Chapter 1179

The new Holden Group building was designed and constructed by Newmoon Group. However, the

company representative sent an apologetic email saying Moon the architect would not be able to attend

the ribbon-cutting as she was occupied. However, to show the company’s sincerity, the president of

Newmoon Group would attend on Moon’s behalf.

Holden Group’s directors were furious when they found out about this. They would not accept

Newmoon Group’s president to attend on the architect’s behalf. They even went so far as to think that

Newmoon Group was cursing them to fail.

Jeremy did not believe in all that mumbo-jumbo, but as the president of Holden Group, he had to

respect the board of directors’ wishes. Thus, he called Xante to let her know that his company would

not pay the remaining balance of the payment unless Moon went to the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

150 million dollars was not a small sum. That amount of money could spell the life or death of

Newmoon Group. Thus, Xante was understandably upset.

“Mister Jeremy, you’re being unreasonable. How can you threaten us with non-payment to force us into

cooperation?”

“Who’s the one being unreasonable here?” asked Jeremy coldly. “You know what it means when the

architect doesn’t attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony, right? Do I really need to tell you what the news

would say about my company if they get wind of this? Miss Xante, I highly advise you to bring Moon to

the ribbon-cutting ceremony if you want your company to survive in New Capital City.”

On the other side of the phone, Xante pushed up her gold-rimmed glasses. “Well, you’ve certainly

proved me wrong, Mister Jeremy. I thought you wouldn’t believe in superstitious mumbo-jumbo.”Books

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“I don’t, but it doesn’t matter as this is what many other corporations believe. I believe not one of them

will do business with you again if you insist on not bringing Moon to the ribbon-cutting ceremony.”

Jeremy hung up the phone after that.

Xante was speechless. It was not that Newmoon Group wanted to curse Holden Group, but how was

she supposed to get Moon—who was actually Corinne—to join the ribbon-cutting ceremony when her

boss had been trying to hide from Jeremy for the past six months?

It would be a disaster if Corinne was to meet with Jeremy again!

At first, Xante toyed with the idea of getting someone to impersonate Moon for the ribbon-cutting

ceremony since no photo of Moon was ever circulated publicly before. In other words, no one knew

what she really looked like.

Jeremy had seen Moon once when he came to the company, but she was wearing a mask then, so he

did not really get a good look at her. What Xante worried about was that Jeremy, who was familiar with

Moon’s work, would get suspicious if the impersonator failed to answer any of his questions. Xante

would rather not deal with the backlash if she could help it.

‘But what should I do now? It’s not like I can ask the boss to attend, right? That’s as good as selling her

out!’

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Meanwhile, Jeremy walked out of his company building to attend an important business banquet. He

pinched the bridge of his nose tiredly after getting into the car. He looked like something was weighing

heavy on his mind.

Corinne had seemingly vanished into thin air. No one had seen her, and there was no immigration or

purchasing record or news of her. He initially suspected Xante and Aaron were hiding Corinne. After all,

even if she did not want him, she would not abandon her old friends, right?

Thus, he arranged for his men to watch Xante and Aaron’s every move.

Alas, they did nothing to warrant any suspicions at all.