His Domineering Lover

Maximo, the nominal president of Oceanshade, has been quite down and out after his collision with Adrian's former secretary had been exposed.

Aleigha made her move on some most recent projects, taking the game up to Oceanshade.

Oceanshade had never had any products that could really cater to the consumers' substantial needs.

Even now that the company had put in painstaking efforts to transfer itself from a cybersecurity company to a construction company, the efforts, nonetheless, were flushed down the drain.

That was due to the fact that the construction market in City A had long been saturated, making every step Oceanshade tried to stride forward extremely hard.

Darien seemed to be very capable, but he was someone with a short-sighted vision and couldn't see the future.

The company under Adrian's name also involved projects about construction.

Aleigha sent someone from her network to take over a land in the distant suburbs to sell.

Yet since it was an open auction, there will be bidders.

The entry limit might be set by her man but she had already got it even before the news was released.

As soon as she released the news, Oceanshade came over and participated in the bidding.

The night before the bid.

Maximo met one of the company's participants in the bidding, who was Aleigha's pawn, a man of the Woods family.

After taking the chance and finally got close to Maximo, and after a few fussing about, the project manager revealed everything about the project to him.

Maximo, who had obtained the critical information, naturally had to go and meet Darien.

The whole project was going to be priced at around 200 million dollars yet the news Aleigha set out said 4 billion.

And when word traveled to Darien, the number turned up to 5 billion.

For Darien, 50 billion was almost half of his fortune. However, this project was the key project of this year.Content property of NôvelDra/ma.Org.

After pondering over it for a while night, he managed to calculate how the initial investment was going to draw him enormous benefits in the near future.

Early the next morning, the funds were transferred into the company's account.

After getting this piece of land, he surely would have a lot more other plans for the land.

By then, Darien was firmly convinced that this piece of land would make him loaded.

As the bidding started, Aleigha's company participated in it and raised a rather low price.

Of course, Oceanshade would not let her win the bid easily. They raised the price to 4.9 billion dollars and got it.

Aleigha came out of the venue and met Maximo face to face.

"I assume I have you to thank for letting us get the land, Ms. Gardner."

"I heard that the land is intended to be used to develop the economic new area."

"Quite good luck, Maximo, and I'm sure capital played the important role in this as well. I won't be keeping you then, excuse me."

As soon as Aleigha got in the car, Adrian called.

"Darien spent 5 billion on that piece of garbage?" "Well, 5 billion is not really that much for him, is it?" "How did you manage to trick him into buying it anyway?" "That is a secret."

Aleigha knew about the area being soon to be developed by the city government.

The problem was that the land beneath the surface was mostly sand, not solid soil.

It was improbable to have buildings constructed over that piece of land. Moreover, it was an air traffic control area, meaning that even if buildings were to be put there, it couldn't even reach more than 6-floor's height.

Darien, on the other hand, hadn't the first clue about all this.

And the only reason he never did any investigation was that he was too greedy and Maximo's anxious urge to get back on his feet.

They must be infuriated by now, knowing that they spent billions of dollars on a piece of garbage worth only millions.

Darien quickly held a meeting after getting the land. He responded to the government's request and prepared to begin three days later.

Many construction businessmen would hire a priest to conduct exorcism before starting the work on the field.

Darien, to be sure, was no exception, especially after being affected by Maximo.

After the whole ritual, the priest acted as though he was the only one to thank to have turned the whole place around.

Darien, stupid enough, played along and bought the whole ridicule and announced the commencement of the project.

And the result was obvious. No matter how powerful the priest was or how fancy his ceremony seemed to be, the sand beneath the ground wouldn't turn into soil.

And no matter what efforts Darien put in, how many experts he hired the pillars being set to support the building on top just wouldn't hold. Thus, his perfect deal, buying tons of sand will 5 billion dollars, was ended.

From Aleigha's point of view, the only value of this land of sand was to be dug out and transported to the ocean to form artificial islands.

Darien ordered his men to dig for a couple of days. In the end, he suddenly realized something.

On the day of the commSect

the chief engineer had dug up

shovel of sand as a part of the ceremony, which meant he must

have known about the sand by then.

However, he did not dare to mention it. He was afraid that he would offend the boss.

Even Darien might have caught a clue or two yet no one dared to make it too obvious.

"Maximo, send the soil to a lab and have it tested. I want results."

Knowing that things were about to go south really quick, Maximo took the money he got and made a run for it.

The 100 million he got this time, coupled with the money he had earned before, was enough for him for the rest of his life.

As soon as Maximo ran off, Darien was dumbfounded.

The project had an almost desperately hasty commencement and yet now was called to a halt.

What was more ridiculous was that the soil test result somehow ended up in the hands of an official of the Bureau of Heritage Preservation.

After an on-sight investigation, an ancient tomb, which dated back to 100 years BC, was discovered beneath the ground.

Because the land belonged to Darien, the government authority specially awarded him half a million dollars as a sort of compensation after taking the land back.

When Adrian found out about this, he was sitting in his office and actually burst into nonstop laughter.

He did say he wanted to play cat and mouse with these men yet he never expected Aleigha would catch the biggest mouse and rip it apart.

Word had it that Darien took sick at home for a very long time.

Oceanshade also declared bankruptcy.

Aleigha took the opportunity to merge Oceahshade.

Aubrie was charged with attempted murder. While her trial was going on, her mother was doing everything she could to get away with a death sentence.

Yet, even so, she would probably still be sentenced to 25 to life.

However, things could always change. Aubrie's mother did not hesitate to go to Alexander's mansion to save her daughter.

The informer sent by Aleigha immediately sent the news back.

It just so happened that Aleigha was having lunch with Adrian. When she heard the news, Aleigha's face darkened.

"Why can't she just die, just die in the dirt, lie quietly six feet under? Why does she have to try to struggle even when she knows there's no way out?"

"If it weren't for Aubrie, so many things wouldn't have happened. Why should a vile creature like her be set back onto the streets!"

The more she thought about it, the angrier she got. Aleigha pushed away the plate in front of her, losing appetite.

"Eat, look at you, you're so skinny. You are not even soft anymore now."

Adrian got up and suddenly took Aleigha into his arms. Knowing that she was angry about what happened to Aubrie, he coaxed her into eating a little bit more.

"I'm just angry. Why does a disgusting, despicable thing like her get to live while so many good people have died in vain?"

"Why? So she could cause more harm and misery to the world?"

"Who told you that she's gonna get to live?"

Aleigha did not understand the deeper meaning in Adrian's words, thinking that he was only trying to comfort her. After finishing the food, she went back to the company in a fit of anger.