“Hmph, you crafty, conniving man!”


    Renee could not even guess what Haze was scheming right now, and she was no longer in the mood


    to skirt around the subject, so she told him point-nk, “Just tell me what you want. If it’s something


    that’s within my power, then I’ll try my best to do anything you like.”


    “Marry me!” Haze half-joked with a faint smile.


    “Don’t even dream about it!” Renee refused without even thinking.


    It was not the first time the guy made such a shamelessly preposterous proposal to her, and it was


    certainly not the first time she refused him. As time passed, such a gesture no longer affected her. The


    only thought that crossed her mind now was that Haze was deliberately looking for a chance to get


    beaten up.


    “I just knew that you’d say no,” Haze clutched his chest as if Renee’s answer had deeply wounded him.


    “If you keep on acting crazy like that,” Renee warned him coldly, her fists tightly clenched, “then I’m not


    going to hold back any longer. Tell me exactly what you want to do and get straight to the point this


    time!”


    “Okay, okay! Jeez, I get it, you scary tigress…”


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    The yful look on Haze’s face then disappeared, only to be reced by a serious one as he told her,


    “I want twenty percent of the shares of Azure Group.”


    “What?!” Renee roared so angrily that she almost lost her voice. Her delicate face turned vicious, and


    she ferociously added, “Twenty percent?! Do you know what owning twenty percent of the shares


    means? It means you’ll be the biggest shareholder, besides me! If you have the audacity to ask for that,


    then why don’t you just snatch thepany away from me?!”


    “Hey, don’t get too agitated. You’re so angry that you’re messing up your pretty face now. Come on,


    take a sip of the wine and calm down…”


    Haze then calmly picked up a tall wine ss and poured Renee a ss of wine before handing it to


    her. He smiled and continued, “I’m not nning to take it for free. You know that my family is so rich


    that we don’t know what to do with our money, and Azure Group just happens to be short of money…


    So if you agree, I’ll dly pay a price five times higher than the current market value to acquire the


    twenty percent. I’ll never force you into something that will make you lose money.”


    “Oh,” Renee’s expression softened slightly once she heard what Haze had just said. “So you’re not just


    taking it for free! Why didn’t you tell me that earlier? I thought you wanted the twenty percent shares in


    exchange for the rights to thend!”


    “Do I look like such a greedy pig to you?”


    “Absolutely!” Renee replied without hesitation.


    At the very least, she knew that Haze’s family, the Baldwins, had amassed their immense wealth by


    force and extortion from the beginning, so as the sole heir to the family, it would not be a surprise that


    Haze would inherit their penchant for that kind of brutality.


    Haze was speechless. He coughed gently and said, “Really, madam. You wound me. Don’t you have


    any trust in me at all?”


    “So,” he continued, pressing Renee for an answer. “Do you ept these terms? Are you willing to let


    me be the secondrgest shareholder of Azure Group?”


    “It sounds like the Baldwin family is indeed very generous,” Renee replied lucidly as she took a sip of


    the wine, “and I can’t think of a reason to refuse the offer, except… I know there’s no free lunch in this


    world. I feel like I’m biting off much more than I can chew here, so I’ll have to pass!”