Life at the Top

Chapter 109

Gulp.

That was the sound of John swallowing his saliva with difficulty.

At this moment, the air in the private room was extremely tense.

It felt as if everyone had been set firmly in place with glue. Nobody dared to do or say anything.

John was seriously scared.

He was scared that Hugh would be completely infuriated and do something irrational.

This place was filled with Hugh’s men, and if he really were to go insane, nobody would guarantee what would happen to Jasper and him.

“Heh!”

When everyone was holding their breath and did not dare to exhale, Hugh made this sound from his throat.

It sounded like a laugh, but since it was too short and cold, nobody felt any benevolence from it.

“Jasper, nobody dares to be impudent in front of me. Meanwhile, you have completely enraged me.”

While he said that, Hugh stared fixedly at Jasper with his eyes glinting in a hostile manner.

“I’ll let you guess if I have the guts to call a few of my men in here, pluck the nerves of your hands and legs and give them tens of thousands of dollars to leave the country. What will be waiting for you then is a lifetime of disability.”

…

A little while before Jasper and John arrived at the hotel.

The two young men in John’s office were waiting for the trading to commence.

They did not dare to hesitate. When it was time, their fingers immediately flew across the keyboard and they started doing what John had told them to do before he left.

At the next moment, Company A received a two billion cash injection.

Zoni was the blue chip stock in the eyes of a lot of stock investors.

A second before the trading commenced, its price was still flat and reasonable.

A lot of the stock investors who were following this got the news about the dealer hyping and there would be a huge increase very soon.

When they were considering whether to buy some, in the next second, the price of the stock plummeted.

When the stock investors were in a daze, the price plummeted horrifyingly once again after staying still for less than a second.

The stock investors who did not buy were feeling lucky that they had dodged the bullet. However, the stock investors who had bought in were crying to the heavens and selling the stocks they were holding at the lowest price as if they had gone insane.

However, the plummeting stock price would not give them the chance to sell.

After they had their lowest price pending, the current stock price would fall below the price they set.

This plummeting of stock prices without warning attracted the attention of a lot of people.

Including the vice president of Lantern Capital who had been staring fixedly at the situation all along.

He was Hugh’s trusted aide, so naturally, he would know that his boss and a few owners of a private enterprise had a controlling number of shares and were trading in Zoni.

Since it had great potential, Hugh had invested most of the funds from Lantern Capital into Zoni. He was waiting to make a huge amount of money when the time came.

However, Zoni was now plummeting as if it had fallen down a cliff. Sweat was forming on this vice president’s forehead. This is from NôvelDrama.Org.

In the blink of an eye, he received a lot of calls. All of them were asking whether Lantern Capital was the one that caused this plummet because of something they secretly did.

The vice president only wanted to curse.

If Zoni’s stock price plummeted, the one suffering the biggest loss would be Lantern Capital. He was not an idiot, so why would he let it plummet?

After a few calls, the price was still plummeting. On the other hand, the floating loss account of the company had reached a ghastly number.

This was beyond his range of control.

The vice president did not hesitate before calling Hugh.

At this moment, Hugh was considering whether to cripple Jasper.

The hurried ringtone eased the tension in the silent room.

Hugh frowned and answered the call while feeling pissed.

However, after hearing the urgent report from the other end, Hugh’s expression changed slowly.

The contrast of that was Jasper’s eyes that were getting calmer.

“How is that possible…”

Hugh muttered in disbelief. Then, it was as if he had come back to his senses. He grabbed Jasper’s collar and roared, “It’s you? Did you do that to Zoni?