Chapter 5

“You have two options. One, you bow and apologize to Yulia Yates and agree to the partnership with the Yates, or two, I kill you now. Take your pick.”

Only after hearing so did the incredibly wary Kierra Chandler understand. Ah, so he was just someone the Yates Clan had sent over.

Kierra smoothed down his rumpled suit and stood up from the ground, retrieving a piece of tissue to wipe at his forehead.

“And if I say no? What then, you’ll kill me? The name, Kierra Chandler, is well-known throughout the entirety of the Yin Prefecture. What gave you the impression that you could kill me and walk off unharmed?”

Kierra Chandler belonged to the Yin Prefecture’s upper society, after all, with his Group worth billions on the market. How could he be afraid of a man who happens to know a little Kungfu?

Yakov Xayarath stared diffidently at him as he sat on the couch.

“Indeed, you’re not worth me killing you myself. How about we switch up your options then. One, you bow and apologize to Yulia Yates and agree to the partnership with the Yates, or two, I’ll have this Chandler Group of yours declare bankruptcy. You have one minute to think about it.”

“Hahaha, what kind of joke is this? With your capabilities?”

Kierra Chandler broke into hysterics, tears escaping the corners of his eyes.

“Wake up, you little sh*t. This isn’t a world where our fists speak for us. My company is worth tens of billions on the market, how can it just go bankrupt on command? You, however, you’ve angered me. I’ll make you pay!”

Yakov looked at Kierra unphased, like one would an unamusing fool, and whipped his phone out.

“If I don’t call you a minute later, bankrupt the Yin Prefecture’s Chandler Group. I don’t care what method you use, as long as it gets the job done.”

Hermes was an Archangel of the Dragon King Hall who oversaw all of the Dragon King Hall’s commercial trades, with over trillions worth of assets going through his hands every year. To forcefully bankrupt a small enterprise in the Yin Prefecture was like shooting fish in a barrel.

“Hmph. I’d like to see how long you can keep up this pretentious act of yours.” Kierra Chandler glared distastefully at Yakov as he plopped his butt down on his presidential chair. This disheveled youth was nothing more than an annoying clown who was all bark and no bite as far as he was concerned.

To force the Chandler Group into bankruptcy in under a minute. What absolute bullsh*t.

“I may don’t know who you are, you little sh*t, but I’ll give you two choices as well. One, you kneel before me to apologize and get the heck out of my office, or two, I’ll get someone to deal with you and wipe you off the face of the earth!”

Menace flared in Kierra’s eyes. “You have thirty seconds!”

“Thirty seconds.” Yakov began to count down.

Kierra Chandler snorted as time ticked by. Not too long later, he spoke, “Twenty seconds! You have twenty seconds left, you little sh*t. Stop playing around before you end up dead.”

Sitting on his presidential chair, Kierra Chandler took a big drag from a cigar he procured, before turning to look at his watch.

“You have ten seconds left.”

Yakov Xayarath was calm, completely brushing off the other’s attempts at mockery.

“Five seconds!” A frosty expression fell on Kierra Chandler.

Yakov Xayarath remained wordless, even turning to look at Kierra Chandler with pity in his eyes.

“Time’s up! Don’t blame me, boy, for you did this to yourself!” Rage plastered on every inch of Kierra’s expression as he approached the table to call for bodyguards to deal with this disrespectful b*stard.

Right then, his cell phone rang. Kierra’s expression shifted as he took a look at the caller ID.

The caller was the most important man in the Yin Prefecture, as well as the biggest partner of the Chandler Group.

It could be said that more than half of the Chandler Group’s receipts came from this very man.

Could said bigshot be on his way?

Accepting the call, he was met with an enraged roar, “Chandler! What bigshot did you offend? This is all your fault, don’t f*cking drag me into your problem. Our partnership ends now!”

Beep beep beep…

The caller hung up, leaving Kierra Chandler shocked beyond words. What did he mean? How could he offend the bigshot when the bigshot had yet to arrive?

As he mulled over the thought, his office telephone rang. Having an ominous premonition about it, he quickly picked up the phone.

“Oh no, Mr. Chandler! The company’s stocks have begun to shrink drastically! Someone is buying stocks in bulk from retail investors, and they’re about to surpass the number of stocks you own!”

Cold sweat immediately began to form on Kierra’s forehead. Before he could even reply, however, his secretary pushed open his office door.

Frantically, the secretary began to report. “Something ‘tremendous’ has occurred, Mr. Chandler. The three companies who were supposed to be in a partnership with us have suddenly decided to pull out and break the contract. They said they don’t want to be in a partnership with a company that was going to go bankrupt!”

Not too long after, rushed in the IT Department’s Leader who also began to speak.

“Boss! Our website’s being hacked and the cost of every item on the shelf has been changed to ten cents, causing consumers to buy in a frenzy. Our IT Department is unable to close down the server, estimating a total loss of over seven hundred million yuan!”

What…

Kierra Chandler staggered and fell on the floor. His entire body completely soaked in his own cold sweat and shivers ran up and down his spine.

“You. It’s you, isn’t it? You did all this?” Kierra, petrified, pointed a finger at Yakov Xayarath who sat serenely on the couch.

“As I said, you had one minute to think about the two options I gave you. This is your own fault.”

Kierra Chandler would never have thought, that this young man before him harbored such unfathomable power. Then it finally clicked, this young man before him was the ‘bigshot’ from the call he received last night!

As of that moment, Kierra Chandler found himself a moment away from breaking down. The young man before him was not someone he could ever take on, and the Chandlers would surely meet their demise should he continue to stand his ground.

To be able to do such things within a minute, one could only imagine the power this man held.

Looking at Yakov Xayarath again, he realized that his seemingly harmless smile was actually one that belonged to a man from the darkest depths of hell. He was a demon, or specifically, a demon who could easily ruin his life!

Call after call echoed within the office, but he no longer felt the need to pick them up, for he could already guess what they were about.

Staggering toward Yakov Xayarath, he dropped to his knees and began to prostrate.

“Please, let me go! I’ll do anything you want, so please! Please! Stop this madness!”

Yakov stretched and pulled Kierra up by his hair, his hand slapping Kierra’s cheek repeatedly.

This was an extreme degree of humiliation, yet Kierra did not dare make a move.

“You know, none of this would have happened if you did what you were told.”

With that, Yakov instructed for the attacks to stop over the phone under Kierra Chandler’s expectant gaze.

A minute later, the IT Department returned to report that though the website was functioning normally again, the few minutes it malfunctioned had not caused the company to lose a few hundred million yuan.

The mysterious group had stopped buying from retail investors as well, but the company’s valuation had decreased over two-fold. In such a short amount of time, the Chandler Group had lost a market price of seven hundred million yen.

Coupled with the loss from multiple partners pulling out, the Group faced a whopping total loss of two billion yuan!

The back of Kierra Chandler’s suit was soaked through as he stared in fear at the young man before him. That was one hell of a bigshot.

‘One sentence from him was all it took to shut down a company worth tens of billions on the market. Just who was this man?

‘How did the Yates Clan manage to enlist the help of someone of this caliber?

“And what were his ties to Yulia Yates?’

“Listen up, Chandler. This doesn’t end here. Tomorrow, you will personally seek out Yulia Yates following which you will kneel and apologize for your behavior today. After that, you will sign the contract with the Yates Clan for an exclusive partnership. Should you have any trick up your sleeve, I have no qualms with removing you and the rest of you Chandlers off the face of the earth.”

Kierra Chandler shivered and quickly answered, “Yes, yes. I understand. I’ll do it!”