From Sneers to Cheers: Anthea’s Ascent

Chapter 511

Anthea frowned slightly. "So, did Lorraine ever find Ivy's Place in the end?"

"No," Sherman replied, shaking his head. "Lorraine waited here for over thirty years, but her child vanished as if they'd never existed."

The two of them were deep in conversation, and the driver, sensing their focus, slowed the car to give them more time.

...

Rebecca was falling apart.

It had been fourteen hours since she'd left Tech Summit Global, and the system still wasn't responding.

Had it really disappeared?

What was she supposed to do now?

She sat slumped on the couch, fingers tangled in her hair, her features twisted in distress, looking every bit like someone on the edge of a breakdown.

It took a long time before she finally calmed herself enough to breathe. She

opened her laptop, determined to at least log in to TechNet.

The system's last task for her had been to conquer the tech world. Maybe, if she logged on, the system would come back on its own.

She navigated to the login page, typed in her password, and hit enter.

And then her face went completely white.

A notice flashed across the screen: her account had been permanently banned.

What was happening?

Was the system malfunctioning?

for her account to be banned-she

this had to

restarted her computer and

the result was

was

a panic, she opened her messenger app and sent a message to Mason's assistant-the only acquaintance she had left in the

Summit Global, and over ten thousand users reported you for cheating. The system has determined

account has

was it. As of today, Phoenix_Re no longer

this be

dare they erase her like

another message to the assistant, but this time, she saw she'd

just going to kick her while

her phone to the

Crack-

into

to her knees,

had never

she'd worked for had been stolen by

who in her previous life had been nothing

all

Rebecca

returned, she'd find a way to destroy Anthea once and

she called, the

...

hour later, the car stopped at the entrance

and headed inside

watching the floor numbers flicker by, Sherman turned to Anthea. "When are you headed back

need to visit the Kendrick family,"

the morning, then. What

eight-thirty. I'll head downstairs for

she wasn't resisting Sherman at all anymore. She didn't