“What are you muttering about? Did you bring the contract?” A voice sounded from behind.
River walked over.
Alan hurriedly greeted him, excitedly saying, “Mr. Stewart, do you really have a way to get me to Achela?”
The Davies family had gone to the capital a few days ago and wanted to leave Ostrad by plane. When they arrived at the airport, they found out that they were on the restricted list for leaving the country and were desperate. It was also at that time that River contacted him.
He promised that as long as he transferred the Davies’ Pharmaceuticals to Rose, he would help the Davies family leave Ostrad. River patted Alan’s shoulder and nodded lightly, “As long as you help me set up a trap and deceive Rose into giving us her formula, the Swanson family will send a private plane to help you smuggle out of the country!”
“Mr. Stewart, our two families have a good relationship. You can’t cheat me!” Alan confirmed again.
River confidently said, “Don’t worry about it. My second uncle has such a good relationship with your dad; how could my family cheat you?”
“As long as you help me deceive her formula tonight, I’ll send you out of the country!” River’s second uncle had a good relationship with Alan’s father; he went with him when he went gambling in Astia earlier this year and knew about the Davies family’s recent predicament. After failing his plan to steal Rose’s formula through martial arts competition trickery, River thought of the Davies family.
“I’m sorry I’m late.” Rose walked over towards River apologizing for being tardy.
She wore a red dress and a black mask, but looked tired. Two days ago, after applying some ointment to her wound, Rose felt some pain in the scar. She thought it was a normal reaction and didn’t worry too much about it. However, last night the pain became stronger and she had trouble sleeping until late into the night.
“It’s okay, we’re all new here,” River nodded with a smile as he pulled out a check from his pocket. “Rose, your debt is almost due.”
“This is 7 million dollars that my family put together for you,” he handed her the check. “Pay off all your debts quickly!”
“Thank you so much,” Rose smiled as she took the check from him.
“Rose, don’t be so polite,” River waved his hand and continued seriously, “Without Aunt Tinley’s help in the past, there would be no my family today.”
“Don’t worry about 7 million dollars; even if my family goes bankrupt for you, we won’t frown!” He turned to Alan and introduced him with a wave of his hand, “This is Alan Davies of the Davies’ Pharmaceuticals.”
“You’ve always wanted to make another comeback with Dragon Bone Pill, right?”
“My family has fully acquired the Davies’ Pharmaceuticals; as long as you sign on the equity transfer agreement, then the Davies’ Pharmaceuticals will be yours.”
Before he finished speaking, Alan pulled out a stack of contracts from his bag.
Rose was quite surprised, “The Davies’ Pharmaceuticals is an excellent company in Niarak with good development prospects. Why would they want to sell?”
The scale of the Davies’ Pharmaceuticals wasn’t large – its market value was only around 50 million dollars – but they had previously helped Sharp’s Group manufacture several drugs.
The annual profit was around 7 million, and for five consecutive years, it had been rated as a high-quality enterprise by Niarak.
Rose was greatly puzzled.
“Ahem…” Alan cleared his throat awkwardly. “Miss Sharp, we’ve worked together before, so I won’t hide anything from you.”
“At the beginning of the year, my dad and I went to Astia to gamble. We lost 20 million and our funding chain broke.”
“In addition to the Swanson family, the Woods family, and Dragon Gate Group acquiring your group and reclaiming several contract-manufactured drugs while Davies’ Pharmaceuticals faced research bottlenecks…”
“All in all,” Alan said with a shrug. “The company couldn’t stand alone anymore. But I believe with your Dragon Bone Pill’s blessing, it can still shine!”
Alan pretended to be helpless but remained calm inside.
Anyway, he cheated Madeline out of 20 million dollars and deceived his employees out of another 20 million dollars; he could live comfortably in Achela for a lifetime!
As for Davies’ Pharmaceuticals? Who cared about that mess! After transferring ownership to Rose’s hands let Kaur family deal with her!
Rose was shocked after hearing this news; she felt sorry for the Davies’ family.
The company had developed so well that it was unacceptable for Davies father-son duo not to work hard towards elevating their family status but instead gambled away 20 million dollars in Astia overnight.
“It would be great if I could win back Sharp Group’s five subsidiaries; then I’ll give 20% of shares to the Stewart family,” Rose said as she signed on the contract while thanking River.
River’s eyes gleamed mischievously as he said, “Rose, my family is happy to help you without expecting anything in return. We’ve known each other since we were kids and you know I’ll do anything to make you happy, even if it means going through fire and water.”
“I also graduated from medical school and all I want is to be a research supervisor at Davies’ Pharmaceuticals so I can help you rise again. I don’t need any shares or anything like that.”
“Give me the Dragon Bone Pill and I’ll hire some medical doctors from Eahta right away. We’ll refine it so its effects are stronger. The Sharp family will definitely rise again soon!”
Rose hesitated for a moment. The Dragon Bone Pill was the Sharp family’s heirloom and guarantee of their success.
Meanwhile, Alexander was surrounded by fans asking for autographs and photos while Scarlet and Madeline tried to get his attention but he ignored them completely.
As they sat down in the backstage lounge, his agent smirked at him saying, “You have your eye on those two girls?”
This was Alexander’s usual tactic.
Whenever he met a girl he liked in a city, Alexander intentionally ignored her when signing autographs. Then, using the excuse of needing to sign more autographs, he would invite his female fans to the lounge and use their admiration for him to take them back to his hotel room.
His agent had been with Alexander for five or six years and knew what he was thinking. He just laughed and left.
“Alexander completely ignored us! It’s so annoying!” Madeline pouted with disappointment in her eyes.
“Maybe he’s just tired from traveling,” Scarlet also felt frustrated.
They had struggled through the crowd only to have him return to the lounge before they could even get their autograph books out.
Flynn hadn’t eaten breakfast yet and immediately sat down at the long table filled with delicious food and started eating. Seeing that both of them looked downcast, Flynn walked over holding a plate and said lightly, “He’s just a celebrity after all.”
“If you want an autograph, I can ask Teddy May from Asco Entertainment International for you.”
Teddy was the boss of Asco Entertainment International. Because he played around too much with female celebrities, Teddy contracted an STD that couldn’t be cured by many famous doctors. In the end, Flynn went to Demon Island where Teddy begged on his knees outside of prison for three days and nights until Flynn reluctantly used his skills as a doctor to save him.
Madeline was stunned after hearing this story and became angry, “Do you even know what kind of company Asco Entertainment International is? It’s one of Ostrad’s entertainment giants!”
“Don’t even think about seeing Teddy; you can’t even get into their headquarters building!”
“Always showing off no matter where you go! You’ll get your mouth sewn shut when you run into trouble!”
“Believe it or not.” Flynn shrugged and went back to the long table with his plate, eating by himself.
“You’re as hungry as a ghost reincarnated, just let yourself starve…” Madeline glared at Flynn fiercely.
Scarlet also thought that Flynn was exaggerating a bit.
Asco Entertainment International was Ostrad’s largest entertainment company with a market value of several hundred billion dollars. It had up to twenty popular artists under its banner, half of the recently aired TV dramas were produced by them, and they also had seven or eight television stations under their umbrella.
As the CEO of Asco Entertainment International, Teddy was elusive and had military background.
Flynn may have some skills, but Scarlet didn’t believe he can connect with Teddy.
“How did Alan end up with River?”
Flynn tasted his food leisurely and caught sight of Rose from the corner of his eye before turning to Madeline saying, “Alan must be plotting something with River. Let’s go see!”
After speaking, Flynn took Madeline’s hand and led her away.