This Time, I'll Be the Villain's Favorite Daughter novel Chapter 364

364 The Deal

“Here’s to a good partnership

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Toby didn’t touch a drop. His fingertip pressed against the base of the glass, the corner of his lips holding that perfectly measured smile, though he didn’t come across as cold.

All in all, this negotiation really had gone smoothly.

Nelson’s tech–industry supply chain was complete, and both domestic and international markets lacked a channel that could break through the bottlenecks. Countless people wanted to do business with the Clarks, but someone like him, who dared to slap down an entire ready–made proposal at the first meeting, was

rare.

He was a smart man with resources.

Toby gave him a ranking in his head: worth talking to.

What businessmen valued was nothing more than profit. If the profit could be agreed on, everything else was negotiable.

Once the deal was settled, the two chatted for a couple of lines.

Nelson beckoned and brought his younger brother over for Toby to see. “This is my little brother. His name is Ian.”

Toby took a glance.

The boy was young and looked very well–behaved.

Toby inevitably thought of Alfred. When would his own little brother ever be this obedient?

“He looks obedient,” he said mildly.

Nelson smiled. “He’s all right. After all, I’m the older brother, so he has to listen to me.”

On the topic of family, Nelson asked offhandedly, “Your family has younger siblings too, right?”

Big families generally had a lot of children.

Toby nodded. “There are two younger than me.”

“Direct descendants?”

Toby nodded again.

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Nelson chuckled casually. “Could I meet them sometime? Your siblings and my brother are probably around the same age. They’d get along.”

Toby glanced at this boy named lan, his expression visibly cooling.

If not for the partnership, Toby’s expression could have been even more disdainful. He said bluntly. “My

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sister is still young. Male friends aren’t really appropriate.”

Nelson immediately understood.

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He wasn’t offended either. Good–naturedly, he led his still–young brother out first. “Sorry about that. I was only joking.”

That said, Nelson had no desire to get entangled with the Clarks anyway.

The partnership was a win–win arrangement–mutual use, with the added bonus of ensuring his own safety.

Any step further than that, no thanks. The Clarks weren’t a family you wanted to get close to.

Besides, Nelson already had someone he liked.

He’d known Maya for several years now, and whenever he had nothing better to do, he liked to wire the girl a huge sum of money.

Maya, for her part, accepted all of it.

Every time she accepted, she’d send a voice message in an extremely breezy tone, saying, “Whenever you need it, you can redeem help from me!”

She was a very strange girl.

Every time he listened to her voice messages, Nelson would flip his phone face down on the table and, for no reason he could explain, smile.

When lan brought up the topic on the way home, the boy seemed especially unhappy.

“Nelson, she’s just a gold digger, scamming you out of your money. Do you get that?

“Taking the money is one thing, but she lies and cons people all day long, too.”

He was 14 this year, his features somewhat resembling Nelson his tone sharp.

After their parents had passed, Ian had picked up plenty of worldly knowledge from various places. A girl like that was fine to fool around with, but he couldn’t understand why his brother was so invested.

It wasn’t as if she brought them any benefit.

Nelson shot him a sidelong look. “You should just go home and get started on your homework early.”

“Your tutor said today that you got several problems wrong. When we get home, I’m confiscating your phone.”

What do you do with a disobedient little brother?

Clearly, the problem was too much phone time.

Ian thought, … Damn.

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He was secthing with resentment.

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“You’re just bewitched bya woman,” the boy accused gloomily. “You’re getting played for a sucker. Do you even realize?”

Nelson smacked him on the head, expressionless. “Shut up. I know my limits.

“If she scams everyone but me, that just proves I’m special.” He wore a smile. “What do you know?”

“Ugh! So she gets it? She’s barely older than me!”

“That’s why I have to wait. Wait until she grows up,” Nelson said.

Ian thought,… Lovesick idiots should be sentenced to prison!

Meanwhile, the moment Annie led Maya over, the few young women who’d been clustered together chatting all turned their heads at once.

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