“Hmph, you crafty, conniving man!”
Renee could not even guess what Haze was scheming right now, and she was
no longer in the mood to skirt around the subject, so she told him point-blank,
“Just tell me what you want. If it’s something that’s within my power, then I’ll try
my best to do anything you like.”
“Marry me!” Haze half-joked with a faint smile.
“Don’t even dream about it!” Renee refused without even thinking.
It was not the first time the guy made such a shamelessly preposterous
proposal to her, and it was certainly not the first time she refused him. As time
passed, such a gesture no longer affected her. The only thought that crossed
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her mind now was that Haze was deliberately looking for a chance to get beaten
up.
“I just knew that you’d say no,” Haze clutched his chest as if Renee’s answer
had deeply wounded him.
“If you keep on acting crazy like that,” Renee warned him coldly, her fists tightly
clenched, “then I’m not going to hold back any longer. Tell me exactly what you
want to do and get straight to the point this time!”
“Okay, okay! Jeez, I get it, you scary tigress…”
The playful look on Haze’s face then disappeared, only to be replaced by a
serious one as he told her, “I want twenty percent of the shares of Azure Group.”
“What?!” Renee roared so angrily that she almost lost her voice. Her delicate
face turned vicious, and she ferociously added, “Twenty percent?! Do you know
what owning twenty percent of the shares means? It means you’ll be the biggest
shareholder, besides me! If you have the audacity to ask for that, then why don’t
you just snatch the company away from me?!”
“Hey, don’t get too agitated. You’re so angry that you’re messing up your pretty
face now. Come on, take a sip of the wine and calm down…”
Haze then calmly picked up a tall wine glass and poured Renee a glass of wine
before handing it to her. He smiled and continued, “I’m not planning to take it for
free. You know that my family is so rich that we don’t know what to do with our
money, and Azure Group just happens to be short of money… So if you agree,
I’ll gladly pay a price five times higher than the current market value to acquire
the twenty percent. I’ll never force you into something that will make you lose
money.”
“Oh,” Renee’s expression softened slightly once she heard what Haze had just
said. “So you’re not just taking it for free! Why didn’t you tell me that earlier? I
thought you wanted the twenty percent shares in exchange for the rights to the
land!”
“Do I look like such a greedy pig to you?”
“Absolutely!” Renee replied without hesitation.
At the very least, she knew that Haze’s family, the Baldwins, had amassed their
immense wealth by force and extortion from the beginning, so as the sole heir to
the family, it would not be a surprise that Haze would inherit their penchant for
that kind of brutality.
Haze was speechless. He coughed gently and said, “Really, madam. You
wound me. Don’t you have any trust in me at all?”
“So,” he continued, pressing Renee for an answer. “Do you accept these terms?
Are you willing to let me be the second largest shareholder of Azure Group?”
“It sounds like the Baldwin family is indeed very generous,” Renee replied
lucidly as she took a sip of the wine, “and I can’t think of a reason to refuse the
offer, except… I know there’s no free lunch in this world. I feel like I’m biting off
much more than I can chew here, so I’ll have to pass!”
