Braden took it, confused. “What is this?”


    Charlotte shook her head. “I don’t know what it is either. Open it and look for yourself.”


    Braden was especially curious about Rick. After all, although this guy was Anne’s brother, he always had an unfathomable demeanour. Braden opened the box in doubt-


    “What was I thinking? It’s just a document.” Braden thought.


    Braden picked it up and flipped through two pages. Then, he eximed and threw the documents to Shane as if he was dropping a hot potato. “It’s, it’s…”


    Charlotte was also curious about what it was. She leaned over and asked, “Why is your reaction so huge?”


    “It’s really scary.” Braden shivered.


    His expression didn’t seem like he was acting. Did Rick really put something terrible in it?


    Charlotte was also a little curious.


    Rick heard the noise and came over. He was amused by Braden’s exaggerated look. “It’s just NC’s and the Fuller family shares. What’s there to be surprised about?”


    Shane had also finished reading the words on it at this time. He looked at Rick coldly with a gloomy expression.


    Rick squinted and smiled, which made it impossible to see his actual expression and emotions.


    One’s gaze was as sharp and intense as a sword slicing through wood.


    And the other’s was as bright as the stream on a sunny March morning.


    Neither of them was able to daunt the other.


    “What do you mean?” In the end, Shane spoke up first.


    “NC only has 2%. Because you didn’t pay much attention to the Fuller family, I was able to get 12%. Now I’m giving them to you in exchange for cash. How does it sound?”


    “Sure.” Shane’s dark aura faded away.


    “Just give me 2% of the market price of NC stocks. The Fuller family’s stock is my real meeting gift. The money I will receive is even less than a project with TNT. Hopefully, you won’t ridicule me.”


    Shane replied with a “hmm” and said, “I’ll ask someone to send you the money. Give me your card number now.”


    “Shall we go offshore instead?”


    “You also have an international hot money identity?”


    Rick smiled.


    Shane raised an eyebrow and said, “I almost forgot that you are one yourself.”


    ick did not express any opinions about this matter, but his smile seemed to carry a deeper meaning.


    After a series of operations, Rick left with Charlotte.


    Charlotte’s mind at this time was already filled with questions. After finally reaching a quiet ce, she took a deep breath and said, “Brother! Rick!”


    Her tone was a little spoiled, a bit reproachful, but mostly felt unfair.


    She didn’t expect that he didn’t tell her about it, which put her in a very passive position, like a fool who didn’t know anything.


    Rick turned sideways with a gentle smile and took her by the wrist with his long fingers, pulling her into a snack shop by the street. “Here, I’ll treat you to authentic dumplings. Boss, please give us two bowls of wonton and three servings of dumplings.”


    “Alright!”


    “Three servings? Can you finish it?” Charlotte was doubtful.


    “Of course.” He had been missing these since a long time ago.


    Shortly after the two of them sat down, the dumplings and wonton were served.


    Rick began to exin the situation to Charlotte as they ate.


    “I have hispany’s shares in my hands, and he should have known about this. This is also why he never actually did anything to obstruct us. Otherwise, with your previous rtionship with him, just a word of “fiance” is enough for him to deal with me.”


    “I’m sorry…”


    “You don’t have to apologize. I’m d you could say that.” Rick poured himself a little vinegar and put the dumpling into his mouth after coating the bottom with a thinyer of vinegar.


    “Cough.” Charlotte felt a little ufortable.


    She had been using him.


    And he even said that he was happy to be used by her.


    She felt really guilty.


    “So Shane was very unhappy when he saw the shares, and he even looked like he was about to have a falling-out with me, but his rationality won over his anger. When he asked me what I meant, he was giving me a way out.”


    “In fact, I could have told him directly that I don’t have enough funds and want to trade NC’s shares for cash. However, if I do that, our positions will not be equal anymore. I am not willing to do so, so is he.


    “The biggest reason why Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu werepared side by side is because both of them are strong. Moreover, the author of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms created a strange sense of predestined confrontation. People like this feeling of predestined confrontation. Therefore, both of us are not willing to bow down to each other, nor for the other to bow down to us.”


    Charlotte nodded her head repeatedly as she listened.


    This also exined the opposing rtionship between Shane and Rick.


    They might not be friends, but they absolutely cherished each other.


    Even enemies who treasured each other with their entire hearts were more desirable than a friend who could not understand their emotions.


    Especially for people like Rick and Shane, who were in such high positions, it was difficult to find someone who could understand them.


    “That’s why I used this method to test if he really had a tacit understanding with me. I didn’t expect…” Rick smiled, “Since I was overseas, I had been thinking about how attractive this man who had the same taste as me was.”


    “Huh?” Charlotte felt that his words were a little strange.


    “It’s nothing. Let’s eat.”


    Charlotte started to eat a dumpling and a wonton in confusion.


    It was not until she finished eating and returned to thepany that she remembered that Rick hadn’t mentioned the reason he wanted to exchange the shares for cash.


    He was obviously not short of money.


    …


    On the other side.


    Shane took Braden back to NC


    Holding a bottle of c in his hand, Braden slumped down on his desk. “I really don’t understand you and Rick. Why did he ask you for money?”


    “He wishes for me to win.” Shane leisurely took out a tea set and prepared to brew some tea.


    “What?” Asked Braden.


    “He’d only, truly win if he defeats me after I win,” Shane exined patiently.


    Braden finally realized that Shane’s mood today was… surprisingly good?


    “Could it be that he was in a good mood because of Rick?” Braden thought.


    Braden was jealous and said in a bitter tone, “He’s offering to be your buddy, isn’t he?”


    After brewing the tea, Shane shot a calm look at him. “I don’t be friends with people who are smarter than me.”


    “How dare you!”


    “From the moment he took out his shares, he was testing me, and the amount I gave him in the end determined my impression in his heart.”


    “What? He was rating you? He must be crazy. It’s good enough that you haven’t rated him.” Braden snorted.


    Shane took a sip of tea, stood up slowly, and took out the documents from the ck briefcase he was carrying.


    “I gave him full marks.”


    “He is your rival in love.”


    “A rival in love?” Shane nced at Braden lightly, “Is love more important than thepany?”


    “You’re not that kind of person without feelings.”Upstodatee from Novel(D)ra/m/a.O(r)g


    He had feelings.


    It was because he had suffered from insomnia during these past few days and had thought of Charlotte nkly and even temporarily lost his mind, did he only understand the restrictions caused by emotions.


    The most ironic thing was.


    When he was worried about whether Charlotte was safe abroad, she could be talking andughing with Rick.


    This made him more certain that love was something that didn’t need to exist.


    Even if it did exist, it had to be destroyed.


    “Compared to Charlotte, Rick is more important to me. If I can exchange her for Rick, I will not hesitate to give her up.”


    Shane stood in front of the French window, looking far away. His lips moved and silently called out a name.


    Braden’s lips moved a little, and he finally sighed.


    Of course, he knew Shane was saying that at this moment, even if he really had feelings for Charlotte, he wouldn’t express it.


    The people who were looking covetously at the international resources and the Emerson Corporation, as well as the one behind all of this…


    Every one of them was more important than love.


    At a time like this, it would be better to get close to Rick rather than treat him as a rival in love.


    However, in Braden’s mind, Shane should be omnipotent and would not be knocked down.


    What on earth was he waiting for?


    Why did he allow himself to be ced in a position where he was attacked from both sides?


    …


    Charlotte seemed to have sensed something and raised her head.


    A pigeon flew past her.


    It was just a pigeon.


    She sighed in relief. She had thought that someone was calling her.