All Chapters of The Ultimate Showman: Chapter 181
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CHAPTER 181
At Almach hospital.The only employee left at Serenity, Max, just got discharged, and he didn’t even have enough money to go home in a taxi. His jaw and forehead still had bandages. But his legs were fine, so he walked many miles and got home.He and his sick grandmother lived together.Seeing him, she got up from the bed with great effort and then tended to him.“Why are you alone?” she asked. “Weren’t any of your superiors with you?”“They are always busy, Grandma,” he couldn’t speak freely because his jaw was injured. “Why would they be coming here with me?”“They should. You fought for them when you didn’t have to. That’s why you got injured,” she said. “If I was active, I would have come to the hospital myself.”“They paid the hospital bill, so we can’t ask for me,” Max said.“Hmph, I guess they’re better than your parents,” she snorted.“Why are you bringing them up now?”“I called them and told them about your situation, but they completely ignored it,” she said. “I was expecti
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“There are no GPS images of this street. Is this the house?” Emma was not sure because the house was small, but then she saw Berlin and Max fighting. “Hey, what’s going on there?” she entered through the small gate.Berlin let go of Max and adjusted his dress because he thought Emma was some kind of government executive because of her professional attire.“Madam Emma…” Max greeted her with a face filled with surprise. He never thought she would visit his home, for whatever reason it may be. “What brought you to my humble home?”“This isn’t your home,” Berlin said, snickering. “You and your grandmother are renting here.”“Y-Yeah,” Max was visibly embarrassed, and Berlin liked that.“I called the hospital. They told me you got discharged, so I came here,” Emma said, faintly smiling. “Honestly, I didn’t think you’d be living here.”Max was puzzled. “Why wouldn’t I?”“I thought you probably gave the wrong address when you applied for the job,” Emma said. “That’s the impression you gave be
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“L-Let me hold it once, Max,” she requested, her eyes shining like diamonds. “I-It’s been decades since I held that much money in my hands.”“L-Later, Grandma. Later,” Max insisted. He couldn’t trust his grandmother with even half of this money because she had the tendency to spend on frivolous things. “Are you going to keep the guests standing? Make coffee for them.”“Oh, yeah, what was I thinking? I’m going to make the best drink in the city,” she said and went into the kitchen at her own pace.Max made Emma sit on the old couch.There were no chairs, so Berlin also sat on the same couch. He moved a little closer to Emma.She cast a cold glance at him, so he moved away. He still tried to show off his tricep muscles and all, but Emma didn’t seem all that interested.Max gave 100 dollars to Berlin and said, “I’ll give you the interest later.”“Sure, sure,” Berlin acted all friendly. “You can give it to me next year if you want. There’s no rush.”Soon, Max’s grandma brought them two cu
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At Serenity company.Emma returned and saw something that truly shocked her.Venessa was sleeping on a bed, and Cecilia was massaging her legs. She was so stunned she stood still for a few seconds.And then she began to record a video.“Emma…” Cecilia squinted her eyes. “Don’t do anything funny.”“Haha, this is gold,” Emma laughed. “I never thought you were the type who would touch someone’s legs. I guess you really like your grandmother.”“Delete that video,” Cecilia said, not wanting her friend to create unnecessary trouble one way or another.“No, no. I’ll send it to Boss Kevin,” she grinned. “I wonder how he’ll react.”Cecilia was startled. “Wait, he gave his news number to you?”Emma touched her mouth in surprise. “Oh my, he didn’t give you his new number?”Cecilia was smiling icily. “He better have a good explanation for this. Share his number with me right now.”“I’ll ask the Boss first.”“I’m your boss now. If you don’t want to lose your job, then share it.”“Ugh, fine…” Emma
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Cecilia looked hesitant.This was a change.A big change as far as Jack was concerned.He was expecting to see coldness in her eyes, but she seemed to be in two minds now. This was progress.A corner of his lips curled up.The pressure she must have been put under must be great enough to weaken her shoulders, he thought.Still, Jack was doubtful if Cecilia knew everything about the murders or not, so he said, “I have already paid money to the families of the victims. Both the woman and the guards. That was the least I could do because I was also indirectly involved in this whole thing. I think that my presence put some pressure on Kevin and made him lose control. I personally don’t think he’s a psychotic killer, but people do show their true self when put under pressure. Maybe, all this happened for the benefit of the O’Brian family.”“Whether Kevin killed those people or not, it’s not proven, yet, right?” Venessa said. “My granddaughter and other family members received some video sh
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Debby Warne was no ordinary billionaire.She was a world-renowned entrepreneur and investor. Her parents were already billionaires when she was young, but she did not take their money.After graduating, she started her own business with a small loan and picked the right products that would take her brand value to another level.What really changed her life was Shadow Education, which she started with school kids and then expanded all the way to post-graduate level students.The websites she built with just a few staff members now attained a valuation of 182 billion dollars.And this was just one of her main businesses.She succeeded in almost everything she had set her eyes on.Just Debby’s official net worth itself would be close to 600 billion dollars. If her parents wealth were to be included, the Warne family would easily be worth over a trillion.It wasn’t just their wealth that made Jack not want to mess with the Warne family but their influence in the political world.The Warne
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Cecilia took her grandmother to the side and talked with her.“I want to reject Debby’s offer,” Cecilia said.“Huh? Why?” Venessa stared with bafflement.“She seems interested in Kevin. She might have other plans for investing in this company.”Venessa’s eyes brows raised together. “You’re afraid that Kevin’s heart might turn toward her?”“I just don’t want that lady to trouble him,” Cecilia retorted.“How is she troubling Kevin? She’s clearly not on friendly terms with Jack, so you should at least turn her into a good friend,” Venessa advised. “That last thing you want is to make both of them your enemies. So, don’t think too much and just accept the deal.”Cecilia reluctantly nodded.It did not take long for them to prepare a contract.Debby would pay 41 million dollars and would take fifty percent of profits until she received double her investment in two to three years.If Serenity were to fail to at least pay Debby half of her investments through profits in five years, then Debby
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In Australia.Lewis Harper was a big billionaire investor who was known as a Dragon among entrepreneurs because he had helped over a thousand startups to grow into big companies.Currently, Lewis was enjoying a malted chocolate drink in a small cafe.His eight-year old granddaughter with scuffled sneakers was sitting across the table and was selling and buying stocks on the stock market.“Aw, bugger. I just lost a hundred-sixty grand on that shoe mob yesterday. I really thought it’d work.”Lewis smiled and sipped some more of the chocolate drink which he would only consume with his granddaughter.“Three whole families can live comfortably for a year,” Lewis said. “The bills of all the people in a hospital wing can be cleared. Multiple kids can finish schooling.”The girl’s mouth turned down.“Losing is fast and easy,” Lewis added. “Earning is slow and difficult. You wasted 160K out of the million I gave you. If you don’t have at least 1.1 million in your account by the end of the mont
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At Serenity company.Venessa took a headache tablet. “You squandered all of our chances of getting investors, Cecilia. It’s over. This company’s future… you killed it with your own hands.”“Should I look for a new job then?” Emma wondered.“Shut up, Emma. I’m confident that I can find investors. We just need a little bit of time,” Cecilia said.“You still don’t understand what you’ve done, do you?” Venessa felt her brain burning from fury. “Debby Warne is never going to let even a single dollar be invested in this company. Don’t you know the story of her mother buying a five-star royal restaurant?”“I do,” Emma quickly said. “Cecilia’s mom wanted to enter the restaurant with her dogs, but she wasn’t let in, so she and her husband talked with the royal family and bought the restaurant, fired the management staff and created a special table zone where dogs and pets were allowed. This became a sensation when it happened… almost a decade ago.”“Debby looks more hotblooded than her mother,
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Venessa did not stop laughing until she caught a cough.She coughed so badly that Cecilia called for an ambulance.But Venessa gave the water Emma had given her, then said, she was fine and wouldn’t need to go to the hospital.Cecilia still urged her grandmother to at least get her vitals checked, or she would force her to go home.Venessa reluctantly agreed.Cecilia and Emma started receiving phone calls nonstop.For the next hour or so, they conversed with more than eighty people, out of which a whopping seventy parties agreed to invest in Serenity.The total sum of their investments crossed forty million dollars already.“The tide has completely changed now,” Venessa lifted the water glass in joy. “Some of these investors are really big. Even if Debby wants to fight us, she’ll need to think thrice! Bwhahaha!”“This is all thanks to our boss,” Emma said. “I don’t know how he convinced them, but he’s boosted our chances big time. If all these investment deals go through, then we can