Winner Takes All

The meeting place was arranged in a restaurant downstairs of DT real estate.

Jack Hughes rushed to the restaurant and was stunned for a moment when he saw Mr Ward.

Currently, Mr Ward was even older, and his face could not hide the look of exhaustion.

Brent, who was sitting beside Mr Ward, was looking pensive, so he should have known something in advance.

"Young master."

Mr Ward got up and smiled kindly as usual.

"Have a seat."

Jack helped Mr Ward sit down and asked directly, "Mr Ward, what happened when you were away?"

Mr Ward smiled bitterly, "Matters at home, the old master urgently recalled me."

Jack took a sip of tea and waited quietly.

"Because of the case that the old master helped young master with YK Group." Mr Ward's tone was exhausted.

Jack raised his eyebrows and suddenly felt amused.

"He is the head of the family, and he can't even decide on this matter?"

Mr Ward shook his head and looked profoundly at Jack, "If it was a normal day, of course, the old master could make the decision, but there is still an elder in the family today. The old master had helped you, the young master, with YK and alarmed Madam Hughes."

Jack gazed, "My...grandmother?"

"No."

Mr Ward denied, said slowly, "The Hughes family relations are intricate and complex, with many descendants. As a reclusive family in charge of the world's power and wealth, the selection of the head of the family was also not like the ordinary family that the son inherited the father's business, passing down from generation to generation."

Jack listened quietly.

A family's reproduction and prosperity, relying on one lineage's efforts alone, couldn't determine the future.

"Therefore, the Hughes family selects the head of the family who is talented. In a large number of young generations to determine the candidates, and then compete with each other. The person who does the best is the next head of the family."

Mr Ward spoke slowly. He was explaining, but also telling Jack, some of the Hughes family's situations.

"But even if you inherit the position of the head of the family. The Hughes family has an unwritten rule, that is, the head of the family, also have to treat the parents of the previous head of the family, as if they were the head's parents."

Hearing this, Jack suddenly laughed helplessly.

With such an unwritten rule, his father, whom he had never met, was destined not to be able to cause significant effects on his words and promises in the Hughes family.

It was confirmed that the head of the family would decide on major matters, but if Madam Hughes wanted to interfere in a particular case, even the head of the family could not resist. However, he did hear another thing from Mr Ward's words.

Rubbing his nose, Jack said, "Mr Ward, according to your words, my father should have been an excellent person back then, or else he wouldn't have been able to defeat the other candidates and become the Hughes family's head."

"Indeed..." Mr Ward's gaze became profound as he said retrospectively, "When the old master was young, his talent was the best in the world. At only 20 years old, he had already revealed his greatness and defeated all the Hughes family candidates. "

"Hiss-"

Jack could not help but changed his expression and was shocked.

At the age of 20, he was still working and studying at the university, living a precarious life.

But his father had already settled in the position of the head of the family!

Deep breath, suppressing the shock in his heart, Jack slowly asked, "That's strange. In that case, even if my father abandoned my mother and me and returned to the Hughes family back then, my mother and shouldn't be so poor. Not to mention much, my father should have left us a little foundation."

Ever since he was a child, he had never experienced what it meant to live.

To Jack, the life he lived with his mother, it was all called survival.

If the father was really that powerful, even with his mother, he should have had a foundation. Even if his father returned to the Hughes family, the foundation would be left in his mother's hands.

As far as he could remember, his mother had rarely had a break since he can remember. At least, she was working two jobs simultaneously and was working day and night.

Mr Ward smiled bitterly, "Young master...your father when he first left, the large foundation he built was mostly taken by the Hughes family, but he still left you and your mother a small part of the money..." Meaningful tone, caused Jack to look stagnate.

Suddenly, a flash in his eyes, "My mother?!"

Seeing Jack's changing expression, Mr Ward smiled meaningfully.

Jack's thoughts instantly became complicated.

How was this possible?

There must be an inside story!

Soon, he suppressed the chaotic thoughts in his mind.

The most urgent task was to find out what Madam Hughes of the Hughes family had done!

Jack asked, "What exactly did Madam Hughes do?"

"Because of your birth, so Madam Hughes was extra mindful."

Mr Ward looked sad, "Therefore, when Madam Hughes knew that YK helped the young master to build momentum in the market, she became furious and interfered with the head of the family's decision. At the same time, I was sent back home to be questioned. I can also come back because the old master appeased Madam Hughes, only then I could leave quietly."

Jack smiled, depression rose in his heart, "In the end, the main reason lies in my bad name, just because I was not in the Hughes family since childhood, to receive elite training. Or maybe I, in Madam Hughes's heart, am considered a bastard."

Mr ward was startled.

His eyes flickered a few times, but he did not refute.

The Hughes family had the Hughes family's rules. In the Hughes family's rules, if Jack was not old master's own son and old master deliberately interfered, Jack could not be counted as a candidate for the next head of the family at all.

"I understand, Mr Ward has worked hard these days."

Jack got up and said something to Brent with a smile, "Brent, take Mr Ward back to the TM Villa District to rest, DT real estate still has things that I need to arrange."

"Alright, young master." Brent answered.

Mr Ward, on the other hand, was astonished. When he said these words, he was already prepared to face Jack's anger.

But Jack's reaction caught him off guard.

Too calm!

Seeing Jack about to leave, Mr Ward suddenly shouted, "Young master..."

Jack stopped walking, his back was facing Mr Ward and said, "I won't let him down, the head of the family can be in my family for a generation, the second generation is bound to be in my family as well, I will let Madam Hughes see how the so-called bastard can actually crush her so-called elite!"

The words were resounding, like a vow, incomparably firm.

Mr Ward smiled heartily and spoke, "Young master has grown up, but young master beware. Not long after I returned home, George Hughes broke his leg and came home, saying that it was you, young master, who did it."

"This matter led to Madam Hughes's anger but was suppressed by the old master. But George also has a brother Killian Hughes, and the two brothers are extremely affectionate. Killian is far more dishonest than George, and according to his vengeful character, he will not let the young master go."

"Heh."

Jack snorted with laughter, striding away, his icy voice reached the ears of Mr Ward and Brent, "If he dares to come, then I will break his legs again, to make up two brothers with broken legs!"

Mr Ward smiled spontaneously, "It seems that I overthought."

Just as Jack was walking out of the restaurant, Amber's phone call came.

Looking at the caller's name on his screen, he became nervous.

He hurriedly picked up the phone, "Hello, Amber."

"Are you free tonight? I want to ask you out!" Amber's voice was calm in the phone, but no longer as odd and cold as before.00000