Harvey York’s Rise to Power

Chapter 6452
"Mr. Stanton... I must admit that your promises are very enticing,"
Harvey reasoned with Elric, smiling faintly. "However, I have bad experiences with empty promises. I'm apprehensive that I won't be able to see those promises come to fruition."
Elriơs expression darkened slightly, but he still forced a smile."
Harvey, I'm being sincere with you. Your response is very disappointing. I wouldn't have offered my daughter if I only wanted to give you an empty promise. I have plenty of options, you know?

"I love my daughter. If it isn't because I truly admired you, I wouldn't have said anything about letting you marry her?'
Elric sounded like he was hurt. "Harvey, you completely got the wrong idea!"
Harvey calmly replied, "It's not that I got it wrong; it's just that how you make those promises isn't genuine. Or perhaps I should say, it's your sincerity that makes you look so fake.
"I'll be direct. If you really do admire me, then the person sitting here before me won't be you but your daughter. Maybe it's both of you at the same time. The topic of our conversation won't be you asking me to give up my right to be the next director, but to teach me how to strengthen my position."
Harvey tore off Elric's mask and revealed his hypocritical self. "I can already tell who you really are when you asked me to withdraw and give up my station. There's only one response I can give you... I will be the director."
"Know your place, Harvey!" Elric slammed his hand on the coffee table as his expression darkened. "Do you know how many young men want me to look at them? Do you know how many young men don't even have the right to speak with me? How dare you question my good intentions when I'm the one giving you a chance that you refuse to cherish?
"Do you think you're very accomplished? That you have character?
Do you know that your accomplishments and your character mean nothing to me? It's meaningless for you to dare say those words to someone like me other than to show how powerless you are."
The bodyguards in the room and the beautiful secretary nodded when they heard what Elric was saying. The secretary even raised her chin as she looked at Harvey, thinking that Harvey did not know what was good for him at all. Did he have a death wish when Elric was already speaking to him with such a humble tone?