As evening fell, Jerson sat in a corner of the bar, several empty glasses already on the table. His eyes were vacant as he stared at the empty glasses, his thoughts drifting back to what had happened that afternoon.
Jerson is a British Jew who is only 28 years old. Due to his family’s poverty, he dropped out of school at the age of 14 to work. Through his own hard work, he later became a mid-level salesman in a British company, responsible for the company’s import and export trade between South American countries and Britain. However, due to a conflict with the company’s boss’s son, he was kicked out of the company and came to Jardine Matheson through an introduction.
Later, he was transferred to Jardine Matheson in Shanghai, the ancient empire of the Far East, where he has been for thre
