Eva showed a bright smile at Arthur's words, excitedly, she asked, "when is it? How about we take a trip around the world, grandpa has promised that he will buy a plane for me."
"A plane?" Arthur showed a strange expression hearing that.
The granddaughter of a super-rich man was different, indeed. Others might only get cars and other such things after recovering from illness, but she got an airplane.
"Yes, I'll tell you when I'm not busy," Arthur said.
"Okay, I'll wait for you, whatever you want, I'll definitely give it to you," Eva replied with a smile that seemed to hide a certain meaning.
Arthur didn't know whether to laugh or cry at her words.
This woman seemed to think of him as the only man in this world, or it was like that because she never interacted with other men again, and then there was a man who came and cured her illness.
Perhaps in her eyes Arthur was more than just a man, but her saving god.
Keep in mind that she is the same age as Amanda. The latter when in front of Arthur often acted like a big sister, but Eva was more like a young girl who met her prince, constantly acting sweet.
Maybe it's because she's been sick since high school that her perspective when looking at men is a bit blurred, thinking that high school boys are boys her own age.
"Yeah, you can wait, for now, it's better for you to focus on exercising first to make your body healthier."
"Okay!" Eva nodded and continued, "You seem to be busy, I don't want to disturb you, so I'll end the video call now."
Arthur smiled in response. After that, Eva's figure disappeared from his cell phone screen.
Right after that, Yukiko suddenly spoke. "The hero saved the beauty, and now the beauty is chasing the hero, what a romantic story."
She looked at Arthur and smiled rather sarcastically, as if mocking him.
"I think it's a pity if such a beautiful woman ends up being just one of your concubines. She deserves a real hero, one who loves only one woman."
"Hmm... Just focus on driving," Arthur replied, ignoring her words.
Not long after, they finally arrived in front of Amanda's mansion.
There was a large truck that had just pulled out when they got there, and upon entering the mansion's courtyard, Arthur immediately saw Amanda.
Today, she was wearing long pants and a tight t-shirt plus her hair in a ponytail.
Yukiko stopped the car right in front of her.
The moment the car stopped, Arthur immediately opened the door, making Amanda knit her brows as she looked at Yukiko again.
"By the way, how much is the agarwood?" Arthur asked her as he got out of the car.
"Quite a lot, over 300," Amanda replied, turning her gaze towards Arthur.
The number surprised Arthur. Parker was indeed on a different level. Although he didn't do business in this field, he was able to bring far more branches of agarwood to Europe, showing how extensive his contacts were.
"Dear, are you going to change them now?" Amanda asked.
"Yeah, I'm going to Paris tomorrow, so it's better to do it now so they can be sold faster."
"What are you going to do in Paris?" Amanda was immediately interested in Arthur's purpose, even narrowing her eyes suspiciously.
"Someone wants to play around, I naturally need to respond. Don't worry, it's not anything dangerous."
"You're not planning to take me, are you?" Amanda was suddenly a bit sullen.
Arthur patted her waist in response.
"I know you're busy, so I don't want to disturb your time. Plus, it's not that important."
"Huh!" Amanda looked incredulous, continuing to stare at Arthur suspiciously.
Unfortunately, Arthur changed the topic.
"Let's go to that basement now," he said.
He didn't see anything around. Amanda should have moved the aloes to the basement of her mansion.
After that, they stepped into the mansion.
Yukiko who just got out of the car immediately followed because she was really curious about how Arthur changed the agarwood.
Amanda glanced at her but didn't say anything. She didn't ask about it either. Maybe she didn't want to be considered curious.
"By the way, Nasdaq has contacted me and asked if I would be interested in taking the coffee stocks public," Amanda said suddenly.
"Oh..." Arthur couldn't help but show an interested expression after hearing that.
"We've only been selling coffee for one day, are they sure about this?" he asked.
"It doesn't matter if people are interested," Amanda replied.
"Maybe some of their higher-ups happened to drink the coffee. I heard some of them are in Vera."
As Arthur thought about that, Amanda continued, "It's actually not a bad thing, you can sell the shares at the highest possible price. You know, when a company is considered to have potential, a buyer can just buy the shares at a price equal to the future price of the company. After that, we'll have a huge capital gain, so we can start building a lot of factories in no time. I think 10 to 15% of the shares sold is enough. This is an instant way of getting rich, most billionaires use this method or they take a lot of time to think of hundreds of billions of wealth."
"I see!" Arthur held his chin, wondering if he should follow the plan.
Of course, there were also disadvantages to selling the company's shares to the public, such as having to share the profits with others, and outsiders would inevitably be brought into the company, at least as supervisors.
"But why are you more interested in becoming a public company?" Arthur then asked.
"I mean, for expansion, can't we borrow from banks?"
"It's not that easy." Amanda shook her head.
"The more potential a business has, the more complicated things become. You know, when a company is owned by only one person, others are naturally unhappy. However, if the ownership of the company is shared, the others will gladly do their best to make the company grow quickly.
"Of course, those are all just preliminary plans. With our strength, as long as the future is ours, we can make the company completely ours again.
"So, what do you think?"
"Well, you can follow the plan if that's the better option." Arthur finally had no objection.
He wasn't that conservative. If it was the better way, he didn't mind even if it seemed like he was sharing the cake with others.
That's fine, at least it will make his enemies think that he is the type who will still follow the rules when it comes to really big things.
"Tomorrow, I'll contact them again." Amanda nodded, looking pleased that Arthur agreed with her plan.
Quickly, they arrived at the basement of the mansion.
There were three wooden crates there. Arthur opened them with his magic and immediately found a row of agarwood which, upon closer inspection, turned out to be of better quality.
"This will be 30% more expensive," Arthur said.
"I think 50%," Amanda replied with a quiet laugh.
"No need, just 30% because the important thing is to spread them out."
After that, Arthur began the ritual.
Because of his power, everything was simple and easy, it only took two waves of his hand.
After that, the agarwood branches immediately emitted their fragrant scent.
It was a process that surprised Yukiko because she just knew there was such a thing.
"What will happen to them later that you want to propagate them?" She finally asked.
What Arthur had said earlier had obviously made her curious.
Amanada looked at her, a little surprised that she suddenly spoke because ever since she saw her for the first time, she had always thought that she acted like an assistant as well as a bodyguard.
"You'll find out later," Arthur replied, not telling her so her mask-covered lips pressed together for a moment.
***
Tonight, everything passed without happening.
Arthur didn't stay at Amanda's mansion either, but went back to his aunt's house.
He was already quite exhausted from spending the afternoon with Yukiko, naturally it was very difficult for him to accompany Amanda.
And just as he had finished bathing and dressing, he suddenly received a video call from Suzune, the woman who was the reason he was going to Paris.
Arthur was curious as to why she contacted him, so he accepted her video call without hesitation.
Right after that, the figure of the mixed western and Japanese woman appeared on his cell phone screen.
She was sitting in a very luxurious leather upholstered chair with a cup of wine beside her.
She was wearing a white shirt layered over a black suit with her hair in a neat bun while her face was wearing light makeup. Professional and charming are the two words that best describe her at the moment.
When she looked at Arthur, her pair of red lips curled up exquisitely, creating a scene that seemed as if it could only appear in a painting.
"Yeah, haven't seen you for a while, I think you're more charming and radiant now," she said with a wink.
She tilted her phone slightly to the side so that Arthur could see the window beside her.
Apparently, she was on a plane.
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