279: Chapter 278 Puppet 279: Chapter 278 Puppet Life is full of surprises everywhere.
I never felt secure about that hundred million US dollars from the start.
To say Yang Yi didn’t regret not exchanging Boer for a bounty would be to deceive himself and everyone else.
But truthfully, he couldn’t bear to hand over Boer, whom he had defended with his life.
According to Zhang Yong, Yang Yi still lacked the ruthless heart cultivated by the underworld.
The money was gone, but he had to make up for it elsewhere.
Therefore, after thinking it over, Yang Yi believed that the quickest way to cash in on Boer was to utilize his special talents.
Go gambling, since Boer was so skilled at playing cards.
Hence, Yang Yi was very serious when he suggested that Boer go to the casino and win money to pay off their debt.
Still looking disinterested, Boer turned his head to look at Yang Yi and said weakly, “Win money at a casino?
Which one, Monte Carlo Casino?
There is indeed a VIP gambling hall there with two hundred thousand US dollar chips.
But I am a VIP at Monte Carlo.
If I go there, I will receive the highest standard of reception, and then be politely escorted out.
Also, let add, if I dare show up at a casino, it will surely attract those who want to kill .
Are you trying to protect , or do you want to facilitate my assassination?
If it’s the latter, you don’t need to make it so complicated; you can kill right now.”
All of a sudden, Mike burst out in anger, “I don’t believe that’s your only stash of money.
Don’t think that by acting suicidal, I’ll believe you.
Tell , where else have you hidden money!”
Boer gestured with his hand and said, “My personal assets are in the billions.
I have about a dozen properties, two private jets, a farm, and a yacht.
I can give all of these to you.
Go ahead, see if you can still get them.”
Boer sighed and said with a lancholic look, “When they decided to kill , everything I had ceased to exist.”
Yang Yi raised his hand and said, “Stop, don’t talk about how much wealth you once had anymore.
Tell us clearly now, why would soone want to kill you, who wants to kill you.”
Boer fell silent for a mont, then said softly, “My deeds were discovered, so I had to die.”
“What deeds?”
Boer took a breath, looked up at the sky, and said softly, “It’s a clichéd story, long if I start from the beginning, but I still have to start from there.
I was born in Detroit.
My father died when I was four, shot and killed during a robbery by a Black man.
My mother didn’t remarry, she raised by herself.”
No one said a word, they just watched Boer recount his personal history.
“Since childhood, I showed a talent for mathematics.
My impoverished childhood made especially sensitive to money.
I excelled in school, and I was admitted to the finance departnt of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
I received student loans, and then I went on to earn my master’s degree from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.”
Boer took a deep breath and continued indifferently, “In college, I had a girlfriend who was my classmate.
We moved in together soon after, and then I graduated.
I beca an intern in the fund managent departnt at Goldman Sachs Group.
I was born for this job.
In three months, I beca a regular employee at Goldman Sachs.
In two years, I had beco a business manager.
I was 27 years old that year.”
Boer rubbed his face vigorously and said somberly, “I was always on a smooth path.
In six years, I beca a departnt manager in Goldman Sachs’ investnt banking division.
At that ti, I was invincible.”
Xiao Ran suddenly asked, “What about your college girlfriend?”
Boer glanced at Xiao Ran and replied quietly, “Of course, she was still my girlfriend.
She worked in the operations departnt of a company in New York.
I moved my mother from Detroit to New York, and my girlfriend and I rented an apartnt outside.
I was very happy then, but my biggest problem was that I was never satisfied.”
With hands clasped together, Boer said in a solemn tone, “At that ti, my annual salary reached four hundred thousand US dollars.
In that era, that was truly a high salary.
But I felt that I could earn more, if I worked for myself.
I don’t know if any of you follow the financial industry, but if you do, you would know that I was truly a legend at that ti.”
With a forceful comb of his hair, Boer showed a bitter smile and said, “When I decided to start my own business, I received an invitation to attend a dinner hosted by the Rockefeller Family.
That evening, I t my wife.
She was beautiful, with an impressively dazzling family background.
It was then that a mber of the Rockefeller Family proposed a partnership with , to establish an investnt bank.”
“Wait a second!”
Yang Yi raised his hand with a puzzled expression and asked, “The Rockefeller Family has their own bank, Chase Bank.
Why would they need to partner with you to start a new bank?”
Boer exhaled and said, “Did I say the Rockefeller Family was partnering with ?
No, it wasn’t the Rockefeller Family, just a collateral mber of the family.”
Yang Yi shrugged and responded, “Please, continue.”
“We established the bank, and I held a twenty-five percent share.
Then the newly founded bank operated very well, extrely well.
And then, I broke up with my girlfriend, because of my wife Fina.
She was truly charming, and I must admit I was deeply attracted by her beauty and poise.
Moreover, I knew that only by marrying her could I get everything I wanted, the support I needed, the success in my career, but…”
Fearing the ‘buts’, Boer showed an expression of helplessness and explained, “I knew it was a marriage of convenience, but I did not anticipate that the marriage would make so miserable.”
Boer took a painful breath and said, “Let’s cut the long story short.
I got married, I was successful, and only then did I realize the cost was too great.
My wife slept with countless n outside, she was a qualified socialite, but she was in no way a qualified wife.
And I, I beca nothing more than a glorified puppet.”
All of a sudden, Mike said, “It all sounds quite normal to .
What’s so strange about that?”
Boer sighed and explained, “I couldn’t bring my mother ho, because her lifestyle and breeding were intolerable to my wife.
My investnt bank was growing rapidly, but it was rely a tool for money laundering.
And I was a puppet controlled by others.
I had to act on my partners’ commands, sothing I couldn’t stand.
Of course, I planned to rebel, but by then I found out it was all too late.”
Xiao Ran asked, “What’s too late?
Divorce, liquidate your shares, wouldn’t that solve it?”
Boer sighed again and said, “If only it were so easy.
An ostensibly normal marriage was one of the necessary conditions for the cooperation.
Divorce was impossible.
I wanted to liquidate my shares, but that was impossible too, because I knew too much.”
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