Chapter 140

The driver returned to the hotel, and upon arrival, Manuel gave him 2,000 dollars. The driver was overjoyed and couldn’t stop smiling.

Back at the hotel on the upper floor, they prepared to pack their luggage and check out. The hotel staff was cleaning the rooms and, upon seeing them enter, hastily handed each of them a bottle of water.

Manuel was thirsty, and he opened the bottle and drank it all in one go.

Wayne and Simon also finished their water quickly. Oliver only drank half a bottle before proceeding to pack his luggage.

Wayne and Simon offered to help pack, but as they rushed to the room, Wayne suddenly had a bad feeling. He turned to look at the female staff member cleaning the room and stammered, “You… you…”

Then, Wayne, Simon, Manuel and Oliver fell down one after another.

It was uncertain how much time had passed when Oliver slowly regained consciousness. He opened his eyes, still feeling a bit dizzy.

After a while, Oliver’s mind gradually cleared. He smelled a faint fragrance and realized that the room was unfamiliar

Where was he?

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It took Oliver a while to piece together his memory. He remembered that they were in the hotel, packing their luggage, and then…

Then there was nothing more, as if Oliver’s memory had been cut off.

Did Oliver’s memory really have a gap?

Oliver tried hard to recall and only remembered that they drank a bottle of mineral water in the hotel room, and then..

Suddenly, it dawned on Oliver. All four of them had drunk a bottle of mineral water given by the hotel staff, and then they had all collapsed.

involved in

hard to believe that in this day, even the lowest-tier hotels were generally safe. Such occurrences as drugging customers were rare. Yet, why had they all passed out after

of it. He considered that if the reason for their fainting was indeed the water provided by

room, he found it peculiar. The room exuded an understated yet luxurious atmosphere. There were large floor-to-ceiling windows, and as he walked over and gently pulled

opened, there was a spacious terrace garden of over 1,000.

was… incredibly

the room further, Oliver found a walk-in closet to the left, and on the right, an array of storage/compartments. As he moved around, his

like Louis

he spotted an entire row of jewelry storage compartments, all filled with high-end

widened as he appraised

hundreds of thousands of dollars for a single piece,

the glass doors, Oliver found an extensive collection of

realized that the jewelry, fashion, and accessories in both sides of

was undoubtedly a truly wealthy household, and it appeared to

all these fashions and accessories here are for

beat, and he suddenly recalled the lady who had

Jenifer behind all

the aerial garden view, it wasn’t a high-rise building below but an intricate three-story villa estate with mountains, water, and forests. The entire estate spanned an area of at least

of size, design, and opulence, this mansion was easily worth hundreds of millions of

that an ordinary wealthy individual

door opened, and

“Jenifer… Who are you?

in was not Jenifer. Instead, it was a lady in her late twenties,

lady gazed at Oliver for a moment and then said, “You are Oliver, right? What do you do? I heard you are

her question but asked calmly, “Who are you?” Why am I here? Where

Oliver didn’t answer her question, instead furrowed her brows and asked, “I asked you first. Don’t think just because my little sister is interested in you, you can be one of our family. It is not that easy to

grasped the situation and realized that Jenifer was

family is, I have no intention of becoming one of it. I don’t need money. Even if I were penniless, I still wouldn’t enter your Woods family, even if you offered

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