HappyNovelLeah curled her lip and gave a dismissive little scoff. "Taking on all those big contracts at once? Careful you don't
bite off more than you can chew."
But even as she said it, her words lacked conviction and cout tinged with jealousy.
After all, if PrimeStar was willing to take on so many major projects, they most likely had the chops to handle
them.
Her father felt the ssting of envy.
Thinking about how the Hawkins family and Neural Nexus Tech kept hitting dead ends in their research, while
PrimeStar seemed to breeze past every bottleneck, he couldn't help but mutter, "I don't know how Stewart
recruits people-how does he keep finding such incredible talent?"
Ever since PrimeStar's meteoric rise, both Neural Nexus Tech and the Hawkins family's tech company had tried
to poach PrimeStar's engineers.
But now that PrimeStar was a household name, every major company-domestic and international-was lining up
to lure away their team. In comparison, the Hawkins family and Neural Nexus Tech didn't have much to offer.
Even with generous offers on the table, it was almost impossible to tempt truly outstanding talent away from
PrimeStar.
And while other giants openly and covertly tried to poach from them, PrimeStar kept rolling out new innovations,
proving they had no shortage of creative minds.
That alone was enough to make anyone green with envy.
At the table, Vesta lowered her head, absently pushing rice grains around her plate, saying nothing.
Both the Hawkins and Spencer families hoped Vesta could help them achieve a technical breakthrough.
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But the more they learned about the industry, the clearer it became- breakthroughs weren't just a matter of
wishful thinking.
So when Vesta stayed silent, they didn't press her, simply assuming she was just
as frustrated with Neural Nexus Tech's stalled progress as they were.
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The next day.
Charlene made her way to the conference room for a meeting. She'd barely settled in when Stewart arrived.
Before the meeting began, he leaned over and said quietly, "My mom mentioned this morning that there's a lot
of buzz at one of the auction houses. Apparently, they're about to auction off a truly rare diamond. | remember
you once said your aunt has a thing for diamonds? Do you want to go check it out?"
Charlene blinked in surprise. "Are you sure?"
"Absolutely."
The memory stuck with Stewart because, back then, he and Charlene hadn't known each other long. There'd
been news of a rare diamond up for auction, starting at over twenty million dollars.
Charlene had only been sixteen at the time.
That was when Stewart first learned about her background.
She'd told him she wanted to buy a diamond for her mother-not just any diamond, but a top-tier one-because her
mother adored them.
Especially the finest, most extraordinary stones.
Charlene had hoped that if she could get her hands on a truly exceptional diamond, maybe it would help bring
her mother, Sybil Ross, out of her haze.
But such gems are vanishingly rare.
Even though the Ross family was doing okay back then, there was no way they could cup with that kind of
cash for a single stone.
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one could guarantee it would work.
Her uncle's two kids were still little, and the Ross family business was struggling just to stay afloat.
In the end, Charlene could only watch helplessly as the opportunity slipped away.
Now, more than a decade later,
another rare diamond had fnglyn
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Stewart's words stirred something in Charlene. She couldn't help but say, "I want
to go."
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