Chapter 9

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

At this moment, the audience looked at the two embarrassed people on stage. 

Although they felt sorry for the woman, they mocked Thomson.

“Sigh, this woman is really infatuated!”

“Yeah! Maybe she was deceived by the man’s sweet words!”

“Even if she really likes him, such love won’t receive the blessing of her parents.”

“This man thinks too highly of himself! He only wants the woman to give so that he can enjoy the fruits of her labor in this marriage. It’s simply a pipe dream.”

“This lady is too much. Why can’t she see clearly? What that man said just now was to charm her. Words without action are meaningless. He had to stabilize the situation first and then think of a way to lie to you. She’s really lost and only outsiders can see it clearly. How can she not understand such simple logic?”

“Sigh, I’m so envious of this person. He has a woman who loves him wholeheartedly.”

Thomson stood in the middle of the venue, his heart filled with guilt and self-blame. 

He had been too selfish to consider his lover’s feelings.

Seeing how much of a sacrifice Alice had made for him, he made up his mind that he would not let Alice repeat the same mistake.

Thomson was also very annoyed when he thought of how naive he was back then. With that, he flipped through his address book and was ready to make a call.

When the host saw that Thomson had not given up and was pushing through the show instead, he quickly focused the camera on Thomson’s phone screen.

At once, the audience’s eyes drew to it.

They were very curious and interested as to who Thomson would call because his performance at the beginning made them believe that he was not capable of borrowing money. Hence, they were all looking forward to seeing if he could break through the situation.

Thomson flipped through his contact list. To the audience’s surprise, a lot of the names in his contact list started with ‘little’, such as Little Jack, Little Rick, and they could not help but wonder.

A normal person would make a distinction between the people in their contact list. Superiors and subordinates certainly could not be generalized, but the way Thomson made notes of his superiors and subordinates was strange.

What the audience did not know was that to be on Thomson’s contact list was an honor. 

If they were not among the richest people in the world, they would not qualify to be on it.

Thomson had businesses everywhere in the world, and there were traces of his investments in all kinds of industries. It was only with his help that Gates and the others became the richest people in the world.

In other words, if Thomson wanted to destroy these people whom he had helped, it would be a piece of cake.

With this in mind, Thomson flipped through his contact list.

His eyes flickered, and he decided to call Little Gates again.

This sight put the audience in an uproar again.

“He has already called once, but he still wants to give it another try?”

“He’s really persistent!”

“Yeah! There’s no guarantee at all. Isn’t this a waste of time?”

As expected, the phone rang for a while, but it did not get through.

Everyone in the venue burst into laughter again.

“Hahaha, he really doesn’t want to give up!”

“He has already expressed that he’s not friends with you, yet you still want to borrow money from him. What are you thinking?”

“Is this brother delusional? He keeps fantasizing that he’s a big boss and a millionaire.”

“Why make things difficult for yourself? Seeing that you’ve been asking around for half a day, I’m now worried for you. Why don’t I lend you some money so that you can get a guaranteed 10,000 dollars? Looking at what you’re doing, I really feel bad for you.”

At the same time, Mr. Gates was sitting in his Rolls-Royce, ready to discuss the next collaboration with his partners.

If this business deal is successful, he would earn at least 10 billion dollars.

Although he had more than enough money to spend for the rest of his life, he was still obsessed with the process of earning money.

It was then when his assistant, Michael’s phone rang, and before he could ask, Michael had already hung up the phone.

As such, Mr. Gates said to Michael, “Someone called me, but you didn’t even answer it before you hung up. Isn’t that a little too hasty?”

Mr. Gates’s voice was very calm, and he never lost his temper over trivial matters. However, his assistant’s behavior was a little weird this time, so he had to ask a few questions.

“Chairman, you don’t know this, but during your meeting, a swindler called and said that he wanted to borrow money from you. These swinders are getting better and better these days. How dare he call you to borrow money? Even if he wanted to borrow money, he should’ve talked to you in person. I don’t know how he got your number, but it must be because the security is not good enough. I will pay attention to your messages in the future, and this will never happen again.”

“The call that you just hung up on was from the same person?”

“Yes. If you ask me, swindlers nowadays are really persistent. They still think that they stand a chance since they haven’t succeeded. Who do they think we are? Don’t worry, I hung up in time. There’s no need to worry about this.”

At this moment, Mr. Gates began to ponder, ‘My friends aren’t people who lack money, so who would ask me for money? They’re too smart to swindle money.’

Seeing that the Chairman was deep in thought, the assistant said, “It’s okay, Chairman. Swindlers nowadays are all like this. They insist that they want to borrow money even though they’re clearly cheating you. How shameless! These people are not worth your effort.”

Mr. Gates suddenly thought of something. ‘My phone is specially encrypted, so not anyone can call in. This has never happened before. This matter is too unusual.’

Then, he immediately asked his assistant for his phone.

When he got the phone and saw the name of the caller ID, he shouted, “Oh my god! Why didn’t you say so earlier?”