"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-blank, "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…"
The playful look on Haze's face then disappeared, only to be replaced by a serious one as he told her, "I want twenty percent of the shares of Azure Group."
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 accept these terms? Are you willing to let me be the second largest 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!"
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