Chapter 1521: After the Wedding in My Dreams...?
Death, is it scary?
Very scary.
Because everything is unknown.
Death, is it scary?
Not scary.
Because I’m used to it.
Much later, when Lauren Delder brought a basket of food, including but not limited to roasted pork hooves, fried pig knuckles, roast chicken, ten sandwiches, and a bottle of sparkling wine to visit Jason, during their chat, Lauren Delder curiously asked why Jason was so sure those Uptown bastards would contact them again.
After eating the roasted pork hooves, Jason said the above words to Lauren Delder.
"Speaking of which, being used to it is the scariest thing.”
Lauren Delder sighed.Then, he was stunned to see Jason shake his head at him.
"Accustomed?”
"Considerably scary.”
"But not the scariest.”
Jason spoke with an expression that left a deep impression on Lauren Delder.
"Then what is the scariest?”
Lauren Delder asked persistently.
"My wives.”
Jason answered this way.
Lauren Delder suddenly felt his stomach was full, and it kept regurgitating acid.
He suspected Jason was showing off.
Showing off to the point his scalp tingled.
"Can you be more specific?”
Lauren Delder continued to ask.
"Dennise, Aras, Giselle, and Evelyn, Jennifer, Hui Lijing, and… Dou Bao.”
Jason said while he started to take off his casual clothes and put on a suit.
Lauren Delder confirmed it, Jason was showing off.
Originally, Lauren Delder didn’t want to speak anymore.
But, unable to resist curiosity, he continued to ask.
"Could you be more specific?”
"Dennise’s army, Aras’s fists, Giselle and Evelyn’s dreams, Jennifer’s madness, Hui Lijing’s luck, Dou Bao’s talent.”
Jason answered one by one.
Such answers made Lauren Delder even more curious.
"Can you be even more specific?”
"Children, children, children, children, children, children, children.”
Jason looked bitter, but the corners of his mouth involuntarily turned up.
"So?”
Lauren Delder watched as Jason drove a black car out of the garage, his expression more and more confused.
"So, I have to support my family! I have to do a side job as a driver in my spare time—not Didi, but as a ‘courier.'”
Jason said this way.
Lauren Delder’s eyes widened.
"You’re already… how can you do a side job as a driver?”
Facing his old friend’s shock, Jason picked up a cigarette from the side, lit it, and took a deep drag.
Then, he extended his arm.
The breeze blew, and the cigarette burned faster.
Jason took another drag, and the wind took a drag.
The swirling smoke dispersed.
After a full four or five seconds, Jason continued: “You know a boy before eighteen has dreams, right? Like becoming an athlete, an esports expert, a writer, a chef, a fighter, etc. But do you know what they have left after eighteen?”
"What?”
Lauren Delder asked instinctively.
"Mortgage, car loan.”
Jason puffed out another cloud of smoke.
"But you don’t need those!”
Lauren Delder frowned.
"Yes.”
"I don’t need those.”
"That makes me even more anxious.”
"Because I don’t even have a bit of an excuse to want to be alone—you know why a man, after returning home, would sit in the car for a while, smoke a cigarette, or do nothing, just sit quietly for a while?”
"Because, at this time, he is himself.”
"Once he leaves the car, he’s a husband, a father, a son.”
"It’s too hard for him.”
Jason answered his own questions.
Seemingly talking about himself, yet seemingly talking about others.
"Don’t joke.”
"You are… how can you have such troubles.”
"Feels like today you’re like a middle-aged man in crisis.”
Lauren Delder completely didn’t believe him.
Others might be like this.
But Jason?
Don’t joke around.
Impossible.
What can Jason do?
No one believes him when he tells the truth each time.
He’s used to it.
At this moment, smiling is enough.
"I’m going to deliver goods.”
"Where are you going?”
"I’ll give you a lift.”
After the cigarette burned out, Jason threw the butt in the ashtray and said to Lauren Delder.
"Back to Ter Street.”
Lauren Delder said, getting into the car.
Jason stepped on the gas, and the black car sped off.
The two chatted idly.
Soon, Lauren Delder put this conversation behind him.
What he remembered was ‘Uptown’ bastards being afraid of dying.
Yes, a bunch of people afraid of dying.
How could they willingly sit and wait for death?
So, the communicator ringing again was inevitable.
Andek, ‘Old Man,’ reacted instantly.
‘Old Man’ gave Jason a thumbs up.
Andek used his eyes to ask Jason, and after Jason nodded, he answered the communicator.
A shadow appeared on the screen again.
"What do you want?”
As soon as it connected, the shadow asked straight away.
"I want the management rights of the Lower City District inside the Ring City of ‘Nightless City.’
Jason said this.
"Impossible!”
"You’re crazy!”
"You’re delusional!”
The shadow almost roared.
The management rights of the Lower City District inside the Ring City of ‘Nightless City,’ let alone him having the authority, even the Upper House doesn’t have such power, unless it’s granted by those three lords personally.
But is it possible?
Not to mention Jason betrayed the ‘Uptown’ people.
Just from the establishment of ‘Nightless City’ to now, there’s no such precedent.