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 661 There was silence in response. Neither Stella nor Tom could utter a word. They knew the answer, and understood how badly this could be perceived by the victim should the stated scenario come to pass.Jamie didn't stop, though. “Stacy has already been betrayed by her entire family. The family she grew up in turned out to be a family of monsters. It was like she never truly knew them at all. It took a toll on her psychotically.”“Then there's the hatred she was bombarded with by the world, just for being blood relatives of that family. Then the distant eldest brother showed up in her life, claiming to want a reunion, only to turn out to be no different than the rest.”“Stacy has been betrayed by her entire family. I'm the only one she still trusts. What do you think will happen when she learns that I deceived her and used her? Do either of you think she'll see me in a different light than that of her biological father and brothers?”General Stella let out a sigh. “That much betrayal wo
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Chapter: Chapter 660 Jamie couldn't believe it, but after the explanation, the evidence was hard to dispute. It turns out that Stacy was never a normal human being. The one who suffered the most was her mother, the late Mrs. Reynold.The poor woman believed she was married to a man, only for him to turn out to be a monster. Benard Reynold poisoned his own wife for his own ambition. He got what he wanted, two of them to be exact. One is a dark psionic entity, while the other is a King of Beasts.But the body of the late mother didn't give up without creating an antidote.Jamie sat in the heated silence of this meeting room. “With Stacy, there's a high chance of killing those two dark entities before they fully activate their potential and become the most dangerous monsters on the planet.”Tom hummed with a slight head nod. “That's right. Using Miss Stacy's blood, we can create an antidote that effectively counteracts the evolutionarily formative effect of the SOTE genes in her older brothers. After all, t
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Chapter: Chapter 659 Jamie raised an eyebrow, looking serious. “Tom, get to the point. What exactly is wrong with my sister?”Stella replied instead. “That's the thing, though. We don't know if what we've found so far is a problem, as much as it could potentially be a solution.”Jamie took a long look at the string of data on the holographic screen. “Mutated DNA?” He had caught the words that followed on the holographic screen. “Am I reading this right? Stacy has mutated DNA from birth. It contains the same pattern that was found in the DNA samples we found in the Reynold brothers.”Jamie stared at his personal assistant with a clenched jaw. “You're saying that Stacy is a dark entity? That's impossible, Tom. She's my sister. If she had that kind of disposition, I would have…..”Stella cut Jamie off. “At first, I had the same suspicion. What if Miss Stacy possessed those dark entity genes as well? But deeper research disputed that. It turns out that Miss Stacy's mutated gene is the direct opposite of bot
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Chapter: Chapter 658 Tom glared slightly at the general, muttering with a smile he couldn't keep down. “Shut up.”He made the report. “Julius has to leave because results showed up on a trail he was following.”Jamie raised an eyebrow. “So he had a mission assigned to him this entire time?”Tom Yates shook his head. “No, this was personal, and it was recent.”Jamie caught on to what Tom was saying. “This has to do with those two other S-Rank dark entities that attacked the city.”Stella nodded her head. “Apparently, the fact that the one Supreme Lord Julius was fighting got away pissed the guy off. He had actually planted a device on the soul after crushing the incarnation.”“He must have picked up on it hours ago. So he's going to hunt down that soul fragment.”Jamie tsked. “That man can be petty, huh?”Tom shook his head as he joined Jamie at the round table. “You have no idea.”Stella took her seat last, staring at Jamie with a subtler expression on her face. “So, Young Master, how is Miss Stacy?”Jam
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Chapter: Chapter 657 Jamie had prepared an answer for this inevitable question. He knew it was coming the very moment he disclosed where he had transferred Stacy to. “Who else would it be, other than my backer?”He winked at his girlfriend before turning to his best friend on the video call. “Also, once they learned that Stacy is deeply connected to the son of the CEO and President of Carson Biotech, it was much easier to accept the Ashford subordinate’s request on my behalf.”Sonia let out a long sigh. “Honestly, I'm glad you got that Ashford subordinate as your backer. He's done so much for you.”Jamie said nothing to that. The lies he had fed his people were still holding up. No matter how guilty he felt about it, it was necessary, as per the agreement he had with his grandfather, Great Master Raymond Ashford. Jamie can't let these people know of his identity yet.Later that night, Jamie was in bed with his girlfriend. Sonia had been out through the bedsheets, going multiple rounds with the tireless
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Chapter: Chapter 656 A lot of S-Rank dark entities cannot stand being in the vicinity of one another. This can be considered a cosmic balance of some sort. Unfortunately, three S-Rank dark entities had broken that balance by joining forces to wreak havoc on Los Angeles.Luckily, there wasn't just one supreme lord-level in LA at the time. If it had been Tom Yates alone, handling the situation would have been difficult. But there was Julius Bolt, who, thankfully, was too obsessed with Tom to leave his side.The two of them had taken down two of the three incarnations as quickly as they could. Stella mobilized forces to rescue and back up the two men. But that gave Wally the chance to find him out and bully him.Thankfully, Meredith and General Naomi Cho were also in Los Angeles. Divine timing was laying its fingerprint all over this week. Jamie didn't need to stay in the hospital for long. At his level, his constitution was too extraordinary to keep him out. He was completely healed within hours.Tom Yate
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