The shareholders' meeting had gone extremely well.
Just at the buffet after the meeting, Misty Sea Trading Company had recouped 70 percent of today's dividends. Many of the potential clients who had been invited had also expressed interest in investing. With a little follow-up, Ivankov could guarantee that they'd raise the funds within a week.
Then they'd spend half a month completing the public fundraising, and use the final week to pack up and make a clean getaway.
It fit perfectly with the timeline set by Boss Huo and Brother Crow. Ivankov didn't even dare look at the exact amount they'd raised. He was afraid he'd be unable to resist the temptation and run off with the money.
If he really did that, not only would all of Nordtov hunt him down, but the Goddess of Wealth would also "remember him well."
He was practically a "cleric-in-training" now, so a necessary degree of restraint was in order.
Thinking this, he chatted and laughed with the various shareholders at the buffet, drank himself silly, and then excused himself. Slightly drunk, he returned to the luxurious "King's Suite" on the top floor of Treasure Bay.
Standing outside the door, Ivankov looked at the lavish entrance.
He knew his brother and sister-in-law were waiting for him on the other side. He didn't even have to guess what his "brother" wanted.
As an illegitimate child, he'd seen the family's dirty dealings from an early age. His father had only been a colonel, but that still placed him among the nobility of the Kingdom of Nordtov. He had a wife at home but still chased after other women, and Ivankov's mother had been a simple, down-to-earth villager until his father forcibly married her for her beauty and figure.
It sounded like a tragedy, but in