Chapter 210

The executive wiped away his sweat. He personally drafted it throughout the entirety of last night, but once it arrived in front of James, the latter denied it in one sentence. "Yes." The executive did not dare to call the decision into question. His morning could be considered to have ended rather well. Indeed, James only asked him to modify it, so he was very content with that. It was fortunate that he did not receive a harsh lecture and had his work outrightly scrapped. "Continue," James said. John immediately signaled another executive to report next. Amazingly, a very ‘special’ sound appeared in the conference room after the executive had barely said a couple of sentences. The reason why that sound was unusual could be traced back to an unwritten rule that had always been practiced in the Marshall Group’s executive meetings—mobile phones must be muted whenever a meeting took place, and no sound was allowed. That rule, despite having no express provision, had been implemented in su