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Chapter 221

It was not long before Celia pulled up in front of Joshua in her favorite car, a red Ferrari.

Joshua was about to open the door to the front passenger seat to get in.

However, Celia rolled down the window and said to Joshua, “I’m sorry! Joshua, my besties don’t like going shopping with guys, so you can have fun by yourself! Bye!”

With that, she stepped on the gas and disappeared from right under Joshua’s nose.

Joshua was left standing in the wind with a confused face.

He was indeed confused.

He could not believe that Celia would pull this stunt.

Making him wait here for her was just an excuse. She had no intention of bringing him along i n the first place!

She could not get rid of him if he drove and followed her, but it was too late for him to start driving now. He could not catch up with her.

‘What should I do?

‘Go back?

‘I can’t afford the humiliation!’

The two of them went out together, but he went back alone.

Finally, he decided to drive away and drink with his buddies!

‘F*ck!

Celia did not come home until evening.

She saw her dad Jon and her mom Mindy sitting on the couch in the living room as soon as she entered her house.

She wanted to sneak upstairs.

However, Mindy stopped her.

She could only sit down with them.

“How was it, Celia?” Asked Mindy.

“How was what?” Celia asked, pretending not to understand.

“Don’t play dumb. Joshua!” “He’s nothing special!” Celia replied casually.

“What do you mean he’s nothing special? He’s a top student who had studied abroad.”

“Mom! He won’t even tell us what school he graduated from. A top student? He just spent some money to study overseas because he can’t make it here! Don’t be fooled.”

“Well… Even so, he’s pretty good-looking, tall, and has a nice family background. His father’s…”

“Mom! What does it matter to me who his father is?”

“Why doesn’t it matter? I’m trying to set you two up.”

“I’m not interested!”

“You… Jon! Look at the good daughter you raised!” Mindy turned and yelled at Jon.

“What does it have to do with me?” Jon asked innocently. “Why does it not have anything to do with you? She has been following you around these years! Celia used to be so obedient. She never talked back to me.”

“Our daughter became this way because you’re away all the time!!” muttered Jon.

“Jon… Young! How dare you blame me? Do you think I want to be away all the time? Do you think I want to fly all over the country and the world? Am I not exhausted? Could you afford to live in such a nice villa and hire people to do the chores if I don’t do that? We mother and daughter would have starved to death on your salary!” Mindy roared angrily.

“Okay, okay, okay! It’s all my fault. You’ve worked so hard, Darling! I didn’t educate our daughter well. I’ll educate her in the future!” Jon quickly admitted his mistake.

If he did not admit he was wrong, she would blow the roof off their house.

“Hmph!”

“Well, Mom, I’ll go upstairs first if there’s nothing else!”

“Wait! I’m not done yet! Do you have no feelings for Joshua?” Mindy asked earnestly.

“Yes! And I’m still in school! Are you that anxious to marry me off?” Celia said a little aggrievedly.

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“Celia, I’m not anxious to marry you off. I’m just trying to find you some great guy. Just like Joshua. His height, appearance, status, and background are at least better than those still in school! I just don’t want you to waste your time with poor students.”

“What makes him better than anyone else? Isn’t he just a rich heir who only relied on his parents?” Retorted Celia.

“So what if he’s a rich heir? What’s wrong with rich heirs? As long as he’s kind, ambitious, and has his parents help him, he might be able to outshine his parents in the future!”

“Alright! Alright! You’re right! But I’m still young! I don’t want to date so early! Will you stop pushing me?” Pleaded Celia.

“No! Something’s wrong! Do you have a boyfriend at school?” Mindy asked suddenly.

“Wh… what? I… I have no boyfriend! Don’t make things up!” Celia replied nervously.

“There’s something fishy about your nervousness. I’ve been in the business world for years. D o you think I can’t see what you’re up to?

Tell me… Who on earth is he?” Mindy said sternly.

Jon also put down his newspaper and looked at Celia.

He had no idea his daughter had a boyfriend.

If it was true, this was serious and needed to be addressed.

Girls got bullied easily.

“Mom! It’s true! Could you stop making things up?”

“Jon! Look at the good daughter you raised!”

“Celia, tell me if you have a boyfriend. We’re not making things hard for you, but you as a girl must have self-respect, got it?” Said Jon. “Dad! I… I really don’t have one! How could you not believe me?” Celia said aggrievedly.

“Did he go to high school with you? Or did he go to your university?”

“Wait a minute!’

Something recurred to Jon!

Celia followed him to Shu City for a year of high school. He was transferred back, but she refused to come back and wanted to continue school there, saying she should learn to be independent since she had grown up!

He thought his daughter had grown up.

‘Looking back, could they have gotten together at the time?’

‘During that year, we only went to see her occasionally. They didn’t move in then, did they? It’s possible!

Jon was heartbroken by the thought.

Some punk had managed to charm his beautiful daughter.

If he knew who it was, he would break his legs.

“Celia, tell me the truth! Did you refuse to follow me back during senior year just to be with him?” Jon asked after calming down. “What? Celia, so you didn’t want to come back during senior year so you could be with him? Speak… Were you living together at that time? Do you think you’re ready to spread your wings and leave the nest, you damned girl? How dare you move in with someone else without telling us? Are you trying to piss us off?” Mindy was so mad after hearing what Jon said.

Had their daughter moved in with someone else without telling them?

That was simply atrocious!

The point was that they did not even know who the boy was! That was what infuriated them the most

“Dad! Mom! What are you talking about? I didn’t move in with anyone.” Celia was on the verge of tears.

“Jon, you’ve done such a good job. How could you not have known that something was going o n with your daughter? How did you raise our children?” Mindy turned to question Jon.

Jon said nothing.

It was indeed his fault.

He figured out who it was.

David Lidell!

A boy who saved his daughter’s life, who was also her classmate.

He remembered his daughter often mentioning him at that time.

He even asked his daughter to invite him over, but he seemed to have rejected.

He was also busy with work at that time, so he did not pay it any more attention.

He did not even have time to thank David.

Now it seemed that he had indeed failed in his duties as a father.

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“Is it David?” Asked Jon.

“Dad! I’ve never moved in with anyone!” “Who’s David?” asked Mindy.

Jon told Mindy all about David’s rescue of Celia.

“What? A delivery boy? Celia, I’m telling you. I’ll never allow you to be together! How is a delivery boy good enough for my daughter?” Exclaimed Mindy.

“Mom! What’s wrong with delivering food? Besides, David only works part-time. It’s not like h e delivers food all the time!” Celia shouted back too.

Mindy could criticize her, but not David.

David risked his own life to save her.

“So you admit it?” Mindy felt her blood pressure increasing a little.

Was her daughter dating a classmate who delivered food?

How could she accept that?

Celia had always been her pride.

She had trained Celia from an early age, regardless of the cost. Celia was hardworking too. She could play the piano, play chess, calligraphy, sing, dance, and d o almost everything

Most importantly, she cultivated Celia’s temperament.

She believed her daughter was the absolute center of attention wherever she went.

However, such an excellent daughter had chosen to be with a delivery boy.

Even if he was not a delivery boy, he was working part-time delivering food instead of studying hard in high school. How well off could his family be? No!

She could not let David ruin her daughter.

They had to break up.

“You must break up at once!” Mindy ordered Celia.

“No! I want to be with David! He risked his life to save me. It’s okay that you don’t thank him, but how could you say such a thing?” Cried

Celia.

“Celia! David saved your life, and we’re very grateful to him, but you shouldn’t give yourselft o him just because he saved your life. This isn’t love. You just want to repay his kindness. You won’t be happy in the future!” Advised Jon.

“Dad, how do you know we won’t be happy? David’s strong-minded, ambitious, optimistic, and cheerful. He’s a hundred times better than the

Joshua Mom had just introduced!”

“You… You’re trying to piss me off!” Mindy was so mad at Celia that she could not say a word.

Jon had a headache too.

His daughter seemed to have made up her mind about David.

Oh! He had been careless.

When his daughter was rescued, he should have talked her through and given David some money as compensation.

Given David’s family situation, he would not say no. In that case, they would not have faced these problems afterward!

Her daughter was young, and someone had risked their lives to save her, so the tall figure must have occupied a space in her heart.

Besides, the two of them were classmates. It would be weird if they did not develop feelings for each other when they were together every day.

What should they do?

He did not really care!

If David was indeed as Celia said, he was not against them dating. He thought his daughter had always been a good girl, but then she suddenly did something like that without telling her parents, so he found it hard to accept.

Besides that, they had lived together for a year without them knowing who the boy was.

Now that he knew it was David, who had saved his daughter’s life, he had no comments.

Someone who would risk their lives to save a passer-by must be a kind person.

He had no requirements about money and background.

He just had to be good to his daughter and she had to like him. Their family did not lack money, and in his opinion, having too much money was of no use.

However, that was not the case for his wife, Mindy!

He had struggled in the business world for years and had known many excellent boys.

A guy from a small town like David was no match for these guys.

Besides, his wife was a very proud woman. If her friends and partners in the business world learned that she had gotten such a son-in-law, she would dig a hole in the ground to bury herself in.

What a headache!

One was his daughter.

The other was his wife.

He did not know what to do!

“Jon, what do you suggest we do? It’s all your fault! We had an obedient daughter. It’s only been a couple of years and look how you raised her to be! What’s the point of me working my butt off out there?” Mindy scolded as she pointed at Jon.

“Why don’t… we meet David first?” Jon asked carefully. “Meet him? What good is there meeting a man from a shabby county?” Rejected Mindy.

“Mom! I won’t have you talking about David like that!”

“You… You really want to piss me off, don’t you?”

“Alright, alright! Stop arguing, you two! I think we should meet David! He saved our daughter’s life after all. Without him, she wouldn’t be sitting here right now. What’s the point of our lives then? Don’t you think so, Darling?” Asked Jon.

Mindy stopped talking.

She was not unreasonable.

She was grateful that David risked his life to save her daughter.

However, he could not just save someone and steal them away without saying a word!

If David were her daughter’s classmate at Greenwood University, she would have accepted him if he was from a better family. However, David was from a small county and did not even seem to be from an established family, which made it difficult for her to accept.

.Her daughter was excellent.

Just look at Joshua and his mother’s reaction today.

The Houston family was an affluent family with hundreds of billions of dollars in assets. The heir of such a family could not take his eyes off her daughter.

If David became her son-in-law, her friends in business would find out about it. How was she supposed to hold her head up then?

It could not happen!

It would be nice to meet David.

She would let him know the difference between him and Celia and then slip him some money s o he would leave Celia.

A grassroots member from a small county like David had probably never seen one hundred thousand dollars.

“That’s settled then!’

After figuring it out, Mindy turned to Celia and said, “Celia, don’t blame me! I’ve been there before. And I want to be with you all the time, taking care of my husband and child at home, but your father isn’t good enough. His scant salary could only keep us from starving, but I want the best for you. So I could only work my butt off. Otherwise, how do you think you got this big house and the car you drive? Trust me! I won’t hurt you!”

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Celia felt even worse when Mindy was being so thoughtful and sensible.

She would have preferred that Mindy had criticized her as she initially did. She also knew how hard it had been for her mom all these years to allow their family to live a good life.

However, she could not get over David.

It had been three years, and they had never met since, but she still could not get over him.

She still remembered the profile of David’s face when he had saved her.

Feelings were not something you could control.

Did she not have people pursuing her in university?

She did!

Many!

There were so many of them!

Top universities like Greenwood University gathered elites and talents from all over the country and even the world. There were also people so much better than Joshua.

However, she had no feelings for them!

When Celia found out David was coming to Capital city in the morning, her heart had beaten faster, and her blood flowed faster.

“Mom! I know how hard you’ve worked over the years! I also know you want what’s best for m e! But I really can’t get over David!” Celia cried as she hugged Mindy.

“It’s alright. It’s alright! Let’s meet David first!” Mindy consoled as she patted Celia on the back.

It seemed that she could only start with David. The best solution was to let David know the difference between them and have him back off himself.

Jon seemed helpless.

His wife was competitive and liked to compete with others. She was jealous of her best friends and classmates driving luxury cars and living in mansions, so she insisted on doing business. I n the end, she even blamed it on him.

His salary was not high, but it was enough for his family to live a comfortable life in Capital City, and there was a lot of room for improvement.

Why did she speak as if it was not enough to put food in their mouth?

Although he had did not offer any substantial help to her job, her business would not have gone so easy if he did not have his current position.

Did she think money fell from the sky?

Oh! However, these years had indeed been a little hard for her. Despite her pride, the father and daughter benefited too.

In reality, he genuinely could not afford a luxury car and mansion on his current salary.

The mother and daughter hugged for quite some time.

Seeing that Celia had calmed down, Mindy asked, “Celia, what’s David up to now?”

“He’s attending South River University in South River Province!” replied Celia.

“South River University’s not bad either. At least it’s one of the top ten universities in the country! How often do you see each other when you’re so far away?” Mindy asked again.

Celia figured she could not tell the truth now.

If her parents found out that she had not even started dating David, she would never get a chance.

Since her parents thought she and David had moved in together, so be it! What had been done could not be undone. She could force them to agree in this way.

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“It’s uncertain! Sometimes David finds time to come to Capital City during the holidays, and I’ll keep him company for a few days!” Whispered Celia.

She was not used to lying to her parents! “So you see each other every holiday during university?”

“Yes!”

“So you didn’t come back with your dad during your senior year because of David too?”

Celia gritted her teeth and replied, “Yes!”

“You…” Mindy was so mad she was speechless.

“When are you meeting next then?”

“David said he’s coming to Capital City in a few days!” “Okay! Invite him to our house when he’s here. We can meet him and thank him!” Mindy stressed the word “thank”.

“He said he has something to do in Capital City!”

“What does a university student like him have to do? Isn’t that just an excuse to see you? Invite him over, you hear me?”

“Okay, got it!”

“Alright, we’re done with you. Go upstairs and rest!”

“Okay, good night, Mom and Dad!” Celia went upstairs.

She had to figure out how to get David to come to her house and deal with her parents.

Jon and his wife were soon left alone in the living room.

“Jon, what are we gonna do about this?” Mindy asked with suppressed anger.

“Darling, calm down first!” Comforted Jon.

“How could I not be mad? Celia used to be so obedient. She never talked back to me, and now she’s talking back to me for a delivery boy. The piano, chess, painting, singing, dancing, and social etiquette I’ve gone out of my way to her learn are now all in vain!” Mindy fumed.

“How are they in vain? Isň’t she doing well?” Asked Jon.

“How are they not in vain? If Celia marries David, she will be living in a tiny house and won’t even be able to afford a maid. She will have to do grocery shopping, cook, do laundry, clean, and take care of the kids. Aren’t all those skills have been learned for nothing? She will become a middle-aged woman with a haggard face in a few years. Why is this girl letting us down?

Why won’t she understand my good intentions?”

“You’ll be here for her, won’t you? You make so much money. Why won’t you help them out a little?”

“You… Jon, do you want them to be together?”

“You just said it yourself! Why are you blaming me again?” Jon asked innocently.

“I… If Celia does marry Dávid, I’d rather donate all my money instead of giving them a single cent. Let them suffer! Let them live the life they chose!” Fumed Mindy.

“Do you want to see your daughter suffer? Do you want her to do grocery shopping, cook, do the laundry, clean, and look after the kids,

and then let a gorgeous young girl appear older than even you a few years later?”

“…” Mindy was about to explode from anger.

“Alright! We might be able to turn this around. Think about it. How old was Celia back then? She fell in the middle of the road with a truck heading toward her. David happened to save her when she was at her most desperate. She must think highly of David. They were also classmates. It would be weird if they did not fall for each other when they spend every day together.”

“What should we do then? We can’t let her go on like this. It would be such a waste if such a brilliant daughter married a poor boy like David.

We must find a way to separate them.”

“Let’s meet David first! Start with David and see if we could make him back off. If that doesn’t work, we’ll minimize their chances of seeing each other. During holidays, put aside your work for a while and take our daughter on a trip. Their feelings for each other will slowly fade away once they hadn’t seen each other for a long time. When she enters society after graduation and meets more outstanding men, she’ll realize she just wanted to repay David for saving her life and that it wasn’t love!”

Mindy thought about it for a moment before saying, “Okay, let’s do

that!”

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Springfield.

David was about to head to the place where he was meeting the owner of the office building.

However, they said David had to go alone.

David was going to take Pearl with him because they knew each other!

Acquaintances made things easier! However, they had made this specific request.

‘Alright! I’ll go alone then.’

When they arrived at the appointed place, David explained his purpose and went to a private room the waiter led him to.

After entering the private room, the waiter asked him to wait and left.

David waited alone in the private room.

Not long after, the private room door was opened. David looked up but froze.

It was Pearl’s college classmate and best friend-Rhonda. Rhonda wore a black female business suit with a plunging deep-v neckline, a short skirt, and black silk stockings to show off her figure. David considered himself a man of great self-control, but he could not help looking a little longer.

Rhonda came in and sat across from David, looking at him without speaking.

“Miss Rogers, I didn’t expect to see you!” David said, somewhat surprised.

“What’s the matter? Are you that surprised, Mr. Lidell?” Rhonda replied with a smile.

“Quite surprised indeed! I don’t think Miss Pearl knows who you are, does she? Or you wouldn’t have asked me to come alone!”

“Pearly doesn’t know, but it’s not that I don’t want to tell her. It’s just that I don’t want her to overthink it. I don’t want to lose her as a friend.” “Surely it doesn’t matter?”

“Pearly might not seem fine, but she has a lot of pride, so I’m doing this as a precaution.”

“Alright! Since you don’t want Miss Pearl to know, I won’t tell her. But we’re not going to talk about that today. I’m mainly interested in buying your office building. Are you selling it?” asked David.

“You gotta answer a question first!” Said Rhonda.

“What question?”

“Tell me how you got Clinton to help you destroy the Daniels family. I’m curious!”

David eventually bought the building for fifteen billion dollars.

David did not think much about the price. It was mainly because he had so much money that h e did not care whether he made or lost money on the deal.

Lavish points were what he really needed.

However, according to the assessment Pearl’s team gave him-even spending eighteen billion dollars on the building was worth it.

It confused David.

Why did Rhonda, as a business person, give him such a huge discount?

Why did she not just ask for twenty billion dollars?

He would be able to get 50 more lavish points!

Rhonda would be furious if he knew what he thought. She gave him such a good deal, yet David was ungrateful.

She had never seen such a person who found it troubling to have so much money to spend!

Rhonda did not seem to be here to do business with him today. She was either explicitly or implicitly asking about his background and ties to Clinton.

On the other hand, David just told her that he was one of the core members of SCC and shrugged off the rest.

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As for why Clinton helped him destroy the Daniels family, David simply said that the Daniels brothers were evil and harmful to society, so he reported the situation to Clinton. After that, the Daniels family was destroyed. He did not know the details either.

He knew Rhonda would not believe it, of course. This was because he did not believe it either! He even blushed a little when he said they were harmful to society and evil. What was confusing was that Rhonda did not question him.

However, Miss Pearl’s best friend was not that simple either. An office building seemed dispensable to her, and she did not care about it that much.

Her background must be quite special too!

However, he was too low-level to understand Springfield’s local forces at that moment.

After David left, Rhonda went to another private room. Inside sat a young man of about 27 or 28 years old.

“Well? Rhonda, have you got anything?” The man asked.

“I found nothing! But I’ve figured something out from his statement! By the way, Tony, David said he’s a core member of SCC. Could he be our enemy in the future?” Asked Rhonda.

The man was Rhonda’s brother, Tony Rogers. He was also the third heir of the Rogers family one of the top four families in Springfield! “Not necessarily! SCC isn’t monolithic either. David and Morris are both core members. Didn’t they fight to the death too? So we’ll have to see what happens next,” said Tony.

“That’s alright!” Rhonda was relieved.

She did not want to make an enemy of David.

Pearl and she had been good friends since university. David was Pearl’s boss, and Pearl seemed very loyal to him.

If they did become enemies, Pearl would be stuck in the middle.

She did not want to lose her best friend Pearl!

“Tell me what you and David talked about,” asked Tony.

Rhonda briefed her conversation with David to Tony.

Tony was not sure who David was and what his background was even after he finished listening

It might have been easy for Clinton to wipe out the Daniels family in a single day, but the price

he paid sizeable.

On the one hand, Morris was one of the core members of SCC. What would the other core members think once he did that?

It was bound to cause suspicion and distrust among other core members and might even cause SCC’s current internal structure to weaken. On the other hand, Morris was Silva’s man, and while it would have made sense for Silva to come forward if Clinton wanted to touch him, Silva was oddly silent.

That meant Clinton must have struck some deal with Silva, in which the latter would rather lose Morris and risk being questioned.

Clinton must have paid a high price to keep Silva quiet.

With that analysis, there were only two possibilities for David’s identity. One was that even Clinton could not afford to offend him, so he risked everything to curry favor with David.

If that was the case, then David’s identity was quite scary. At the very least, he was not someone anyone in Springfield could afford to offend. The second was that Clinton needed David’s help, and David meant more to him than it would cost to destroy the Daniels family.

It was significantly less intimidating than the first possibility, but it was terrifying in its own right!

In either case, David was not just some nobody.

“Did you say David is the boss of one of your best friends?” Asked Tony. “Yeah! I don’t want to make an enemy of him. She has been my best friend since university, and she seems loyal to him. I don’t want to put her on the spot!” Replied Rhonda.

“Then try to get David on our side! Let him be our friend!”

ENE

“But he’s a core member of the SCC!”

“Our opponent was never the SCC, just that woman!”

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David returned to East League International’s temporary office, which would soon become East League International’s property.

As soon as he entered the company, Pearl came over.

“Mr. Lidell, how did it go?” Asked Pearl.

“It’s settled. The company will buy the building for fifteen billion dollars. It’s East League International’s Springfield branch from now on. Find someone to sign a contract with the property owner immediately,” said David.

“Fifteen billion dollars? So cheap? Are you sure?” Asked Pearl.

Her team determined that the building was worth eighteen billion dollars. However, Mr. Lidell bought it for fifteen billion dollars. It seemed he was a good negotiator!

“Yes! Fifteen billion dollars indeed!” Replied David.

He was puzzled too!

It was all right that Pearl helped him save money.

However, it was inexcusable that Rhonda also helped him save money.

She was selling him something. It was as if she was looking down on him by reducing the price instead of raising it.

She saved him a few dozen lavish points.

“Great! I’ll have someone to take care of it!” With that said, Pearl went to arrange the matter.

Since they were given an advantage, it was necessary to carry it out as soon as possible. Otherwise, they would suffer a big loss if the other party went back on their word.

David sat in the office, looking at his lavish system. His lavish points were still at 442 points.

If he added the 150 points for the immediate purchase of the building and the 270 points for the land auction, the total was 862 points.

David felt much more confident as he approached 1,000 points.

If the company invested in two more big projects over the next two days, he would have almost 1,000 points.

David had a feeling that the system would change once his lavish points reached 1,000 points.

He was looking forward to it now.

Two more days passed.

They signed the purchasing contract for the building and paid for it while David had also paid for the land auction in advance.

Therefore, his lavish points increased to 862 points.

Just a little bit more. David continued to urge Pearl to step up her efforts-ignore the money and invest in the project she set her sights on.

David planned to go to Capital City after the system was upgraded to see if he could continue t o improve himself. He would also be more confident in handling matters for the Special Task Force and Falcon. Pearl did not understand David-he had been pushing her to spend money. They had already spent fifty or sixty billion dollars, but he kept urging her because it was still insufficient. Was he nervous because he had too much money?

He asked them to invest when many projects had not gone through a thorough investigation! What if they ended up losing money? That was not the way to spend money even if you were rich, right? However, since her boss had said so, they would spend the money! It was not her money to lose if they suffered losses anyway.

Although she did everything for David’s sake, she could not help it if he did not appreciate her good intentions.

They quickly confirmed three big projects, spending fifteen billion dollars in total.

David sat on the couch in Starry Night Hotel’s premium deluxe suite with his eyes fixed on the system panel.

He had transferred fifteen billion dollars to Pearl just now, and Pearl would transfer it to the client soon. The moment their client received the money, his lavish point would increase.

His lavish point would increase to more than 1,000 points by then.

Would there be any change i n the system?

What if nothing happened?

What could he do with these lavish points if that were the case?

He was a nervous wreck right now.

It would affect what he planned to do next.

He was not strong enough. He could not even defeat a regular member of the Special Task Force Team A.

Five minutes soon passed.

His lavish points of 862 points remained unchanged.

Ten more minutes passed. It remained the same.

‘What is Pearl doing?’

‘What’s with the suspense?’

He had just relaxed slightly when the lavish points changed suddenly. It went from 862 to 912 points-a 50 point increase.

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In only five minutes, it rose from 912 to 962 points. After more than ten minutes, his lavish point broke through the threshold of 1,000 and reached 1,012 points.

David stared hard at the system panel. There was no black screen and no change.

‘Hmm?’

‘No!’

Something changed.

A + sign appeared behind the Body and Mind sections.

It was the biggest change.

David was excited.

Body was directly related to his strength. If he could continue to improve his body, he could continue to increase his strength.

David tapped on the + sign behind body, and a window instantly popped up from the system.

“The host David Lidell’s body has reached the limits of ordinary people on his planet. Do you wish to upgrade it? The upgrade will cost 1,000 lavish points!”

“What the f*ck?”

When David saw the pop-up window, he could not help swearing. It would cost 1,000 lavish points to continue improving his body.

He worked so hard to save up the lavish points, but he was losing them so soon?

David chose no and tapped on the + sign behind mind.

Again, a window popped up.

“The host David Lidell’s mind power has reached the limits of ordinary people on his planet. D o you wish to upgrade it? The upgrade will cost 1,000 lavish points.”

Sure enough, it was no different from upgrading his body! He would have to spend 1,000 lavish points too.

David finally chose to upgrade his body.

Upgrading his body could also upgrade his strength. Upgrading his mind power meant upgrading his perception and reaction speed.

He thought he should start by upgrading his strength first. Mind power was important too as i t could allow him to read his opponent’s strength and understand the danger he was in, but he could only set it aside until he had more lavish points.

The most important thing for him now was to upgrade his strength.

Therefore, David went back and tapped the + sign behind Body.

When the window popped up, David nodded his head without hesitation! 1,000 points instantly vanished from his lavish points, leaving only 16 pathetic points behind.

There was suspense in David’s steadfast heart again.

Slowly, David felt warm and began to sweat.

He ran to the bathroom, filled the bathtub with cold water, stripped naked, and sat in it.

“How comfy!”

David exclaimed.

The fever continued. After five minutes, some black and sticky substance appeared on his skin, which smelled terrible. Besides this, all the muscles in his body itched like crazy.

Was it the legendary body transformation?

David tried to clean himself up and got a new tub of water. He repeated the actions several times. After about half an hour or so, it finally stopped, and his fever symptoms disappeared.

Getting out of the tub, David looked at his body. There was no obvious change.

However, he could feel his strength improving by leaps and bounds.

He still needed to further verify how much it had improved.

He would love to fight Jordan again to see if he could still catch his full-blown attack without suffering a scratch.

Jordan was the strongest guy he had met so far.

· David looked at the system panel.

Nothing else had changed. However, the body column had changed from ordinary limit to extraordinary level 1.

Chapter 230

The body upgrade reassured David.

He could finally continue to upgrade his strength. The system would be a flop if the ordinary limit was the final product.

Fortunately, the system did not let him down.

Though he now needed more lavish points, he had hope.

Besides, he would spend more boldly as he grew stronger and thus gain more lavish points.

He was cautious about spending eight to ten billion dollars at first. Now, spending one hundred billion dollars was nothing. He was stronger and had a terrifying background, so he could be more brash with his money.

He would get stronger and spend hundreds of billions, trillions, and tens of trillions of dollars. He would have a never-ending supply of lavish points!

He not only wanted to be the strongest but also build the strongest forces to control the world’s economy.

The global economy would tremble whenever he casually stomped his feet. The thought of it alone was exciting and satisfying. While David was lost in his fantasy, East League International rose to fame in Springfield.

When a conglomerate enjoyed a successful financing, a press conference was often held to to enhance its popularity and prepare for a successful listing.

An investment firm had been featured in several recent press conferences held by companies i n Springfield, and its name was East League

International.

Slowly, the media began to take notice.

One news outlet did the math for East League International.

The result was shocking.

In less than a month, East League International had invested nearly one hundred billion dollars in Springfield alone. How wealthy was it?

As soon as news broke, it made headlines.

A previously unknown company had invested nearly one hundred billion dollars in Springfield!

It had never happened in a cosmopolitan city like Springfield.

Then various media and busybodies began to dig into East League International’s background.

All they could find was that East League International was a newly established investment company with its headquarters in South River Province’s River City.

It owned Golden Leaf Hotel—the only eight-star hotel in South River Province, with an estimated value of twenty billion dollars.

They had recently invested in a dozen Springfield companies and bought an office building, totaling more than eighty billion dollars.

East League International had over one hundred billion dollars in assets so far.

The scariest part was that the chairman of the company was named David Lidell, who was only 21 years old and still a university student, but no other information about him could be found.

Besides that, David owned 100% of the company’s shares, which meant that the 21-year-old university student was already a veritable billionaire. A mysterious 21-year-old billionaire?

It had generated a great deal of media interest.

If they could get first-hand information on David, their news would be a huge hit.

Therefore, these media began to conduct a background search on David with every connection they had.

However, they could find nothing but a name and an age.

They could not even find a picture.

Pearl Warner, East League International general manager, attended the financing conference every time.

Pearl had become David’s spokesperson.

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