the others to surround Jamie as he got close enough to their vehicles. “Stop right there!”They then conduct a thorough search of Jamie to make sure he truly wasn't hiding a gun. One of the men tried to belittle Jamie by harassing him, touching the private areas on his body with a cruel grin right in Jamie's face.“Woo! Young man, you're in good shape. Some of us here think you might be our type. Tell me, are you willing to bend over for us?”Clearly, those words were deliberately spoken to rile Jamie up, which would then cause him to react, giving them the excuse to beat him up.But surprisingly to this antagonist, Jamie gave no reaction whatsoever. It was like had seen through the attempt and gave no
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