52nd Chapter: The gentleman loves wealth, in a way that is just.

Ruth Wilcox's success or failure in landing the Parker Resort project was crucial to the company's overall strategy for entering the Mainland market and also critical to her status within the family.

If she could secure the project from Parker, it would undoubtedly prove her capability. Everyone knew the vast potential of the rising Mainland market, yet her family's business had actually been in decline for some years.

Her grandfather went to the United States before the nation was founded in the late 1940s, where he fought hard and built the vast Wilcox Empire. Its heyday was over a decade ago and since then, after several major missteps in business decisions, the Wilcox family had been on a steady decline, culminating in their removal from the world's top wealthy conglomerate rankings.