From Sneers to Cheers: Anthea’s Ascent

Chapter 134

“Hal My fabulous Anthea, come on in! Let’s have ourselves a real knees–up tonight! Nanson’s face was as red as a boiled lobster, his eyes bloodshot.

Staggering around, he seemed to be walking on clouds.

Anthea steadied him with a hand, “Uncle Nanson, are you alright?”

Nanson waved her off, “Fine! Just fine!”

Amidst his laughter, Nanson suddenly broke into tears.

“Uncle Nanson?” Anthea was startled.

Aside from that time at Elaine’s, she had never seen him cry.

Covering his face, Nanson crouched in a corner, sobbing uncontrollably, “Ann! I… I’ve been dumped…”

Anthea stared at Nanson in surprise.

She had always assumed Nanson to be a lifelong bachelor, yet here he was with at girlfriend.

Overcoming her astonishment, Anthea quickly crouched to comfort him. Although Nanson was drunk, his thoughts were fairly coherent. It didn’t take long for Anthea to piece together what had happened.

“Uncle Nanson, every cloud has a silver lining. This could be a good thing for you.”

“Good thing?” Nanson belched, “I’ve just been dumped, and you’re calling it a good thing! Are you really my favorite girl?”

Nanson was on the verge of tears again.

“Look, from what you’ve told me, it’s clear Ileana wasn’t in love with you. She was in love with your money and your house. Now that she knows you’ve got neither, her true purpose has shown. Better to find out now than after getting hitched. You’ll find someone way better.”

comforted by her words, “Do you think I can do better than Ileana?”

slightly, “Absolutely! You

worth it! You have to bounce back. Imagine, when you hit the jackpot

chuckled foolishly, “Yeah, yeah! Make

seemed to fade, his emotions steadied, and

disbelief and dragged Nanson to

strong enough to

wake up and do something rash, Anthea decided not to help out at

in the living room to livestream a game of chess.

evening, streamer lady!”

“Good evening!”

video made the top three on the YouTube homepage yesterday!” “Right! I

had already started

to over fifty thousand, with the live audience peaking at over ten

last night, she barely had ten

sure seemed to

your face on camera?”

chess, and I’ll

when a challenge popped up on her screen. ‘Mr. A

A? Anthea was about to decline when the chat exploded.

A! Please accept, Anthea!”

cow! Did Mr. A see your YouTube

“You’re on fire!”