Ellinor spoke again, "Though a few billion is no match for the market value of the Blanchet Corporation, it's still a hefty sum that could afford you a swanky life. Plus, you won't have to squabble with shareholders for shares; you can easily pocket this money."
The silver-haired man pondered her offer for a moment, laughed, and then pinched Ellinor's chin. "You make it sound tempting. If what you say is true, I'll take it. But I'm not settling for just this; I want all the assets of the Blanchet Corporation too.”
Ellinor didn’t expect him to be so greedy. She frowned and asked, "Mister, what's your name?"
The silver-haired man looked at her scornfully. "Why the third degree? You're not worthy of knowing my name!"
Ellinor calmly replied, "If I'm not mistaken, you should share the same surname as Theo Blanchet, right?"
After seeing the silver-haired man's face darken, Ellinor knew she had guessed correctly and continued, "I guess I hit the nail on the head! You're the illegitimate child of Theo's father from another woman; you resent him for abandoning you and your mother, despise the Blanchet family, and hate Theo even more because he's lived a completely different life from you, am I right?"
The silver-haired man glared at her, his gaze full of anger. "You'd best shut up, or else don't blame me for not being polite!"
Ellinor looked into the silver-haired man's eyes, knowing she had hit a nerve, and that was exactly why he was raging.
But she didn't plan to stop there; she continued, "You should be hating Theo's father, not Theo. What wrong has he done? He never asked for a philandering father. Furthermore, back then he was just a child; how was he supposed to control his father?"
The silver-haired man glared at her.
The silver-haired man angrily said, "Mind your own business! Even if I bankrupt the Blanchet Corporation, I don't care!"
"What's the point of getting something if you can't enjoy it? I don't think your friends know how to run a company either, and you don't have the right connections to help you. If you don't mind, I can teach you as long as you don’t harm me.”
The silver-haired man looked at her suspiciously. “You want to teach me?”
Ellinor nodded. “To be honest, I got close to Theo before just to use his power to make my life better.
But he’s dead now, and I can now only rely on the child in my stomach. I probably won't have much say in the Blanchet family; I might even be discarded by them, leaving only this child!"
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