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The stage had gone awkwardly silent. The guests on the stage glanced at each other with no words right now. They've never met a nobody who would boldly disregard them like Benjamin just did.Each of these guests is powerful in their own right and also known well within New Stone City. It was really rare for them to see someone who was far beneath their status demand respect in such a way.A lot of these guests were pissed, but they didn't dare stand up. After all, they all witnessed how Benjamin had verbally retaliated against the businessman who stood up to him. They didn't want to be publicly disrespected as well.Therefore, they kept quiet.This silence did not help the host at all, as he was hoping one of these guests would put Benjamin in his place. He glanced up at Andrew who remained seated as well.In the meantime, Principal Dice tightened his fists as he watched on, wanting so badly to stand up in support of the Whiteridge family's hidden young master. But then he recalled th
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Andrew rolled his eyes in annoyance before focusing back on Benjamin, who was still hell-bent on having his demand met.“Apart from all that, I'm far more concerned about the way these guests would see me. These people are associates of my father. They agreed to my invitation because they wanted to evaluate my worthiness as a favored son of my father.”“If I willingly let Benjamin walk away now, the public shame would only come down on me. These guests would see me as unworthy of my last name, and it would make it hard in the future to become the appointed heir of the Tyrone family's business empire.”Alexa sighed as she struggled to digest the absolute gravity of what Andrew was saying.Still, she understood the important part.“In that case, why don't you just give in to Benjamin’s demand. Let him and his loser group settle on the opposite balcony and let this show on the road. I doubt your guests have all day.”Andrew shook his head. “I can't.”Alexa was confused. “Why not.”“Becau
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Lieutenant Jason adjusted himself in the seat.“Your cousin, Ma'am Veronica, was given the task of handling the family's shares within the Tyrone business empire. This happened five years ago after she successfully went through a series of tests that highlighted her honed skills at handling these kinds of assets.”Benjamin raised an eyebrow as he stared down at the balcony above the center of the stage, particularly at the veiled woman.“You said she was tasked with handling the family's assets within Tyrone's business empire. How old is she?”Lieutenant Jason glanced down at Veronica. “I believe she should be twenty-eight years old.”Benjamin nodded his head in understanding. The fact that she was able to gather the trust of his grandfather and the Whiteridge family elders was a testament to her ability.“That will be all. You can return to your post.”Lieutenant Jason stared at his young master with a light frown. He looked like he had more to say, but ultimately chose to keep his m
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The huge screen board on the stage lit up, displaying the name of the first organization, along with the amount that was needed to fix the issues hindering the particular organization one way or another.The host announced with a professional smile.“This particular donation starts off at a minimum of $200,000!”The murmurs that traveled through the fried were leveled. A lot of these people came from rich backgrounds, and more than half of them could afford to donate such a sum.Still, $200,000 was the minimum, which meant that this organization would need more than that. Due to this sound being an open bid-off, the maximum amount would not be stated so as not to pressure anyone into a competition.After all, the true competition would start after the first twenty charity organizations have been cleared.“$210, 000!”“$215,000!”“$225,000!”The people in the crowd began offering to sponsor this particular organization. As this amount was quite affordable, a lot of the students in this
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The host could relate to the awkward and dissatisfied atmosphere. It was safe to say that he was just as disappointed as them at the low-quality Benjamin was showing in terms of competitiveness.The guests began whispering among each other.“Goodness, it better not turn out that we wasted our time attending this event. This young man is considered a worthy opponent by Mr. Tyrone's son. Could it be that he made a mistake?”“Right? Even though losing is inevitable, I came here with the hope that I’ll witness a good show of bidding off. So why is that orphan boy only countering each bidding increment by just $100,000?”A lot of these guests were dissatisfied with Benjamin's performance, and it showed by the way they sneered up at him on the balcony.On Andrew's balcony, he stared at Benjamin in the distance as he curled up the corner of his lips. He raised his numbered placard.“$10 million!”The host then turned to the other balcony. “And, Mr. Knox?”There was no response from Benjamin,
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Benjamin looked down at the hand, barely wrapped out his hand with care, before looking up to find it was April trying to comfort him.He smiled before holding April's hand back. “I don't mind. Don't worry; I'll be fine.”April released a breath containing her worry. Looking into Benjamin's eyes, she could only see the total assurance welling beneath the surface of those light orbs. April could tell that Benjamin had the situation under control despite how it seemed to be working against him at the moment. She became intrigued, curious to see how things would play out.Following the instruction he had discreetly gotten from Andrew, the host waited for a few minutes before he continued with his mission to antagonize and fully humiliate Benjamin.He turned to the guest, bowing at a ninety degree to them.“I would like to formally issue an apology to the esteemed guests who took time out of their hectic day to attend this event. I'm sorry that you had to witness such a ruckus of a momen
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In hindsight, Benjamin's sudden requirements for how he wanted the bid-off challenge to be conducted could be interpreted as him conveying his lack of trust in the coordinators and hosts of this event.Basically, Benjamin was calling out Andrew and his family for their lack of transparency.This, of course, can be seen as a brutal slap to the Tyrone family's face, and after a while, Andrew's sudden burst of anger seemed justified to most of the people in this hall.The audience began gossiping as usual.“Why is Benjamin suddenly asking for evidential transparency? Does he really mean that he doesn't trust the Tyrone family to appropriately disperse the donation prices to these charity organizations?!”“If that's truly the case, this would be the greatest scandal of the year. The Tyrone family are a bunch of billionaires. It would be really shameful to learn that they're embezzling donation funds.”“You guys should shut the fuck up! This is the freaking Tyrone family y’all are talking
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The guests glanced at each other in surprise. They didn't expect that the most important guest would actually side with the outsider. Veronica is the representative of the major shares that belong to the Whiteridge family. She's the most revered figure within the chains of powers under The Tyrone Group's global assets.This veiled woman has spent years mingling with the Tyrone family, and yet, she was supporting an ordinary young orphan. This alone raised Benjamin's reputation by a factor of two. The businessman awkwardly cleared his throat.“Honorable Miss Veronica, are you sure we should grant that arrogant boy his requirements? Doesn't he deserve to be punished in some form?”Veronica chuckled with an audible sarcastic tone in her voice.“Oh, apparently, my opinion wasn't sensible enough for you? Then maybe you should lecture me on how my opinions should be made next time.”Following her words, six of the soldiers immediately stood at attention, with one of them speaking with a c
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Benjamin then turned his attention back to Veronica while still holding onto his ‘girlfriend’.“Alright, I accept. But I may not be available a lot of the time. So this is something we'll have to schedule ahead of time.”Veronica giggled. “Of course, do you think I have that much free time too?”Benjamin received the phone and typed in his number.Once that was done, Veronica nodded at Principal Dice.“Principal, you have injured quite the talent within this campus. Keep it up.”Despite Principal Dice being more than four decades older than Veronica, he couldn't help but feel good about being praised by such a high-status member of the Whiteridge family.“Thank you, Young Mistress.”Veronica turned to the guests. “Ladies and gentlemen, we will be meeting at the headquarters pretty soon. We'll discuss in full-length what went down today with the chairman. Until then…..”And with that, Veronica left with her bodyguards.Watching the woman leave, Anthony Wood and Lieutenant Jason finally
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Veronica Whiteridge had bowed to Benjamin in a show of apology, so the guests had no choice but to follow suit. Though the great dissatisfaction they currently felt was evident on their faces, they hid away as their faces turned towards the ground.Senior Lawyer Francis sighed as he stared at Benjamin for the barest of a moment before bowing his head at Benjamin as well.Principal Dice smiled at Benjamin before calmly bowing his head in apology. If not for anything else, but for the fact that this fraud of an event was held on his campus.This left Andrew and his crew.Andrew had his hands baked into fists as he stared at Veronica Whiteridge and everyone else Boeing at Benjamin. He knew what was supposed to happen next. He knew what he was supposed to do. But this was hard. Boeing to Benjamin was a new level of humiliation to himself that he was not willing to indulge in at all.And yet, Andrew Tyrone knew that he had no choice.Alexa became worried as she stared at the stubborn back
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There was another moment of silence. The words that had just come from Andrew's mouth were spoken with an irrationally brash attitude. Everyone watching could tell that this young man was crashing out. Veronica, Principal Dice, the guests, the head lawyer from The Tyrone Group, and even Andrew's crew all waited for Benjamin's answer.It was safe and pretty much sensible to say that they were just as curious. Everyone here knew that Benjamin was an orphan, along with the brief history lesson that Andrew had just given them. So they also wanted to know where Benjamin got $1 billion from.The fact that he could easily give it all away to charity organizations was even more telling of the fact that he had billions of dollars in his bank account.Again, this young man had no parents, no inheritance, and a frail grandmother. Where did he get that kind of money from?Benjamin sighed. “Haven't you ever heard of investments?”The crowd choked a bit from the somewhat simple answer that Benjam
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Veronica's soldiers were not happy that these supposed ordinary bodyguards weren't cowering despite their technique, so they doubled down.As soon as Benjamin saw that this was becoming a show of power, he snapped his fingers. “Get back!”Lieutenant Jason and his team members nodded before backing off. Seeing this, Veronica's soldiers had no choice but to ease up as well.Veronica sighed as he turned to Principal Dice. “Do you just allow your students to act wantonly in front of guests?”Principal Dice smiled nervously. “My apologies, Young Mistress. I do try my best.”Veronica mumbled in response. “I'm sure you do.” She understood how difficult things must be for the old man, especially when it came to handling the son of the highest benefactor of this university, Andrew Tyrone.She clapped her hands as soon as she saw that both sides were now calm, wordlessly commanding her soldiers to return to her side.“I want both sides to listen up. Now that things have turned out this way, we
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The hallways of the Faculty of Management Science were filled with noise. The students who had been ordered out of the grand hall were now being heavily interviewed by passionate reporters and their camera crew who wished to know everything that had gone down inside the grand hall.Those who were still in a state of annoyance walked away from these reporters, while those who didn't have any problem gladly gave away all that they knew.One thing was prominently being spread at this point: Andrew and his family's name was being tarnished due to the corrupt acts they'd been caught indulging in. Back in the grand hall,Every single person on the balconies was made to come down to the stage. The guests and Principal Dice stood on one side, Andrew and his crew stood on another side, Benjamin and his crew stood on one side, while Young Mistress Veronica and her soldiers stood in the middle of these people.Veronica glanced at the faces of everyone here before stopping on Andrew.“I've gone
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Principal Dice, who had silently watched everything from the sides, not daring to intervene wantonly, now had multiple eyes on him.“Um…sure.” He gathered himself and calmly headed up to where the young mistress from the Whiteridge family was located.He slowly approached Veronica. “Young Mistress, you called for me?”Veronica slowly turned to the older man with a calculated smile before passing on her message.On Benjamin's balcony, Max, Olivia, and April had their necks craned forward.“What is she talking to Principal Dice?”“I don't know. Obviously, she had her microphone turned off so we can't hear anything.”April squinted her eyes. “I think….I think that woman is trying to save Andrew's face as best as she can.”Max and Olivia glanced at each other with confusion on their faces before turning to April and speaking at the same time.“What do you mean?”April sighed. “I'm not completely sure, but I think Young Mistress Veronica might make Principal Dice call off this event finall
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Part of her studies was the influence of the human psyche, so she was able to intimidate people with her gaze alone. Yet, what Veronica saw Benjamin do was……for lack of better words, far more dangerous, with an air of chaos in it.She could decipher this precisely because…..well, she felt a bit of that fear that was solely directed at the unfortunate lawyer.Benjamin's range of psychological influence felt raw but far more intense than she could ever achieve.She couldn't help but whisper to herself. “Where did he learn that?!” The head of Veronica's security team immediately noticed his young mistress’s slight change in mood, and he walked over to carefully whisper to her.“Young Mistress, are you alright?”Veronica doesn't answer this, but instead double-down on her earlier instructions.“Find every nook and cranny of the story in that young man. Don't you dare miss any bit of information? He's not normal…..at all. Throughout this event, he's been standing out in ways that he simp
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Andrew definitely felt fucked over at this point. Here was the most powerful person in this grand hall - Veronica Whiteridge - ordering him to share his chat history with his father in public.If this was any other day and occasion, this request would have definitely been incredibly absurd, not to mention it would be a blast any invasion of privacy.Yet, this conundrum was something Andrew himself had caused, all in an attempt to publicly humiliate his rival.Unfortunately, Andrew not only found himself humiliated three times over, he was about to be forced into a terrible situation that could cause a hit against his family's name and reputation.Andrew slowly reached out to retrieve his phone while thinking of reasonable excuses to not make this happen in the end. “Um, Young Mistress Veronica, isn't this request a little too much? Considering the great reputation of my family, it is kinda invasive to ask me to share personal information with the public.”Andrew then glanced at Senio
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“What lies have I told though?”Andrew laughed with a tone of mockery. “What kind of fucking question is that?! You just opened your fucking mouth and started spouting lies against me and my family!”He scoffed with a look of disbelief. “You know what?! Keep it up! I will have enough evidence to charge you to court for defamation by the time you're done running your mouth!”There was a moment of silence before Benjamin slowly pulled out his phone.“Can you really claim that I'm running my mouth when I have evidence to prove my claim?”Andrew was about to give a heated reply in his fit of rage when the words were immediately comprehended in his mind.“W…what are you talking about?”Benjamin turned to the huge screen in the hall.“I will be connecting my phone to this screen to show everyone here something.”Within seconds, Benjamin was connected to the electronic screen and he quickly shared an image that made those who read it gasp in shock after they took their time going through th
