Son-In-Law Gets an Upgrade by Mr. Adeel

Chapter 25 Old Friend

“Mr. Jefferson, let’s have lunch together,” Jessica extended an invitation during lunch hours.

After cleaning for an entire morning, Jessica knew that Alex was trying to make life difficult for her.

Hence, she wanted to invite him for lunch to mend their relationship.

“No.” Alex refused her directly.

“I’ll be heading for lunch myself, then,” Jessica replied awkwardly.

“Alright,” Alex acknowledged without even looking up.

After Jessica left, he ordered takeout.

He just took over the company, and there were a lot of matters he had to take care of. Hence, Alex did not want to waste time leaving the office for lunch.

He had a habit of finishing the task at hand before moving on to anything else.

Half an hour later, the takeout had arrived. Alex allowed the deliveryman to enter when he heard the knocking.

“A–Alex?” the deliveryman stared at Alex in shock.

Alex looked up and exclaimed with surprise, “Dylan?”

He had not expected his deliveryman to be his university classmate, Dylan.

“Oh my gosh, Alex, I thought you were a live–in son–in–law? You’re the chairman here!” Dylan exclaimed in shock.

“Well, that’s life. You’ll never know when the smallest things might change your life, Haha.” Alex was happy to see his old friend as well.

Back when he was in university, he once invited Heather and her friend to have a meal at a restaurant only to realize that he had forgotten to bring money. If Dylan had not lent him the money back then, he would have been embarrassed.

Now that I think about it, I haven’t returned him the money yet.

“That’s right. Life really is full of ups and downs.”

Dylan placed Alex’s meal on the table and passed Alex a cigarette. He reminiseed, “Back when we graduated, I dreamed of a future where I’ll be able to do something big with my career. However, shortly after I got employed by a small company, it was shut down because of an economic downturn. Now, I’m reduced to being a deliveryman.”

mocked his

“Whatever you do, as long as you stay true to

that one line alone, I can tell that you’re still the old you, Let’s go out

Alex is of a different class of society than me, he’s still the Alex

then, you can pick a timing. I’ll be sure to

“I’ll call

you

He added as an afterthought, “Remember to give me

eyes

would

the very least, their be filled with fear and would be hesitant to act so casually around me. Dylan doesn’t care. As long as you respect him, he would treat you just like his buddy.

Jessica entered the office in trepidation, worried that Alex would tell her to do cleaning

greeted him timidly.

returned the greeting. He felt like

he passed her a stack of documents, “Will an hour

she had

“I’ll finish it

she brought the documents to

the world’s top five hundred firms, the boss‘ secretary was entitled to her

later, Jessica brought the sorted documents back into the

at the

the documents down, she left as Alex had not assigned her any other work.

point, Alex’s

It was Dylan.

assumed that Dylan was going to arrange a timing to go

Dylan,” Alex replied.

sounded hesitant, and his voice was

Just as he was about to ask what was going on, he heard a cold voice holler, “Just tell him outright that you need a loan! You must have a death

the sound of a man snatching the phone. The same voice yelled, “You’re Dylan’s friend, right? He owes me two hundred grand. If you don’t pay up, I’ll chop both his hands off!”

and a murderous glint flashed across his eyes.

friend in university and was as close as brothers. Anyone who wanted to chop his brother’s hands off was looking for trouble.

I’ll bring the money over,” Alex

the address, Alex got up to leave.

the office, he realized that he had gotten Jonathan to get

electric scooter at