Chapter 27：The Sympathy Card (1/2)

Felix walked around the living room with his chin resting under his hand. He kept thinking of ways to bribe his cousins successfully and have them join his side.

The easiest way was to promise them some shares from the stocks that he would obtain from the family when the hotel gets revived successfully.

However, this option was unacceptable to him. He didn't work his ass off, to hand all the profits to them. Not to mention they would make sure to ripe him off, even if he tried to do so.

He sat down as he started to feel dizzy from walking around the couch.

”Think Felix, think. There must be some weakness I can take advantage of to pressure and blackmail them. I just need to dig deep within my fuzzy memories about this period and I might find something useful.”

After a while, He suddenly fist-bumped his palm and stood up with a joyful expression.

”Found it, Kenny you bastard, I should have known that your traitorous character did not act up only at that time, but way before.” He grinned widely. ”Hehe, with this I am confident I will turn you into my lapdog. But first I need to obtain solid evidence.”

Indeed, without having evidence, threatening Kenny would only get him to bow down and help him convince the other cousins to not give him a hard time since he owns quite a few favors with them.

As for Noah that sis-con, it was even easier to bribe him. Felix just needs to please his little sister with a gift and ask her to speak some good words about him. Noah never refused a request from his little sister.

”Alright this is the plan, for now, to deal with my cousin's interference; however I still need to deal with the inspection team that will arrive later.”

He must prepare a plausible reason for how he took advantage of the chaos. After all, his cousins were scared shitless to make a move. Meanwhile, he the thug of the family who only knew how to waste money and laze around, had such foresight that allowed him to reap plenty of benefits during the chaos.

Nonetheless, Felix was not worried about their interrogation at all. He already had the best shield for their accusations.

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Three days later.....

Felix was standing in front of a tent, with two others behind him, a man and a woman.

”You guys came just in time; my underling just informed me yesterday that they are going to start cleaning the area to make it fit for building an apartment complex.”

He smiled to the inspectors who arrived suddenly just ten minutes ago and added, ”It's for the employees who will get hired later after the official opening of the Sky Pearl Island to the public.”

”I see, Mr. Felix you really surprised us greatly when we heard the things you accomplished from the servant's mouths. You managed to pull off this huge remodeling under the eyes of the family. Although our understatement of your capabilities was the reason, it is still a good achievement.” The dark-haired man complemented Felix with a smile.

”True, I honestly don't know if he was acting like an unproductive thug in the family before, just so he can focus on the family tradition without being in the spotlight. Thus managing to revive his business without the interference of his cousins who will definitely harm his operations if they found out about it. But now it is quite too late I assume.” The inspector woman shared her own opinion on how Felix played everyone.

”From what we heard from the servants, you already have everything prepared, and you just gave the green light to start the construction. Now they truly can't do anything to stop you.” The inspector man supported her claim.

”Seniors, you are truly giving me too much credit, there was no major plan as you mentioned since I never acted like a thug before.”

Felix shook his head and said with slumped shoulders and a heartbroken tone. ”That was just a kid in pain using his actions to express his hidden trauma. But sadly, everyone started to call me a rogue, thug, and unproductive lazy bum, just because I played some pranks on my cousins, and my grades in school fallen a little bit. The family is a really heartless place to be. That's why I decided to choose this island which is in the middle of nowhere, just so I can be as far as possible from their despise and getting constantly looked down.”