"Hello! Is this Marcus?" Immediately, Norman recognized the other party's voice. Although he looked down on him, he was in a dire situation. As such, Norman could only put aside his pride and say while smiling, "It's Gramps!"He said, "I called to tell everyone the good news! Our family has decided to add you back into the Childe family tree!""Is that so?" Marcus laughed coldly. He shook his head and replied, "I'm sorry, but we're not interested."After that, he hung up.This dazed Norman for a while. When he came to his senses, he said angrily, "He's just a useless son-in-law who married into the family. How dare he hang up on me?""This is unreasonable! He's too arrogant!" Shirley remarked. "Mom and Dad, calm down!" Just then, Howard hurriedly said, "We have to concede since we're in an unfavorable situation. Since we need his help now, we'll have to bear with it. We'll deal with him in the future!""That's right!" Norman replied with a nod. "If we're too impatient, we'

"I got it, Marcus!"After hanging up, Donald approached the Childes once more. He waved his hand and said, "Please leave. Marcus doesn't know you all, and wants you to scram!"When they heard the man's words, everyone stared at one another. "How unreasonable!" Norman was furious. "I'm your grandfather!""What do you mean?" Immediately, Donald became unhappy. He retorted furiously, "Who do you think you are?" "I'm sorry, sir!" Norman knew that Donald had misunderstood him. He quickly explained, "I wasn't referring to you!""I don't care whose grandfather you are!" The bodyguard looked serious. "We don't welcome you here. If you don't leave, don't blame me for using force on you!"Beside him, Mark looked as if he was prepared to fight the Childes. "Please don't misunderstand us, sirs! We aren't here to pick a fight." Norman thought for a while before saying, "Sir, we had a conflict with Marcus. However, we've cleared those misunderstandings already. Now, we're here to bring hi

It was fine for Marcus to brag and bluff when they were with the Childe family. After all, the Childe family were their relatives and wouldn't mind him too much.But the fact that Marcus had run his mouth before her ex-classmate—and at such a classy venue, too—made Vivian feel ashamed.She didn't believe for a second that Marcus could afford to buy Sparrowheart, which was worth a billion dollars. Still, Jeff's words were incredibly unpleasant. They pissed Vivian off."Stop spouting nonsense, Jeff. I'm not that sort of woman!" She glared at Jeff and continued righteously, "Please respect me and my husband!"Secretly, Jeff scoffed at her feigned righteousness. But on the surface, he put up an apologetic front. "I'm sorry, Vivian. I've crossed the line."Vivian was beautiful and had a great figure. Jeff had practically been drooling over her back when they were classmates but hadn't had the chance to do anything. Now, he felt like his chance was here.Vivian was right before him and

Jeff felt embarrassed when he heard Vivian say that. After all, the upstanding, classy image he'd tried to uphold before her was now ruined. It would be hard for him to approach her from now on.Jeff's head spun as he tried to puzzle out what had happened. Hadn't he gone to Vivian and Marcus' room? Something felt amiss; Jeff was even more sure of this when he saw Marcus' scornful gaze.He immediately headed to the security room and had the security guard on duty pull up the security footage from earlier. Then, he knew what had happened.Jeff snarled, "It's all because of that bastard! I'll teach him a lesson for pulling such a trick on me! Come with me, men. I want to show him exactly what he's gotten himself into!"And so, Jeff led seven or eight security guards to Marcus and Vivian. Vivian wasn't happy to see the security guards surround her. She asked in displeasure, "What's this supposed to mean, Jeff?""Oh, nothing." Jeff pointed at Marcus and continued, "It's just that a gue

"50 million!" Even the host was stunned to see the jump in the price. Marcus had raised the price from 11 million to 50 million. Wasn't the disparity a little too huge?The crowd gasped at his guts. Vivian leaned close to Marcus and whispered, "Marcus, you're representing Phisteele Corporation in this bid. Aren't you gonna exceed their budget by raising the price so high so quickly?""Don't worry, honey." Marcus looked nonchalant. "Everything's fine. I'm calling the shots for this bid."Gordon couldn't help clenching his jaw. Seele Group had estimated that it would take 10 million dollars to acquire Tension Incorporated. No one would've expected Marcus to suddenly interfere in this."51 million!" Gordon forced through gritted teeth. As a scion from Prudence County, he couldn't embarrass himself in front of the Northfort locals."Could you be any more of a loser?" Marcus mocked him when he heard Gordon's latest bid. "You're only adding a million dollars to my bid. Do you think No