LORD CHESTER COMES BACK

“After today, I don’t want to see any of you in Dirtmouth!”

With these words, the faces of the Knowles family members turned ashen. Jun Chester didn’t even bother to glance at Norman Knowles and the others. He left with Lyvia in tow.

For the next three days, the Knowles family were in despair. Not a single company in Dirtmouth dared to collaborate with them. Even their original partners had made it clear that they wanted to sever all ties with the Knowles family.

Now, even if the Knowles family wanted to sell their company, no one was willing to take it over. That is to say, even if Norman Knowles wanted to leave Dirtmouth, the company would be difficult to get rid of. Out of desperation, Norman had decided to transfer all the company’s power to Don. That way, he would still have somewhere to retire.

Norman thought to himself, “I am Don’s biological father. He surely cannot deny me!” But no sooner had this thought crossed his mind, an unexpected guest came to the Knowles family.

Anne Cobb, the president of Cobb Real Estate in the south of the river. She was also Carol’s niece. When Carol married Don, the Cobb family was middle class. They didn’t agree with the marriage because they looked down on Don’s butcher background and even severed ties with Carol.

Even thirty years later, even though the Cobb family had become a real estate magnate in the surrounding cities, they hadn’t contacted Carol. In the past three days, Jun Chester and Lyvia had set a wedding date. Carol, happy to have such a son-in-law, naturally wanted to renew her relationship with the Cobb family. So, she took the initiative to invite the Cobb family to the wedding.

Anne Cobb was the person the Cobb family sent. However, attending the wedding was just a side note. In Anne’s words, “Carol was blind back then to marry a pork seller. How good can her adopted daughter’s taste be?” “She’s just looking at our powerful Cobb family now and wants to climb up to us again. Disgusting!”

Under such circumstances, how could Anne Cobb take Jun Chester and Lyvia’s wedding seriously? Her real purpose in coming to Dirtmouth was to take advantage of the Knowles family’s downfall and swallow them up.

When Norman Knowles saw Anne Cobb personally come to his door, his heart skipped a beat. He had certainly heard of the Cobb Group. But he had only just found out that his daughter-in-law Carol was from the Cobb family in the south of the river.

What a joyful occurrence!

It seemed that Jun Chester was a man who cared about face. After such a big roundabout, he still chose to give the Knowles family a line of life?Upstodatee from Novel(D)ra/m/a.O(r)g

However, after further negotiations with Anne Cobb, Norman Knowles’s mood plummeted once again. He looked at the contract in front of him, shaking with anger.

“Only twenty million to acquire our Knowles family’s company that’s worth hundreds of millions? Isn’t this kicking a man when he’s down?”

Anne Cobb, professionally dressed, sat on the sofa in the Knowles family’s villa. Her exquisite face was emotionless as she spoke indifferently.

“If you don’t agree to twenty million, then it’s fifteen million. Your company, our Cobb family really doesn’t care about it. It’s only because of my aunt that I lowered myself to come here for negotiations.”

Norman Knowles’s face twitched. Anne Cobb had brought out Jun Chester’s mother-in-law. What more could he say?

He feared that Jun Chester’s intention in sending Anne Cobb was not to give the Knowles family a lifeline, but to send them to the eighteenth level of hell.

Little did he know that Anne Cobb, a small character, was not someone sent by Jun Chester. She didn’t have the qualifications. The Knowles family, even less so, was worthy of Jun Chester’s attention.

Anne Cobb watched Norman Knowles with indifference and sneered.

“What, you don’t agree? Then there’s nothing to talk about. Your company was worth hundreds of millions, but your original partners chose to withdraw, and the market value has halved. After debt is deducted, fifteen million is already not a small sum.”

With that, Anne Cobb pointed at the contract on the table and added a final sentence.

“You have five minutes to consider. Sign or not, it’s up to you. I’m very busy and don’t have time to waste on you.”

Norman Knowles, trembling, picked up the contract and took a cursory look. Tears of frustration filled his eyes.

“Fine, I’ll sign!”

With those words, Norman Knowles really did sign. Just as he finished signing the contract, Anne Cobb dropped another bombshell.

“The contract is signed, so you have twodays to move out of this villa. As clearly stated in the contract, this villa is also one of the properties our Cobb Group is acquiring.”

Norman Knowles felt as though he’d been struck by lightning. The other members of the Knowles family felt the same.

The company was the company, and the villa was the villa. How did the villa also become one of the properties to be acquired?

Before the Knowles family had time to think deeply, Anne Cobb had already picked up the Cobb Group’s copy of the contract and was heading out. Norman Knowles hurriedly grabbed his copy and read it carefully.

After reading it…

He spat out a mouthful of old blood.

Robert Knowles also quickly grabbed the contract and took a close look. After seeing it clearly…

His eyes bulged out like copper bells.

The Knowles family was truly finished this time!

Outside, Anne Cobb, who was already in the car and in a good mood, said to her secretary, “We’ve dealt with the Knowles family so easily. I’m happy. Let’s go to Hill Grandsilk. I’ve heard the villas there are good. They were developed by the Wells family, right?”

“Let’s buy one as a gift for Skyhowl. After all, our main purpose in coming to Dirtmouth is the new university project. We need to give some gifts to show our intentions.”

The secretary opened the car door with a smile and respectfully replied, “Yes, Miss President.”

Meanwhile, at the Hill Grandsilk villa on the hilltop, Jun Chester was teaching Lyvia to play golf when he received a call.

Looking at it, it was an unfamiliar number.

But he still answered.

A man’s voice came from the other end of the phone.

“Hello, Mr. Chester, I am Peter Alston, sent from Skyhowl’s headquarters to Dirtmouth. I want to report to you about the preparatory work for the Lordran National College project and there’s also an important matter I need to report to you face to face. If you see…”

Jun Chester asked calmly, “Theresa didn’t come?”

The man laughed and replied, “Miss Hale is handling a project in the West. Miss Hale said that she will definitely be in Dirtmouth before your wedding.”

Jun Chester smiled, “Alright, I’m at the Hill Grandsilk villa on the hilltop. You can come here.”

After saying this, Jun Chester hung up the phone.

Little did Anne Cobb know, the Skyhowl boss she wanted to curry favor with was none other than Jun Chester!