Chapter 894: The mad woman

"Her special message was that if her brother's team lost, her company would be sold, and everyone on the other team, along with those who bet on them, would get a portion of that money! All legalities have already been processed as of this moment! Therefore, our betting pool has reached a whopping two hundred billion!"

Lily's announcement echoed more than it should have. For a moment, everyone could only stare at where Lily was making this declaration, wondering if she was so drunk that she didn't realize someone's life and company were on the line.

"Oh, shit..." one person from the crowd blurted out under his breath. The person next to him also breathed out, "Oh shit!"

Some of the audience quickly fell from their seats, wondering if they had heard this correctly.

"A... what?" someone in the crowd trembled. "Two hundred... billion?"

"Oh, my God."

"Now, I really want Max's team to win."

"No shit..."

"Is this even legal? How can this happen on school grounds?"

"This match... just turned into something else."

Even regular betting pools wouldn't be like this. Considering this was merely a fan club reunion—not even an official alumni reunion-this was something no one could have expected.

THUD!

gaze landing on the person who had just poured fuel on the fire. Or

the other hand, slowly turned his head to the seat next to him. His complexion drained of

watching Penny casually look

curled up into a smirk, her eyes glinting. "Don't you know that already, Uncle?" she replied, making Haines pinch the

brought up. She scared him more than Charles when it came to this because Charles would only risk so much, but Penny

though Penny had Haines's and Yugi's help, she did more work than they could. It was why she was the boss. Yet, this boss was not only risking her company but

did you... is that true?" Nina stuttered, looking at Penny in disbelief. 'I can't even gamble my spare money because I thought I could use it for something useful. But

to face Nina and grinned.

she had imagined. "Penny, how can you say that? Haven't you seen how

as she glanced behind her, only to

at her with wide eyes and open

mouth, Ben," she remarked, snapping Benjamin back to reality. As Penny shifted her gaze from Benjamin to Nina, Haines, and then Slater-who had fallen from his seat but was

their

wide eyes fixed on the committee's desk where Lily

hear what I heard?" Mark blurted out under his breath,

Atlas's and Hugo's brows as they tried to process what they had just heard. A part of them-especially

like this was something Penny would

face twitching, and his

other

taunting had hit a nerve, and he was

once. 'That woman... did she just put her entire company on the line? She bet it on

that hard to find Penny,

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