Following what she had said she continued, "I was hoping you weren't going to notice."
I asked, "Is the offer that tempting?"
"It's pretty good. It is probably one of the better offers you could get."
"Huh, what is it?"
"Well, the whole offer is about one billion dollars in assets. The assets are divided into two different categories. True assets and false assets.
True assets are things that they will actually give you or pay you.
False assets are things that sound like they are yours, but they aren't. An example would be a house. They will "give" you a house with the condition that you work for the company. So, if you were to not work for them anymore then you would be evicted.
Most of the offer is in false assets.
The offer is a hundred million dollar house, sports cars, a daily personal driver, a private chef and nutritionist. All on the condition that you remain employed by the Fengbao family. You would also get a private lab and workshop with funding worth several hundred million dollars. Finally you would receive ten million dollars in a yearly salary.
I hope you noticed that the only thing you would actually get is the ten million dollar salary."
"Yeah, I noticed that. And that is supposed to be one of the better offers?"
"Well, they will also try to get you any woman or women you want. But, yeah. Most of the major powers in the world don't want you to become a major power yourself. They want you to become a pawn for themselves.
Why would they, those who have controlled the world for centuries or longer, willingly give up some of that control?
I, however, offered a seat at the table. I am offering ownership and stake in the company."
"Yeah, keep hyping yourself up. I still need to see what others will offer first. Your family is really only offering ten million dollars, but the company I'm starting is predicted to make more than twenty two million dollars.
So, if the others offer similar things to your family then I don't think the choice will be hard. However, I still don't know the specifics of your company. Or if I even want to join a company at all. I could just start my own."
"I would advise against making an enemy of the wealthy elite. They tend to be extremely cruel to adversaries, especially if they think they are weak."
"Yeah. I'm not dumb or naive enough to not understand how bad of a position I'm currently in. Ever since you showed up it has been on my mind. That you may be the first but you won't be the last.
Plenty of powerful and rich people will come looking to make me one of their assets. I have the ability to make a lot of money really fast. Considering that most of the money I'm making is by taking their money, or what they consider their money.
They certainly won't leave me alone. I will either have to become one of them or become strong enough to stand on my own. I was hoping that I could ally myself with the Yamato government, but I guess that isn't an option."
"Yeah, I wouldn't count on it. The government is run by people, and people can be bought."
"Yeah. They certainly can. I will delay it as long as possible, and see what the offers are, but I imagine that I will have to ally myself with one of the powers for self protection. As well as protection for my family. Because once I ally with one I become enemies with the others."
"Except for me. I'm a neutral party. Which again makes me the best choice."
"You really like to toot your own horn."
"Haha, it's the truth."
"What does your company even do?"
"Right, well… It all started out when my mom died. She left me her real estate company. She was a super beautiful woman who was a model who made enough money to start her own company.
A real estate company, they did sell other people's houses, but they mainly developed and sold their own properties. The construction company that was building all of the houses was the one my father was in charge of running.
The construction company was one of the Fengbao family's companies. My father was running it because at the time my grandfather was still alive and was the head of the family. So my father, like his brothers, was running one of many companies.
Whoever did the best would become the head of the family.
Anyway, my parents had an affair, and my mom became a mistress. With the help of the Fengbao family the company got bigger and bigger. Eventually it became too big for the family to ignore not being theirs.
So, they threatened my mom to hand most of it over. Saying that it would be for her daughter's good. But, my mom was a strong woman. She wasn't afraid, she was going to fight back. But, then she was in a hit and run accident that left her badly injured and partly paralyzed.
She couldn't do anything but watch as the Fengbao family tried to take everything she had worked for. But, they didn't count on her having a poisoned pill written into her will.
As the family was trying to take everything through underhanded methods and corrupt judges.
My mom took her own life in the hospital. Her will was that everything was to be put into a trust in my name solely. That the Fengbao family wouldn't be able to touch it. The technicalities aside, it partially worked.
The Fengbao family couldn't touch it, at least without my say so once I reached adulthood.
I was 15 when this happened, so three years later when I became an adult. I was ready, I sold as many of the properties as I could without the family noticing then I sold majority ownership to the Fengbao family.
That way I could start my own company."